Don’t Stop and Think – Just Stop!

Every day it’s estimated we have around of 50,000 thoughts, which is around 2083 per hour, or around 35 thoughts per minute. That’s a lot of thinking! This steady flow of internal information serves as a thick filter between our thoughts and feelings, our head and...

Can Your Thoughts Kill You?

The placebo effect is the most convincing demonstration of how powerful your thoughts are. Most people know that the placebo effect is when you believe something will work, and as a result of that belief, and not anything else, it does. In medical trials they must...

How Did You Get Fat?

Let’s say you are out for lunch with a friend who is about the same shape and size as you. He or she chooses a tuna Niçoise salad and you choose a four-cheese pizza. Does that make you fatter than your friend straight away? Of course, it doesn’t! You think it’s just...

How to Get the Body You Want

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...

5 Seconds to Change Your Life

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...

How to Stay Right on Track

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...