Happiness, playfulness, and Personal Health Leadership™ are three principles of Dietless Living® that help overcome the obstacles in weight loss, health, self, and in life.

Happiness is the state of being happy. It is a natural human emotion that we can all feel and experience. Happiness helps us to be more optimistic, which in turn helps us to see opportunities instead of obstacles. In this way, happiness helps us to overcome obstacles by giving us the opportunity to see the good in life and live our lives with a sense of confidence and positive expectation.

Playfulness is a state of mind that allows people to think about things in a less serious way, which also makes it easier for them to find solutions for problems. Playfulness also helps people be more creative because they’re not worried about being judged or criticized for their ideas or actions. In this way, playfulness also helps people overcome their obstacles in life, self and in health and weight loss.

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Resilience is key in adapting to the things that happen in our day to day life. So what’s it mean to be resilient?

Resilience is our ability to:

Spring back, to rebound, its our capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness, it’s our ability to return to balance after being bent, compressed or stretched out of shape, our ability to recover readily from illness, depression and adversity – it’s how buoyant we are.

Other ways to think of our resiliency is to think about our flexibility – mental, emotional and physical flexibility, our pliability and suppleness to adapt to any and all changes, it’s about how supple we are, our “give” and how well we bounce.

Now think about those words – flexible, pliable, suppleness, springiness, give, bounce…don’t they all sound like words of fun and play?

What's the secret to having more fun and playfulness in your life when you're flat out busy with unmovable deadlines...

We had a lot of fun working out how to use this new app, I'd love to know what you think of our first short video! If you have a second will you reply with a couple of words if you liked it or not?

If you want to get more help with this just book in for a private session and let's just get it done this week because life is for living. 

An ounce of adjustment is always easier to implement than a pound of change™.

Enjoy the life you’ve been looking for™.

When I began my Dietless Living® weight loss journey and developing my Personal Health Leadership™ skills I began noticing how happiness, playfulness and relaxation were the cornerstone ingredients to my success.

I had to learn the skills of being happy every day though because for me happiness was something I thought I could only have if I had a worry free life.

But I discovered that happiness is something that only each person can actively create for themselves, whether there are things to worry about or not, because happiness is really is a skill we have to learn and build like everything else.

Happiness is more than just an emotion; it’s something that mostly comes from creating an intentional lifestyle and a healthy, forward focused mindset. And while happiness alone cannot save us from disease, poverty or tragedy, living a happy life and developing our Personal Health Leadership™ skills can make it much easier to cope with the difficulties we all face...

Changing our lifestyle isn’t always easy, but it can be done with the right approach, strategy, and mindset. When we’re able to maintain a change in our lifestyle we feel more confident, experience less stress, sleep better and have better relationships with ourselves and others.

And the most effective way to maintain a change is to develop your Personal Health Leadership™ skills.

We all know that we should eat better, exercise more, and sleep well. But we can't seem to find the time or motivation to make those changes happen and keep up the maintenance of them so they become part of our ongoing life.

The reality is that true weight loss comes from improving the health of our mind and body and changing our choices in food and keeping our bodies strong and flexible has a profound impact on that. But it’s through developing our Personal Health Leadership™ skills that will ultimately lead us to making and maintaining those changes for the rest of our life....

This week I'm talking about the old habits.

One of my greatest obstacles and long standing habits that I consistently have to overcome, is being a workaholic.

I've had this pattern of behaviour since I first started working at age 15. It's something I easily fall into, but In the beginning it showed itself simply as a high work ethic and I worked diligently at whatever task I was given, always eager to please!

But over the years and jobs that simply developed into being a workaholic, working long hours and working hard at my jobs.

At least these days working for myself, I can say I do truly enjoy the time I spend working. But hey, my business isn't called Dietless Working, it's called Dietless Living® and it's time to hold the mirror up to myself again and get back to doing the living part.

I love walking but I never know where to find the great walking tracks, but recently I found a great app called All Trails - so problem solved!

Last weekend for our long weekend in...

I wanted to create a weight loss program that helps people lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle, because we want a way to enjoy our food and our life don’t we?

This is a way to lose weight and positively impact health through changing habits and lifestyle while preventing
relapse, it’s about longevity of change. The program consists of four different phases:

Phase 1: Identifying the problem
Phase 2: Changing the environment
Phase 3: Changing the routine
Phase 4: Maintaining the change

This way of living leads to weight loss success because it goes through the process of elevating happiness through changes in health that naturally lead to weight loss, backed up by a system to prevent relapse so you can enjoy
your life with a new healthier and happier body.

It's a process that can be followed by anyone who wants to lose weight and stay healthy for life and the program is divided into three sections: preparation, change, and maintenance.

In each section there are...

All our habits are accumulative.

Whatever the habits of your life are, helpful or unhelpful, they're accumulating and compounding and taking you to a future destination.

And habits are funny things, we pick them up willy nilly it seems, with no real thought to what we're training ourselves to do. One day you just decide to have a biscuit at 10am and then the next day, you remember that you had a biscuit at 10am and you liked it so you do it again, and the next 3 days after that, you find yourself having a biscuit at 10am. If you do that 5 days a week, every week, that's 5 biscuits a week, 20 a month, 240 biscuits a year. That's a lot of unnecessary calories, right?

And our brain is a little bit sneaky too, not on purpose, it's just the way evolution has designed it, but once it learns a new habit, it just puts it into the rotation with all the other things you've taught it to do automatically and you lose conscious awareness of the habits that are shaping your destination.

Now, a...

There are 101 protein products on the shelves of supermarkets and health food stores everywhere. But are they really as good for you as the marketing says?

Only you can decide what you want to consume, I simply encourage you to develop a habit of reading labels so you're aware of what you're putting into your body.

Reading the front label of this product would leave you thinking that it's a good choice and with a name like Raspberry Truffle, you're also thinking it's going to be yummy.

But when you think about all the ingredients on that ingredient list and how much processing each individual ingredient had to go through and then how much processing the whole concoction had to go through to give you the chewy tasty mouth sensation that will (in the eyes of the company) hopefully have you coming back for more, think about what your body has to do with it to extract the goodness (if indeed there is any) from it.

Protein bars are often purchased as a "healthy treat" and they're also...

Is losing weight and gaining health the same thing to your or are they different?

If they’re the same thing to you, than teaching yourself to read labels is crucial.

Being able to differentiate between slick marketing that tells you something is good for and being able to flip over the product and read the label and find out for yourself is empowering.

A rule of thumb to follow is that the first 3 ingredients listed = the bulk of the product.

The 2nd ingredient for this product is fructose.

There is a pretty good article about fructose on google: "Is Fructose Bad for You? The Surprising Truth."

The summary of the short article is: "Fructose is a type of sugar that makes up around 50% of table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. Scientists are concerned that excessive intake may cause metabolic disorders."

And: "Many scientists believe that excess fructose consumption may be a key driver of many of the most serious diseases of today. These include obesity, type II diabetes,...