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I just love it when we get compared to primates!
A study was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald suggesting that cutting our calories in order to lose weight would only result in an automatic reduction in our exercise output, meaning [...]
It appears the main issue impacting on health systems globally is the over-consumption of food. In the stone age and some centuries ago the ability to gain weight in times of plenty served us well during famines and wars. However, in our current times the over-consumption of food is aggravated by a sedentary lifestyle in [...]
You can break bad dieting habits and get the body you want
Changing behaviour and ways of thinking is not easy, but it is not impossible either.
We have all heard the saying:
“If you keep on doing what you are doing, you will get more of what you’ve got”
Well, nothing could be truer than this sentence when [...]
Most Western countries have identified the fight against fat as their primary health protection target. However, many developing countries are suffering the same fate.
The top ten countries, from highest to lowest, in prevalence of obesity between 1980 – 1998 will probably surprise you.
They were:
1. Samoa
2. Kuwait
3. UK
4. New Zealand
5. Mauritius
6. USA
7. Australia
8. Germany
9. Switzerland
10. Netherlands
FACT: [...]
The increasing prevalence of obesity across the globe has been too rapid to be explained by a genetic shift.
Over the last few decades we have simply eaten more than we needed.
While the increased rate of obesity can be attributed to changes in the food supply and eating behaviour combined with a reduction in physical activity [...]
As the popular song originally recorded by Billy Ocean in 1985 clearly states, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”.
Maintaining change, be it weight loss, good exercise habits or remembering to be more positive and less reactive is difficult.
Scott Peck warned us in the first sentence of his famous book, The Road Less [...]
Time & time again we hear our clients talk about emotional eating – turning to food to soothe emotions related to major events & daily stress.They say things like,
“But I was really stressed…”
“I just felt sad…”
“It calmed me down”
Emotional eating is reported as one of the most common reasons our clients sabotage their weight management attempts.
While occasional [...]
Welcome to the first blog for DietPsyche. As you may have learned from the “About Us” section (if you read it), DietPsyche was created as an approach to weight loss and disordered eating that combines:
Diet (balanced nutrition & healthy eating habits)
Psychology (mental fitness)
Exercise (physical fitness)
My name is Anita Cochrane and the vision for DietPsyche was [...]
Possibly one of the most unexpected reasons for being unable to lose weight is TOO MUCH EXERCISE.
And, the culprit? Cortisol.
Cortisol is the body’s primary stress hormone and is secreted by the adrenal glands in response to stress.
It may surprise you, but the body interprets high intensity, frequent exercise as a stress.
Exercising too much, too [...]
Most people associate celebrations like Christmas, Easter, weddings and other special occasions with weight gain because for some quite ill-informed, and even ridiculous reason, we give ourselves permission to eat more and even expect to gain weight at such times! It’s no wonder they call Christmas the “Silly Season”! Not only do we usually spend [...]
