weight loss

There is nothing like the world wide web to reduce complex-whole-of-life-change down to simplistic keyword-rich mantras. This is why the Dark Mistress has settled on weight-loss as the start-up objective in her move back to embodied life – the ads on FaceBook told her to. Give FaceBook enough demographic data to work out you’re a) […]

Last month an International Conference of Psychologists is considering the declaration of Internet Addiction as a mental illness. In my view this is a long shot – I mean second-life maybe. The internet though IS the cause of many sedentary hours – there is nothing like the www to give you the sense of doing […]

I love the AA expression “trying is dying”… re-applied to weight-loss, it means, you’ve realized what you need to do but you’re lost without a start somewhere in between knowing and doing. This is why the Dark Mistress launched in and rode her bike 50Km last weekend… This is about natural weight-loss after all – […]

The Dark Mistress love/hates Google. It is a difficult relationship. I love it for the immediacy and I hate it for the user experience – in this case trawling through weight-loss pills, weight-loss Doctors in the middle of nowhere, American weight-loss ra ra, weight-loss teas, and the newest, latest Jason Clements “EXPLOSIVE approaches to weight-loss”. […]

Human spreadsheet 7pm.. finally, as the cleaners arrive you finish… you haven’t peed for 8 hours, you’re parched, starving, and your back keeps that computer-curve for as you calmly pretend you aren’t dashing for the bathroom. Not that anyone would notice, because the sane people have gone home.

For: Busy people who live in denial of the fact that the vehicle via which we browse the internet is, in fact, a human body…. Who: The-Dark-Mistress-Of-Denial.    Who is She?    You may already know her … 40+ years old, 20 years of deskwork behind her, in need of stress relief, and 20 years work of […]

In recent years there has been an explosion of lay and professional interest in low-carbohydrate diets. But how effective are these diets in stimulating real, long-lasting weight loss?

With good nutritional knowhow you can choose the right food and supplements to support the function of all your bodily systems in maintaining wellbeing and weight loss.

Unless you identify the emotional triggers that make you over-eat, your hidden fears may sabotage your weight loss efforts.

The plant world offers some exciting and effective medicines for assisting weight loss and maintenance.

The faster your weight loss, the less discerning your body is about what it burns for energy. This means that when dieting, you may be losing a startling 60 per cent muscle and only 40 per cent fat. Here’s how to avoid this dieting trap!

By understanding what makes different diet regimes healthy or otherwise, you can pick and choose the best nutritional ideas to incorporate into your own eating style.