In today’s episode, Linda shares what people who are fit past 50, need to live long healthy lives, and that means what matters is healthy life expectancy or health span. This means an increasing number of people are effectively pushing the outer edge of what it means to mind your weight long term. KEY TAKEAWAYS • You can’t stop the aging process, but you can certainly slow it down. It cannot be all about the number of years you live but how you live them. much of what we call “aging” is actually...
Nov 08, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In today's episode, Linda is discussing “sleep” from the SHMEC model, (SHMEC is discussed in previous episodes, she invites you to listen to them if you are not sure what she is on about:-) We use “sleep” from Dr. Jade's SHMEC model to assist us in relation to minding our weight. According to Allan Rechtschaffen “sleep is a biological necessity in its own right” not sleeping well has been proven to affect weight. If you are sleep restricted or deprived your eating behaviours may become more of a...
Apr 09, 2022•21 min•Ep. 16
In today's episode, Linda is still discussing sugar and the contradictions/confusions around eating it in all its forms. The effect of that confusion on someone who might have personal struggles around their own weight and wellbeing. There is a little bit of public education around the Glycaemic Index, BMI and how they are not particularly good barometers of health at individual level. “Helping busy women positively mind their weight changing and maintaining for the long term” Linda Allison KEY ...
Mar 20, 2022•19 min•Ep. 15
In today's episode, Linda is asking the question, do you honestly think you are addicted to food or sugar, just like someone would be addicted to a narcotic? Is this possible? Is there any robust evidence? Or is it just a load of scaremongering just to take your money and leave you feeling like a failure? We need something more practical and useful to help us mind our weight over the lifespan. Being able to do this will help negate the risk of serious illness caused by over and under eating. Bei...
Mar 11, 2022•18 min•Ep. 14
In today's episode, Linda carries on talks about learning to further your understanding of your own internal bio feedback cues to help manage weight and fat loss. She will introduce the rest of the super important bio feedback cues summarised by Dr. Jade Teta. How can you start to get a handle on learning to listen into your own? These cues are also a very important part of the life span approach to nutrition and minding weight. Ageing is continual, a lifelong process of changes and developments...
Mar 03, 2022•21 min•Ep. 13
In today's episode, Linda talks about learning to further your understanding of your own internal bio feedback cues to help manage weight and fat loss. She will introduce the S>H>M>E>C> acronym by Dr. Jade Teta. Part of the life span approach to nutrition and minding weight. Ageing is continual, a lifelong process of changes and developments. We want long term long lasting results and we can do this by minding our weight without traditional diets. KEY TAKEAWAYS Linda introduces th...
Feb 24, 2022•23 min•Ep. 12
In today's episode, Linda talks about a life span approach to nutrition and minding weight. Individualising your own quality and quantity of your nutrition is something we can all learn to do. Ageing is continual, a lifelong process of changes and developments. She also talking about the health consequences of less sub-standard approaches to your health and wellness. KEY TAKEAWAYS Linda talks about key events with profound physiological changes. Especially with her own take on individual nutriti...
Feb 18, 2022•20 min•Ep. 11
In today's episode, Linda shares one new tip to help you further unpack past experiences, head back to synching with your own body and eventually becoming a happy embodied Weight Minder. Learn another new habit that will help you get back in touch with your own body, gain even more clarity, this one habit you can truly build on. KEY TAKEAWAYS The tools of transformational coaching help an overwhelmed, over worked client get back in touch with her own body by introducing small bite sized habits i...
Feb 11, 2022•16 min•Ep. 10
Set smart fitness goals because your body is always changing. Join Linda in today's episode of The Weight Minders Club as she talks you through her personal experience of overtraining and underfueling and shares her five strategies of how to succeed and progress. Learn how to balance your energy, listen to your psyche and physiology and set smart fitness goals. KEY TAKEAWAYS Your psyche is always battling against your physiology. Often your body is sending you signals to be smart, recover and ta...
Feb 04, 2022•22 min•Ep. 9
In today's episode, Linda shares her 3 top tips to help you understand your mindset, unpack past experiences and become a Weight Minder. Discover how to build habits, get clarity and set principles to take back control of your life and overcome negative emotions. KEY TAKEAWAYS The tools of transformational coaching help take back control of your life helping to negate negative emotions, such as shame, guilt, comparison and perfectionism. Gain clarity on your goals by writing down your adverse ch...
Jan 28, 2022•15 min•Ep. 8
Fitness is a Feeling, the “look” is a byproduct. In today's episode Linda talks to you about the positive and negative byproducts in fitness, why overtraining will leave you physically and emotionally exhausting and how to gain clarity on your own fitness journey. Do you think that fitness is a “look?” If you do, then you need to tune in, because the look is the by-product of the “feeling” of being fit. Not the other way around! Linda's hope is that you can get some more clarity about your own f...
Jan 21, 2022•16 min•Ep. 7
Many people put their idea of the perfect body image ahead of their health and well-being. In today's episode of the Weight, Minders Club Linda shares her story of yo-yo diets, battling body image and a radical surgery that saved her life. KEY TAKEAWAYS Becoming mindful and learning how to become a weight minder really helps to negate negative emotions, such as shame and guilt, perfectionism and overcome the real risk of serious physical illness, trauma, and poor mental health. A lifetime of bat...
Jan 14, 2022•14 min•Ep. 6
When you're focused on weight loss you forget to listen to your own internal cues. In this episode, Linda shares with you the story of her final pregnancy and how she reacted when her weight loss journey got harder. Learn how to listen to your body, beat feelings of shame and guilt and why negative emotions only make reaching your goals harder. KEY TAKEAWAYS When you're focused on tracking your weight loss you start to rely on the app and not your own metabolism. You don't rely on your own inter...
Jan 14, 2022•17 min•Ep. 5
There's something in your past that will cause you to spend a lifetime battling with body image. Discover how to pinpoint the key turning points in your relationship with food, weight and well-being. Join Linda as she shares her stories of recovery, self-compassion and her struggles with perfectionism and post-natal depression. KEY TAKEAWAYS Your childhood experiences will have influenced the way that you act towards food, exercise, friends, family and fitting in today. There will be something i...
Jan 14, 2022•16 min•Ep. 4
How can you begin to change your relationship with food whilst minding your weight and becoming more self-compassionate? In today's episode of the Weight Minders Club, Linda explores those feelings of self-doubt and insecurity, how you can overcome adverse childhood experiences and why transformational coaching can turn deprivation and avoidance into sustainability and happiness. KEY TAKEAWAYS We all hold the perception of losing weight makes us feel better but ultimately we're unconscious to ou...
Jan 14, 2022•17 min•Ep. 3
Did you know that our own adverse childhood experiences can have a very real and compounding effect on our health? Join your host and transformational coach, Linda Alison as she explores and reflects on your health and wellness journey and recognises the emotionally and physically exhausting consequences that years of dieting don't see. Learn how to become a Weight Minder and how you can become fitter, happier and healthy. KEY TAKEAWAYS Your lifestyle changes and weight minders approach can be a...
Jan 14, 2022•19 min•Ep. 2
Are you interested in taking back control of your health and wellbeing? Welcome to a brand new podcast with certified PT, transformational coach and passionate food and nutrition expert, Linda Alison. Find out how to improve your health and fitness and feel happy and accomplished, discover nutritional recipes and transformational tools to overcome weight problems and learn how to take back control of your life. KEY TAKEAWAYS Understanding how your body works is key to having the right mindset an...
Jan 14, 2022•19 min•Ep. 1