Geoffrey Ahern is a senior mental health clinician and educator who wants us to open up and start talking about our mental health issues as the first step in recovery. In his words - “Our society is pretty much programmed to create men who are...
For context, please read PART ONE, PART TWO and PART THREE before this one. We want to try that great new restaurant or cafe that everyone’s raving about. We must have the new recipe book or the new kitchen gadget. We can’t wait to try that amazing new burger or the...
For context, please read PART ONE and PART TWO before this one. The million dollar question now is what should we do with our food addiction? How should we make the best of our situation and what is the appropriate course of action that a food...
For context, please read YESTERDAY’S POST before this one. In times long gone, the food addict’s heightened drive to seek out calories served us well. It gave us the impetus to find and develop quicker, easier, more efficient ways to get food. We were rewarded for...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opgW-mhQScc Throughout almost all of history, humans (like all other animals) have evolved to be great at finding and consuming calories. Calories are the most important thing people get from food. Not protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, vitamin C or anything else. In hunter-gatherer times, we simply...
https://youtu.be/OldVFuumeKc Ocean Robbins is a powerful man on a mission to shake up the way we view food and it’s role in our lives. As a prolific creator, speaker, writer and movement leader, Ocean has already played a major role in influencing hundreds of thousands of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qsDSdDTVzk Gary asked: I want to try the Spud Fit Challenge but I’m worried that I’ll eat too much. I know you say it’s hard to over eat on potatoes but I’m an ex-athlete with a huge appetite and I can’t help thinking that I’ll eat too...
People often ask me if it's ok to add other foods to the Spud Fit Challenge. Most commonly I get asked about greens - "Greens are healthy, why can't you eat them? Is it ok if I add some broccoli or spinach to my Spud...
Two of my grandparents died of Alzheimers disease which makes this episode very close to my heart. Anyone who has seen a loved one go through this knows the pain of watching them gradually lose themselves. It’s one thing to lose control of limbs...
Change is hard. Comfort zones are comfortable. Change is hard because comfort zones are comfortable. We all have our habits and idiosyncrasies, our preferences for how things should be. Throughout nearly all of human evolution it was a real day to day struggle just to...