How to Heal Your Gut (instead of bloating, fatigue and hormone imbalance)
Bloating? Fatigue? Hormone Imbalance? In the last two years we've heard more and more about the importance of gut health and it's influence on the brain and mood - Largely thanks to the ABC Catalyst ...
Mindful Eating 101
Mindful Eating Tips Having lived through 18 years of Bulimia Nervosa, I'm certainly no stranger to the "stuff it in before you realise how much you're eating" habit. I wouldn't even taste my food fo ...
This is my Beautiful 40 year old Body
My Beautiful 40 Year Old Body For those of you wondering how my knee is healing after surgery in June, it's been slow, especially as a secondary injury was initially overlooked. Over the years my ...
Are your Cravings really an Addiction?
The Brain and Addiction Following on from last Blog article about Cravings, you now hopefully have a better understanding of the difference between “body hunger versus mind hunger”. In short, one ...
Green Smoothies and Raw Chocolate – A Food Demonstration Gig!
Green Smoothies and Raw Chocolate This last week I presented and spoke at the Annual 'QLD Rural, Regional & Remote Women's Network' Ag Show Luncheon in Toowoomba. Packing my mason jars, greens ...
Is Stress Causing Your Weight Gain?
Stress and Weight Wars A 2011/12 Queensland Health report revealed an average 57.3% of adults who are overweight or obese. On average, only 56.6% of adults reported getting sufficient physical act ...
The Slow Down Diet / FREE Eating Psychology Online Conference
2nd Annual Eating Psychology Online Conference It's a sad fact that every single one of us has something negative to say about our bodies at one time or another. For many people, especially women, it ...
Eat Food. Mostly Plants. Not Too Much.
Eat (Real) Food I love to tell people about food designers, because most people haven’t even heard of the term, let along know it’s actually a job title. Food designers are a food manufacturer’s s ...
Eating Psychology Conference 2014
FREE Eating Psychology Online Conference Obesity, overeating, body image concerns, emotional challenges with food, and diet-related health issues have permeated our society, culture and mindsets. We' ...
How to Stress Less & Love Yourself More
Stress & Release We are such creatures of taking everything personally and feeling the weight of hurt and pain, rejection or worth. I love Anthony Hopkins philosophy that it's none of my busin ...
Lose the Stress and Lose the Weight
Mind-Body Weight Loss If you’re stressed out, worried, fearful or lonely, the impact on your health is immediate and the hormonal imbalances created are the same imbalances that cause food cravings, ...
What Works When Dieting Doesn’t
Dieting Disasters It annoys and saddens me when people ask, "So what diet do you follow Viki?" Let's be clear: I DON'T diet. I spent years dieting and it got me nowhere. I tried diet after diet. I ...
Transform your mind, body and life for wellness
From Medication to Freedom! How my Achieving Your Wellness coaching program has helped my client move from medication to freedom. I have an intelligent, insightful and attractive young client who ca ...
Do you measure your worth by your weight?
Worth Your Weight Bathroom scales. Do you have one? We don't have a bathroom scale in our house. I've not weighed myself in years. I don't look to one for punishment, judgement or expectation ANY MO ...
Healthy Sexy Slow Eating
Pleasure Eating By Marc David, Institute for the Psychology of Eating In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in 2009, eating a meal quickly rather than at a s ...