A big thankyou to all of you who have bought the Tortoise Diet Method book!   I know it’s easy to buy books like this and although you might read them, they then go back on the shelf and become Shelf-help books rather than Self-help.  Well I am interested in not just helping myself but helping all of you to reach your goals. I would love to see you create a firm foundation for a lifetime of health and success.

I have a series of courses coming up soon but the first one off the ranks I am calling Tortoise Diet Lite.  It is designed to take some of the key practises of the book and getting you to apply them for the 4 weeks of the challenge and see what happens. 

I often debate with myself about which is the most important of the 12 steps of the Tortoise Diet Method. I find it depends where I am in life at the time. So right now, my favourite step, and one which distinguished this Method from so many others is, Guideline Number 12. Which is to Stay in the Race.  

So lets take a look at our lives now. Who is overwhelmed by too many things, too much to do, too many projects begun but never finished, toxic people, feeling stretched too thin and never seeming to have enough oxygen to breathe into the sort of lives we really want.  That’s what an unpruned bush or tree is like and now is as good a time as any to put some thought into our changing that.  What do we want in our lives and what fruit are we looking for? This is an act of simplifying life.  Getting down to what is important to us in any branch of our life, cutting out what we no longer want, or what’s draining us, pruning back unnecessary stuff so our lives can spring forth into life, and we can start to see over time, the fruits of our labours rather than the round and round sameness of the lives many of us leave.

Aaahhh – the approach of a New Year – the time when many of us, irritated with ourselves for not being where we thought we should be or wanted to be by the end of the old year, resolve to do better next time.  So we come up with another list of resolutions, probably the same as last time and also like then, ones we are not likely to fulfil. For a lot of women (and men) weight comes very high on that list and we promise all sorts of thing to ourselves in the drive to do better. We resolve to make all sorts of changes, often all at once, starting on 1 January every year. How has that been going for you so far?

Lemon Meringue Pie - Delicious comfort food.