oday I had a client who wanted to lose weight, and she had been assigned to a dietician, a young skinny woman, for help. The dietician gave her some good advice but my client struggled to implement it because she also cooks for a child and a husband, and she has many other things going on in her life, and a long history of weight gain and all the emotional issues that go along with it. When she tried to express to the dietician that she was struggling, the dietician’s response was “well, are you serious about wanting to lose weight or not?”. My client did not feel seen or heard, and didn’t go back.

While we think of ageing as a negative thing, as far as our bodies go, many people have found increasing wellbeing in their last decades of life. It’s not that the body isn’t eventually going to die- of course, it will- but it is possible to adopt healthier habits and radically turn around health issues or promote better health. Whether by losing excess weight, a change of diet such as going plant-based, or taking up strength training….it is different for different people. …..