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When it comes to food – let your body speak
The food we eat can transform how we feel in our body, and assist in wellbeing, energy levels and clarity of mind.
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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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Food facts and rules – what fits you?
Finding a way of eating that suits you and is a fit for your body and wellbeing can go against established food facts and rules.
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Bridging Foods – Homemade recipes everyone wanted
Article by Nicole Sjardin, one of the authors of Bridging Foods.
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Gluten me
When we are hungry, we get ourselves that yummy thing to eat – but is there something more going on underneath? Read one person’s experience with giving up gluten and what was revealed to them.
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Why I overeat – Nutella and I
What leads us to overeat and choose the foods that we do? Is there a payoff for something we don’t want to look at or feel? Read Sandra’s journey and what happened when she chose awareness over numbing herself with food.
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Food, family cultures and our (not so) hidden attitudes towards food
Is our attitude to food like a formula one race pit stop - necessary but not truly valued, and an interruption to other more important things? Do we rather keep those around us happy when it comes to food choices, than be true to our own bodies!
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What is a hurt . . . and how do hurts relate to dieting and losing weight?
This article posits that it is our hurts that can cause us to overeat or to eat unhealthy foods.
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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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Body image disorder
A healthy body image means you feel good about the way you look, but increased numbers of eating disorders suggest not many people feel this way. What’s going on?
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Getting off the merry-go-round of dieting and indulging
Are you on a merry-go-round of dieting to lose weight, with deprivation, followed by over-indulgence? Maybe it is time to make a change.
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Are weight-loss pills or bariatric surgery the answer to weight loss for obesity?
This article questions whether weight-loss pills or bariatric surgery are the answers to weight loss and obesity, or do we need more individual responsibility?
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How do you know what is right for your body?
This article outlines simple steps to make the connection between what and how we eat and how our bodies feel afterwards, so we can start to eat what is right for our bodies.
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Do wild animals have an obesity problem?
How is it that wild animals have no weight issues, yet human beings are suffering? Have we lost our connection to the true role food plays in our lives?
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Choose you, not food
Emotional eating is a drive to eat to feel better – often emotional eating makes us feel guilt and this drives us to eat more. We can eat to feel better, to feel full, to not feel our feelings. But with a true connection with ourselves we can feel a fullness that does not need feeding. Is it possible to choose you, not food?
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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.
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Food porn
Food porn – an innocent photo or an indulgence that is desire and fantasy
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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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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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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?
