Kia Ākina

Working towards lifelong recovery from obesity

Weekly Messages

Enjoy Life – By replacing passive pleasures with active ones

Enjoyment has become corrupted in the intense consumer-based society we live in.  Unless we’re consuming a pleasure product we can’t possibly be enjoying ourselves, seems to be the modern mantra. Passive pleasures such as relaxing in front of TV, consumption (more…)

Eat Well – Don’t be fooled by the hidden calories in drinks

It is very easy to consume calories through drinking. An excellent new lifestyle strategy is to reduce or eliminate altogether drinks with calories in them, which basically means drinks containing sugar or alcohol or both. When thirsty, we should always (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 – Conquer the see-food diet

  The “see-food” diet is when we just eat everything we see in front of us. We don’t have to think with the “see-food diet”. It’s a fantastic diet for maintaining obesity. But recovery from obesity needs conscious thinking, particularly (more…)

Get Active – Leave the car in the garage

Isn’t it great to have a car – it’s so comfortable and convenient. However, along with TV, the private motor vehicle is one of the most obesigenic of all the human technologies. It takes a bit of planning and cunning (more…)

Take Control – Make recovery a priority

Most of us know that recovering from obesity is of great benefit, which can be measured in terms of additional years of life (not just months) as well as increased energy for the rest of our lives. And most of (more…)

Enjoy Life – By being reassuring, comforting and encouraging to ourselves

We all know the “long and happy journey” isn’t always happy. All of us have experienced the little ups and downs and most have also experienced some big ups and downs over the years with coming to grips with our (more…)

Eat Well – Eat nature’s food and live long

The food industry exploits a human weakness for sweet foods and deliberately manipulates food products with just the right amount of sugar, fat and salt to produce highly moreish processed foods (and drinks such as Coca Cola), which are high (more…)

Persist – Replace procrastination with action

We can all improve our natural persistence ability by practicing being determined, and replacing procrastination with completing something we’ve been putting off doing. In fact we can start doing this today. – Pick something small that you’ve been putting off (more…)

Eat Well – Pause before eating – say Grace

An important aspect of Eating Well is to slow down our eating. This way we are likely to eat a little less, which is necessary to recover from obesity. A great way to get a meal off to a good start then is to (more…)

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