All our habits are accumulative.

Whatever the habits of your life are, helpful or unhelpful, they're accumulating and compounding and taking you to a future destination.

And habits are funny things, we pick them up willy nilly it seems, with no real thought to what we're training ourselves to do. One day you just decide to have a biscuit at 10am and then the next day, you remember that you had a biscuit at 10am and you liked it so you do it again, and the next 3 days after that, you find yourself having a biscuit at 10am. If you do that 5 days a week, every week, that's 5 biscuits a week, 20 a month, 240 biscuits a year. That's a lot of unnecessary calories, right?

And our brain is a little bit sneaky too, not on purpose, it's just the way evolution has designed it, but once it learns a new habit, it just puts it into the rotation with all the other things you've taught it to do automatically and you lose conscious awareness of the habits that are shaping your destination.

Now, a...

 Lauren Cooper is an ordinary woman who does extraordinary things!

Can you imagine running a full marathon across terrain hot enough to literally melt the glue that’s holding your sneakers together?

Well multiply that by 7 and you have the Marathon des Sables: a 6-day, self-supporting race across the Sahara in 40-50 degree heat, carrying your own food, cooking equipment, water, and bedding and literally running the distance of 7 full marathons in 6 days.

Harder still to imagine the decade of her life before that and going through an 8-year of life journey with her husband as they both dealt with his long and ultimately terminal illness and how that changed Lauren's attitude to how she would live life.

We’re all shaped by the lives we live and Lauren is no exception.

In this amazing conversation we cover the many phases of Lauren's remarkable, yet completely normal, life and how she has made new choices and decisions that have taken her to new and interesting places...

There are 101 protein products on the shelves of supermarkets and health food stores everywhere. But are they really as good for you as the marketing says?

Only you can decide what you want to consume, I simply encourage you to develop a habit of reading labels so you're aware of what you're putting into your body.

Reading the front label of this product would leave you thinking that it's a good choice and with a name like Raspberry Truffle, you're also thinking it's going to be yummy.

But when you think about all the ingredients on that ingredient list and how much processing each individual ingredient had to go through and then how much processing the whole concoction had to go through to give you the chewy tasty mouth sensation that will (in the eyes of the company) hopefully have you coming back for more, think about what your body has to do with it to extract the goodness (if indeed there is any) from it.

Protein bars are often purchased as a "healthy treat" and they're also...

There are so many layers to Amanda Page. From choreographing tap steps in her kitchen during the day to clear her neural pathways, abseiling down into disused mines, discovering in her 20’s that the reason she processed information differently to others was because of dyslexia and that looking at spreadsheets of information is like reading the matrix for her because the information stands out to her in 3D and she can see the stories woven throughout that others cannot.

Amanda is a Change Expert whose purpose is to live in a world where everyone is fully equipped to deal with all aspects of change.

And what does organisational change and losing weight have in common? Watch this episode and find out. 

Watch this great episode of Dietless Living 360 Degrees on YouTube or listen to it on Spotify, iTunes, or Google.

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Abstainers and Moderators: Which are you with which foods?

Moderator: a person who can open a bottle of beverage, a block of chocolate, a bag of crisps, a packet of lollies or biscuits or have a particular cuisine and only eat 1 serving of it.

This means they can put the rest back in the fridge or cupboard and forget about it until another day, then the next time, just have one serving and put it aside again. They can even have it in plain sight all day every day and still only have one serving every other day with ease.

Abstainer: a person who is not a moderator with certain foods and despite their best efforts, they consume most or all in one sitting. Their best course of action with those food and beverages is to abstain from them. The saying that one’s too many and one hundred’s not enough is their motto for those items.

To know if you need to abstain from certain food and beverages, consider if once something has been bought or opened whether it must be eaten, and...

How we respond in the first instance to the big changes in life that we didn’t see coming isn’t always our best response.

That’s the thing about being human right? We just don’t recognise that we’re responding in unhelpful ways. Glenn Kirkwood had that kind of experience when his hugely successful business was taken from him. But it’s not what you do in the first instance, it’s whether you have the ability to recoginse what you’re doing and then take corrective action and take control of your circumstances rather than be a victim to them.

Watch this great episode of Dietless Living 360 Degrees on YouTube or listen to it on Spotify, iTunes or Google.

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Is losing weight and gaining health the same thing to your or are they different?

If they’re the same thing to you, than teaching yourself to read labels is crucial.

Being able to differentiate between slick marketing that tells you something is good for and being able to flip over the product and read the label and find out for yourself is empowering.

A rule of thumb to follow is that the first 3 ingredients listed = the bulk of the product.

The 2nd ingredient for this product is fructose.

There is a pretty good article about fructose on google: "Is Fructose Bad for You? The Surprising Truth."

The summary of the short article is: "Fructose is a type of sugar that makes up around 50% of table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. Scientists are concerned that excessive intake may cause metabolic disorders."

And: "Many scientists believe that excess fructose consumption may be a key driver of many of the most serious diseases of today. These include obesity, type II diabetes,...

It’s hard to say what’s the most fascinating thing about Rachel Smith?

Is it that she has given, not 1 but 2 TED talks? Or perhaps that she didn’t buy anything new or second-hand for 12 months and save 38% of her salary whilst still doing everything she loved to do?

Maybe it’s what she did after she lost her business in the pandemic? Or that when you ask her where to buy her book, she will direct you to your nearest library?

But I think it’s her integrity, and that she chooses to live by her values, and even though this creates some very rough sailing for her at times, she stands by what is important to her and she always gets what she wants, in fact, it’s by leaning on her values in hard times that actually gets her through.

Watch this great episode of Dietless Living 360 Degrees on YouTube or listen to it on Spotify, iTunes, or Google.

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I really love cormorants, they are a bit like penguins I think in the way they present themselves and do the things they do. They always make me smile when I see them sunning themselves.
This fellow was standing in the line where those of us who were feeding the dolphin were lining up to get our fish...I think he was a bit of a regular!

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What would you do if you were 6 months before retirement when the world economy crashes and wipes out your investments and you lose everything?

That’s what happened to James Browne in the GFC.

How does that affect your health, your relationship, your family and you? How do you leverage the feelings you have; the anger, shock, grief and fear, into positive channels that benefit not you, but others?

This is the magic of James Browne. At arguably one of the worst times of his life, he turned his attention to helping others.

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