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Exercise for weight loss – a myth?
This article explores whether exercise is the answer to losing weight or if that is indeed a myth.
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Nutritional Dogma – Food rules or loving impulse?
When we categorise foods and diet into ‘good’ and ‘bad’, are we truly supporting ourselves or creating restrictions and dogma?
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It is low fat so I can eat twice as much – the slippery low fat slope
Are you caught in the trap of overeating because it’s low fat?
Lifestyle, Emotions, Livingness, Connection, Diets, Over eating, Healthy diet
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What we get told about food
We are frequently told what food to eat. But what if we need to find out what works for us and follow our own way with food instead of what we are told?
Chocolate, Gluten free, Dairy free, Diets, Digestion, Food pyramid
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Who would we be without dieting?
We’ve created lives based on dieting to look good instead of feeling good and choosing to eat for nourishment alone. Dieting, to our detriment, has become normalised.
Sugar, Diets, Fat, Sugar free
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The Sabotage Syndrome – why is it so easy to give in to harmful choices?
When we start to make healthy changes in our life often sabotage comes knocking.
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Learning to lose weight by making more loving choices
Denise describes how she dieted most of her life and her weight went up and down constantly. It was not until she started to make more loving choices by listening to her body that she stopped dieting and her weight stabilised
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Before and after: Kylie Jackson, on finding her true weight
Kylie’s story of how she became anorexic and her path of true healing, back to her beautiful and healthy self.
Self-worth, Beauty myths, Body image, Fashion, Confidence, Diets, Eating disorder, Losing weight, Body awareness, Healthy diet, Fitness
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My weight loss plan: nothing to do with dieting!
My weight loss plan: nothing to do with dieting … losing weight is not just about food and diets, addressing our hurts can impact our weight!
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Going gluten free does not require a gluten intolerance diagnosis
An invitation to developing a deeper relationship with our bodies and choosing to feel the effects food containing gluten has on our well-being.
Nutrition, Self-awareness, Gluten free, Diets, Body awareness, Coeliac, Celiac
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Apparently, the Food Pyramid is making a comeback but does it meet the needs of the modern man?
Could the food pyramid actually be contributing to our ever-increasing health problems and making waistlines larger not smaller?
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The best diet and why we break it
We easily commit to the best diet plan, the food diary, the fitness plan to support it – and then trip ourselves up. Read here about another approach . . .
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To dairy or to dairy free? Our body holds the answer ...
Are dairy products really supporting our bodies and our well-being? Read on to find pages that support – where you can be your own scientist, letting your own body tell you what is right for you.
Health, Dairy free, Diets, Food pyramid, Body awareness, Food science
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Sugar, exercise and obesity: Let’s get real
This article looks at the cause of being overweight and obese. Is sugar a factor? Is lack of exercise a factor?
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Food as a pacifier
Have we been using food as a pacifier since we were babies? Is this contributing to weight issues such as obesity and diabetes and our ability to live well and be vital?
Obesity, Emotions, Connection, Hurt, Diets, Fat, Healthy diet, Weight loss
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Before and after: Carmel Reid – the weight just dropped off
Carmel’s story on how her weight just dropped off after changing the relationship with herself.
Livingness, Self-awareness, Exhaustion, Self-esteem, Gluten free, Healthy living, Diets, Weight, Weight loss
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When will women be ok with their weight? When is enough, enough?
When will women start accepting their bodies and cut the self-loathing and weight issues? When will we understand that true beauty comes from how we feel inside?
Body Image, Self-worth, Self-esteem, Diets, Body awareness, Weight, Weight Loss
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Is it only food that we are eating?
Read more on the food bomb revelation of what is truly going on in the body when you choose to eat the foods you do.
Evolution, Vitality, Emotions, Diets, Food science, Calories
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Love on the table
Explores the over-indulgence we experience with serving sizes and asks is this because we have substituted food for love?
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Saying no to dieting: Weight loss with awareness
Is dieting a mere distraction from exploring why we are carrying excess weight? Read how one woman lost weight once she refocussed on what was driving her actions.
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Most cancers are almost completely preventable
Seyfried is saying “You can’t get cancer if you are Mitochondria healthy, which points to a Ketogenic diet and to avoid the common high sugar, high carbohydrate diet that most people follow today. High drama ahead when the medical world catches up.”
Evolution, Sugar, Livingness, Cancer, Genetic, Ageless Wisdom, Diets, Inflammation
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Overeating: a 3-step guide to a more positive relationship with Food
Overeating is by no means a new phenomenon within society and particularly in western cultures where access to food is plentiful. In fact, we need only look at our global obesity rates to see that perhaps we are loading our plates a little too high …
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A diet to console or to ignite your Soul?
Do you cringe when you hear the word ‘diet’? What if losing weight wasn’t just about denying and resisting food?
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Fat Attack: shaming obesity does not work
When we attack fat by shaming obesity, we call it ‘bad’ instead of seeing it as the result of the emptiness, sadness and disconnection that it truly is. No diet or willpower can fix obesity – reconnection to the beauty within is the key.
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Sleep – time to restore and refresh
Do you ever wake-up feeling just as exhausted as when you went to sleep? Discover how healthy sleep happens before you even close your eyes.
Well-being, Vitality, Emotions, Diets, Body awareness, Sleep, Weight, Caffeine, Fatigue, Insomnia
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Why your diet can’t deliver
There is ample evidence that dieting does not work to lose body fat or to lose weight fast. Here’s another way of looking at weight loss that doesn’t leave you feeling like a failure.
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Dieting? Why willpower fails us
Dieting by willpower alone does not work. We need to address how our body informs our thinking – our state of physical well-being affects the way we think – a body that is tended and cared for, supports us to make better choices.
Chocolate, Connection, Diets, Gentle Breath, Gentleness, Body awareness
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Weight loss from the inside out
Losing weight by dieting and exercise alone can’t be sustained. We can attain a true weight through connecting to who we are and this can bring lasting change from the inside out.
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Ideal weight
Our ideas of ideal weight may have been imposed by the BMI scale or by the images we are surrounded by. What if we could change the way we see ideal weight and find our true weight?
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Self-loathing
Self-loathing is intense hatred directed at ourselves, often focused on how we look, or how we think we should look. When we stop believing all the things that are wrong with us, we may find a way to connect to the beautiful preciousness we innately are.
Body image, Self-esteem, Diets, Gentle Breath, Weight, Rejection
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Can’t lose weight? Take a fresh look with new ideas
Have you tried every diet ... and failed ... and then you are faced with the idea that you can’t lose weight? What if we could find true motivation to lose weight – through connecting, not dieting.
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Motivation to lose weight
Discover true motivation to lose weight – it’s more than mind over matter …
