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Mindset and journey
How to overcome all or nothing behaviour
All or nothing? My children love to watch youtube videos of kids playing with their toys. I think they are called ‘unboxing’ videos. I watch them watch these videos and I think to myself “Why don’t they just play with their own toys? Surely that’s more fun than...
Tracking weight loss progress without a scale
Traditionally we measure our weight loss progress using the scales. The scales show us the outcome of our efforts. Today I want to invite you to think about alternative ways to measure success. Now I am not talking about measurements, photographs, or body...
Finding the right diet plan
I thought the answer to my weight problem was just finding the ‘right’ diet plan….it wasn’t. Whenever we start a diet we totally ignore what our bodies are trying to tell us as we follow a meal plan that has been provided for us. When you really stop and take...
Physical weight vs emotional weight
“I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart: you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful”.- William C Hannan Are you being true to yourself? Or are you trying to be the person you think other people...
Identity Shift
Lately, I have been feeling very emotionally stuck (for lack of a better term). While I have had a major physical transformation, the emotional side hasn’t kept up in the way I anticipated. What I mean by that is, I don’t feel now how I thought I would feel. This is a...
“I’ll be happy when I lose weight”
I used to think “I’ll lose weight and then I’ll be happy.” So I would lose some weight and yet I wasn’t happy, and so I figured I just needed to lose more weight. I kept pushing back the goal posts and it was never enough! It’s taken me nearly 30 years and I’ve lost...
How do I give up dieting?
I meet a lot of people who want to give up dieting, but have no idea how to start. A client described it perfectly for me the other day, she said “I am always either detoxing or re-toxing.” What is the middle ground where we just eat like a regular person? How do we...
Do you feel trapped by your past failed diets?
Is your past littered with started and failed diets? Or perhaps started, worked for a bit, and then failed diets? Does it seem like the same cycle is repeating over and over for you, like the same movie with different actors? Or more to the point the same diet but...
Are you participating in your life or are you merely spectating?
When I was at my biggest I felt more like a spectator in my own life than a participant. I would take my children to the park, to birthday parties, to theme parks and to all manner of events and I would watch them play. I felt like I lived my life on the sidelines...
30 years and 500kg later: Why I gave up on diets
30 years and 500kg later: Why I gave up on diets :: I was overweight for almost 30 years. To condense my long dieting history down into a single post will be a challenge, but I will try my best. I grew up in a ‘fat family’ of lifelong dieters. When I was 4, I was...