Today I’m asking you what is it that you’re after? Are you after weight loss or a healthy body or both?  

I ask because everyone I’ve ever spoken to who wants to lose weight, ultimately wants to lose it so they can feel better.   

They want to lose their excess weight so they can: 

• Sleep better 
• Move more freely 
• Cope with the climate better 
• Feel more comfortable in their clothes during the day so they feel more relaxed 
• They want their body to look nicer naked so they feel more confident to have sex or put on their swimmers and go the beach  

They also want to lose their excess weight so they can sit in seats at the movies or on aeroplanes, so they get out more and see new things that enrich their life. They want to join in with life, relax, and think about other things, things that give them joy and happiness. 

The problem I see, and experienced myself many times over while I was stuck in dieting...

Do you want to lose weight this year?  

If your answer is no, you don’t want to lose weight this year, then you’ll understand who I help, because I help people who are the exact opposite to you, they do want to lose weight this year and they’re looking now to get started.   

If your answer is yes, you do want to lose weight this year, then you’ll know who I help, I help people who are exactly like you, they do want to lose weight this year and they’re looking right to get started.  

As a weight loss coach, I help women who do want to lose weight this year. Women who:  

• Have been struggling with their weight for more than 5 years 
  
• Have been focused on families and career and simply lost sight of their own needs and health but want to lose weight now.  
• Know that getting the weight off will increase their happiness simply because they’ll feel better in themselves and they won’t have to...

When the realisation comes that we need to lose weight, when something jars us into action, there’s an element of panic, and the resounding thought in our head is "Get it off me, and get if off now!" 

When we reach that point, that panic response results in the first biggest mistake smart women make. 

We dive in boots and all because we want quick fixes and we want it right now. 

We try to go from 0 – 100 and we change everything and do too much, too quick.  

Our plan follows a familiar pattern; 

• A calorie-restrictive diet 

• Coupled with intensive exercising 3- 5 times a week at gym, doing boot camps or maybe running every other day trying to burn through the calories to get the result fast 

The problem is that on top of our already busy schedule, working 50, 60, 70, hours a week at the office, under time pressures, deadlines, staff issues, conflict, and burning the midnight oil...

This week I’m talking about why having more zip, zazz and pazing in our day not only makes us feel good but is actually a match to the health we want to enjoy.  

What does having more energy in your energy tank feel like? It feels good doesn’t it? Those days when you wake up and you’re just “on”. The sun seems brighter, the world seems happier, and life just feels easier. 

We spend so much time thinking and worrying about our weight that the whole “living and enjoying a great life” part gets put on hold. 

But when we start living and enjoying ourselves, when we’re out having fun in our life, we switch over to using another part of our brain and we start making healthier, happier choices for ourselves naturally.  

Because when we feel good, we want to keep feeling good. 

We all need more living in our life, so lets get started: 

1. Make a list of 5 things that would make your happy heart sing this year....

This week we’re talking about the mystery of habit relapse and what we can do to prevent it.  

I never thought I’d be able to change my bad habits. I’d been told more than once that I had “an addictive personality”, low self-esteem and self-worth, and that the reason I kept failing to change was because I “self-sabotaged” (presumably because I had low self-esteem and low self-worth).   

The reality is I didn’t understand the mechanisms of this amazing body and mind.  

I wasn’t self-sabotaging, I was relapsing into old habits.  

And I kept relapsing because that’s what our non-conscious mind and body are constantly pushing to return to, and I couldn’t win a fight that I didn’t understand.  

To break-free from the cycle we need to: 

     a.) Develop an understanding of this part of ourselves  

     b.) Build our knowledge of...

This week we’re talking about creating meaningful and sustainable change through the power of small adjustments.

Our biggest obstacles to losing weight and gaining health are the ones we have that stop us even getting started.

There’s always seems to be something in our way, something that “When I get past this, then I will have time to focus on me”.

Every year is full of celebrations, challenges and changes, all culminating at the end of the year with the daddy of all stresses, Christmas.

That’s why New Year’s Resolutions are so popular right; this is the time when we think we can take a minute to focus on ourselves before the cycle starts again.

But Why Do We Think We Have To Wait?

Because unless you’re experiencing one of those rare moments where the switch in our mind is triggered and turned “on” – you know that switch, the one that propels us into action like we just sat on a thumb tack? The one that gives us...

This week I'm talking about how easy it is to change your health and fitness with just one small 2 min adjustment to how you think about exercise.

Well, it's another New Years Eve on the horizon and opportunity to make a New Years Resolution that you can stick to using the power of marginal gains.

We think that getting regular exercise that makes a difference to our health has to be big blocks of time spent at the gym several days a week.

I remember when I decided that that really didn't work for me - at all!

So I made my own rules up about how and what exercise I would focus on.

Lucky for me, I do love exercise, but I get bored easy and I really didn't like having to go to the gym. I needed something that would fit into my hectic life and make me happy.

So I came up with my two-minute rule. I know, two minutes is nothing right? And people often say to me, "Well, two minutes isn't going to make you skinny is it?!"

But I disagree.

When I decided on my 2 minute rule, I was...

I might have watched too much Gavin & Stacey recently, but I have to say, time off is lush isn't it?

#dietlessliving #katiegordon #gavinandstacey #timeoff #happydays #relaxing #southbank #burleighbeach

This week I’m talking about the concepts and misguided ideas that we have about what constitutes good health. 

I’m a great observer of people, and I’m lucky to live in the city where there is so many to observe.  

I see beautiful slender people, totally buff people, well dressed successful looking people, and I often catch myself thinking; “Don’t they look the picture of success, health and happiness”.  

And I think that because really that’s what we’ve been lead to think success, health and happiness looks like; slender and fashionable.

But what is health? 

• Is it the totally buff man or woman coming out of the gym and lighting up a cigarette or sucking on a vape?  
• Is it having the correct BMI even though you have no muscle mass or tone because you don’t work the muscles in your body? 
• Is it living an all organic lifestyle but still bitching,...

I’m not a skinny Minnie, but I got rid of about 20+kg in weight in 2011 and I’ve remained at my current body size ever since…because I finally worked out what causes it.  

I know that sounds funny, stupid even to say I didn’t know what caused me to put on weight…clearly it was the amount of calories I was consuming, but what I mean is, I didn’t know what caused the frenzy on eating. And I can tell you, no one else knows what causes it either, because if they did, we wouldn’t have the problems we have. 

I don’t have a degree in nutrition, psychology or fitness. 

But sometimes, actions and results speak louder than degrees. 

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.  

Theory that hasn’t been applied is just that, theory. 

But theory that has been applied, tested and collated, that is knowledge.  

And everything that I teach is something I learned (theory),...