Laurie’s Rant: Are You Sabotaging Your Fat Loss Goals?

Laurie’s Rant: Are You Sabotaging Your Fat Loss Goals?

All too often people tell me that the reason they aren’t achieving their health and fat loss goals is because of what they eat and drink on the weekends at social situations. However, they neglect to realise that the 2 glasses of wine or beer they drink every night as...
Laurie’s Rant: Conflicting Medical Advice Needs To Stop

Laurie’s Rant: Conflicting Medical Advice Needs To Stop

I’d like to begin this rant by saying how much I respect doctors. The long and expensive years of difficult studies, working night shifts in over crowded hospitals and constantly having to deal with unwell people. It takes a special kind of person to want to do this...
Laurie’s Rant: My Face Palm Moment

Laurie’s Rant: My Face Palm Moment

Late last year I was talking with a friend who works at a large, reputable and government-run hospital. This friend is rather overweight so he spoke with the hospital’s dietician to get her advice on what he should do to get in better shape. He then relayed this...
Laurie’s Rant: Results Must Be Earned Not Won

Laurie’s Rant: Results Must Be Earned Not Won

No doubt you’ve heard the stories of people winning huge amounts of money on the lotto and then only a few years later being back to where they started as they either squandered all of the money, gambled it away, put it into bad investments and/or had it taken from...
Laurie’s Rant: Live Outside The Box

Laurie’s Rant: Live Outside The Box

After many years of working closely with people, I have observed that the vast majority, if not all, of us live in a ‘box’. Now, of course the box I am referring to is the self-imposed and self-designed set of values, beliefs, ideas and opinions that control who we...
Laurie’s Rant: Intentions and Knowledge

Laurie’s Rant: Intentions and Knowledge

I was giving a presentation recently and at the end of it a lady raised her hand and asked me: “Why should I listen to or believe you when there are so many other people, companies, TV shows/commercials, magazines and books telling me how to lose weight and get...