Stop Dieting and Trust Your Body Wisdom Instead

Stop Dieting and Trust Your Body Wisdom Instead

Stop Dieting and Trust Your Body Wisdom Instead Balanced Healthy Eating   Have you had a moment of panic about your weight since Christmas? Have you denied yourself food in an effort to reduce your weight? Many people rinse and repeat their health goals every January (to get healthy and lose weight) and force themselves back onto a new or old diet because they’re still stuck in the dieting mindset. Instead of healthy balanced eating, they choose the all or nothing approach and begin down a path of following a ‘way’ of eating that may not actually work for their unique

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Set Health, Fitness & Weight Goals That Work With Your Brain & Body

Set Health, Fitness & Weight Goals That Work With Your Brain & Body

Set Health, Fitness & Weight Goals That Work With Your Brain & Body Keep you brain in mind when you set health and weight related goals – otherwise they’ll end up as empty promises!   Forget resolutions and set meaningful health and fitness goals instead! It will make a world of difference to how you approach change, and take action towards your goals. The KEY is in using the principles of neuroscience so you can create change in a way that your brain will become familiar with by conscious, consistent and intentional action! Get a pen and paper and commit

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What 48 kilos GONE looks like WITHOUT dieting and in just 12 months!

What 48 kilos GONE looks like WITHOUT dieting and in just 12 months!

What 48 Kilos GONE looks like without dieting and in just 12 months!   This is what 48 Kilos (106lbs) removed in a year looks like as a result of RTT. Meet my colleague, Colleen Andruszkiewicz, who gave me permission to share this with you. Colleen lives in Ontario, Canada, and is a fellow Rapid Transformational Therapist (RTT).  Overnight she shared photos of herself inside our RTT therapy practitioner group – where students and graduates from all over the world come together to share support, insight on various case studies, and ongoing education. It’s my favourite Facebook group because it’s full of other

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Why We Relive Past Stress & Emotions | Understanding Stress & the Brain

Why We Relive Past Stress & Emotions | Understanding Stress & the Brain

Why We Relive Past Stress & Emotions Understanding Stress & the Brain   Here’s a brief explanation of the stress response and why we relive past emotions. These short 3 minutes could change the way you think! Some comments people sent me: Shared  I can totally relate. My fight or flight is triggered easily which has been the cause of muscle tension and pain in my neck and shoulders for years! I have been gradually working on it using deep breathing and meditation  – Emma Beautifully articulated Viki ?  Do you mind if I share this clip? – Bec I’d love nothing more

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How Memories Can Affect Your Digestion

How Memories Can Affect Your Digestion

How Memories Can Affect Your Digestion   Is stress impacting your digestion? Find out how eating either in a stressed or relaxed state affects your ability to digest your food properly in this brief introduction that will make total sense in illuminating your eating behaviours! In this powerful 6 minute video, I share a brief explanation of why we get stressed and relive past emotions when eating. It’s got a lot to do with our nervous system, how our brain processes information, and the individual meaning we attach to past experiences. These short 6 minutes could change your life! (I hope so)   Viki Thondley

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Your Body is Listening to Every Thought You Think

Your Body is Listening to Every Thought You Think

Your Body is Listening to Every Thought You Think One of my favourite pieces of wisdom is: What we think, we create. Literally. Because of my therapeutic holistic approach I spend a lot of time educating my students and clients about epigenetics, neuroscience and neurobiology. We have over 50 trillion cells within our bodies, each one listening intently to the reaction and response of our thinking, as a consequence of our perception. Every cell absorbs this perception – positive or negative, safe or stressful – and will either shrink or expand as a consequence of our thoughts and feelings, whereby creating an internal

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{Podcast} How Dieting Works Against Your Body & What You Can Do to Work With it

{Podcast} How Dieting Works Against Your Body & What You Can Do to Work With it

How Dieting Works Against Your Body and What You Can Do to Work With it Have you been doing EVERYTHING “right” but your body doesn’t seem like it’s doing what you want? Don’t lose faith in it, learn to trust it again so your body can learn to trust YOU again! It’s an interesting concept that most people don’t even consider – that your body might lose trust with you after all your efforts to make it weigh less and feel healthier. The thing is most of these efforts are done without consulting the body. Instead of turning inward, asking

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Dieting Danger – Food Can’t Fix Feelings

Dieting Danger - Food Can't Fix Feelings

DIETING DANGER – Food Can’t Fix Feelings   Have you ever been on a diet? If you’re here at MindBodyFood, you most probably have! In fact, there’s bound to be many of you who have never got OFF the diet wagon because you’re still struggling to feel comfortable in your body (instead of ashamed). Have you recently committed yourself to a ‘new’ diet for the New Year? We so often fall into the trap of believing that if we can control our food and change the way we look, we just might be able to control how we feel. NEWS FLASH –

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Healthy Chocolate Panforte Recipe

Healthy Chocolate Panforte Recipe

Healthy Chocolate Panforte Recipe Perfect for Christmas!   Panforte is traditionally an Italian cake containing fruit and nuts. So more or less, it’s kind of like a fruitcake – dense, moist, fruity. It originated in the Tuscan city of Siena somewhere around the thirteenth century. Here I’ve made a healthy version that doesn’t miss out on any of the traditional flavours, certainly has the dense quality but with a lighter feel in the tummy. My healthy christmas panforte recipe is also gluten free, dairy free and refined sugar free. It’s the perfect healthy recipe for christmas! There’s minimal liquid sweetener

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Don’t Diet this Christmas, Do This Instead

Don't Diet this Christmas, Do This Instead

Instead of Dieting, Bingeing or Restricting this Christmas Try a New Approach… It’s that time of year again when many of us freak out at the abundant supply of festive food that is often on our “forbidden/bad/diet says no” list. Because I have no intention of losing my mind dieting for the next two weeks just so I can let loose on Christmas Day, my lead up is mostly calm, relaxed and peaceful. (I say mostly because I can’t control everything.. and it relieves a lot of unnecessary pressure when you realise that.) Your Christmas can be calm, relaxed and peaceful

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3 Steps to Embrace Your Body Now

3 Steps to Embrace Your Body Now

Embrace Your Body in 3 Steps, NOW Ready to embrace your body, dump the hate and stop punishing it with endless diets and negative self-talk? Recently I attended the first Toowoomba screening of the new documentary, EMBRACE by Taryn Brumfitt. Hundreds of women, men and children have attended in our region, but after watching, feeling inspired, shedding tears and finding hope… now what? It’s opened a huge pandoras box for so many women who are now wondering, well just HOW do I embrace my body? What do I do? Our bodies are nobody else’s business, yet we constantly allow ourselves to be distracted by comparison,

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3 Keys to Cultivate Self-Love {Podcast}

3 Keys to Cultivate Self-Love {Podcast}

3 Keys to Cultivate Self-Love PODCAST EPISODE   We all need a little help in how to cultivate self-love, gratitude and a positive mindset. So earlier this week I shared an inspiring talk with Nicole Coggiola, Health & Lifestyle Coach over at the Nourished Goddess. I’ve discovered I really enjoy connecting with like-minded souls around the world and sharing interesting conversations and stories that speak my language. This one dives a little deeper into the importance of the mind and gratitude when making healthy lifestyle changes. Aspects that can’t be ignored when creating inner transformation for outer change. It’s all about being a

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She’s Coming OFF her Anti-Depressant Medication

She's Coming OFF her Anti-Depressant Medication

She’s Coming OFF her Anti-Depressant Medication! Here’s How….   For those of you experiencing depression, anxiety, isolation or low self-esteem, I want to share this story with you to provide hope for a future you might not yet be able to imagine possible… Last week after teaching a postgraduate course on Autonomic Nervous System Reprogramming to my MindBodyFood Institute Advanced Diploma students, I received this totally unexpected gift of appreciation. The student who gave it to me came to this work after working with me on her self-doubt, insecurities and personal fulfillment. She wanted to feel happier, healthier and create a sense

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Break Free of Fearing Food

Break Free of Fearing Food

Break FREE of Fearing Food   Going out to eat used to always be an anxiety-inducing routine of worrying what I’d wear to hide my body, who would be there scrutinising my body, and what food was on the menu that would put fat on my body. I’d study the menu prior to arriving so it would reduce the panic time in front of my friends, delaying everyone’s orders. The extra eyes on me only fuelled my anxiety and generally resulted in me ordering something I didn’t really want so that I’d spend the entire time waiting for the dish, worrying about if I made

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Bloating, Pain and Parasites – Become your own best health advocate

Bloating, Pain and Parasites - Become your own best health advocate

Bloating, Pain, Hospitals and Parasites Become Your Own Best Health Advocate If you follow me on my Facebook page you’ll know that last Wednesday I was woken in the early hours with EXCRUCIATING lower right, abdominal pain followed by vomiting bile. I was taken to hospital and drugged up on morphine, asked to pee in a jar, fill up with fluid for a couple of ultrasounds, then drink a litre of dye and be injected with contrast for a CT scan. The suspects – kidneys, ovaries and appendix – were all clear, but not before they offered to call a surgeon to cut me

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