Helping You Lose Weight and Eat Better, The Awesome Way!
Knowing what to do is the easy part. These posts are about actually doing it: building habits with triggers and rewards, understanding weight-loss plateaus and protecting your health when your hours are anything but normal.
Along the way we borrow a few lessons from behavioural economics and the casino floor, where people have studied rewards, losses and late nights for decades.
Cold mornings, dark evenings, snow, deadlines. Showing up is the hardest part of any workout. Motivation comes and goes, so instead of relying on it, it pays to understand how habits actually form. Turning up to every workout is really a new habit replacing an old one ("I usually skip at least one session a week"). Neuroscientists link well-worn habits…
Nurses, paramedics, factory workers, airline crews, hospitality staff and casino dealers keep the world running around the clock. Shift work also makes it harder to sleep, eat well and exercise, and long-term night work is linked with higher risks of weight gain, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The good news: some practical habits make a real difference. Before fixing…
You started strong, the first kilos came off, and now the scale has not moved for weeks. Plateaus are frustrating, but they are normal, and there is usually a reason. Here are five of the most common, and what to do about them. A magazine promises abs in three weeks. It sounds great, so you start. By day 20 there…
