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.

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 

• ...

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...

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...

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."

In today's Facebook live, we will talk about this one thing that you can do to easily dissolve your worries and fears. It's very easy that everyone can do it!

Plus, join me for a lovely afternoon walk.

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."