Many of my clients tend to tell me that their problematic time with their eating comes in the afternoon. Although some of my other clients are just generally hungry, often they also arrive home from work stressed, tired or wanting to switch off from a busy day.  So what do they do? They reach for some food (sometimes wine!) to make themselves feel better and fill that void. This grazing can often lead to a lot of extra calories. It is also often mindless or

So it comes January 1st and you’re trying hard to make your body look nice and fit into that sexy new summer bikini or squeeze into those stylish shorts which seem to have mysteriously “shrunk in the wash”.  Want to prevent this happening to you during the silly season?  With the end of the year quickly approaching, school, university or work begins to wrap up before the holidays with everyone preparing and beginning to celebrate the festive season. During this busy time the number of

You would be surprised to discover how greatly mood motivation and mental performance are influenced by diet. And what if I was to tell you that the right food could produce neurotransmitters that aid in concentration, maintaining motivation, magnify memory, sharpen attention, reduce stress and improve sleep?  Your brain although only accounting for 2% of body weight, consumes a greedy 20% of your daily energy intake. And with this required quantity of energy, it also demands quality. Being a fussy eater, the brain demands a

© 2014 Katherine Lim, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio What is the Paleolithic Diet? This diet is a modern version of the traditional hunter-gatherer diet containing wild animals and plants which evolved during the Paleolithic era. The typical contemporary diet includes vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds, insects, eggs, grass fed pasture raised meat (including offal), seafood, herbs and spices. Food can be eaten either raw or cooked. It excludes cereals and grains, legumes, dairy and salt as well as processed and refined sugars and