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Snacking – A modern habit?
Snacking is a modern habit fuelled by the food industry and is linked to overeating and rising rates of obesity. But why are we obsessed with the constant need to eat?
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Diets don’t work. Stop dieting – start connecting
Diets don’t work because they focus on food, not on the person choosing the food. We need to look at ourselves and why we might choose to be overweight.
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Diets don’t work ... but there is another way!
Diets don’t work because they focus on food, not on the person choosing the food. We need to look at ourselves and why we eat and why we might choose to be overweight.
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True health is more than a label
What does true health mean? Is it about a label, a tick box exercise, or is it about truly loving and caring for our bodies?
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Obesity – what is truly going on?
We cannot blame our worldwide obesity problem simply on our environment and marketing.
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The body of self-care
Have you ever wanted to free yourself from the self-criticism of needing to have the ‘perfect body’? This is one woman’s account of how she reclaimed herself from the clutches of bulimia.
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Food to go – convenience at a price
Does eating ready meals and food on the go, or multitasking with our meals, truly support our bodies?
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Gut instinct – is it true or just your bugs talking?
Have you considered where our ‘gut feelings’ come from – where is their root, and how do they develop?
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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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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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The love diet
What I like to eat and what my body likes are often different, but my body knows me best and tells me clearly and constantly what it needs and what it doesn’t.
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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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Petrol stations laden with sugar fuelled snacks, bars and nibbles resemble drug dens for sugar addicts and ‘paradise’ for over-eaters.
Petrol stations – sugarcoated and sickly-sweet are not what they used to be
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By connecting to our natural rhythms we improve our well-being
Let’s look at some natural rhythms and cycles that we have that, if followed, support our personal development and well-being.
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How to stop food cravings
Trying to go gluten free but keep having pesky food cravings? Understand more and try out these how to stop food craving tips.
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Do we really need 57 varieties?
Why are there so many varieties of the same food available in our stores, and what does that mean about why we eat what we eat?
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The story of a lifetime dieter – finally the freedom to be me
How I found freedom and stopped beating myself up with rigid diet rules to lose weight. The support we need is not what you might think!
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Weight loss magazines, food and you – an eternally vicious cycle
What do the diet industry and diet and weight loss and slimming magazines really offer us? Do they give us the way to attain a ‘dream body’ or is there something else going on?
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Exercising to lose weight – a personal story
Anne discovered that she could keep her weight down with excessive exercise, but at what cost to her body?
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Procrastination with food: just a small snack first … ?
How often do you reach for a snack rather than getting on with something? Do you snack to procrastinate? Have you ever asked, what are you really avoiding?
