Weekly Messages
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 – Set short-term weight goals
.One of the most important ways to Take Control is to set goals and be committed to them. It is easy to have grand plans for the future, but these can soon fade in the hurley-burley stress of life. Making (more…)
Enjoy Life – Put gratefulness at the core of your recovery lifestyle
Recovery from obesity is only possible with a new sustainable lifestyle that has been assembled carefully through various experimentations, and then practiced and practiced until it becomes second nature and happens without conscious thinking. This process is what is (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 little steps everyday
The long and happy journey can seem an impossible journey at times; especially when unexpected life stresses come along. Another way of making it seem an impossibility is constantly focusing on the end goal and contemplating the substantial amount of (more…)
Eat Well – Sometimes eat two meals a day
Most of us overestimate the amount of food we need for health and think three big meals a day are required (plus snacks in between – a fourth meal). Recovery from obesity requires us to eat less calories than what (more…)
Get Active – Never too busy to be more active
Achieving a more active lifestyle is not normally something that happens automatically. And you can almost guarantee that people who try the dramatic radical approach by initiating an extensive new exercise regime won’t be doing it in even three or four (more…)
Take control – Fake control
Taking control can feel like a tall order. For some of us it may be a new experience in life because up to now our lives have generally been somewhat chaotic and driven more by the world around us rather (more…)
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. I can’t. Having a little session of deliberately breathing in and then breathing out, can bring a great sense of appreciation at (more…)
Eat Well – Increase your resistant starch consumption
Remember there are two main aspects to eating well: What to eat; and How to eat it. This message is about what to eat, and the focus is on starch. We have previously emphasized the importance of eating non-starchy vegetables (more…)