I’m sit­ting in my liv­ing room prepar­ing for a talk with some ladies tomor­row. The talk is on mas­sage around can­cer and I will be with the ladies of the RUH Breast of Friends Sup­port Group. I’m really look­ing for­ward to it!

As I sit and pre­pare, I noticed in increase of move­ment flow­ing through in my body. I’m famil­iar with this feel­ing. It’s the ner­vous feel­ing feel it before I do pub­lic speak­ing. So, it’s prob­a­bly a release of adren­a­line or cortisol. Perhaps it was also nerves of excitement.

BUT WHY NOW?

I was just writ­ing my notes for the talk.

I wasn’t think­ing about talk­ing. Nor was I think­ing that I was excited. I was sim­ply writ­ing. So why the release of hor­mones in my body?

It’s widely accepted that each thought pro­duces a chem­i­cal reac­tion in the body so I can under­stand think­ing about the talk would bring on ner­vous feel­ings and the release of chem­i­cals. But I wasn’t think­ing about it.

So, was my sub­con­scious think­ing about it? Per­haps the act of work­ing on my notes, which relates to speak­ing in font of peo­ple, stim­u­lated past mem­o­ries of nerves. Did these past expe­ri­ences  and feel­ings sub­con­sciously arise and result in this ner­vous feel­ing in my body.

If our thoughts have a reac­tion on your body, it seems our sub­con­scious thoughts can too.

What do you think, or feel about that?

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I met a lovely lady names Debra Hobbs the other night at BBWA net­work­ing. The event was at Spirit Pho­tog­ra­phy in Bath, who oper­ate out of an old church. Very cool place to take photos.

Deb­ora Hobbs is pas­sion­ate about pro­mot­ing health and well being so as you might guess, we enjoyed talk­ing with each other. The BMI Clinic in Bath are hold­ing a weight loss open evening aims to aims to stim­u­late enthu­si­asm and moti­va­tion to achiev­ing a healthy diet and a bal­anced approach to weight management.

If you’re look­ing to start a weight loss reigiem, why not start with this talk (there are only 25 FREE places):

Thurs­day 26th May
6.30pm
Claver­ton Down Road, Combe Down, Bath, Som­er­set BA2 7BR
debra.hobbs@bmihealthcare.co.uk
01225 838802

A cen­tury ago, being over-weight was rare, but with our increas­ingly seden­tary lifestyle, it has meant that many of us are car­ry­ing that lit­tle bit of extra weight, which may make us feel less happy with our­selves and has con­se­quences of future life threat­en­ing dis­eases and that pre­vent long term good health.

The event is not about mak­ing peo­ple thin, but about achiev­ing a healthy diet that leads to phys­i­cal fit­ness and well being. The uncon­scious fac­tors that affect our food choices and eat­ing habits need to be recog­nised so that strate­gies to help man­age weight prob­lems can be tai­lored to per­sonal needs.

Anne Holdoway – clin­i­cal dieti­cian will pro­vide rec­om­men­da­tions on the prin­ci­ples of a healthy diet which empow­ers indi­vid­u­als to choose foods that are nutri­tional to sup­port health and man­age weight reduc­tion and maintenance.

Jo Booth - coun­sel­lor will explain the psy­cho­log­i­cal rela­tion­ship with food which con­tributes to per­sonal eat­ing habits and explain the emo­tional or sym­bolic role food plays in our lives, and what lifestyle changes can be made to con­trol weight.

Laura Mars­den — per­sonal trainer will rec­om­mend sim­ple activ­i­ties and exer­cise that con­tributes to healthy weight and phys­i­cal fit­ness. Small real­is­tic activ­ity changes inte­grated into every­day life can boost energy lev­els and increase weight loss.

Mr R Krys­zopik - gen­eral sur­geon spe­cial­is­ing in bariatric surgery will explain the sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures which pro­vide per­ma­nent man­age­ment of weight. He will pro­vide infor­ma­tion on the Gas­tric Band sur­gi­cal tech­nique which pro­vides sig­nif­i­cant health and psy­cho­log­i­cal ben­e­fits for peo­ple who have strug­gled for many years with sub­stan­tial weight problems.

The inten­tion of this event is to inspire the audi­ence towards a pos­i­tive approach to dietary needs and a healthy, active lifestyle in order to pre­vent obe­sity. The speak­ers, by explor­ing the rea­sons for being over weight aim to encour­age a sus­tain­able healthy eat­ing pat­tern that sup­ports a healthy weight. There will be time to talk to the pre­sen­ters to gather more infor­ma­tion and any fur­ther sup­port that you require.

The Bath Clinic Chef has kindly offered to pro­vide com­pli­men­tary canapés, soft drinks and a glass of wine.

If you would like to attend this event please reg­is­ter your name and that of any guests. Should you require fur­ther help or infor­ma­tion please don’t hes­i­tate to con­tact me: