Starting a new diet is like trying to take a drink from a fire hydrant.

There's so much information to take in about what to eat, when to eat, how much to eat while trying to work it all out now before your next meal.

Changing your diet takes a lot of mental effort because you have to change the way you think about food, what you’re having at each meal, everything that’s currently in your pantry, you have to think about how you meal plan, shop, cook, and how the changes you want to make impact the other people in your life.

Jumping in boots ultimately adds tension to all systems of your life.

Real lasting change comes though through a well thought out plan that's implemented incrementally.

And a great plan begins with thinking about the big picture.

You need to know where you are, where you want to be and what has to change for you to get there.

Step 1 List out your known resources:

• What you can do right now?
• What you can’t do right now?
• Resources: time, focus,...

You have to identify what trigger your stress so you know how to manage them better.

There’s only 1 reason we’re overweight, and that is that we can’t stop eating.

But why can’t we stop? How come sometimes we can control “wanting” and other times, “wanting” has control over us?

And why does that wanting turn into a juggernaut of unconscious eating that sweep us away like a runaway freight train causing us to gain weight time and time again?

We’re intelligent and accomplished, we organise busy, successful lives, we're capable of obtaining degrees and diplomas, and running businesses, families and households.

There is seemingly nothing we can’t do when we put our minds to it, so why can’t we control our eating so we can lose weight for life?

Some studies indicate that our inability to successfully change our eating habits is because we consume foods that have the same addictive qualities as heroin and crack cocaine.

And it’s true, highly processed foods are manufactured to make them so good that...

"We just become so fearful of things, we live in a state of survival and the more we want to control our environment which leads to tension."

Ask Yourself These Questions

We all have knowledge gaps that make it harder for us to lose weight and keep it off.

There are things we know we don’t know and then there are the things we don’t know that we don’t know, and these are the ones that keep tripping you up.

Here are a few things you need to know if you want to start a weight loss program and succeed this year;

• What specifically do you need to change to create the outcome you want? (and it’s not just food and exercise)

• How specifically you’re going to change to achieve the outcome you want? (mentally, emotionally, behaviourally)

• What will the ripple effect of the changes you make be for yourself and those around you?

Think about the people in your life that you currently do “food” with:
Family
Friends
Work colleagues
Committees
Sporting Groups

How will they be affected by the changing you? Will everyone embrace the new you? If not, how can you proactively problem...

"It was the LIVING LIFE that allowed me to lose 20 kilos..."

When we think about making changes, we often procrastinate because we think of change as 'challenging', 'daunting', 'uncomfortable' or we just plain dread it.

We think we have to give up something to gain something and we're not always keen on giving up things we've grown attached to, even if they're things that no longer serve us in helpful, healthy or happy ways.

Forget about having to give anything up, you can simply allow yourself to out grow it.

Out growing stuff is easy right?

You've been doing it your whole life.

You've outgrown:
Santa
The tooth fairy
Sucking your thumb
Being scared of the dark
Toys you've loved
Friends from childhood
Friends from school
People you used to work with
Neighbours you no longer live next too
Groups you're no longer involved with
Schedules you've lived by
Having someone look after you
Playground scuffles
Being upset with your friend for having their lunch with someone else
The fashion you wore in the 80's
The hairstyle you had when you were a teenager
Eating your...

Here is just one of the many advice I give my client.

Have you seen the movie Yes Man with Jim Carrey?

Great movie about how saying "Yes" to everything can create radical change.

But for the women I work with, not saying "Yes" isn't their problem.

In fact, saying "Yes" is how they've gotten in the situation their in.

They've said "Yes" to soooo many things, they're on the verge of mental, emotional and physical burnout.

"No" is the word that's missing from your vocabulary;

No to more & more responsibilities

No to every person who steps on your boundaries

No to not speaking up

No to the voice in your head

No to chronic stress

No to being paid less than your male colleagues

No feeling powerless

No to conditioning

No to believing you have to do it all

No to not asking for help

No to emotional and comfort eating

No to not looking after your health

Learn the exciting art of saying NO.

And say YES to healthy, happy, living.

Dietless Living helps overweight, overwhelmed women master their mind so they can master their health & live, laugh, lose weight,...

Q. Which goals are easiest to achieve?

A. Ones that are just an extension of who you are or what you do already.

Q. Which goals are the hardest to achieve?

A. Ones that require you to become a different version of yourself, goals that require you to change your daily habits and do things differently.

Q. Why is it harder to achieve goals that require you to change your habits?

A. Because habits are thoughts, feelings, reactions and behaviours that you’ve cultivated over many years and wired into your unconscious mind, and now those habits run on auto pilot. This means, you don’t do your habits, they do you!

Q. Why does traditional goal setting let you down when it’s a goal that requires you to change your habits?

A. Because it’s focused on the result, not the process.

Q. What kind of goals do you traditionally set when you need to lose weight?

A. Results focused goals – a number on the scale or clothes tag “I want to weight X/Be a size X”

Q. What kind...