Why Do We Need Yet Another Diet?

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...

Mindful Eating

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...

Obesity – It’s Not Just What You Eat

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall recently said that Obesity has become the ‘new normal’. It affects so many of us, two thirds of us are overweight and many suffer from Diabetes and related health issues – YES eating healthy fresh food instead of takeaways and junk is part...

Why would you……..?

This week Public Health England has launched a powerful new Stop Smoking campaign. It shows the picture you see here of an unrolled cigarette containing remnants of a badly damaged lung. The inside of the cigarette shows what the inside of your lungs will be like if...

Carrot or Stick?

How would you like to find the magic formula that means you achieve everything you set your heart on? What would you achieve if you no longer self sabotaged your efforts and not only did “whatever it takes” but actually enjoyed the process? Most of us have...