Weekly Messages
Get Active – Five minute stretching every day
Is there anything stopping us from spending five minutes each day undertaking a set of stretches? Making the time to do just five minutes of stretches every day is an excellent thing to add to our new recovery lifestyles. Five (more…)
Take Control – Get serious
New Year is the classic time when people make resolutions about various personal issues. Many people make New Year’s resolutions about weight loss. However, most of these resolutions will be abandoned within a couple of months. Why? The main reason (more…)
Enjoy Life – Don’t get it mixed up with pursuing pleasure
Striving to enjoy life is relevant for everyone – fat, skinny and in-betweens. But it is a particular issue for us who love food; we whose enjoyment in life can become distorted and dominated by the quest to consume pleasurable (more…)
Eat Well – Eat much less sugar
When we reduce the number of foods on the NEEDNT Foods List, we automatically eat much less sugar, because sugar is a very common additive in processed food. Sugar can be a strongly addictive substance which sparks compulsive overeating in (more…)
Persist – Take a long-term view, but live one day at a time
Focussing on the big picture needs a good dollop of persistence and patience, while we continue to work on weight-loss, one day at a time. Like everything else that is practiced over and over, it gets easier with time. When (more…)
Eat Well – Eat slowly, very slowly
It is Christmas time and food is everywhere, lots of yummy food, including yummy healthy food. Christmas is always a high-risk time of the year for putting on weight because there is just so much more food right there in (more…)
Get Active – Deliberately build in more activity
When you think about it, we New Zealanders live pretty inactive lives. Just walking three blocks can seem a long way to many people. But our bodies need movement and our hearts love to pump it up a bit. We (more…)
Take Control – Routines and reality
There’s something very real about standing on the scales and checking our weight. Becoming overweight requires a certain neglect; and part of this neglect is being dissociated from the reality of slowly putting on unnecessary fat. Becoming overweight requires us (more…)
Enjoy Life – By being thankful
One of the surest ways of enjoying life is to become more thankful. Counting our blessings means focusing on the good things in our lives and feeling grateful for them. There are controlled psychological experiments confirming that genuine happiness increases (more…)
Eat Well – Eat bulky low-energy food everyday
Bulky low-energy foods are natural appetite suppressants; they really do quench hunger, particularly when eaten slowly – thorough chewing and deliberate pausing between mouthfuls. What are the best bulky low-energy foods to eat? Two of the best are salads and (more…)