We all want: Choices | Freedom | Control 

It’s all we strive for in life isn’t it?  

But when I was struggling with my weight for those long 25 years, choices, freedom and control were not my experience. I felt very much out of control.   

I think that’s the appeal of going on a “diet”, a feeling we’re taking control.  

But restricting food isn’t control, it’s controlling.  

And there’s a big difference between them.  

On a diet there’s no connection with ourselves or the driving forces within our mind and body and that’s ultimately why we lose control and end up habit relapsing.  

Our lives are full of situations were control is handled by others, but our weight and health, the way we eat and exercise, that should be something that we enjoy with ourselves. 

Dietless Living® Personal Health Leadership™ Weight Loss Programs will guide you to:  

• Choices in food, movement and lifestyle
   
• Freedom in mind and body
   
• Control of your weight, health, happines...

 
Happy Easter!  

What are you doing this weekend, do you get the whole 4 days off?  

Whatever you’re doing, simply enjoy yourself and forget about the Easter eggs, its’ just chocolate after all. And chocolate is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year every year and fills shelves in almost every shop we walk into. There is literally nothing special about it.  

Break-free from the marketing matrix and become a #freedomseeker instead. 

Focus on outside time, having fun, finding connection and laughter.  

Whatever’s happening in your world at the moment isn’t going to be improved by chocolate. But getting outside and experiencing the real sensations and pleasures of life will: 

• Improve your perception 
• Uplift your mood 

• Provide new perspectives 

 
And if all the cells in your body were solar panels, stepping outside is what makes them all turn and look up and that is where real joy is experienced. 

Life is a wonderful continuation, the sun will always circle the earth, the ...

 
Do you procrastinate?  

Procrastinate means: to delay or postpone action, to put off doing something.  

A simple Google search will provide many reasons why we procrastinate.  

But from my experience, when it comes to starting a weight loss program, any program, even ones we create ourselves, we back away and procrastinate simply because of a wee little fear.  

What that fear is, is different for each and every one of us but mostly they revolve around these: 

• We don’t know what the options are 
  
  
• We’re confused by the options we’re presented with 
  
  
• We’ve tried all the options we’re presented with and they didn’t work for us 
  
  

• We’re just shit scared that we’ll get our hopes up and be disappointed - again!  

I know firsthand what it’s like to really really really want to get going, and really really really need to get going and yet, still sit there like a deer in the headlights, and do absolutely nothing except put more food in my mouth.  

Whilst so much time can pass while we’re in...

We’ve all done it.  

We’ve all fallen off the wagon. 

There’s literally no shame in that. 

Yet, sometimes, it can take us into deep shame that leads us into the quitters spiral.  

When we fall off the wagon in such a drastic way that it leads to total abandonment of our goals, it’s not because we ate something we shouldn’t have, it starts with something far more meaningful to us and that’s what leads to the food and ultimately our quitters spiral.  

The quitters spiral happens when we break one of our own cardinal rules which discredit one of our deepest held beliefs about ourselves. 

Perhaps you have a core belief that:  

• You must do everything perfectly all the time and you must never slipup or look foolish
   
• That to avoid humiliation, you must be the most knowledgeable person on a particular subject, and you must constantly be reading and studying to prove your value
   
• You have to get everything right and that to receive any form of negative feedback means you are a failure
   
• Have to b...

Today I’m asking you what is it that you’re after? Are you after weight loss or a healthy body or both?  

I ask because everyone I’ve ever spoken to who wants to lose weight, ultimately wants to lose it so they can feel better.   

They want to lose their excess weight so they can: 

• Sleep better 
• Move more freely 
• Cope with the climate better 
• Feel more comfortable in their clothes during the day so they feel more relaxed 
• They want their body to look nicer naked so they feel more confident to have sex or put on their swimmers and go the beach  

They also want to lose their excess weight so they can sit in seats at the movies or on aeroplanes, so they get out more and see new things that enrich their life. They want to join in with life, relax, and think about other things, things that give them joy and happiness. 

The problem I see, and experienced myself many times over while I was stuck in dieting hell™ for those 25 years, is that the weight loss solutions marketed to us on a ...

Do you want to lose weight this year?  

If your answer is no, you don’t want to lose weight this year, then you’ll understand who I help, because I help people who are the exact opposite to you, they do want to lose weight this year and they’re looking now to get started.   

If your answer is yes, you do want to lose weight this year, then you’ll know who I help, I help people who are exactly like you, they do want to lose weight this year and they’re looking right to get started.  

As a weight loss coach, I help women who do want to lose weight this year. Women who:  

• Have been struggling with their weight for more than 5 years 
  
• Have been focused on families and career and simply lost sight of their own needs and health but want to lose weight now.  
• Know that getting the weight off will increase their happiness simply because they’ll feel better in themselves and they won’t have to think about it any more 
   

I help them get started with the Dietless Living® Getting Started Packag...

When the realisation comes that we need to lose weight, when something jars us into action, there’s an element of panic, and the resounding thought in our head is "Get it off me, and get if off now!" 

When we reach that point, that panic response results in the first biggest mistake smart women make. 

We dive in boots and all because we want quick fixes and we want it right now. 

We try to go from 0 – 100 and we change everything and do too much, too quick.  

Our plan follows a familiar pattern; 

• A calorie-restrictive diet 

• Coupled with intensive exercising 3- 5 times a week at gym, doing boot camps or maybe running every other day trying to burn through the calories to get the result fast 

The problem is that on top of our already busy schedule, working 50, 60, 70, hours a week at the office, under time pressures, deadlines, staff issues, conflict, and burning the midnight oil at home, along with our already depleted energy reserves, very low fitnes...

This week I’m talking about why having more zip, zazz and pazing in our day not only makes us feel good but is actually a match to the health we want to enjoy.  

What does having more energy in your energy tank feel like? It feels good doesn’t it? Those days when you wake up and you’re just “on”. The sun seems brighter, the world seems happier, and life just feels easier. 

We spend so much time thinking and worrying about our weight that the whole “living and enjoying a great life” part gets put on hold. 

But when we start living and enjoying ourselves, when we’re out having fun in our life, we switch over to using another part of our brain and we start making healthier, happier choices for ourselves naturally.  

Because when we feel good, we want to keep feeling good. 

We all need more living in our life, so lets get started: 

1. Make a list of 5 things that would make your happy heart sing this year. 
2. Close your eyes and think about the joy of being there, enjoying each one of those thin...

This week we’re talking about the mystery of habit relapse and what we can do to prevent it.  

I never thought I’d be able to change my bad habits. I’d been told more than once that I had “an addictive personality”, low self-esteem and self-worth, and that the reason I kept failing to change was because I “self-sabotaged” (presumably because I had low self-esteem and low self-worth).   

The reality is I didn’t understand the mechanisms of this amazing body and mind.  

I wasn’t self-sabotaging, I was relapsing into old habits.  

And I kept relapsing because that’s what our non-conscious mind and body are constantly pushing to return to, and I couldn’t win a fight that I didn’t understand.  

To break-free from the cycle we need to: 

     a.) Develop an understanding of this part of ourselves  

     b.) Build our knowledge of what to do to develop long-term habit change  

     c.) Implement the knowledge and build the skill that leads to the sustainable change we want 

It’s not rocket science...

This week we’re talking about creating meaningful and sustainable change through the power of small adjustments.

Our biggest obstacles to losing weight and gaining health are the ones we have that stop us even getting started.

There’s always seems to be something in our way, something that “When I get past this, then I will have time to focus on me”.

Every year is full of celebrations, challenges and changes, all culminating at the end of the year with the daddy of all stresses, Christmas.

That’s why New Year’s Resolutions are so popular right; this is the time when we think we can take a minute to focus on ourselves before the cycle starts again.

But Why Do We Think We Have To Wait?

Because unless you’re experiencing one of those rare moments where the switch in our mind is triggered and turned “on” – you know that switch, the one that propels us into action like we just sat on a thumb tack? The one that gives us unwavering will power, energy and vitality and making changes seems ...