I remember when I first read that quote many many years ago, it shocked me as I hadn’t really thought about it in that way.

I struggled with my weight for a quarter of a century and I was ashamed and bewildered that I kept regaining the weight time and time again.

I didn’t understand back then that what I really needed wasn't another weight loss program what I needed was help to overcome the weight loss obstacles I had so I could lose the weight and keep it off.

Finally, in 2011, I developed a program to overcome those obstacles so I could change the habits and behaviours I wanted to change so I could lose weight my way and lose it for life.
 
Dietless Living® is helping women and men overcome weight loss obstacles in 6 Simple Steps.

Dietless Living® is for
* People who have done all the lotions, potions, pills, powders, shakes and diets but keep regaining the weight

* People who've had gastric banding but not won the war over wanting

* Overweight, exhausted A-Type women who don't know how to s...

I recently heard of a weight-loss plan that combines daily injections of a hormone that’s released during pregnancy and is extracted from the urine of pregnant women.

Along with the daily injections you can only eat 500 calories a day.

The cost of the hormone is nearly $1500 for a 5 week supply and the weight loss really comes from the highly restricted caloric intake and apparently the hormone doesn’t assist with the weight loss or reducing appetite.

Among some of unpleasant short term potential side effects of the hormone are stomach pain and swelling, severe pelvic pain and shortness of breath. While some of the long term side effects include fatigue, depression, and possible blood clots along with….weight gain! 🤪

Although I never did this particular diet, I did do some crazy diets over the quarter of a century that I yo yo dieted, I always seemed to be trying to manipulate my body using some weight loss strategy that would trick it into giving up the fat and when they all faile...

In this week’s podcast, I had the great pleasure to talk to Ingrid Galloway who shares with me 2 of her biggest obstacles in life that she’s had to overcome: leaving Indonesia to move to Australia and 10 years later finally leaving an abusive relationship after 3 failed attempts.

The interesting thing about Ingrid is she sees all of life's events as opportunities for growth and can shares great wisdom, along with 3 helpful tips for anyone who is trying to leave a domestic violent relationship.

Ingrid has been a relationship coach for 13 years now and works with couples before and after marriage as well as couples coaching for people who are in their first relationships and about to move in together. But what I really love about Ingrid’s work is that she works with broken-hearted singles.

Grab yourself a cuppa and enjoy today's episode. 

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When I decided to forget about dieting and focus on living, it changed more than my weight, it changed my life.

I'd grown up around trucks and when I was a little girl I went to work with my dad a lot and naturally I wanted to be a truck driver just like him. My father had a long history of driving international trucks in the 50’s and 60’s and in the 70’s he worked in Gove and Weipa, back before there was “fly in/fly out”, which meant we didn’t see him for a long time.

In 2012, I finally got my opportunity to make that little girl's dream a reality when I got on a project in Weipa operating a 60 Tonne rigid (which I learnt to operate on the job).

I worked on 2 more projects after Weipa; McArthur River and Maules Creek. There was a lot to love about this work, and one of them was living in a camp. Whilst most complained that they put on lots of weight as the food was all supplied, I always lost weight. I was just so happy living life that I was no longer using food to manage my emoti...

Happiness actually isn’t very highly rated; it is highly coveted, but not highly rated in regards to the value it can add to your life.

Yet the ROI on happiness is massive!

It:
😂 Lowers your risk for cardiovascular disease
😂 Lowers your blood pressure
😂 Enables better sleep
😂 Improves your diet
😂 Boosts digestion
😂 Reduces stress and anxiety.
😂 Boosts your immune system
😂Reduces inflammation in the body
😂 Reduces auto immune problems
😂 Improves blood flow through your body by releasing tension from your body
😂 Releasing tension from the body reduces migraines, headaches and aches and pains
😂 Improves brain function (all the increased blood flow clears thinking)
😂 Increases mental health
😂 Increases emotional health

All of which helps you to maintain a healthy body weight because when you feel good you make better food choices, you want to exercise more, drink less alcohol and generally you have all round better health habits because happy people make happy healthy choices.

Imagine what you could...

What do you do when you get a phone call in the middle of the afternoon to tell you your daughter has been involved in a hit and run and is in intensive care and she lives 2 states away from where you are?

Debbie Barker shares how she got through that very challenging time and how she applied her skills as a Reiki master to help her daughter and her family.

In this heart-warming interview Debbie (who was a PT and Pilates coach for nearly 30 years) and I share some great weight loss tips and do a deep dive into energy work.

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The other day I popped a post in about what’s gone on in the background to get up my business up and running. The post was about how I needed to learn everything from scratch, basically I put myself through what I laughingly call “Katie University” as I’ve tried to work it all out and put the pieces of the business puzzle together.

And you know what, as I look at that post, I can see that’s exactly how dedicated I was for the 25 years preceding it when I was putting myself through another version of “Katie University” when I was trying to work out how to lose weight and stop relapsing and putting it back on. I wish I’d logged the hours I’d spent reading and listening to audiobooks, CDs, going to workshops, seminars, and taking courses. Not to mention my fetish for constant note-taking and writing down ideas and insights which filled many journals over the years as I tried to piece together the puzzle that is human behaviour. Whilst I don’t know how many hours I invested I did work out...

I had a very lively and funny interview with Annette, who launched her book recently: How To Eat A Shit Sandwich and Keep Smiling, the story of her life up until she was 25 years old. I think the title says it all about Annette’s sense of humour and how she deals with life.

She talks with great bluntness and honesty about her career in journalism, a failed business venture with a family member, weight loss surgery, and watching her mum give up the fight as cancer took her away along with a hilarious recounting of bungy jumping in a bikini when she was in her 20’s and how most of life’s problems can be solved through the wisdom found on Grey’s Anatomy.

Annette learned early in life through a forward-thinking teacher, that her happiness is dependent on her and no one else, so whilst most people are waiting for “the other shoe to drop” in life, Annette thinks that when it does, it’s going to be a big sparkly stiletto that’s going to take her to the ball.

I became a Dietless Living expert after being stuck in dieting hell for 25 years.

It didn’t matter what I did, nothing ever addressed or resolved the underlying issue behind my weight problem.

I’d reached a few crisis points over my life and each time I cleaned up my life and went to the next level in health and wellness.

Over 25 years I tried every diet, exercise program, alternative wellness programs, talking therapies and a full range of body and healing workers, and moved my life to all things organic, took every pill, powder and potion, but none of it gave me control of the driving force inside me.

In that time I also became a Master of NLP & Neuro Re-Patterning, Kinesiology, became professionally trained in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Results Coaching & Subconscious Reprograming, Suicide Intervention Skills, Pyschosomatic Therapies and studied to be a Naturopath because I wanted to know what drives our thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

Learning about human behaviour and what driv...

You think you know someone after meeting them through networking and having conversations, but it’s not until we ask real questions do we get real answers. Everyone has deep stories that are their life. Kelly Asmus Albornoz shares with us today some very personal hardships she’s been through in her life and how she has overcome having a pedophile for a father and an abusive relationship in her teens to meeting the love of her life in Antarctica, the man she still calls her Latin lover as husband sounds so boring to how they have both had to overcome the loss of their first baby.

But Kelly has done the work and gotten past the traumas of her life and with her love of photography and passion for science, goes on adventures with her husband and kids in their caravan, exploring natures beauty.

And if you’re someone who wants to quit smoking, Kelly is also known as the Quit Lady and has a 95% success rate helping people quit smoking in 60 minutes.

I hope you enjoy listening as much as I ...