Every year, The Natural Way officially recognize the great efforts of our fabulous clients and run a National ‘Clinic Slimmer’ competition. This year we have nine (9) fantastic finalists and I will write about each one of them over the coming weeks. Let’s kick off with Mick Hull from Upper Coomera on the Gold Coast…
It’s Friday night, you’ve had a LOOOONNNGG week at work and the last thing you feel like is cooking. Buying dinner sounds like a great idea but you are a little worried – you have been so good all week on weight loss regime so you don’t really want to ‘blow it all’ on greasy…
While you may have heard about the evils of sugar, there are two types with quite different effects on the body. There are sugars that naturally occur in foods: fruit, for example, contain all-natural fructose which gives it a ‘natural’ sweet taste and is good for us. However, it is extra sugar that is (mainly)…
According to the latest dietary recommendations for Australian adults, you should be eating five serves of vegetables per day (and these should preferably be five different kinds of vegetables). There are a particular group of vegetables that have similar super-healthy properties – they are known as ‘Cruciferous’ vegetables. This week, I want to let you…
There is no denying it – Spring is here. It’s really easy to ‘lose the plot’ with your weight over Winter, but now there are no excuses to get back on track as we steam-roll towards Summer. I want to help you with your personal Spring ‘overhaul’, so follow the tips below to get kick-started:…
Almost every time you go grocery shopping these days, you stumble across a new food or drink that makes you ask yourself, “is it as healthy as the label says it is?” Today, I want to look at a food that has recently made an appearance on our shelves – Quinoa (pronounced ‘keen-wah’). If you…
There is so much confusion surrounding the ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ foods to eat while you are losing weight. Unfortunately, avocado is a food that has been put in the ‘bad’ food category for quite a while due to its relatively high fat and calorie content. However, avocado is one of the BEST foods you can…
BMI (Body Mass Index) is a calculation that doctors and health care professionals will use to determine if you are at a healthy weight. Recently, the BMI has been receiving a lot of criticism for being ‘flawed’ in its relatively simplistic way of assessing whether a person is in their healthy weight range. This blog…
Hooray! We are at the tail end of Winter though the dreaded cold and flu ‘bugs’ are still around. It’s important to safeguard yourself from nasty Winter viruses so this week I want to share with you some practical tips for protecting your immune system: Wash your hands thoroughly: Did you know that most…
How many times have you heard someone say ‘I need to lose weight so I will just cut back on what I eat’. This is a sure fire way to FAIL – seriously! Doing this could trigger a famine reaction, and this will just make you pack on the kilograms even quicker (read more here: …
One of the biggest growth industries over the past 50 years is fast food. Remember back when the only takeaway food you could buy was fish and chips (and that was a pretty big treat)? Nowdays, there is a fast food place on every corner and some people eat fast food daily! In 2014, figures…
Winter weight gain often feels inevitable—it’s amazing how the cooler weather can just make being healthier seem so much harder. The colder, shorter days make it more difficult to get outdoors and easier to stay glued to the TV. And the thought of a steaming hot chocolate seems so much more appealing than a glass…
In our The Natural Way clinics, we commonly have husband and wife teams who will join the programme together so they have their own personal weight loss ‘supporter’ 24-7! However, in most cases, we find that men will lose weight and centimetres quicker than their partner. This, of course, brings great despair to the female…
Today is the 8th (and final) installment of our blog series ‘Debunking Nutritional Myths’. Food is a multi-billion dollar business and, unfortunately, slick advertising campaigns tend to ‘skew’ the truth about how ‘good for you’ most products at the supermarket really are. Energy drinks have exploded in popularity in the last 10 years, and if…
Welcome to the 7th installment of our ‘Debunking Nutritional Myths’ blog series. For the past six week, I have been exposing nutritional lies and then setting the record straight with plain and simple facts. Today, I want to talk about a mistake I see overweight people make all the time when trying to lose weight:…