If you do, you are not alone. 

So we want to honor tummy hunger but, for head hunger, we want to start to identify it and try out some different strategies. 

Head hunger is instant. For instance, we might’ve just finished lunch or dinner and we have an instant urge and craving. It’s like this tension in our body.  This driving force that takes over. We feel like we have no control. You know what I’m talking about right?

We might white knuckle our way through a craving, but let’s be honest – that’s only short term and it’s hard work!

FREE WORKSHOP SERIES

On Monday 27th July, I am running a free workshop series - where I cover off 2 steps of my 5 step methodology to upgrade your mind mind from version 1.0 to version 2.0. 

Join here >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/570001309855819

Have you ever lost weight in the past and then regained it?

That is because your identity and self worth did not support your behaviours (eating and exercise).

The secret is to  upgrade your identity, self worth and eating habits FIRST. 

Pre WLS you had version 1.0 mind, and a version 1.0 body. 

Post WLS your body had an upgrade to version 2.0 (significant weight loss, health benefits etc), however your mind is still operating at version 1.0.

Your mind will not automatically upgrade itself. 

You must facilitate the upgrade with the right programs (just like a upgrading from windows 7 to 10!).

Sustainable weight loss is  a by product of this upgrade to version 2.0.

Join me on July 27th for a workshop series in my free group Food Freedom.

Please email me at [email protected] if you want to learn more around my new group program to upgrade your mind to version 2.0

Does this sound like you.

The night before you are fired up to get up early and go for a walk or go to the gym, then the alarm goes off and you hit snooze !!

Or you say to yourself, after work I’ll go for that walk...then it gets to 5pm and you think - I can’t be bothered and you sit on the couch and watch mindless TV instead!

Can you see that we make an either/or choice that are actually opposite to one another. 

It’s like I’m either going to the gym, or I’m numbing out in front of netflix with chocolate.

The choices are - doing something positive for yourself or doing something that is an avoidance strategy  that numbs you out. 

That’s the thing, you can’t have both, you have to choose one.

Want to gain control of your eating and avoid the regain?

https://www.foodbrainrewired.com/apply1on1

I've spent the last 5 days in hospital with my son, Nate in sleep school changing all the bad habits. 

It got me thinking  about where you might be right now with your eating and weight.   

You’ve had surgery, and now some bad eating habits have snuck back in. You’re aware of the bad habits, but a bit like me  - just knowing the bad habits isn’t enough to change it.  

Awareness is a great start, but it’s not enough to change. 

A bit like me, you might be feeling overwhelmed - "where do I start?" or "it’s all too hard", or "maybe I should do this or that" - all of that conflicting information.

Listen for the key questions to ask yourself to shift you from surviving to thriving.  

Ready to thrive? Come and complete the application form and I will share how I can help you.

https://www.foodbrainrewired.com/apply1on1

If you have bumped yourself way down on the priority list and you’re just running around busy looking after everyone else taking care after everyone else, then you need to hear this message today because it is affecting your eating and it’s affecting your weight.

What we’re doing is we’re either eating during the day thinking we’re giving ourselves a burst of energy to get through the day, or the other common theme I see with women is that at the end of the night it’s like they’re on, on, on, on, on during the day, and then the minute the kids are in bed or after dinner when the TV is on they are OFF. 

And OFF looks like eating right?

Listen to learn what is REALLY going on!!

Ready for change? https://www.foodbrainrewired.com/apply1on1

I’m 40, I’m 50, I’m 60 - and you might find yourself asking, why do I not have control over this issue? Why do I not have control over my eating and weight?

I have control over all other areas of my life. 

Then you might go here, "I haven’t had this and that happen to me, other people are sooo worse off than me, I shouldn’t complain, this is a first world problem  -why can’t I sort it out??"

Listen to understand the key questions to ask yourself to get you back in control.

I work with a lot of clients who are very successful in their career and other areas of their life. They are in control in these areas and are very competent.

However, they feel out of control with eating and their weight.  It’s like they are successful and in control in all areas of their life, but they feel like a failure when it comes to their eating and weight.

They try to apply the same strategies that make them successful in their career to their eating, however in reality they end up losing more and more control, leading to more and more weight gain. 

Why is this?

This is what we are going to unpack today.

Learn why this is a broken strategy and what to do instead. 

I’ve worked with many clients who are not in their own body. 

What I mean by that is that they received messages both implicitly and explicitly about their body when they were growing up, and it became a self fulfilling prophecy (aka being overweight).

In the most part, there are 2 way that we let our mother's relationship with food and weight influence our weight: 

1. Enmeshment 
2. Rebellion

I want you to consider how this might be relevant to you..and if you have daughters how this is also relevant to you too.  Most parents say to me I want to be a positive role model for my daughter...and this is the place to start.

You’re in the honeymoon phase and the weight is dropping off like it never has before without really forcing it or hard work. 

Everyone is noticing your weight loss and the complements are coming thick and fast. 

You are wearing clothes that you love and you are loving these new changes and you’re excited about the future. 

You have NEVER felt this way before, and you are LOVING it. 

And then you end up one night eating a chocolate bar after everyone goes to bed. 

That old friend, Sabotage creeps in. 

WHY!!!???

Numbers are neutral.  It’s the meaning you’ve attached to that specific number.  I want you to really reflect on why you have chosen 75kg and not 83kg. It’s got nothing to do with the number but the meaning you have given it. 

Pre-surgery you were feeling out of control, that’s why you had surgery right? There were high levels of anxiety around your weight.  I’m guessing you got surgery to feel free...yet if you are so fixated on a number on the scales, you’re thinking still  hasn’t changed. Your thinking is not free. This deathgrip that you have on the number on the scale is also driven by anxiety. In your mind you’re still the old ‘fat’ you.