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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

8 Habits to Transform Your Life

Losing weight can be hard if you don’t know what to eat for good health and fat burning, and if you don’t understand what is driving your habits and behaviour – but embracing better eating habits is what I’m here … Read More

Change Just One Thought

If you change the way you think you can change the way you eat, it’s truly that simple. One of my favourite pieces of research suggests that we think about food at least 200 times per day – that’s a … Read More

You CAN Stop Emotional Eating

When you put something in your mouth that you think tastes good, but you know is hurting you, how do you override that and still do it? Losing weight and stopping smoking both require the ability to delete certain truths, … Read More

Imagination Will Get You the Body You Want

The most powerful thing you can do for your body is to eat well (my Colour Code System shows you how – simply!) get into action and move your body every day…. AND very, very importantly, use the power of … Read More

Eat Fat to Stay Lean

Fats should make up approximately 30 per cent of your diet. That does not mean that this percentage of your diet should be fish and chips, Chinese takeaways and ice-cream, though! Getting the balance right between saturated fat and unsaturated … Read More

How to Put into Practice What I Teach You!

I write these blogs to teach you ‘stuff’ that will be helpful for you, both in terms of losing weight, AND so you can learn how your brain works and understand that you’re able to change things if you have … Read More

Eat CARBS to Lose Weight

Carbohydrates get such a bad rap but they are absolutely essential to good health. Low carb diets will offer short term weight loss but long term it will wreak havoc with your body. A carbohydrate is simply any food that … Read More

Slow Thinking for Fast Weight Loss

A common mistake that people make when they want to achieve a particular goal is opting for the quickest way of getting there. Sometimes quick is good – if you’re a sprinter for example, then the fastest possible time is … Read More

Create Your ‘Fat Burning’ Body!

For effective fat burning and weight loss, you need the right combination of glucose and fat. While you can burn glucose without fat, you cannot burn fat without glucose. So, if blood glucose is too high, you use glucose for … Read More