Your brain is one of the smartest living organisms on the planet.
 
Yep, that's right - YOUR brain is one of the smartest living organisms on the planet!
 
I know, the best kept secret isn't it! No one has ever told you that your brain is as smart as everyone else's.
 
Your brain has so many facets to it, so much complexity, so much genius, and above all, it is ready, willing and able to do what you want it to do.
 
Everything that you currently do, your brain learned how to do it.
 
So the reality is that everything you want to do, your brain will learn that too.
 
And that is what our work together in Dietless Living Academy is doing, training your brain to do what you want.
 
When you're learning something new, you know it's going to take time to get from being a beginner to being a master.
 
When you're un-learning how to do something your brain already does, then it's also going to take time for it to go from being a master of doing things the old way to...

The mind is a funny thing you know.

I always marveled at how I could know I was fat but still some part of my brain would be telling me that I was hiding it well from the world, nobody else could see it. That would be until eventually something would happen that would illustrate to me that I wasn’t hiding it at all.

Those times were often when I’d see a photo of myself.

When that realisation would come, that I needed to lose weight, when something would jar me into action, there was always a wave of panic, and the resounding thought in my head was "Get it off me, now!"

When I’d reach that point, that panic would result in the first biggest mistake I would make time and time again.

I’d dive in boots and all! I wanted quick fixes and I wanted them immediately!

My plan for change was always;
·       Get on very calorie-restrictive diet
·       Restrict food groups – normally carbs...

Dietless living is all about living life and loosening up instead of tightening down, connecting the bridge between conscious and unconscious mind, and increase fun and playfulness.

It's all about living with vitality!

Do you have a favourite photo that reminds you of everything you love in one single image?

This photo does it for me.

I took it while standing on a platform waiting for an early morning train on one of my adventures. I saw this reflection in the window of a train and it just captured everything I love - the ease of being on the road!

I love love looooove the moments when I am no where in particular, those moments between destinations, those moments on the train, on the bus, in the car or on a plane when I am free to change my mind and go anywhere. I don't care about delays or cancellations or detours, I just love being on the road!

I'm not a light traveler by any stroke of the imagination but I am happy knowing that I am self-sufficient and that I have everything I need in that suitcase and the backpack on my back.

Actually, this is a fun fact about me that you wouldn't know:


From January 30th 2013 - Dec 13th 2017 that suitcase and backpack were the only belongings I had while I...

Hi there, I’m Katie Gordon and I am Dietless Living.

And I was born to solve problems.

My most valuable skills do not involve my knowledge about human behaviours or my knowledge about food and exercise.

My most important skill is my ability to radically transform the lives of the people I work with.

‍ My super power is to know the thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are keeping you stuck and how to gently lead you to more helpful thoughts, feelings and behaviours in fun and entertaining ways.

It’s my ability to break down every problem behaviour you have into an easy to understand system that gives you choices, freedom and control over what you do.

If you’re looking for the trap door out of emotional eating, self soothing with alcohol and food and whatever else it is that is keeping you stuck in dieting hell ‘then I can certainly help you

There’s so many people online telling you what to eat and how to exercise, right?

But if you’re a yo yo...

There are many many stressful things about being overweight isn’t there?

 
And for me, the most stressful part was trying to lose it.
 
Because it was always all about the  food; pre-planning and pre-preparing meals, restocking pantries and learning new recipes and changing the way I cooked because there was always a food group that I was no longer allowed to eat.
 
I really disliked the meal planning to be honest, because by the time any meal time came, I would be wanting/craving something entirely different – but, as I had gone to all that trouble of preparing it in advance and it was, after all, what I was supposed to be eating if I wanted to lose weight, I would sit down and eat my ‘good’ meal.
 
Then, because that meal wasn’t actually what I wanted to eat, because I   had a craving for something else, something entirely different, I would graze my way through the ‘allowable’ foods in the general vicinity...

So many women and men understand that knowing what not to eat, doesn't stop them from eating it. They know their problem isn’t what they eat, but why they eat it.
 
I struggled with this for a quarter of a century!  
 
I just wanted to know why I couldn’t make change stick!
 
How could I do all that research, constantly read book after book and attend training after training, year after year and apply what I was learning but still find myself back where I started?
 
Why did I relapse back into old behaviours where cravings would ultimately win the battle over and over again?

Everything I read and learned always talked about the ego and the unconscious mind. As far as I could see the ego, the unconscious mind were all separate to who we are – to who I am – because they seemed to be the one running the show – my show!

How could I possibly change, how could I be different if I wasn’t the one running MY show?

Every diet, every exercise...

Why restrictive diets are not helpful for sustainable weight loss...

Are the plans you're making or actually implementing, plans that are focused on losing weight?

Or are they plans that are focused on long term health and happiness?

We get so caught up in believing that just losing weight will take us to great health and consequently to great happiness.

But the truth is, a high majority of people who are just focused on losing weight, put it back on. Either not long after having lost enough weight that they feel a sense of relief, or when they next experience a change in the routine structures they've set in place to sustain their diet and exercise (holidays, crisis, changes in relationships, work, finances, health).

To create long term sustainable health habits, you really have to understand what's going on inside your unconscious operating system so you can navigate your way through the ups and downs of life without relapsing back into old habits.

Under stress, the brain doesn't invent new strategies for coping, it falls back into old ones.

If you're...

What is good rest for you?

Is it sitting on the couch watching TV

Is it sleeping all day

or is it going out and having fun?

Whatever your definition of a good rest, we have to give our body the rest it deserves.

Let it relax, let it breathe, rejuvenate and charge its batteries. What's your rest look like?