by josephine | May 15, 2017 | Blog, Dieting
We are experiencing an epidemic of comparisons between food choices and diets. Information about foods is often based on an ‘or’ question such as ‘bread or wraps’, ‘butter or margarine’, ‘pasta or rice’‘butter or oil’, ‘low fat or full fat milk’, ‘low fat...
by josephine | Apr 15, 2017 | Blog, Dieting
Recently a client was describing her frustration with trying to eliminate chocolate. Totally. When I delved into her reasons for doing this she said “like smoking, chocolate is bad for you, isn’t it?” … “once you start, you can’t stop!” As an ex-smoker, she had...
by josephine | Mar 19, 2017 | Blog, Dieting
I enjoy the messages embedded in Aesop fables. There is one called ‘The Wind and the Sun’. It describes a competition between two of nature’s elements – the Wind and the Sun. They each set out to prove that they can make a passing traveller remove his cloak....
by josephine | Feb 12, 2017 | Blog, Intuitive Eating
If your body could talk, what would it ask for: diet plans and calorie counting or intuitive eating? If your body could talk, what would it ask for: to be deprived and punished with food or to eat food to nourish it? If your body could talk, what would it ask for: to...
by josephine | Nov 25, 2016 | Blog, Dieting
In last Sunday’s episode of 60 minutes, Liz Hayes interviewed Peter FitzSimons about his weight and health transformation. He explains how he went from being overweight, not exercising, drinking 2 bottles of wine at a time and eating junk food to then deciding to cut...
