Have you been on a diet or dieting for most of your life? Have you struggled to understand why you don’t lose weight? Or at least, why you can’t keep any weight loss off for very long (also known as yo-yo dieting)? Many of us will resort to strange dieting fads, or seek help from different companies, assuming we can’t do it without them. But our book, SmallerKnickers For Life, aims to change your thinking…
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Wouldn’t it be fantastic not to have to be on a diet? Or constantly thinking about being on a diet? To be naturally slim and have eating under control? No more binge eating and then feeling guilty, or having the feeling that your food is the one in control? How long have you been on a diet? For some it feels like they’ve been on a diet all their lives. They can probably quote a…
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SmallerKnickers for Life is now available as a book and can be purchased via Amazon or the Author Webpage. This is a unique book that helps you identify the cause of your dieting failures, and how the environment and your own mind and body have been conspiring against you over the years. It helps you to understand not how to “diet”, but why everyone is different, and a one-size-fits-all approach rarely works. It guides you…
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Are you looking for ways to keep your spirits up today? As humans, uncertainty is something we don’t really like. And we’re current all experiencing the biggest period of uncertainty in our history. Uncertainty is contagious, fuelling anxiety in many of us. We try to pay attention to every opinion or scenario, ending up feeling overwhelmed. And that’s because uncertainty triggers the fear part of our brains. You may have noticed an increase in arguments,…
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Keeping motivated along your health journey is vital. You may set your health and weight loss targets, you get excited to get going, you feel motivated and in control. After a few days, a few weeks, your motivation starts to wane. Little things happen and you feel that you’ve lost all control, you’re never going to achieve your goals, so what’s the point! Any of this sound familiar? It can be part of…
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The following is directly from the research conducted from the BBC’s Trust Me I’m a Doctor, but we thought it was powerful and worth knowing. When you’re on a health plan and looking at weightloss, knowing how certain drinks can affect your body helps when making better choices for yourself. Sugary fizzy drinks are notoriously unhealthy, as these commonly contain about eight teaspoons of sugar per can. But how much healthier are sugar-free alternatives,…
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The following article is from Action on Sugar (Nov 17), and we thought it would be useful for our members. As a society, we consume far too many sugars. Sugars are divided into two types: naturally occurring sugars, and free sugars. Naturally occurring sugars are found in whole fruit, vegetables and milk-based products and these are not considered harmful for health, although they still contain calories. Free sugars includes monosaccharides and disaccharides added to foods…
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Brits are getting fatter because they have no clue how many calories there are in their favourite foods The following report is from an article in The Mirror in November 2017, and we thought it would be useful for our members Brits are piling on the pounds because they have no idea how many calories their favourite snacks contain, a survey has found. Popcorn is one of the biggest culprits with a large portion of…
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Food should be ultimately to fuel a healthy body. However, we can trick ourselves into eating when we’re not hungry. Food often becomes our best friend – a symbolic substitute for love, time out, feeling good, comfort, happiness. And the habits, beliefs and triggers are the tricksters! Our brain constantly looks for any changes to our comfort zone. Once detected, our mind can then sabotage our progress by telling the body to revert back to…
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A great way to start your health kick is to go walking. . If you are thinking of getting active, healthy and want to lose some weight then walking is the simplest form of exercise you can choose. The great thing about walking is that you can fit it around your lifestyle whether you work full-time, part-time or are at home every day. As with any form of exercise, before you start it…
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