by janet | Feb 24, 2019 | Weight Loss
Motivation is when you do something you really want to do. If you think about that sentence, it’s no wonder we don’t do whatever “it” is, because we genuinely don’t want to! So, what has to happen to change from ‘not wanting’ and not only be able to force ourselves to...
by janet | Feb 17, 2019 | The Placebo Diet
I’ve told you many times that your mind likes doing things that are familiar. Well, now I’m going to guide you through the process of change. Before you decided that you wanted to change, were you going along thinking there wasn’t really a problem with your weight and...
by janet | Feb 3, 2019 | Weight Loss
How often have you had an urge or some internal signal nudging you to do something – and then you ignored it and it went away? Have you ever wondered where you might be or what situation you might be in if you had acted on every single one of those impulses? It can go...
by janet | Jan 28, 2019 | The Placebo Diet
Your brain is the most selfish and demanding organ in the body when it comes to energy. It will pull rank on any other organ in order to have the energy to meet its needs. It makes up approximately 2% of your body weight, but consumes around 20% of available oxygen,...
by janet | Jan 14, 2019 | The Placebo Diet, Weight Loss
You cannot hit a target if you are not aiming directly at it. By this I mean that any weight loss or health goal will become much, much harder and fruitless if you don’t even have a target – so first rule is you must decide what that target is. Decide exactly what you...
by janet | Nov 18, 2018 | The Placebo Diet, Weight Loss
Research around dieting and nutritional impact on the body is constantly being carried out and much or it over the last few years is compelling and for some people shocking. It has essentially debunked some of the most common dietary “rules” that have been bandied...
by janet | Nov 5, 2018 | The Placebo Diet, Weight Loss
What exactly are microbes? They are tiny “creatures” that can take compounds and change them into something else. They are minute pharmaceutical geniuses that do things human pharmacists can only dream about. They do this all day every day, as long as we create the...
by janet | Oct 23, 2018 | The Placebo Diet, Weight Loss
For our hunter gatherer ancestors, the need to lose weight was not an issue, for them the main challenge was getting more fats, carbs and even sugar into their diet. Their priority was to consume enough energy to survive, and to hunt. Since we have ‘evolved’ and...
by janet | Aug 13, 2018 | The Placebo Diet, Weight Loss
People who are not happy with their weight typically spend a lot of time thinking about food when there is no food in front of them. Equally typically, when there is food in front of them, they think of anything and everything but the food, and eat it very quickly...
by janet | Jul 23, 2018 | The Placebo Diet
Your brain uses different chemicals to generate different moods or feelings. Let’s call this neuro-chemical cocktail ‘brain juice’. This combination of neurochemicals in your brain juice affects hunger and is what causes some people to compulsively overeat. Always...
