Do you know someone who has had to resort to gastric band surgery to lose weight, or maybe it's you? And even though you've had the surgery, you're still overconsuming calories?

To step into your most extraordinary life with choices freedom and control you have to master your unconscious eating habits, patterns, and behaviours.

I spent 25 years yo-yo dieting. Sometimes I could lose the weight and keep it off for a few years and sometimes I couldn’t stick to a diet for 5 minutes let alone lose weight.

The thing that I battled with the most was emotional and impulse eating. I was bewildered by my own behaviours and nobody could tell me what was driving it or how to stop it.

After 30 years of research, I’ve mastered the beast! And my mission is to share my experiences and help others to step into their most extraordinary life with choices, freedom, and control.

Do you know one of the most little known phenomena is that when we lose weight our unconscious mind secretly wants us to return to being overweight again?

The self-criticism and low self-worth don't change just because you lose weight and the thoughts that drove your eating habits, patterns and behaviours are what drive you back to being overweight again.

The key to sustaining change is learning the skills to master your inner critic and re-build and develop greater confidence and self-worth, learning how to love yourself no matter what.

“It’s ok, I can eat whatever I want/smoke cigarettes/drink too much alcohol because I’m fit from all the exercise I do”

Do you know anyone who says that? Or maybe it’s you that says that?

There is a common misconception among people that if you are living a healthy life, exercising and eating healthy foods, it's okay if you cling to your bad habit. Unfortunately, you can’t out-exercise a bad habit.

Bad habits will always have a negative impact on your health, no matter how you try to counteract them.

Don’t wait any longer, now is the time to get rid of your bad habits and live your life with choices, freedom, and control.

Which should you focus on the most; the result or the process?

This is very familiar, isn't it?

You weigh yourself multiple times a day hoping to see fast results, but when the result is unfavourable you get discouraged and frustration hits you hard again.

It's because you're focusing on the results, not the process.

When you focus on the process, the results will take care of themselves.

Are you stuck in a continuous battle against weight gain?

My name is Katie Gordon. Dietless Living. Change behaviour specialist. I spent 25 years yo-yo dieting. Sometimes I could lose weight and keep it off for a few years and sometimes I couldn’t stick to a diet for 5 minutes let alone lose weight.

The thing that I battled with the most was emotional and impulse eating. I was bewildered by my own behaviours and nobody could tell me what was driving it or how to stop it.

After 30 years of research, I’ve mastered the beast! And my mission is to share my experiences and help others to step into their most extraordinary life with choices, freedom, and control.

If there's one thing I love, its comedy! 

Laughter, fun and happiness is the antidote to all things that ails you! 

Laughter

• Decreases stress hormones 

• Increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies 

• Triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural feel-good chemicals that promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain 

• Protects your heart by improving the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow 

• Improves sleep patterns 

• Relaxes the whole body 

• Burns calories 

• Releases tension and stress 

• Breaks the cycle of negative thoughts 

• Helps you to think more clearly 

• Improves self-esteem 

• Improves your social life - makes you enjoyable to be around 

• Laughing with others makes you feel more connected  

• Increases your optimism 

• Lifts your mood 

• Increases energy 

• Exercises your facial muscles 

• ...

I’m always asked for easy dietless living tips, and one of the easiest first steps to changing your eating habits, patterns and behaviours is to actually enjoy the food that you eat. 

Developing a great relationship with food is the same as any other relationship. It needs

• Your attention
• You to be present when you’re with it
• To stop judging it
• To not complain about it
• To have loving feelings towards it (rather than resentment) 

Here are 7 tips to help you do that and help you lose weight naturally. 

#1 SET THE SCENE, EAT AT THE TABLE 

You’ve heard that it’s best to eat at the table rather than in front of the TV haven’t you? 

This is so you concentrate on eating rather than absent mindedly eating while focusing on the TV/computer/driving/etc. 

Whether you’re eating with the family or eating alone, eating at the table gives your brain an important message. It tells your brain that

1. it’s going to be enjoying a...

Are you preparing not to succeed? 

Diet cookbooks are helping you to do just that. 

I saw a cookbook today, on the big glossy cover were 4 photos of sensational looking food and the title of the book was “Healthy Snacks” with the sub text saying Eat Healthy & Lose Weight. 

TO SNACK OR NOT TO SNACK 

You don’t need to make healthy snacks, if you eat a meal (not a snack) when you’re hungry, eat food with nutritional value and eat until you are full, there is no need for “snacks”. 

Snacks are foods you eat because you’re;

• Skipping meals 

• Eating low nutritional foods 

• Not eating enough food to feel satisfied 

• Or they are something you eat because you feel compelled to eat to relieve stress, boredom, anger or some other physiological or psychological response

PREPARING NOT TO SUCCEED 

If you’re on a diet and you prepare the so called healthy...

For some reason we think that any kind of a ‘failure’ is a sign of, well, failure!  

The word ‘failure’ strikes fear into the hearts and minds of most people, doesn’t it? 

It’s just so laden with bad vibes, I can’t think of a time the word ‘failure’ has ever been linked to anything happy or inspiring. 

The attached quote is one of my all time favorites, failure is really the unsung hero of any success. 

Because of the times when success isn’t achieved, the product, service, event, relationships, job, presentation, invention, whatever it is, is all the better for it when success finally comes. 

Why? 

Because “failing” is merely learning. You didn’t fail at walking, using the toilet, eating solids, learning how to dress yourself, or any of the other 1000’s of things you had to learn to do as you grew up.

What have you “failed” at only...