Fear of feeling – and how it drives cravings
A while back, I wrote about FOMO – Fear Of Missing Out, and how it drives food cravings. There’s another big fear that pops up all the time when I’m working with my clients and participants in The LEAN Program – fear of feeling pretty much anything at all, and especially so-called ‘negative feelings’ such…
Layered Eggplant Bake With Cauliflower Alfredo
Cauliflower makes the most amazing ‘Alfredo’ sauce… without all the fat, cholesterol, sodium and cancer-promoting IGF-1! Ingredients: 2 medium eggplant, sliced into 1 cm rounds 1 onion, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 cup water or low-sodium vegetable stock (can use liquid saved from steaming vegetables or cooking beans) 1 bunch kale, destemmed and finely…
Eat MORE to lose weight???
Yes, you read that headline correctly: Eat MORE to lose weight! I know the ‘Eat Less, Move More’ mantra has been drilled into you, but it suffers from one fatal flaw: it doesn’t work. While it’s true that regularly gorging on high-calorie food will make you gain fat, and is probably the only way to…
The future of health care is plant-based
Thomas Edison wrote that “The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” In my 10 day ‘conference bender’ in the US, which started with Dr John McDougall’s Advanced Study Weekend (see the amazing…
Plane trip food
I’ve never flown with United Airlines, but googling ‘vegan meals on united airlines’ didn’t fill me with confidence… so I’m Bringing My Own. Many people don’t realise you can take your own food on a plane trip, as long as you don’t bring anything that’s a liquid or gel in a container that exceeds 100…
California here I come – again!
By the time you read this post, I’ll be leaving the first conference of my US trip, and heading for TrueNorth Health Center. My 10-day ‘conference bender’ is taking in Dr John McDougall’s Advanced Study Weekend (see the amazing speaker line-up and purchase online access); a study visit to TrueNorth, an amazing facility founded by…
Why do women hate their bodies so much?
Note to men trying to decide whether to bother reading this post: please do! Not only will it help you understand your partner/daughter/female friends and colleagues (and maybe even save you from putting your foot in your mouth when they’re criticising the way they look :)); many of the same issues around body image are…
Quinoa and Pinto Bean Burgers
It’s simply not possible to ever have too many burger recipes!!!! This one resulted, as so many of my recipes do, from a fridge survey which located leftover cooked quinoa and pinto beans that needed to be used up. A short while later – voilà, burgers! Ingredients: 1 onion, diced 1 clove garlic, minced 2…
Why improving your body image must come before you lose weight
Most people assume that their body image – their perception of the attractiveness of their own body – will automatically improve after they lose weight. That seems fairly logical, right? If you don’t like the way you look now, surely you’ll be happier with your appearance once you’ve slimmed down? I beg to differ. I…
FOMO and how it drives cravings
Human beings have a built-in self-evaluating mechanism that causes us to compare ourselves to others, in ways that non-human animals don’t appear to do. We compare our physical attractiveness; our intelligence; our level of skill at sporting and work activities; our income; the value of our possessions such as houses and cars; our children’s abilities;…