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Updated 2 January 2023 As a Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, my job is to help people identify th

Clients often ask me whether they should give up coffee. It's not always an easy question to giv

  As so often happens in my practice, in the last week or so the same topic of concern h

Ever tried to change? Difficult, isn't it? Most of my clients come to me knowing that they need to c

Are you battling addictive cravings for cigarettes, alcohol, coffee, sugar and other junk foods, or

I don't know about you, but I'm at the stage in life where there just aren't that many THINGS that I

The emerging field of microbiome research offers fascinating, at times disturbing, but ultimately em

A while back, I wrote about FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out, and how it drives food cravings. There's ano

Human beings have a built-in self-evaluating mechanism that causes us to compare ourselves to others

You've heard it so many times before, I'm sure. But just because it's a cliché, doesn't mean it isn

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Weight loss is one of the top 5 reasons why people seek my help. That's hardly surprising, given tha

I get two types of response from my clients and program participants when I start talking about work

  In last week's post, Stuffing food into a hole that isn’t food-shaped, I discussed t

I have quite a few versions of 'If I only had a dollar for every time a client told me x, I'd be a v

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Whenever I'm working on food cravings with either my private clients or participants in The LEAN Pro

Updated 2 January 2023 As a Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, my job is to help people identify th

Is this a familiar scenario to you? You've been sticking to your diet and exercise regime for weeks,

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The human brain and body are both adapted to live in a very different world than the one we inhabit

... so now you know why you can't eat just one!! Many of my clients tell me they're chocoholics (

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The average Australian gains between 0.8 and 1.5 kg over the Christmas period, according to Nutritio

  A couple of weeks ago, a member of a Facebook support group that I belong to, for peop

Are you sick and tired of the diet merry-go-round? Are you confused by all the contradictory dietar

No matter what health issues drive clients to seek out my help, at some stage we're going to end up

  Conventional wisdom has it that 'a little of what you fancy does you good', and that '

  It's a truism that you should never try to change yourself to please somebody else. Pe

Weight loss. It's really simple in theory: just eat less and move more. But it's a little more compl

Food cravings - those bouts of intense, seemingly uncontrollable desire to get hold of and eat a par

  Why do we humans do things that we know are bad for us, like smoking, eating junk food

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Most people assume that their body image - their perception of the attractiveness of their own body

In last week's post, I introduced you to John and Ashleigh, who both struggle with food cravings whe