It's completely normal to have ups and downs in how you feel. 

We all go through it. I've had my fair share of ups and downs over my life, some big, some small. It's all part of being human isn’t it. 

It's important to remember that everyone has days when they feel great and days when they feel low, it’s the natural cycles of life. 

It only turns into a problem for us when things start to accumulate and we don’t have the time, skills or support to deal with them or there’s a time when too many things come faster than we can deal with them. 

That’s when we find ourselves grappling to regroup, to get some purchase on a slippery emotional slope. 

The problem is we’re running at life at such a speed that we don’t have the time or motivation to develop and maintain the daily physical health routines that will help us in those times, let alone develop and maintain the good mental and emotional health routines which is what really gives us that ability to arrest our sli...

What do you want?  

Do you ever ask yourself that question?  

If you said yes, I invite you to check-in with yourself: do you ask yourself the question “what do I want” or do you think you know what you want because you complain about what you don’t want so much that it seems obvious that you know what you don’t want?  

The reality is we mostly do the complaining part rather than the more proactive approach of asking ourselves the straight up question “What do I actually want?”  

If we ask ourselves that question, we’re more likely to find ourselves living it.  

Because when you take the reins of your life, then you are the one in control. 

You’re in a better position to be steering that run away stallion that is our unpredictable life rather than being the person tied to its back flopping around, arms flailing, banging our head on it’s arse.  

So ask yourself the question right now: “What do I actually want??”  

Ask yourself that question every singl...

Emotional eating has a massive impact on our weight and health and one of the keys to reducing emotional and stress eating is to increase relaxation. 

 
Taking simple steps to find some little pockets of “you time” throughout the day is one way to begin to reduce stress and increase feelings of calm. 

Another way to break-away from this long standing learned behaviour is to simply be aware that you’re about to engage in emotional eating and take steps to reduce that drive towards putting food in your mouth.

That’s easier said then done though isn’t it.  

I shared my story last night at the Happy Healthy Workshop: Find Your Food Freedom In 5 Simple Steps & Lose Weight Before Christmas of knowing all too well the shame of feeling out of control and that food was my enemy when emotional and stress eating would kick in. 

Sure there were times when I was the one in control and I was able to abstain – heck, that’s how I was able to lose weight on all those diets I did. But...

How do we navigate our way through all the learned behaviours we have associated with food when we don’t even take them into consideration when we decide to lose weight? 

I know I never gave them a thought, in fact I didn’t even know I had eating “behaviours”! 

To be honest, I don’t know what I thought was going on behind the scenes of me, I just knew I was fat and the antidote to that problem was go on a diet (or take diet pills, or exercise my arse off, or not eat for days, or….”fill in the blank” of dysfunctional ways we have been taught to lose weight). 

Is it any wonder we end up with more problems than we started with?  

Being overweight isn’t actually our problem though.  

Being overweight is the result of problem. 

The problem is the habits and behaviours we’ve developed over our lifetime. 

It’s also our own ignorance.  

That’s a challenging word isn’t it, ignorance? It has a lot of “finger pointing” behind it, but really, ignorance simply mea...

It's a surreal moment isn't it?  

When you stand there, having an out of body experience watching yourself eat and wondering "Why can't I control my eating? Why am I putting food in my mouth I know I’ve decided not to eat? Why am I cheating on myself? I don't understand?"  

And even more bewildering is when you do all the "right things" and nothing happens or worse still, you put on weight!  

This is the shit that erodes at our confidence and image we have of ourselves. We think it’s an “us” thing, that no one else suffers this way and that everyone else has self-control.  

The real question becomes "How do I change what’s happening so I can get the health and life I want?"  

Now that question took me a quarter of a century to find the answer for.  

Here’s what I discovered and how I found my freedom:  

🌱 Gain Clarity: Understand the root causes of your eating habits and learn how to navigate them effectively.  

That’s why I developed The 3 Systems of He...

Well, here we are…101 days until Christmas! Everyone seems to be saying the same thing….where did 2023 go?  

Have you achieved what you wanted to achieve so far in regards to transforming your weight and your health?  

What would you like to achieve in the next 101 days so that you can turn up to Christmas and the New Year feeling pleased with yourself that you’ve kept your promise to yourself? 

Some things to consider: 

Step 1

• Know where you are heading: What specifically do you want to achieve in regards to your health and weight in 101 days? 

Step 2 

• What can you do right now? 
  
  
• What can’t you do right now? 
  
  
• What resources, skills and talent do you have available to you? 

Step 3 

• Draw a mud map 
  
  
• Keep it simple 
  
  
• Think big picture in the first instance  
  
  
• Break that down into two, then quarters, then eights – little steps are easier to work out details for 

Step 4 

• Brainstorm all the ways you could achieve your goal 
  
  
• Nothing is too ...

Adrianna Huffington said in a recent article “We can’t let these extraordinary advances (in technology) blind us to the tragedy of modern healthcare and to the much-neglected miracle drug right in front of us: our daily behaviors.” 

She asks the very relevant question “Why is the power of behaviour change so overlooked?” as she pointed out that “whilst most people find it too hard to do, science shows that behavior change is absolutely possible when it’s done right.” 

The problem is how to find someone who actually has a complete change behaviour process and program ready and waiting for you to step straight into so you can find your freedom. 

Bookshop and online shelves are overflowing with books about how to create a new habit, and why we need to improve our unhealthy habits. 

Creating new habits through changing our behaviours is only half the story though right? We also have to prevent habit relapse back into old behaviours and unhealthy habits.  

It’s the ha...

I remember when I first realised I had anxiety, I was in my early forties and I’d bought a fun book “The Big Book of Psychological Quizzes”. I've always been intrigued by quizzes, finding them a playful way to delve into the realms of psychology. 

Little did I know that one quiz within this book would be a game-changer for me. 

I answered the questions, checked my results and was met with a surprising revelation: "You're riddled with anxiety, but nobody knows because you're the kind of person that looks cool, calm and collected on the exterior while on the inside, you're a seething mass of anxiety." 

I was taken aback. Anxiety? I had always identified those feelings I felt in my gut as nausea and that it was a signal to eat because eating did always seem to soothe those jiggered raw sensations in my mind and body. 

But there it was, a new way to think about what I was experiencing and that gave me a new language to understand what was going on within me.  

That l...

🎙️ Join me this week as Faye Waterman The Conversation Curator peels back the layers to find my superpowers on her podcast "What's Your Superpower?" 

From unravelling the complexities of human behavior to empowering individuals to conquer emotional challenges we uncover the evolution of my superpowers through personal health leadership. 

Discover the secrets to achieve lasting well-being along the path of self-discovery, shifting perspectives on weight loss, and finding true happiness. 

This conversation is all about embracing vulnerability, fostering self-compassion, and unlocking the magic within. 

Tune in for an insightful exploration of personal growth, weight loss, and the magic of embracing your true self.✨🌟 

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Have you ever felt the frustration of giving your all to achieve a goal, only to find yourself falling short time and time again?  

It’s disappointing to say the least! 

Working towards weight loss and better health can be such a rollercoaster of hope and disappointment, and for the most part is fuelled by broken promises of lasting success. 

Looking back over my struggle of a quarter of a century, I've come to realize something crucial – there's a lot left unsaid when it comes to the weight loss solutions that flood the market.  

They confidently claim we'll lose weight, and indeed, you might shed some kilos by following food regimes. But what they don't tell you is that the real challenge lies in maintaining that weight loss over the long term. 

I tried so many diets and “weight loss” solutions, only to find myself facing habit relapse again and again and ending up back at square one and blaming myself for my inability to “be strong” and “maintain discipline”. It ...