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Why is overeating such a hard cycle to break?
Why IS overeating such a hard cycle to break? If we’re eating when we’re not hungry, no amount of food will fill us up. If hunger isn’t the problem, then food isn’t the solution. So how do we beat emltional overeating? It used to be I felt ‘triggered’ and I...
Cutting Out vs Adding in
Cutting out vs Adding in Whenever I began a diet the first thing I’d do is to cut out a whole bunch of foods. No soft drinks, no bread, no potatoes, no corn, no chocolate, no chips - etc etc. The list of 'banned’ foods would vary depending on the diet. I would...
How uncomfortable are you willing to get?
How uncomfortable are you willing to get? Transformation, change of any sort, requires a certain degree of getting uncomfortable. There is no other way to look at it, because if we are comfortable we won’t change, we will just keep doing the same things we have...
If not dieting, then what?
I lived for the majority of my life either on a diet, or out of control. There was no middle ground. It was like driving with both the accelerator and brake on at the same time, I made no headway, and all I seemed to do was wear down my tyres (my energy...
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...