Sugar Detox Day 5: Three Important Ways to Stop Sugar Cravings

January 13, 2011

Sugar cravings can be caused by imbalances and there are three major ways to help stop these problematic food cravings: 1. Improve your nutritional status Our body needs good nutrition in order to work effectively. When we get the balance right we feel great, we feel alive and full of energy. When we get it [...]

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Sugar Detox Day 4: Get Food Label Savvy

January 7, 2011

Food labels can be hard to understand, but our 10-step guide tells you what to look for and what to avoid, making it easier to eat healthily… 1. Check the serving size Portion distortion will add inches to your waistline, so check the serving size before you tuck in. You may find that tiny diet-friendly [...]

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Sugar Detox Day 3: How Too Much Sugar Causes Cravings

January 5, 2011

It was once thought that eating an equal amount of any kind of carbohydrate would have the same effect on blood glucose levels. It is now known that different carbohydrate-containing foods do in fact have different effects on blood glucose levels. Carbohydrate foods (sugar and starch), are broken down by digestion to form glucose which [...]

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Sugar Detox Day 2: Five Small Steps to Reduce Sugar in the Diet

January 4, 2011

Reduce Sugar in the Diet: Make Small Changes to Achieve Success Changing your diet for the better to enable long-term health benefits and weight loss is all about making small changes that you can achieve and maintain. So rather than overhauling everything you eat and drink in one fell swoop try to tweak your food [...]

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Sugar Detox Day 1: Sugars in Food and Healthy Alternatives

January 3, 2011

Sugars In Food: A Sugar By Any Other Name Would Taste As Sweet! Choosing healthy foods can be a bit of a problem if you’re not food label savvy. There’s so much information on the packaging these days, which is great if you can understand it, but if you don’t recognise the names and what [...]

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How to Make Your Motivation to Lose Weight Work

December 31, 2010

So, you want to lose weight and you’ve made it your New Year’s resolution, again, but how do you make it work this time and how do you maintain your motivation to lose weight? The key to successful weight loss is to have a workable plan of action. It’s no good telling yourself that you [...]

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Control Your Eating and Cravings with Breakfast

December 9, 2010

Eating a good breakfast is possibly the most important step that you can take to control your eating and cravings, stop overeating and prevent binge eating and reduce cravings for sugary, fat-filled snacks. Eating the right kind of breakfast will allow you a slow release of energy and give your body the nutrients it needs [...]

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7 Day New Year Sugar Detox

December 6, 2010

ADMISSION NOW CLOSED BUT THE SUGAR DETOX WILL BE OFFERED LATER IN THE YEARThe New Year is a time when we all want to feel revitalised but how many of us make resolutions to eat better and lose weight and manage to stick to them? If you want to be ready to take on the [...]

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Simple Strategies to Beat Overeating this Christmas

December 2, 2010

The Christmas season can be fraught with difficulties if you’re trying to lose weight or have issues with controlling your eating but you can beat overeating this Christmas. There’s often a plethora of food everywhere, people get special, high sugar, treats in to offer you and may have bowls of sweets and chocolates ready and [...]

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Mindfulness Eating: How to Eat to Beat Overeating

November 24, 2010

Mindfulness is an amazingly powerful tool that anyone struggling with their weight and eating habits can employ to turn their situation around by using it in the form of mindfulness eating. It can be used, and is taught by us, in two different ways: 1) to relax the mind so that you can operate at [...]

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