I did a post about all the types of yoga I have done and on the list was a one time event - naked yoga. It was for women and the purpose was to let women know their body is beautiful, no matter what shape it is.

The curious thing was that all of the women there were young and slender. And when each person got to say their name and why they came, each woman spoke of how they didn't like their body. They didn't like the shape, the contours, their height, or some other aspect about themselves that made them feel self conscious.

‍The human body is a walking miracle and its so weird for us to hate it because the only things that we hate about our bodies are things that we cannot change, the things that we came into this life with or acquired along the way. Or its something that we can change but aren't. Either way, it makes no sense to hate it.

And when you think about it, if you hate something, you aren't going to look after it with loving care, right?

I used to hate my body, and I...

Do you have a favourite photo that reminds you of everything you love in one single image?

This photo does it for me.

I took it while standing on a platform waiting for an early morning train on one of my adventures. I saw this reflection in the window of a train and it just captured everything I love - the ease of being on the road!

I love love looooove the moments when I am no where in particular, those moments between destinations, those moments on the train, on the bus, in the car or on a plane when I am free to change my mind and go anywhere. I don't care about delays or cancellations or detours, I just love being on the road!

I'm not a light traveler by any stroke of the imagination but I am happy knowing that I am self-sufficient and that I have everything I need in that suitcase and the backpack on my back.

Actually, this is a fun fact about me that you wouldn't know:


From January 30th 2013 - Dec 13th 2017 that suitcase and backpack were the only belongings I had while I...

Dietless Living Tip: Enjoy your meal and take time to feel satisfied with the food that you eat. The more satisfied you feel, the less you reach for food.

Did you know that when you have a goal, that your motivation to achieve that goal is either away from something or towards something?
 
When you're motivated away from something, that is fear based motivation.

Away from Motivation:
Away from motivation is a fear based motivation. The fear will motivate you until you get far enough away from the thing you’re afraid of (a scary health, financial, relationship, or employment issue) and you’re no longer afraid, then your motivation beings to drop off and eventually you end up back where you started.
 
Then as you start to slide back to where you were, the fear kicks in and you once again take action.
 
Towards Motivation:
There are 2 angles to toward motivation.

The first kind is a short lived towards motivation, which means you become motivated to reach a goal that has a finite point in the future:  example to lose weight for an event, to save money for a particular purchase. But when you reach that...

Hi there, I’m Katie Gordon and I am Dietless Living.

And I was born to solve problems.

My most valuable skills do not involve my knowledge about human behaviours or my knowledge about food and exercise.

My most important skill is my ability to radically transform the lives of the people I work with.

‍ My super power is to know the thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are keeping you stuck and how to gently lead you to more helpful thoughts, feelings and behaviours in fun and entertaining ways.

It’s my ability to break down every problem behaviour you have into an easy to understand system that gives you choices, freedom and control over what you do.

If you’re looking for the trap door out of emotional eating, self soothing with alcohol and food and whatever else it is that is keeping you stuck in dieting hell ‘then I can certainly help you

There’s so many people online telling you what to eat and how to exercise, right?

But if you’re a yo yo...

You have to add LIFE into your life!

There are many many stressful things about being overweight isn’t there?

 
And for me, the most stressful part was trying to lose it.
 
Because it was always all about the  food; pre-planning and pre-preparing meals, restocking pantries and learning new recipes and changing the way I cooked because there was always a food group that I was no longer allowed to eat.
 
I really disliked the meal planning to be honest, because by the time any meal time came, I would be wanting/craving something entirely different – but, as I had gone to all that trouble of preparing it in advance and it was, after all, what I was supposed to be eating if I wanted to lose weight, I would sit down and eat my ‘good’ meal.
 
Then, because that meal wasn’t actually what I wanted to eat, because I   had a craving for something else, something entirely different, I would graze my way through the ‘allowable’ foods in the general vicinity...

Why do you need to create mental, emotional and physical relaxation?

Today is Stress Awareness Day.

So let’s talk a little about what stress really is and why it's so important to find time daily to rest & relax.

There’s situational/acute stress which occurs when you think, “I have to solve this problem or something bad is going to happen.”

Situational/acute stress can cause short-term mental, emotional, physical and behavioural symptoms such as headaches, muscle tension, irritability, anger, and changes in sex drive, sleep problems, inability to focus and be productive, nausea, feeling overwhelmed, and an inability to relax and indigestion. It also leads to emotional and over eating and the use of drugs and alcohol to soothe raw emotional states. 

Then there is chronic stress - Chronic stress can impair brain function and reduce the size of your brain, it can cause serious mental, emotional and physical health problems – the big 3 (heart...

So many women and men understand that knowing what not to eat, doesn't stop them from eating it. They know their problem isn’t what they eat, but why they eat it.
 
I struggled with this for a quarter of a century!  
 
I just wanted to know why I couldn’t make change stick!
 
How could I do all that research, constantly read book after book and attend training after training, year after year and apply what I was learning but still find myself back where I started?
 
Why did I relapse back into old behaviours where cravings would ultimately win the battle over and over again?

Everything I read and learned always talked about the ego and the unconscious mind. As far as I could see the ego, the unconscious mind were all separate to who we are – to who I am – because they seemed to be the one running the show – my show!

How could I possibly change, how could I be different if I wasn’t the one running MY show?

Every diet, every exercise...

Why restrictive diets are not helpful for sustainable weight loss...