Weight Loss
Two thirds of Australian adults are above a healthy weight. Nearly all of them know what to eat.
The information is not the missing piece. Almost everyone who comes about weight can tell you what a good week of eating looks like — they have done it before, sometimes many times. The work here is on what happens between knowing and doing, which is where diets leave off.
Emotional eating
Eating because of a feeling rather than hunger — tired, bored, lonely, celebrating, dreading Monday. Diets do not touch this, because the food was never really the point.
Sugar and snacking
The three o'clock run, the block of chocolate that was going to be two squares. Sugar habits are physical and behavioural at the same time, which is why cutting them by force tends to last about four days.
Night eating
Fine all day and undone after eight. One of the most commonly described patterns and one of the least talked about, because it happens alone.
Portion size and eating on autopilot
Finishing what is in front of you, eating standing up, not noticing you are full. Usually learned in childhood and not revisited since.
Motivation and movement
Knowing exercise helps and not doing it. Starting again every Monday. The gap is rarely information — it is the association your mind has already made with the effort.
How you see yourself
Losing the weight and still not being at ease with the mirror. Worth naming, because it is usually the part that decides whether the change holds.