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Learn how to effectively use the power of the mind to improve your health, by focusing on motivation, mindfulness, and habit change.
How do I get past a weight loss plateau?

Motivation

How do I get past a weight loss plateau?

Learn how to identify the reason why your weight-loss might be stalling. Tips to push through a weight-loss plateau and achieve your weight-loss goal.

Weight-loss plateaus explained

Motivation

Weight-loss plateaus explained

Have you reached a 'stalemate' on your weight loss journey, despite keeping up healthy habits? Learn why this happens and what it means for weight loss.

What is emotional eating?

Habit Change

What is emotional eating?

Do you think that you use food as a comfort? Learn what defines emotional eating and why we crave particular foods when we're ovwhelmed or emotional.

3 techniques to overcome emotional eating

Habit Change

3 techniques to overcome emotional eating

Noticed that you're snacking more in response to emotions rather than hunger? Try these 3 techniques to overcome emotional or comfort eating.

Motivation vs discipline: the Yin and Yang of health

Motivation

Motivation vs discipline: the Yin and Yang of health

Motivation and discipline - the winning combination to achieving our goals. How to identify what motivates us and use discipline to form new healthy habits.

Are you scared of losing weight?

Habit Change

Are you scared of losing weight?

Could you be scared to lose weight? How a fear of success, and the changes that come with it, might be holding you back on your health journey.

Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation

Motivation

Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation

What's the difference between the two? Intrinsic motivation is more effective for long-term change but how do we find it? Try this practical challenge.

10 Tips to Make Fussy Eating Easier

Mind

10 Tips to Make Fussy Eating Easier

Did you know that it can take up to 11 tries before a child will accept and enjoy a new food? Here are our 10 tips for managing fussy eating in children.

Why we shouldn’t bribe children with food

Mind

Why we shouldn’t bribe children with food

Using food as a way of rewarding good beaviour might lead to reward-based learning and putting certain foods on a pedastle.

How to speak to your children about food

Mind

How to speak to your children about food

Using words such as 'good' or 'bad', or 'naughty' can negatively impact our children's relationship with food. Check out our 5 alternatives.

Make losing weight feel Second Nature

The first step on your Second Nature journey is to take our health quiz.

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