Category Archives: 1. Psychology of Weight
To be or not to be … a loser … or an author
What does it really mean to feel sorry for ourselves after something goes wrong in our life, after we screw up? Why might we want to beat ourselves up? To Continue Reading →
World’s Top 20 Most Influential Obesity Experts
The USA based Masters of Public Health Organization overarches Masters qualifications from some of the world’s top Universities in this space including the New York Medical College and Liverpool University in Continue Reading →
Help!! Food Relationship Recovery
Marie from NZ wrote to me saying: I have just read your book and putting the tools into practise and for once feel a HUGE relief around the whole issue Continue Reading →
Eating dessert mindfully – is it worth the calories?
I was out to dinner with my wife recently and we had just eaten a light meal. We decided to indulge ourselves with dessert. Being food lovers, we are always Continue Reading →
Why happiness and goals don’t mix!
For a long time I have been uncomfortable with goals and all the rah rah around trying to achieve them. To be specific the problem is the timeframe. This means Continue Reading →
How getting fat actually keeps the opposite sex away
Many people put on weight as a defense against intimacy arising from past hurts. Their fat becomes a buffer, a shield to keep the opposite sex at a distance. But Continue Reading →
Not losing weight? Savouring & Portion size may be the issue
An issue that often gets overlooked when trying to lose weight is portion control. If you are eating well and not losing weight the next thing to look at is Continue Reading →
Defining Love: True Love is a commitment to nurturing personal growth
At a recent workshop I was talking about ‘other-sabotage’. This is when a partner does things like starting to buy chocolates and taking their ‘loved one’ out to their favourite Continue Reading →
The Popeye Principle – Who doubts that advertising to children isn’t a powerful factor in childhood obesity?
It was Laura Lovett who described The Popeye Principle in her detailed paper published in 2005 on the First Nutrition Crisis.* In the 1920’s, following the Great War it was Continue Reading →
‘Procrasticleaning’!!
Thanks to Dr David Rimmer who broke us all up at my Brisbane workshop with this wonderful example of how creative the unconscious mind can be as it rules our Continue Reading →