Articles: Mind

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…

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…

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…

Have you ever felt that you just can’t do it?     . You can’t lose weight, you can’t maintain a healthy weight, you can’t do certain exercises?  How about that you aren’t good enough, smart enough, confident enough to really achieve your targets?  You don’t have the skills to get to where you want to be?  What about fearing that once you start delving into why you eat for emotional comfort, that it might bring…

Thinking about what could be sabotaging your success.   . What habits, beliefs and triggers could be affecting your healthy eating plans?  If you’ve tried numerous diets, without long term success, keep on putting the weight back on, then it might mean that your mind isn’t in sync with your health plans. These are some of those: HABITS Our mind is clever in that it creates patterns of behaviour, so that we don’t have to process…

The mind is wired to look for threats or rewards around us in our environment.  So we wanted to give you some basic information on how this works, and what this means for your healthy eating plans. Anxiety, worry and stress are emotional responses to a threat.  This threat can be real (ie. A tiger about to pounce on us) or imagined/perceived (i.e. we feel we might starve, or might never be able to eat…

To be able to help us move forward with our health plans, taking 100% responsibility is vital.   So, it would be worth asking yourself who you’re doing this for?  But, more importantly, are you merely interested in becoming healthier, or are you fully committed? When you are interested, you may well come up with excuses for not succeeding, why you haven’t or why you can’t.  You are likely to form only general targets, with…