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.

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.

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...

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.

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