“Taste your way around Australia” How often do you stress about a holiday and undoing all the good work you’ve done because you don’t know where to eat at your chosen holiday destination? I know I do, which has been exacerbated as I now have also become a food snob living in Sydney, which has such a vast array of…
“There is no diet that will do what eating healthy does. Skip the diet. Just eat healthy.” Atkins, Paleo, South Beach, Whole 30…the list is endless!! In my quest to find my holy grail, being a diet that would make me eternally skinny, my first flirtation with the removal of all carbs from my meals was with the Dukan diet,…
“Collect moments not things” Earlier this year, my husband and I spent a weekend at Bannisters in Mollymook to celebrate our 11 year wedding anniversary. The year before, we had celebrated our first 10 years as a married couple with forty of our nearest and dearest, dining under the swaying palm trees and dancing on the golden sands of Palm…
“Slow and steady wins the race…to lose weight” My tip for this week, which is vital in your digestion and ensuring you don’t feel hungry and therefore overeat, is eating slowly. One of my earliest childhood memories of my grandmother, is her admonishing me to chew each mouthful thirty six times, before swallowing! I was always eating so quickly, that…
“Losing weight is initially a numbers game” Following on from my earlier “portion size” blog and the importance of determining the “correct” amount to eat in order to lose weight, this blog illustrates how I calculated the right quantity for me, given my goals, my metabolism and my exercise habits. The first step I took was determining what was the…
“Finally, monsieur – a wafer thin mint” The Meaning of Life So here it is…my first blog tip on how I set about losing the weight which had stubbornly hung around for over a year, notwithstanding my best endeavours to lose it. In a nutshell, what I did differently and probably, and more importantly, how I have maintained my “happy”…
