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Your source of energy as a key to diet and weight loss
Do we choose the source of energy we are choosing to run our body? What if this energy source was the key to weight loss?
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Why dieting isn’t the answer to our weight problems
It can be all too easy to look and judge what appears to be an issue with overeating; are the facts however showing us that we haven’t been looking at the real cause?
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Exercise for weight loss – a myth?
This article explores whether exercise is the answer to losing weight or if that is indeed a myth.
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It is low fat so I can eat twice as much – the slippery low fat slope
Are you caught in the trap of overeating because it’s low fat?
Diets, Over eating, Emotions, Livingness, Lifestyle, Connection, Healthy diet
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What we get told about food
We are frequently told what food to eat. But what if we need to find out what works for us and follow our own way with food instead of what we are told?
Chocolate, Dairy free, Diets, Digestion, Gluten free, Food pyramid
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The Sabotage Syndrome – why is it so easy to give in to harmful choices?
When we start to make healthy changes in our life often sabotage comes knocking.
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Why your diet can’t deliver
There is ample evidence that dieting does not work to lose body fat or to lose weight fast. Here’s another way of looking at weight loss that doesn’t leave you feeling like a failure.
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Learning to lose weight by making more loving choices
Denise describes how she dieted most of her life and her weight went up and down constantly. It was not until she started to make more loving choices by listening to her body that she stopped dieting and her weight stabilised
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My weight loss plan: nothing to do with dieting!
My weight loss plan: nothing to do with dieting … losing weight is not just about food and diets, addressing our hurts can impact our weight!
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Going gluten free does not require a gluten intolerance diagnosis
An invitation to developing a deeper relationship with our bodies and choosing to feel the effects food containing gluten has on our well-being.
Gluten free, Body awareness, Nutrition, Coeliac/celiac, Diets
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Apparently, the Food Pyramid is making a comeback but does it meet the needs of the modern man?
Could the food pyramid actually be contributing to our ever-increasing health problems and making waistlines larger not smaller?
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The best diet and why we break it
We easily commit to the best diet plan, the food diary, the fitness plan to support it – and then trip ourselves up. Read here about another approach . . .
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Junk food: giving something up or letting it go?
The difference between trying to give something up or just letting it go is huge. It’s something we all come to experience and would be great to master
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Weight Loss and Living with Contentment
If I could use one word to express my life now it would be contentment. This has not always been the case. My life used to be a constant wave of ups and downs...
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Weight loss magazines, food and you – an eternally vicious cycle
What do the diet industry and diet and weight loss and slimming magazines really offer us? Do they give us the way to attain a ‘dream body’ or is there something else going on?
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Sugar, exercise and obesity: Let’s get real
This article looks at the cause of being overweight and obese. Is sugar a factor? Is lack of exercise a factor?
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Food as a pacifier
Have we been using food as a pacifier since we were babies? Is this contributing to weight issues such as obesity and diabetes and our ability to live well and be vital?
Weight-loss, Diets, Connection, Obesity, Fat, Healthy diet, Emotions, Hurt
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Before and after: Carmel Reid – the weight just dropped off
Carmel’s story on how her weight just dropped off after changing the relationship with herself.
Weight, Diets, Exhaustion, Self-esteem, Livingness, Gluten free, Weight-loss, Healthy living
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Nutritional Dogma – Food rules or loving impulse?
When we categorise foods and diet into ‘good’ and ‘bad’, are we truly supporting ourselves or creating restrictions and dogma?
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A diet to console or to ignite your Soul?
Do you cringe when you hear the word ‘diet’? What if losing weight wasn’t just about denying and resisting food?
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I can’t change that
If you think you can’t change your weight and shape, reading this may change your mind.
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Is it only food that we are eating?
Read more on the food bomb revelation of what is truly going on in the body when you choose to eat the foods you do.
Vitality, Evolution, Diets, Calories, Emotions, Food science
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A diet of treats and rewards
Why do we crave treats and rewards; what do they do for us? Is it possible to imagine living life without them?
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Love on the table
Explores the over-indulgence we experience with serving sizes and asks is this because we have substituted food for love?
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Food and relationships – the warm and yummy diet
I have never been a fan of dieting, but over the years my relationship with food has changed and I now love to eat the warm and yummy diet.
Diets, Healthy diet, Healthy relationships, Losing weight, Nutrition
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Saying no to dieting: Weight loss with awareness
Is dieting a mere distraction from exploring why we are carrying excess weight? Read how one woman lost weight once she refocussed on what was driving her actions.
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To dairy or to dairy free? Our body holds the answer ...
Are dairy products really supporting our bodies and our well-being? Read on to find pages that support – where you can be your own scientist, letting your own body tell you what is right for you.
Dairy free, Food pyramid, Health, Body awareness, Diets, Food science
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Overeating: a 3-step guide to a more positive relationship with Food
Overeating is by no means a new phenomenon within society and particularly in western cultures where access to food is plentiful. In fact, we need only look at our global obesity rates to see that perhaps we are loading our plates a little too high …
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Fat Attack: shaming obesity does not work
When we attack fat by shaming obesity, we call it ‘bad’ instead of seeing it as the result of the emptiness, sadness and disconnection that it truly is. No diet or willpower can fix obesity – reconnection to the beauty within is the key.
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Sleep – time to restore and refresh
Do you ever wake-up feeling just as exhausted as when you went to sleep? Discover how healthy sleep happens before you even close your eyes.
Vitality, Emotions, Well-being, Diets, Body awareness, Weight, Caffeine, Sleep, Fatigue, Insomnia
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Dieting? Why willpower fails us
Dieting by willpower alone does not work. We need to address how our body informs our thinking – our state of physical well-being affects the way we think – a body that is tended and cared for, supports us to make better choices.
Connection, Body awareness, Gentleness, Gentle breath, Diets, Chocolate
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Procrastination with food: just a small snack first … ?
How often do you reach for a snack rather than getting on with something? Do you snack to procrastinate? Have you ever asked, what are you really avoiding?
Weight-loss, Diets, Connection, Appreciation, Awareness, Tension
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Ideal weight
Our ideas of ideal weight may have been imposed by the BMI scale or by the images we are surrounded by. What if we could change the way we see ideal weight and find our true weight?
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Self-loathing
Self-loathing is intense hatred directed at ourselves, often focused on how we look, or how we think we should look. When we stop believing all the things that are wrong with us, we may find a way to connect to the beautiful preciousness we innately are.
Weight, Diets, Rejection, Gentle breath, Self-esteem, Body image
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Can’t lose weight? Take a fresh look with new ideas
Have you tried every diet ... and failed ... and then you are faced with the idea that you can’t lose weight? What if we could find true motivation to lose weight – through connecting, not dieting.
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What do we demand from our diet?
Do we have demands on ourselves when we go on a diet to lose weight?
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When will women be ok with their weight? When is enough, enough?
When will women start accepting their bodies and cut the self-loathing and weight issues? When will we understand that true beauty comes from how we feel inside?
Self-esteem, Diets, Weight, Self-worth, Body awareness, Body image, Weight-loss
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Weight loss shakes: diet or dessert?
Constantly seeking the holy grail of weight loss? Exploring the shocking truth of weight loss shakes.
Calories, Diets, Losing weight, Obesity, Nutrition, Sugar, Weight
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Most cancers are almost completely preventable
Seyfried is saying “You can’t get cancer if you are Mitochondria healthy, which points to a Ketogenic diet and to avoid the common high sugar, high carbohydrate diet that most people follow today. High drama ahead when the medical world catches up.”
Cancer, Sugar, Diets, Evolution, Genetic, Livingness, Inflammation, Ageless Wisdom
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Motivation to lose weight
Discover true motivation to lose weight – it’s more than mind over matter …
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Who would we be without dieting?
We’ve created lives based on dieting to look good instead of feeling good and choosing to eat for nourishment alone. Dieting, to our detriment, has become normalised.
Diets, Sugar, Fat, Sugar Free
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Weight loss from the inside out
Losing weight by dieting and exercise alone can’t be sustained. We can attain a true weight through connecting to who we are and this can bring lasting change from the inside out.
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The story of a lifetime dieter – finally the freedom to be me
How I found freedom and stopped beating myself up with rigid diet rules to lose weight. The support we need is not what you might think!
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Health at every size – or is it?
Positive body image aside, does Health at Every Size (HAES) weight management support us to be healthy?
Body awareness, Diets, Healthy diet, Losing weight, Weight-loss
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Give me my treats!
Do you find yourself hanging out for your treat to eat or drink and react when someone or something gets in your way?
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The demand for food is in our hands.
Food might be one of the most common topics of conversation, but we are the ones calling the shots – food supply is based on our demands.
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Tomorrow never comes
Have you ever earnestly declared that this is the last packet of cigarettes, the last drink, the last block of chocolate and the last time you will overeat because tomorrow you will most definitely choose differently?
Body image, Diets, Healthy living, Livingness, Losing weight, Time
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Getting off the merry-go-round of dieting and indulging
Are you on a merry-go-round of dieting to lose weight, with deprivation, followed by over-indulgence? Maybe it is time to make a change.
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Food and conscious presence
In the midst of an avalanche of health advice, there is an aspect to our diet that hasn’t gotten quite so much light: the actual way that we eat.
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Why do we eat what we eat?
What we eat, and why and when we eat, has another dimension than what is presented in the cooking shows and enticing packaging in the supermarket aisle.
