How to beat the Easter Chocolate Crave!

The countdown is on! Easter eggs have taken over the supermarket isles and children are counting the sleeps until the Easter Bunny pays them a visit! With any holiday, most people associate it with glucose gluttony and health experts are urging Australians to think about Easter treats in terms of exercise rather than eggs. It's not just the chocolate that we eat over Easter that keeps us from achieving our healthy weight, so I'm not going to rant...

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Making lifestyle decisions for our future generations

There has been a lot of discussion on Facebook given the Biggest Loser is about to air! One of the discussions is about our children, our next generations. What would you do for your child if they had a weight problem? Why did it get to that point to start with? Children need role models, they learn and then follow what you do! It's all about what you put in your mouth. You make the decision to purchase processed food. Those decisions are then...

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Get Motivated Now!

You can use these very easy steps to find your personal reasons for wanting to change your lifestyle or simply refuel your motivation right now!  What motivates you? When you want to make changes in your life to lose weight, it is not always easy to keep the motivation up. It can slip and you may fall back into old eating habits or you may get stuck in daydreams and never actually start changing your lifestyle. Here is a very effective...

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Why do we fall off the wagon?

I bet I know what you're feeling right now. You have been following your program for weeks or months and you were feeling good about yourself and the progress you were making. Your weight was getting closer to your goal and all was good.  Until . . . you fell off the wagon! It probably started with that little piece of chocolate that turned into two or three bigger pieces. Perhaps it was more sudden, like pigging out during a big birthday...

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The Beck Diet Solution

I really dislike the word “diet”, hence why I was very hesitant in buying this book!  I am glad I did though. Losing weight – that’s the easy bit!  It’s keeping it off and training that brain of ours to work with us not against us! For me, keeping the weight of this time is going to be different!  I have also learnt how to deal with those "food pushers". Yes you all know who I am talking about.  It is such a wonderful joy...

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Letting go of the "large" person and seeing YOU

  I thought I would get a little personal with our blog today and talk about the tricks our minds play on us when we lose weight. It is especially hard on my loved ones when they can clearly see what I look like now, but I don't. I think unless you have been in “my shoes”, people do not realise the emotional downside to being overweight almost your entire life to becoming healthy. You do not know how to look at the world, or yourself,...

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Mushrooms Are Packed Full Of Goodness

During my weight loss, I must admit I ate a lot of mushrooms and why not, mushrooms are an ideal food - they contain almost no fat, sugar and salt but are a valuable source of dietary fibre. Mushrooms are a good source of the B vitamins - niacin, riboflavin, thiamin, foliate, vitamin B6, biotin and pantothenic acid. Niacin helps to control the release of energy from protein, fat and carbohydrate. Riboflavin is...

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The silent killer - SUGAR

Sugar - how many times does that come up in conversation when you are trying to lose weight. Should you or shouldn't you? The answer is if you are serious about losing weight, then cut it out and cut out the processed food. Most people have been led to believe that we need to have all this "processed food" as part of a nutritional lifestyle. I've heard things like "It gives us the energy we need to burn the fat". I believe that is absolute nonsense! We...

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