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Love Yourself – Love The Foods That Love You Back

We often eat because food gives us a good feeling; but some foods give us a better feeling than others! Generally, chocolate produces a better emotional reward than cabbage. It’s useful to know which foods boost your mood then you … Read More

How to Eat Your Way Through January

Let’s face it, right now, many people are feeling the negative effects of weeks of excessive consumption of food and booze and contemplating a strict January diet! During the month of January extreme dieting and detoxes are abound, usually fuelled … Read More

Christmas Indulgence – My Top Tips!

Christmas is a reason (excuse!) to celebrate and over indulge; it’s a time of huge temptation… huge, prolonged temptation, and things can quite easily lead to big time, all out excess! Emotions are usually higher at this time and when … Read More

Do Things Differently This Year…

When you set a goal there’s a specific process within your brain that determines how or even if you achieve it. If the strategy you try to follow to reach a goal means any sense of unhappiness or loss of … Read More

Your Diet, Not Your Genes, Control How Your Body Stores Fat

Don’t blame your genes if you can’t fit in your jeans! The core of my teaching is that there are two key factors that influence if you’re burning fat or storing fat – they are managing blood sugar level and … Read More

Weight Loss & Great Health

Let me give you a quick overview of how your body works and teach you a few key facts about nutrients – how they are digested and what your body needs nutritionally to be healthy and to burn fat. This … Read More

Is Stress Making You Fat?

De-stressing is a very important component of weight loss.  Unfortunately, in the western world we experience so many different stress triggers that the body never really turns them off. We become anxious, fearful and feel like we have no control … Read More

Don’t Put Yourself at RISK

I can’t think of any other condition other than Obesity that can result in chronic illness and death that has been ignored on such a grand scale. If you are in close proximity to someone with flu, what do you … Read More

Healthy Gut Bacteria for Weight Loss

A human body is composed of more bacteria than cells. Trillions of bacteria are collectively called microbiome, and most of them live in our gut. They play a huge role not just in gut health, but in overall health. In … Read More

The Power of Awareness

If you’ve followed any other diet programs, you may have come across the exercise to create a ‘food diary’, it’s frequently used as an exercise at the beginning of starting a regime and it may seem a bit of a … Read More