Have you ever wondered what the secrets to overcoming obstacles and living a happy life are? In this episode James Knight shares all of them as we talked about all things leadership; how to get yourself through everything from an iron man event to the challenges in work, home and health.

James has an incredible history in leadership including 16 years as a Royal Marines Commando Officer. He’s traveled extensively and operated in some of the most demanding and challenging environments on earth and you only have to spend a little time with James to know he lives his values of honesty, integrity, learning and humility.

And what does leadership and losing weight really have in common? Watch this episode and find out. 

Listen to James words of wisdom and watch this great episode of Dietless Living 360 Degrees on YouTube or listen to it on Spotify, iTunes, Google or Amazon Music and find out.

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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 when they come.

And it’s...

Anxiety and panic have a massive impact on all areas of our health and our weight and Tammy Rolfe suffered with GAD and social phobia from the age of 14 until she finally had a breakthrough at age 37.

Anxiety, overthinking and excessive worry are exhausting and they rob you of the happiness of life.

Listen to Tammy’s experiences and watch this great episode of Dietless Living 360 Degrees on YouTube or listen to it on Spotify, iTunes, Google or Amazon Music and find out.

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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.

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How do you overcome the obstacles of having your leg so broken that it needs 2 plates & 22 screws after being hit by a car to getting your life back together and cycling 360km in 5 days?

Watch this great episode of Dietless Living 360 Degrees on YouTube or listen to it on Spotify, iTunes, Google or Amazon Music and find out.

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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 Queensland,...

Learning to work with animals can teach us so much about learning how to work with the other people in our life as well as with ourselves. What animals sense in us and react to is no different to how we interact with other humans.

This week I’m talking to Joanne Watson about her biggest obstacle in her life working with horses and the lessons we can all learn from it.

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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 strategies on how t...

What’s perseverance? It’s maintaining steady persistence and continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition.

And that’s what you need to change your life’s trajectory and that’s what Barney Hodgson has in spades, the ability to persevere.

Sometimes we have to break ourselves down, change many, if not all, aspects of our lives because we find the way we’re living our life is no longer tolerable. And the biggest obstacle we face in those times is it leads us to being incredibly vulnerable to our own inner demons as we take the reins of our life back and start to steer it through conscious choices that go against every natural instinct that is telling you to stay the same.

Barney realised that the road he was on was no longer working for him and he changed every aspect of his life and started carving out his new path. He’s pulled himself up by his bootstraps every single day and fights for what he wants. He’s been developing new strategies, pro...

Are you bathroom scales a friend or foe?

Do you give your bathroom scales too much power over your happiness?

I did.

Until I realised I was asking them for the wrong information.

Instead of asking them to tell me how much weight I was losing when I was on a diet, I should have been using them every day to tell me how much weight I was putting on!

The brain is a tricky thing and it used to always befuddle me how I could gain 20kg without noticing?

Yes, you heard me right…I could put on 20kg’s without noticing!

Maybe you’ve had the same experience?

I don’t know how many times I asked myself “How on earth did I gain 20kg without noticing?

Well, here’s the answer, and it’s a ridiculously simple one too……

It happens because we simply stop stepping on the bathroom scales when we don’t like what they tell us.

Instead of using the information in a constructive way i.e.; take note of what’s happening and make small adjustments to our diet and body movement that very day. We ignore th...