If you want to change your behaviour you need to first identify what it is you are weighing up instead.

Change is not in the big shifts, but in the small consistent steps we take each day.

The new year can be such a hopefully time, we come out of Christmas and New Years with resolutions, resolve, promises that this year we will be better. Only to get a few months in and the motivation has died off and you are back to your old ways.

I have found that woman in their forties who want to lose weight have tried pretty much every diet, exercise program and supplement out there in order to lose weight.

The trouble with diets are that while they may work in the short term, most of us put the weight straight back on once we complete the diet.

This week I heard a great quote from a coach in another field talking about asking yourself before you take an action “Will this serve the path that I want to be on?”

We can only create change in our lives when we first stop and really consider what it is that we want, without judgement or excuses and then accept that we are worthy, and we deserve to have what we want.

Diets solve for the what, but if you want to lose weight for good, you first have to uncover why you chose to eat at any given moment.

A great option when you are on the run in the morning.

When I thought that the year of fighting cancer was better than how I spent the last 6 months, I knew something had to change.

Over desire is why we eat at times we are not hungry. If we want to be able to lose weight for good, we need to understand what is driving our desire and how to reduce it back down to normal levels.

We need self confidence to lose weight, so how do we get more of it?

Tahini is a wonderful source of important nutrients like calcium, iron and protein. This is a staple in my fridge. I love to add this dressing to my salads and veggies. It also makes a great dipping sauce and goes really well with my tamari seeds recipe.

So often we think planning will rob us for our freedom, because it will restrict us. But in this article I explore how this opposite is true.

We so often block ourselves from what we truly want, when we don’t look at what doing that thing is really costing us.

A common belief is that food is what creates connection. It feels true, real. It is a belief that is reinforced in movies, holidays, social media and most importantly by our own brains. But it is not the food that creates the connection, it is what goes on in our head.

Healthy, easy and delicious snack

So often we don’t even realise the feelings that dominate our day and the impact they have on our lives.

The biggest determinant for how we feel, is not something external to us, but rather how we choose to think about something. And so if we want to understand why we are feeling a certain way, we need to identify what we are thinking.

To understand the results we have in our lives, we first need to understand how our feelings impact the actions we take.

So much of what we do in life, is because we think it will help us feel, or avoid feeling a certain way.

Feelings play such a critical role when it comes to weight loss.

Once you start addressing your feelings, understanding what was going on, a big part of why you are over eating is no longer an issue.