Having a happy heart is a crucial key to long term weight loss without dieting. 

If you’re overweight, it’s most likely because you’ve been coping with life using food and beverages to soothe and manage your emotions and alleviate stress and tension. 

Which means you have more stress and tension in your life than you do relaxation and joy. 

If you have more stress and tension in your life than you do relaxation and joy and you’re overweight, then you’re already feeling very restricted, aren’t you? 

So it’s easy to see that going on a rigid, restricting diet and/or exercise program is really just compounding the issue. 

Great change doesn’t happen when you tighten down and restrict yourself more. 

Great and lasting change happens when you loosen up and release your grip and allow yourself to have fun. 

UNDERESTIMATING THE VALUE OF HAPPINESS 

We underestimate the value of happiness and the role it...

Whether you realise it or not, over your life time, you’ve developed a range of behaviours to soothe yourself, emotionally, mentally and physically. 

Sometimes we know we’re soothing ourselves, but most of the time, we aren’t even conscious that the things we are doing is for the purpose of releasing tension from our body and that our body silently sent a signal through to the brain and instructed it to do so. 

If we are aware that we are soothing ourselves, we just think we’re doing it for pleasure, and that’s true, but you’re also doing it because you’re body and brain are telling you you have to do it, and do it now. 

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO DO IT? 

• Whatever way it is that you soothe yourself, it’s hooked up to the reward centre in your brain.

• It relieves the tension that you feel in your body. And the need to relieve tension is a primal instinct. 

THE REWARD CENTRE OF YOUR BRAIN 

The...

Diets are a map right? 

They’re a map from where you are to where you want to go. 

The map you get looks simple enough and straight forward; 

• Go here/cook this way 
• Turn left/ eat this 
• Go right/eat at these times 
• Go across/eat these foods 
• Keep going straight/don’t eat those foods 
• And you’re there 

But the map you bought is an incomplete map, its not 3D, it’s the difference between a paper map and then actually going out into the wilderness and trying to navigate your way through the dense woods, rocky mountain terrain and swamps. 

It looks straight forward but the reality is when you set off to follow it you find there's all kinds of obstacles that you have to navigate through or around that they never gave you any strategies, instructions or prepared you for: 

• Mountains/impulse eating 
• Swamps/emotional moments 
• Dead ends/families to cook for and...

Do you always find yourself hunting for food all the time?

Join me on today's FB live and we will talk about the things you can do to stop yourself from being a fridge raider.

"I’m committed to broadcasting a live video every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on social media so that I can support as many people as possible during this time of health crisis, for as long as needed. This is my little way of giving back and helping the community."

Do you always find yourself hunting for food all the time?

Join me on today's FB live and we will talk about the things you can do to stop yourself from being a fridge raider.

"I’m committed to broadcasting a live video every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on social media so that I can support as many people as possible during this time of health crisis, for as long as needed. This is my little way of giving back and helping the community."