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Beautiful people,

At Real Life Medicine, our mission is to empower you to make the changes necessary for good health so you can live a happy and fulfilled life.

Sounds simple right?

We know, like many things, it’s not that simple.

If it was, you would have already done it, right?

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“I just feel so overwhelmed”

 This would be one of the most common things people say to us as doctors.

Feeling Overwhelmed is one of the major reasons people don't continue on with their health journey. 

They stop doing the things because they feel too overwhelmed

The phrase...

Hello lovelies, Dr Lucy here. As I am writing this, I’m sitting on my deck on Cocos Keeling Islands a small archipelago of remote tropical islands in the Indian Ocean about 1000km west of Western Australia.

This is the long-awaited family holiday that was booked in September 2019, six...

We get this question all the time, “Doctor, what can  I eat at Easter?”.

Most people expect us to give them a food list or a meal plan, but here’s the thing - there is no one plan that suits everyone. 

There is no one size fits all. 

The key is to really know...

Hi lovelies, Dr Lucy here. In our Real Life Momentum Membership, the January Challenge was all about planning out the year ahead. Not a rubbish New Year’s resolution plan, but a really in depth look at our goals and aims for the year ahead.

The wheel is divided into segments, and we grade...

Self-care is the buzzword of the moment, and there's a good reason for that. The majority of us feel overworked and overwhelmed. We have so “much on our plate”. The pandemic is beyond our control but has placed inordinate pressure on our lives which were already busy. Often our needs...

Most of us have all done the yo-yo dieting. You can lose weight and then it comes back. You end right back where you started and have often put on more weight.

Long term calorie restriction will do this.

You will lose weight in the short term by cutting calories, but science tells us that long...

Stigma is horrible, yet it is all too common in our society.

Anyone who does not fit the ideal “norm”, including those who are overweight, frequently suffer stigma.

Any of you who are or have been overweight, will have undoubtedly suffered stigma at some time with the common and...

Visualisation is a kind of mental rehearsal that is often utilised by sportspersons. It is also a powerful technique you can utilise to stay on track with your healthy changes this Christmas. You can make visualisation your weight loss superpower.

A fascinating and famous study from the...

Christmas is all about joy.

But pesky old joy doesn't always spontaneously arrive.

We have to cultivate joy.

So what does joy have to do with weight loss? Well, we know that the majority of people don't eat because they are hungry.

We eat because we are bored, sad, lonely, angry,...

The silly season is soon upon us. Food and alcohol-filled work Christmas parties, family gatherings, and friend’s barbecues, fill our calendars and our stomachs. It is a busy time of buying gifts, managing family expectations, and prepping for events. It can be a wonderful time of friends,...

Christmas time is the giving season. Gifts are in abundance.

We often talk about giving ourselves a Christmas present.

“I’m going to treat myself this Christmas…”

And frankly, why not?

We deserve it. We’ve worked hard all year.

But the one thing that this...