Yesterday I met a very busy surgery practice manager. We talked about how it is that people can smoke for years and suddenly quit. Her cherished wish was that she could just give up chocolate and cheese. A life-long weakness for both had made her two stone overweight. She declared herself beyond help and that [...]

Recently a client came to me to lose a significant amount of weight before she got married.
She’d tried ‘everything’. All the fad diets, fasting, bingeing and calorie counting. The results had been patchy and without any real lasting weight loss. By the time she came to me she felt demoralised and helpless. She’d developed a [...]

By the time I see a client for help with weight loss they’ve tortmented themselves endlessly with the above question. As a result they’re feeling helpless and clueless as to how to stop the madness and just lose weight.
If you tackle the task of change by constantly asking yourself the above kind [...]

What is motivation? It’s hard to explain but everyone uses it or wants it. It could be useful to think of it as shorthand for opening the gap from where you are to where you want to be. In other words how to achieve your goals.
When you let that sink in your mind [...]

At the height of summer there are so many lovely gardens to admire. The most attractive are a harmony of colours and plant shapes, all suited to the terrain and soil conditions. It can all look so natural and pleasing that it’s hard to appreciate the amount of effort behind the scenes.
To me this [...]