Are the plans you're making or actually implementing, plans that are focused on losing weight?

Or are they plans that are focused on long term health and happiness?

We get so caught up in believing that just losing weight will take us to great health and consequently to great happiness.

But the truth is, a high majority of people who are just focused on losing weight, put it back on. Either not long after having lost enough weight that they feel a sense of relief, or when they next experience a change in the routine structures they've set in place to sustain their diet and exercise (holidays, crisis, changes in relationships, work, finances, health).

To create long term sustainable health habits, you really have to understand what's going on inside your unconscious operating system so you can navigate your way through the ups and downs of life without relapsing back into old habits.

Under stress, the brain doesn't invent new strategies for coping, it falls back into old ones.

If you're...

Have you ever felt stuck?

I have. It's such a powerless position to be in.

But no one is ever truly stuck, there is always something you can do to get yourself moving.

Step 1. Establish the direction you want to head in
Step 2. Get some paper and a pen
Step 3. Brainstorm all the wild and wacky ways that you can think of to get you from where you are to where you want to go
Step 4. Choose your first step
Step 5. Take action

It sounds so trite doesn't it? You've read those steps many times before I'm sure.

The thing is, when we are down, when we feel like we're stuck in quicksand, it's the quicksand of our mind that we're stuck in.

The simple act of writing stuff out will help you move through that quagmire and get yourself going.

You will have to do it again and again and again until you start to feel like the person who got dumped by the big wave as they finally swim to the top and break through the surface. Then you'll start to get some traction.

Keep going. Don't allow yourself to get bogged...

Master transition and focus on what you really want to do and achieve.

Are you creating success in your career but bankrupting your health to get there?

How many people strive for success in their careers and ambitions but at the cost of their health?

Burning the candle at both ends and in the middle, living under constant pressures and impossible deadlines and everything else that goes with it, all while looking after the family and often times, studying for their next degree or PhD as well!

Is it worth it though?

Do you suffer from:
Indigestion, heartburn, reflux
Bowel problems
Insomnia
Headaches, migraines
Muscle tension and mystery body pains
Skin rashes
Brain fog and fatigue
Joint pain
Low mood and mood swings
Weight problems

Stress is one of the leading causes of major health problems.

The solution is to reduce stress, but how do you do that when you have all those plates spinning? It feels impossible to step away from it all without it all collapsing and causing more stress.

Imagine being able to relax amongst the chaos, living your life, unhurried yet...

What is good rest for you?

Is it sitting on the couch watching TV

Is it sleeping all day

or is it going out and having fun?

Whatever your definition of a good rest, we have to give our body the rest it deserves.

Let it relax, let it breathe, rejuvenate and charge its batteries. What's your rest look like?

I Haven't Got Time To Exercise!

We think that getting regular exercise that makes a difference to our health has to be big blocks of time spent at the gym several days a week.

I remember when I decided that that really didn't work for me - at all!

So I made my own rules up about how and what exercise I would focus on. Lucky for me, I do love exercise, but I get bored easy and I really don't like having to go to the gym. I needed something that would fit into my life and make me happy.

So I came up with my two-minute rule. I know, two minutes is nothing right? And people often say to me, "Well, two minutes isn't going to make you skinny is it?!"

But I disagree.

When I decided on my 2 minute rule, I was still working at an office. I worked very long hours and I was tired when I got home and I didn't want to do exercise. So my rule was:

1. As soon as I got home, just put on workout gear.
2. Put on ABBA
3. Set the timer.
4. Grab my hula hoop
5. Dance around the house like a little nutty butty and...

Happiness is a skill we all must master. 

6 Tips To Achieve Sustainable Weight Loss

The diet and weight loss industry makes billions of dollars every year from people who really need actual help to change their eating habits, patterns and behaviours and make some real sustainable lifestyle changes that support that.

Diet and weight loss pills and programs do not teach you the strategies and techniques on how to change your eating habits, patterns, and behaviours; and more importantly, they don't teach you how to manage your thoughts and emotions that are tied up to emotional eating, binge eating, and overeating.

So, how do you achieve sustainable weight loss?
Here are 6 tips to help you achieve sustainable weight loss;

1.     Set realistic goals
There is no such thing as overnight success. Sustainable weight loss takes focus and attention but more importantly, you need to have knowledge of whats happening in your body and what to do to change your experiences. It is important to set realistic goals and...

Don't wait for you to lose weight to actually start living life and doing the things that you have long wanted to do.

Do it now and start getting active and doing things that move your body and gives you happiness and pleasure.

Do you feed your hunger or do you feed your feelings?

The primary reason why some people overeat or reach for food for comfort is because they currently have an emotion or feeling that is unpleasant.

And that's exactly the reason why they reach for food is because they want to feel a sudden relief from that unpleasantness, they want some comfort.

What can you do?

Every time you feel compelled to reach for food for comfort, take a moment to investigate what triggered your urge.

To manage emotional eating, you have to identify your emotional eating pattern, take note of what you're feeling in the moment you're reaching for the food.

This will help you manage your emotions and the patterns that triggers you to emotional eat.

FIND OTHER HEALTHY WAYS TO FEED YOUR FEELINGS
To stop emotional eating, you have to find other ways you can fulfill yourself emotionally in healthy and helpful ways.

If you're feeling lonely, sad or depressed, play your favourite music, play with your pet, or call someone...