Have you ever stopped and thought about how amazing life is for us? 

Have you ever wondered, if time travel existed, and someone from 1920 or even 1980 came forward to our time, how wide-eyed and amazed they would be at what we have available to us, what we can do and how we live? 

The shopping center's, the internet, the phones, the size of the home TV, the endless variety of food in the grocery store, food courts and take-away restaurants, the cars we drive, the movies we watch, and in general, the affluent lifestyles we live.

How different is the life you’re actually living now to the life you were capable of even imagining you would be living when you in your teens? 

We really do live in the most amazing times in all of history! 

Which all begs the question “What in, or about, your life do you love the most?” 

WHEN THINGS GO AWRY?

We all experience difficult times in our life, all kinds of hurdles that we have to train ourselves...

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...

We've all heard people say you've 'got to be persistent' to make change. 

I say it all the time "You need to be consistent to be persistent." 

What most people mean though is that you have to just push through the barriers, push through the obstacles, maybe bludgeon your way through or into something. 

And even if that's not what you mean when you encourage someone to be persistent, that's what they hear. 

Why? 

Because if you have to encourage someone to be persistent, then it most likely means they've been at something for a while and they're not seeing the evidence that they were expecting to see that indicates they're making headway. 

They feel like they're running into a head-wind when what they'd like to feel is the help of a tail-wind. 

Being persistent feels like you're pushing against defeat, that if you give up your persistent effort, defeat will come in and sweep you away. 

WHAT'S THE MEANING OF ALL THIS? 

The meaning of...

I was thinking the other day about the times in my life when I've sat down and decided on a goal that I wanted to achieve. 

It'd be a goal I was determined to achieve because it'd provide a great and desired impact in my life. 

I'd spend the day thinking about it, feeling the enthusiasm for it, thinking about what I've gotta do to achieve it and deciding on what my first action would be starting the very next day. 

Then either that very next day or one of the days soon after it, I wouldn't follow through on my plan.

FLY BIRDIE FLY 

All that motivation and enthusiasm have flown the coop.  All that energy that had been coursing through my veins and propelling me forward, gone, without explanation. 

I never understood how I could be all fired up and soooooooo determined one day, not only vowing to get on with the business of achieving my goal, but super excited about it as well as I always had a kick arse plan, and then simply not follow through. 

It...

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...

With COVID-19 pandemic, we are all experiencing a great change, aren't we?

For this Facebook live, we'll talk about how you can use the great change we experience today to actually create other great changes in your life.

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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."

In this FB live, we will talk about how you can find clarity during uncertainty.

If you want to be notified when I do my future FB lives, make sure to follow my Fb page https://www.facebook.com/dietlessliving/

"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."