Appropriate Total Calories is STILL the most important thing.

Nothing is more important than "Appropriate Total Calories". Or more accurately, "Appropriate Total Calories With Adequate Protein". Often and to this day you'll still see people suggesting or even insisting otherwise. It's not calories, it's food quality. It's paleo vs...

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One diet is as good or as bad as any other.

All things being equal people should see similar if not identical results from any diet. By "all things" we mean total cals, protein, fibre, and not deficient in any nutrients. If those are matched the results are similar. Over the short term people often lose weight on approaches based on exclusion of food types rather than a focus...

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Have You Destroyed Your Metabolism With Restrictive Dieting?

This is the most common concern I hear from women when I do a consultation. They're on low calories, not really getting anywhere. Have had short lived success on even fewer calories on other programs before, but found it was unsustainable, made them miserable, and backfired...

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Big News: I'm relocating to Yanakie, Prom Country, Victoria.

The big news and perhaps the worst kept secret of the past few months is that I'm about to fulfill my life-long dream of retiring (well, more like semi-retiring) to within site of my favourite place in the world for as long as I can remember; Wilson's Promontory National Park. If...

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Best Evidence Based Practice vs Best Emotional Intelligence Based Practice

I deliberately made the title a little bit more intriguing for click bait purposes. The reality of the matter is that the best practice IS an evidence based + emotional intelligence based approach. To the right you can see a little graphic that I whipped up earlier. The...

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Dieting And Weight Loss; It's Time To Face The Facts

Real talk though; we need to face the facts about dieting for weight loss. On any specific approach over the long term, more people are unsuccessful than are successful. On all approaches combined, more people are unsuccessful than are successful. However... while successful outcomes are the minority, they are not exclusive to any specific approach....

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