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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

My Top 5 Life Hacks for Health, Weight Loss & Longevity

The focus of The Placebo Diet is of course around food and weight loss but It’s also around health, there are many, many diets that can help you lose weight but it doesn’t mean that they have your best interests … Read More

Why Diet & Exercise is Not Enough

When we think about losing weight the two most common elements of pretty much all the weight loss programmes available to us are DIET & EXERCISE… and this has been the strategy for many years. So it’s nothing new to … Read More

Is Stress Making You Fat?

De-stressing is an undervalued component of weight loss. I’ve had clients take up yoga and think that it must somehow be burning more calories than aerobics because they start to lose weight despite having been previously ‘stuck’! The reality is … Read More

Ultimate Health & Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting and Time Restricted Eating are phrases you will hear very often n the weight loss industry, it has been around in some form for decades, but it has now taken the diet and fitness industry by storm and … Read More

Imitation and Weight Loss

In NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) we use a term called ‘Modeling’ for imitating the actions of someone who has already achieved what you want to achieve. It works well in therapy; if someone wants to be more confident as a … Read More

Keto versus Colour Code System?

There is always controversy, and numerous different opinions about the benefits versus the disadvantages of a ‘high-protein, low-carb’ diet. As you know, certain aspects of what most people call a keto regime are helpful, but if taken to extremes, eating … Read More

How to Shrink Your Fat Cells

You are smart and you already know most of the key points I’m going to teach you about shrinking fat but it never hurts to be reminded! The foremost is this: get moving! If you want to burn fat, you … Read More

A Goal or a Penalty?

So here we are still in lock down for many of us, a few of us are easing out of it, and some of us may have been on the front line for most of it. I am curious – … Read More

Getting The Life You Desire

The capacity to experience what you desire, rests solely with you. It’s not anyone else’s fault if you haven’t got more of what you want in your life. We all experience ups and downs, and of course external factors do … Read More