How Goals Lead to New Habits and Happiness
How Goals Lead to New Habits and Happiness How does a weight loss goal and creating new habits lead to happiness? Let’s start with motivation which is often high when we first make the decision to lose weight. Motivation is a word that is often mentioned when people are working towards a goal or goals. […]
Read more10 Short Cuts that Make Weight Loss Easier
10 Short Cuts that Make Weight Loss Easier A good shortcut isn’t about cheating your way out of necessary effort. It’s about finding a better, smarter, more efficient way to do something – ideally that saves time, makes life easier, and gets you closer to your goals. Experts in every field use short cuts. In […]
Read more5 Health Outcomes from Discovering Your Carb Tolerance
5 Health Outcomes from Discovering Your Carb Tolerance There’s been lots written about low carb and keto diets and many indicate that for long term success it is an unnecessarily restrictive way to eat. The trick is to know your body’s unique carb tolerance. Here’s 5 good health reasons to discover your body’s unique carb […]
Read moreBucket List vs New Year’s Resolutions
The Importance of Having a Bucket List Bucket List Vs New Year’s Resolutions!! In case you haven’t heard of a bucket list, it is a list of all the things you want to do before you kick the bucket. If you’re not keen on the name Bucket List (for obvious reasons) you may like to […]
Read more10 Top Tips for a Fresh Start to 2021
10 Tips to a Fresh Start for 2021 It’s going to be a FUN year. We are sure you agree it’s great to have a New Year to make a fresh, new start. To help you with planning your year we have included our top 10 tips to step into 2021 well-prepared. Within a month […]
Read moreEating well at a function
Eating well when you’re at a function can be tricky. If meals are being served, there are usually options that will fit a healthy eating pattern, but when it’s a morning or afternoon tea, often the carb overload can be very tempting. At a recent function where afternoon tea of sandwiches, pastries, cakes and slices […]
Read moreChoosing Snacks for Low Carb
There’s lots of confusion about how much carbohydrate per day is ‘low carb’, whether to ‘snack’ at all, and if so, how to choose snacks. If you add up the typical serves suggested in the Australian Healthy Eating Guidelines for adults, you can total up to 240g carb per day. Of course this is not […]
Read moreAvoiding thought-induced hunger
Thought-induced hunger is a real thing: just thinking about food makes you hungry. How often have you searched for inspiration about what you might prepare for dinner? You contact Chef Google and start searching while considering a range of questions: What’s already in the cupboard? Do I have meat in the freezer? How many people […]
Read moreLow-carb success for Diabetes
Diabetes Week is a great time to pay attention to the role diet plays in the management of Type 2 Diabetes. While low-carb diets are still seen by some doctors and diabetes educators as dangerous, most are coming around to a new way of thinking. Most treatments for Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) treat the symptoms […]
Read moreCake sells
Why is it that just about every magazine or book promoting weight loss features a gorgeous image of cake? It seems clear that magazine and book editors believe that cakes sell better than steaks. Is it that people who buy these magazines want to lose weight without losing the very foods that contributed to their […]
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