When you’re making any change, setting your environment up for success is one of the most important things you can do. Most of us are a product or our environment, and the good news is that most of us have the ability to modify our environment to at least some extent. Some things [...]
One of the first things you need to think about on your weight loss journey is how much weight you want to lose, and if you’ve never really thought about that then fear not – you are not alone, by any means! A lot of my patients just know they want to be [...]
Part of setting yourself up for success on your weight loss journey involves making the healthy choice the easy choice, and the less healthy choice more difficult. For this reason, I always advise having an honest look around your kitchen and anywhere else in your home where food is stored and remove any [...]
It’s well known that food prepared at home contains fewer calories and generally less fat, salt and sugar then food bought outside of the home. While it’s true that you could continue to just eat as you usually do and probably still lose weight with this medication, your chances of maximising your weight [...]
As you start on your weight loss journey, stocking up your kitchen with all the food you need to stay on track is one of the most important things you can do. It’s so easy to get demotivated if you plan to make something healthy and delicious, only to realise at the last [...]
Getting into a routine with your eating and physical activity eventually is relatively straightforward. More often than not, once you’ve started developing your healthy habits it’s the surprises in life that take us off track. For this reason, I always encourage people to have emergency food at home, in the form of easily [...]
We have probably all heard the saying that ‘Failing to plan is planning to fail’, and this is never more true than when you’re planning a healthy diet! We live in an ‘obesogenic’ environment, that is one that naturally causes most of us to gain weight. If you leave what you eat to [...]
Batch cooking is one of the big keys to success here! If you already know what you plan to eat at a given time, and it’s already in your fridge/freezer and ready to go then your chances of sticking to your plan and eating it are much, much higher. I recognise that batch [...]
When it comes to weight loss, usually the problem isn’t knowing what to do, it’s getting around to actually doing it! When people ask me what they should eat in order to lose weight I often start by asking them what they would do by themselves if they had nobody to advise them, [...]
