How to avoid Resolutionism One of the most common things that I run into when consulting with clients is that around this time of year, they become goal-focused and start to look back at their previous year and what goals they hit and those they didn’t and then for at least a short time they […]
EP8 Santa has Metabolic Syndrome It’s that time again! Time for the malls to become super-crowded & if you go to church, all the people who never attend regularly will start piling in! And more to our point, it’s time for our workplaces to become pitfalls of crappy food & sweet treats! In Canada, once […]
Recently a study was published in the British Medical Journal examining health-related behaviors & how they influence mental well-being in the general population. This study can be found in its entirety here. The authors start from the position that there are major behavioral risk factors that adversely affect health outcomes and are strongly associated with […]
Whether you’re aware of them or not, we all have automatic thoughts that we think in response to an EVENT (any occurrence, interaction, etc… that requires interpretation by our brains). These are aptly labelled automatic thoughts (AT). They can be both positive or negative, but it’s often the negative ones (NAT) that we are unaware […]
How to get yourself to make lifestyle changes Some are the things of legends. Others are everyday. And let’s face, some are down right boring… Everyone has one. I’m talking about a story. Not just any story, but specifically the story that brought you to the point in your life when making a change suddenly […]
Hi Everyone! Yes. I’m walking the line of crudeness and suggesting we all grow a pair because I’m fed up! Honestly, if I hear one more client say that it’s okay that they’re having the bag of chips because they are made with whole grains, I’m going to lose it! Honestly, how do you expect to […]
Hi Everyone, Bear with me on this one. This is my over-tired (due to new baby care) attempt at soul searching & sincere self-examination. There is a lot more to the story, but I’m trying to stay on point with main things that have either directly or indirectly affected my body composition over the years. […]
I was listening to a podcast by Maximusmark and he was interviewing Art De Vany, who I like to call the Godfather of Paleo/Primal! Anyway, they were discussing some of the concepts in Art’s book The New Evolution Diet, and talked about hunger as a motivation for exercise. Art described studies on mice and how […]