Does your emotional state influence your food intake?
Our emotional state often affects our food intake. How many of us rush for a sweet snack when faced with emotional difficulty? Are we really feeding our hunger or are we just feeding our [...]
How do I end my weight loss struggles?
What we think is a weight loss struggle is often a psychological struggle that expresses itself through particular eating and exercise behaviours. To overcome this, we must treat the the root [...]
Focus on process goals
Many people trying to lose weight often set outcome goals, with a deadline in mind. E.g. losing 10kg in 3 months… Focusing only on the outcome can sometimes derail your motivation. How? You [...]
How does food affect your mood?
As well as eating for physical health, what we eat may also affect the way we feel. If you eat a sweet snack, you’ll get a spike of energy, soon followed by a crashing low. There’s [...]
Prerna, Dubai
Mel in one word is ‘fun’! He makes you WANT to train! I had been obese for a good 15 years. Losing the weight has been major part of my life to date. I was a typical example of a fitness newbie, [...]