My return to a low carb diet may be seen as an abandonment of intuitive eating but I think it is actually part of the journey of making peace with food. One of the main principles of Intuitive Eating is to eat what you want and I am still doing that. I now want to… Read More
I lost weight. Quite a lot (for me). And I don’t know whether to tell you the number or not … You see I don’t want to advocate living and dying by the scale, but it is also hard to recognise progress without some kind of KPI (key performance indicator aka measuring stick). Even some… Read More
I haven’t seen my colleague KatieJ since I left work for my holidays on 17 December. She has been busy working on a circus (literally). Today she came in for a meeting and the first words she said were ~ “Wow, you’ve lost weight”. It took me by surprise. The last time anyone said that… Read More
I remember the exact day when I finally hit rock bottom. I had binged the night before, first eating pizza and then buying mountains of sweets and icecream from the shop afterwards. As a counter measure I had taken laxatives before going to bed. When I woke up that morning, I barely made it to… Read More
I have slain many dragons, I have let some fall merely fall asleep and others I have made friends with. Today I summoned a dragon I wanted to befriend. Today I faced the scale in the hope that I could deal with the number and use it to help monitor my weight loss progress. Last… Read More
One of the most challenging things when you have a public weight loss journey is to meet people you know online in person. When the perfectly well-intentioned “I’m in Sydney, let’s have coffee” invitation appears in my inbox, my first reaction is to decline. Not because I’m anti-social (just a little shy) but because I worry… Read More
Since seeing the video I posted in the last entry I have been thinking about our cultural beliefs about beauty and how they affect our ability to connect with other people. I believe that the most powerful force in the universe is love. Love takes many forms but the most distilled form of love is… Read More
I admit the title of this post may be misleading because my goal weight isn’t 55kg any more. My goal weight is … well, whatever my body chooses. Now that might be hard for you to take. Especially if you believe the messages that all women should be thin with visible bones and fit into… Read More
After 130 hours of intensive training I am now a fully certified NLP Practitioner and Coach as well as a Hypnotherapist. I am going to begin seeing clients because I want to share the wonders of discovering how to move on with great big exciting life while letting go of the past. It is not… Read More
A few bloggy type girls are doing a thing in NOvember where they say NO to shit. I’ve been training as a coach all week so forgive me if I’m blunt … In my model of the world, I get what I focus on. And I don’t want to focus on what I don’t want… Read More
Almost one year ago I posted a picture of myself in my underwear as part of the EXPOSED movement started by the gorgeous Mish. I don’t look like that any more … I’m a little heavier but I don’t mind – it’s kind of irrelevant. This year, instead of exposing my body, I’m exposing my soul. In… Read More
You know your heart is broken. You live with the pain everyday. It is that relentless ache in your chest and that empty feeling in your belly that won’t go away. You’ve felt it before – when someone you loved betrayed you – but this time your heart is broken because you feel you are… Read More
There has been a lot of blog chatter about the Marie Claire article that claims some health and fitness bloggers aren’t as healthy as they claim. I don’t have an opinion on the quoted bloggers healthiness because I don’t read them. In fact, I don’t read any blogs any more that document daily food intake and exercise… Read More