Weekly Messages
Enjoy Life – Breathe in and breathe out
There is perhaps no simpler way of enjoying life right now than taking several deep breaths in and out. This can bring a great sense of appreciation at just being alive; not a bad starting point for really enjoying life. A good (more…)
Eat Well – Eat plenty of lettuce
There is almost nothing better than a lettuce salad for lunch. Lettuce is low in calories, and relatively high in micronutrients – folate, zinc, potassium, iron, Vit A, Vit C – and of course is also a good source of fibre. It is (more…)
Persist – Practice becoming more patient
Lifestyle change doesn’t happen overnight and it doesn’t happen by itself. Lifestyle change involves a conscious struggle for an extended period of time – but we already knew that didn’t we! Developing more patience is one of the most important (more…)
Eat Well – Use small plates and cutlery
A good way to ensure we eat a little less is to use smaller plates and eat the food with smaller cutlery – like a small person. It’s hard to shovel food in with a teaspoon! And using a smaller (more…)
Get Active – Fill the day with movement
We don’t have to become elite sports people to lose excess weight. But we do have to become more active in our daily lives to lose excess weight permanently and become healthier. Sitting and lying around is a killer. What we’ve got (more…)
Take Control – Grow a stronger take-control-brain
Taking control is the starting point for overcoming obesity. You say to yourself “enough is enough” and begin to put into place wise strategies that over time result in sustainable weight loss based on a new recovery lifestyle. But the (more…)
Enjoy Life – Doing things money can’t buy
We live in an intense consumer-based world in which we are bombarded daily by advertising aimed at getting us to acquire as much as possible and consume like there’s no tomorrow. Of particular relevance to us is the recreational food industry (more…)
Eat Well – Eat three, small, nutritious, HOMEMADE meals a day
Three small nutritious meals are easy to imagine. But homemade meals are a bit different. Homemade meals have almost become a quaint idea; something very old people used to do last century. But the tide is turning, as processed, (more…)
Persist – Don’t give in to the wild cats
What do you do when the craving for certain foods comes on? The more we give in to those urges and “feed the wild cats” the more they will continue to thrive and give us hell. Conversely, the more we (more…)
Eat Well – Leave food on the plate
The thought of throwing food away goes against the grain for many of us, but especially those of us who place a high priority on food – yes, us foodies prone to obesity. It is not easy to throw surplus (more…)