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This weight loss sitemap will give you a quick overview of what this top weight loss site offers. Ditching diets and living light is a fascinating and amazing journey with so many different aspects to it.... mainly it's about 2 decades of research into diets that work (?) and what really DOES!

ABOUT CARI

Myths about Cari Has Cari been on the Oprah show? Is she a dietican? You'll find the truths and untruths about Cari on this weight loss sitemap.

Cari's diary: will take you to a list scheduled workshops, talks and training sessions to be given by Cari. Cari is a sought-after presenter.

MY PRODUCTS

MEMBER ONLY PAGES (accessible to our premier members): questionnaires, commitment forms, weight, body worry and passion lines, powerful affirmations, daily action cards, and much more.

Mind over Fatter roadmap: gives you an outline of the entire journey as it breaks it down section by section giving you insight into the actual contents of the programme.

Mind over Fatter workshops: take many forms and are tailor-made to suit the clients we work with. Read about how others experienced The Ditch Diets, Live Light's Mind over Fatter workshop, classes or talk.

THE JOY-FILLED BODY: throw away your scale, remember your Sacredness as a special and unique human being and fall in love with life and like with self.
Plus our bonus thank you e.course.

MIND OVER FATTER MINI GUIDE: This 40-page A6 sized guide fits right into your handback.

MINI GUIDE and LIVE LIGHT MP3: This is a fabulous combo package for busy and time pressured people who don't have time to sift through pages and pages to get all the gems.

COMBO PACKAGES as well as all our SPECIAL offers.

'ATTRACTION ART': order your own unique 'attract-what-you-want-into-your-life-cloth' painted by Cari.
Plus our bonus thank you Power of Attraction e.course.

THE REFLEX-O-BOARD: It looks like a giant pizza with a bad case of acne, but but it seems to heal is amazing - it saved me a shoulder operation.
Plus our bonus thank you 'Healing sayings e.course'

GREAT BOOKS Here I share with you on this weight loss sitemap some of the most life-changing books and authors who have inspired me.

SARK: is colorful, playful fun AND inspirational.Are you a SARK fan - read what others say about her and add your comments too

Dr Wayne Dyer: found and rescued me at a very dark time of my life.

FREEBIES, FUN STUFF and FEEDBACK
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DIET POEMS: Read the diet poems of others and publish yours here too.

Obesity Paradox is a poem about how there are more diets, diet foods, yet more people getting fatter... and more

Ode to Previously deprived foods is a poem about how when foods were illegal they caused us to obsess and how when they were allowed the obsession with them disappeared. Poet: Bev Bancroft.

Stop Dieting and Start Living gives us 4 good reasons to stop dieting and start living.

And others too.......

Short story contest get published whilst retaining your copyright and and you can win ditch diets products.

Take our Poll. What do you think about a site like this one hosting fastest weight loss ads? Share your opinion and you can win ditch diets products.

Give us feedback What do you think about the Ditch Diets Live Light website: read what others say and add your comments too

Mind over Fatter ezine: is big on inspiration and tips to ditch diets and live light. It'll help you live in a joy-filled body.

Free Weightloss tips are a fabulous start if you want to lose weight all naturally.

Free Sleep tips - get a good night's sleep.

Free Joy-Filled Body Tips: is our mini e.course to help you live light.

Mind over Fatter forum: and meet a fabulous group of wise and wonderful souls to help you ditch diets and live light.

Intuitive Eating is a powerful exercise to train yourself to enjoy your food.

Change your life with this powerful creative visualization exercise.

Intuitive Eating is a powerful exercise to help you get the maximum enjoyment from your food.

Practical intuition: is a fabulous process developed by Laura Day. Do this powerful intuitive exercise to get in touch with you body's voice. You'll be amazed.

Body fat calculator: Get your free body fat calculation here.

EATING QUIZZES- for all the various eating disorders.

WELLNESS ARTICLES
a thought-provoking part of
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Wellness articles is a group of articles that look at obesity and weight loss from a whole different and unconventional perspective.

Are you fit or fat? Can you be 'thin' on a scale yet overfat? Or could you can you be 'fat' on a scale but fit?

Obesity research from around the world says fat isn't always bad and thin isn't good? Be prepared to be surprised.

Is obesity to blame for all our health problems? This is probably going to be my most contraversial bit of thinking. Warning: read only if you'r open-minded!

Reasons to laugh: Guess what.... laughter helps you comfort eat less, it helps burn calories and it helps with the weight gain stress causes.

Laughter and health: Is there a connection? This article written by guest author B.B. Martin says there is. Share your thoughts about laughter and health.

Diets don't work: for at least 95% of people in the long term. Find out what researchers say about why diets don't and can't work. You're not the failure - diets are!

Sleep and obesity: might seem like strange bedfellows. But how much you sleep has an important impact on your weight. Sign up for our sleep tips here.

Obesity and Dementia: - a study suggests that having apple shaped belly fat can increase your risks for dementia.

Chemicals and Obesity: - Scientists are questioning how exposure to the chemicals in food packaging may be contributing to obesity.

Percentage Body fat: What percentage body fat do we need? How much is good fat and how much is bad fat? How does this change from birth, to puberty, through pregnancy and menopause?

Hormonal Weight Gain: is common during puberty, pregnancy and menopause. From Estrogen, to Progrestrone, Testosterone and Androgen... they're all implicated in hormonal weight gain.

Brain chemistry: What happens to our biochemicals when we're having a 'fat day' and our harsh inner critic is giving us a run-around - does it impact on our health?

INTERVIEWS WITH EXPERTS

Body Sense An interview with weight loss writer, Ali Hale on what she has learned throughout the year about'what works.'

Body acceptance An interview with Mia Glanville, psychologist and writer on how our body acceptance affects our intimate lives and how sexual abuse can impact on our eating.

WEIGHT LOSS 101

Our aim is to be one of the TOP WEIGHT LOSS SITES on the web which is why if offers much more than just: take these pills, exercise more and eat less.

POWERFUL DIET MYTHS: Health and diet myths abound. When we buy into them we believe they are true. But are they?

Diet Motivation: YOU are not a weak-willed failure lacking in diet motivation. You don't fail diets - they fail you.

Weight Loss Advice: It's easier than you think to follow weight loss advice and have a less healthy mind and body than before you started with 101 diet tips. Find out why.

HIgh Self Esteem: Now’s the time to live, love and build high self esteem. Start living more joyfully in your body.

Lose Weight Quick: The scale says your lose weight quick diet is doing wonders but is it ... or is the scale lying? Find out here!

Ideal Body Weight: Is your ideal body weight that of a model, the insurance ideal, the figure on the Body mass index chart, the height and weight chart or something else?

One Size Fits All: So does one size fit all fit your life? The fashion and diet industries seem to think so. But what about your uniqueness? Become bodywise and sizewise.

Weight Loss Photos: Well we see the before and after photos but how often do you see those after after photos?

LIVING WITHOUT DIETING? Are you questioning whether you're overweight and how to stop dieting?

Best Weight Loss Plan: It has to offer your more than just weight loss.

Natural Weight Loss:
Offers a 5-pronged holistic approach that really does work!

Weightloss Tips:
Apply these healthy weight loss tips that work!

Dieting Fads: Many weight loss products claim they are diets that work but what qualifies as 'works.' Find out here.

Being a diet failure: Can being a diet failure have an unexpected success! What exactly is a diet failure? How can you benefit from being one?

Don't diet: unless you want to get fatter. Diets can't work for well documented psychological and biological reasons.

Diet-less Weight Loss: Diet products hoodwink us and they don't work. Your body knows best.

The non diet route: Imagine the freedom of never having to diet ever again - it's possible and I can show you how.

Regaining weight: seems to be what always follows your diet? Ever wondered why it happens so fast? Find out about weight regain here.

International No Diet Day is about the 6th of May when International No Diet Day is celebrated. Wear a light blue ribbon and find out what it means.

WEIGHT LOSS METHODS The weight loss industry is worth billions of dollars. Not just the pills and potions but also well established weight loss methods like Weight Watchers and others. Here I discuss the psychological reasons they may or may not work for you.

Weight Loss Surgeries: They're done in the name of health - but how healthy are they?

After weight surgery: This is the true life story of one women who had weight loss surgery.

Mediterranean/Low Fat diets: Which diet is better and what questions should we still be asking?

Oprah's 21 day Cleanse: What's the difference between Oprah's detox diet and The Grape Diet cleanse I did religiously for 7 years?

The Jenny Craig Diet: So the Jenny Craig diet and Kirstie Alley are parting ways - so why am I not sad to see that?

The biggest loser: I sit and watch this program with horror at the erroneous messages it send out. See why here.

Weight Watchers: The say it's not a diet - but isn't this just the same old diet but with a face-lift?

THOUGHTS AND WEIGHT

EMOTIONAL WELLNESS is essential to a healthy happy life. That's what we're hoping finding a diet that works will help us achieve.

HEATHY MIND How we think about our bodies has much more to do with emotional wellness than their shape and size.

Thought-power: , the law of attraction, Dr Candace Pert, Dr David Lipton and kinesiology prove that the power of thought is more important than thin to your health.

Weight loss Secrets: discusses how the secrets to weight loss aren't to be found in food and exercise, but in the laws of attraction.

Attraction Law & weight: discusses how by focusing on fat we get fatter.

Quantum energy: using the secret messages in water work of Masaru Emoto and Dr. David Hawkins, this discusses vibrational frequency and how that affects our body .

Living light : depends more on your attitudes, habits, and how comfortable, alive and vibrant you feel in your body than your size or shape. Here's why...

A mental diet: was what finally ended my 20 years of yo-yo dieting. Only when I got my 'mind over fatter' I could ditch diets and live light.

Mind Makeover: Diet and swallow pills all you want, even if you become a thinderella, your ‘fat mind’ will still keep your body critic alive if you haven’t had a mind makeover.

Building Self-Esteem. You'll love these 4 practical and powerful methods of improving your self esteem.

Brain chemistry: How do you thoughts and resultant neuropeptides and neural pathways affect your health?

BODY IMAGE It's easy to think dieting solves poor self esteem - but does it really? Or is this another diet myth perpetuated by the diet industry?

Slimming for summer : So you want that bikini body NOW! Here are 10 steps to getting your summer body without dieting.

Saying no: Saying no can be a way to saying yes to vibrant health. Written by guest author Cheryl Jones.

Body image and photoshopping: affected by photoshop images? Watch an amazing video on how media photo-shop images con us and fuel our bad body image.

Optimal body weight: is something that is much contested even amongst body and weight loss experts. How do we determine what is optimal for us?

One Size Fits All: So does one size fit all fit your life? The fashion and diet industries seem to think so. But what about your uniqueness? Become bodywise and sizewise.

The diet evolution : means that in the era of the Rubens fat was thought of as a health reserve, Then fat was out, thin and diets were in.... so where are we now?

The beauty revolution : Oprah's talking about it, so is Tyra Banks and Dove...what is it and why might we have to fight for it?

Male Body Image : discusses how the male body image has changed historically.

Size acceptance: for me wasn't just throwing up my hands and saying I give up. Rather it was finding a quiet and gentle space of self-love. It was like coming home to myself.
Watch a fabulous video clip on size acceptance.

Going Naked: wasn't my choice, but it forever changed my severe case of body image issues.

Clothing optional Resorts: seem to have an amazing effect on body esteem.

THE POWER OF TOUCH
The therapeutic benefits of massage which could contribute to emotional wellness are often not experienced by overweight people because of their shame at their bodies.

A watsu massage for me was an empowering and amazingly moving experience - would it be for you.

EATING & DISORDERS

So much is spoken about healthy eating and eating disorders, you'll find them grouped together on this weight loss sitemap for your convenience.

HEALTHY EATING vs DISORDERED EATING: Discussed Healthy Eating Guidelines, Eating disorders and Eating Disorder Quizzes.

Healthy eating guidelines: at ditch-diets-live-light are about the 'how' (psychological guidelines) of eating rather than the 'what' (nutritional guidelines) of eating.

Happy eating: makes my heart sing and it's good for my body because it's good for my digestion. Are you a happy eater or a fear-filled one?

World Food Day. Find out how to celebrate it.

Intuitive Eating is a powerful exercise to traing yourself to enjoy your food.

Being body wise: allows you to be led by your body. This reliably tells you when you're hungry, when you've had enough and how it responds to your food choices.

Diet foods: - low fat, no fat and sugar-free pile your trolley. Low calorie diets will save us? Check out these calorie and health cons before you buy them again.

Emotional eaters: fall into two categories. Comfort eaters eat for negative emotions. Happy eaters eat for positive emotions. Are you an emotional eater?

Food craving : Food craving related to childhood memories is common. Read the story of Robin and his food memories related to his mother's home-baked bread.

Food myths: and food lies are a dime a dozen in the food industry. Just because it has a nutritional label doesn't mean that what's printed on it is truth!

Food obsession: Put me on a diet and watch how my food preoccupation grew... from reading recipe books to dreaming of food.

Food phobias: can range from mild to debilitating. They afflict otherwise intelligent people who then have food avoidance for certain foods, or in certain forms.

Breakfast buzz: Breakfast buzz gives you another (and admittedly rather controversial) take on the whole breakfast debate.

Breakfast ideas: Where do our ideas about breakfast come from and how do people from around the world eat?
Share your breakfast thoughts and ideas here - your opinion matters!

Food diary: Researchers reckon that keeping a food diary can double your weight loss - what are the pros and cons?

EATING DISORDERS can be extreme. I know first hand… from food addiction and compulsive eating to life-threatening eating disorders. Dieting causesEating disorders and other problems.

Anorexia Nervosa –- is someone you know heading there? Are they emaciated but deny it? Are they becoming more socially isolated?

Bigorexia: Are you into musclebuilding and or steroids? Muscle dysmorphia is also known as bigorexia or the Adonis complex or muscle dysmorphia?

Binge Eating disorder What is binge eating disorder / compulsive eating disorder? Who gets it and why? Do you find yourself in regular and uncontrollable feeding frenzies?

Bulimia Nervosa What is it? Who does it affect? What are the symptoms of bulemia and is it affecting someone you know?

Drunkorexia (also spelt drunk-arexia) is slang for cutting calories so you can still have fun and party without putting on weight. It's common amongst college students - and it's a dangerous.
Ask all your questions about drunkorexia here.

Exercise Bulimia is healthy exercise taken to extremes. Can you exercise too much and can it be dangerous? Find out here!

Night eating disorder isn't just raiding the fridge at night, nor is it bingeing - it's not just an indulgence - it has a hormonal pattern too.

Orthorexia Nervosa: Do people say you’re a health nut, food faddist? Is it possible to be overly obsessed with preservatives, colorants, organic food and eating healthily?

EATING DISORDER QUIZZES: These eating disorder quizzes will help you know if you're on the path to: Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating disorder, Nighttime eating, Exercise bulimia, Bigorexia and Orthorexia.

Anorexia Nervosa quizz: Are you or a loved one on the road to Anorexia Nervosa? Take our eating disorder quiz to find out if there is reason for concern and whether you need to get professional help.

Bigorexia quizz: will tell you if you have a musclebuilding obsession and the Adonis complex? Take our quizz.

Binge Eating: Take our binge eating disorder quizz and find out if you suffer from a compulsive eating disorder where you can't control your eating urges and land up binge eating.

Bulimia Nervosa - take this quizz to find out if you have reason to be concerned about yourself or a loved one who might be bulemic.

Exericse bulimia: is when exercising well has become exercising hell. Take our exercise bulemia quizz to see if you or a loved one should be concerned.BR>

Nighttime eating disorder: Do you eat little during the day but then raid the fridge at night? Take our night eating disorder quizz.

Are you a health nut: -obsessed with eating as purely and healthily as possible? Take our eating disorder quizz and find out.

EXERCISE & PLAY

EXERCISE MYTHS Open any magazine and there is exercise information galore.But what are some of the exercise myths and more importantly what will work for you?

Exercise pain: so you hear all the time to push through the pain. But wait a minute isn't pain there for a good reason?

Join a gym: The 'experts say' the only way to go is to join a gym: your fat will melt away and you'll be happy for ever after. But is that the only way?

No pain no gain? would have you believe that if you aren't dying when you're exercising, it's not a good thing. Personally I think that's a load of baloney....

Right exercise Right exercise - we're told there's a right way and a wrong way to exercise. Is this always true? There is a correct way to exercise - check it out here!

What is exercise : - does a gossipy walk with a friend count? And what about a gentle cycle? Or does only aerobic exercise count for anything?

Exercise Fun: - for many of us exercise and fun hardly belong in the same sentence - yet once upon a childhood we thought of what we not think of as being a bore and chore as play.

Perfect Workouts: Religiously you head off to the gym and hit the treadmill for your daily 30-40 minutes. So why have you hit a weight loss plateau?

BENEFITS TO EXERCISE Here's a list of psychological and physical benefits of exercise.

Are you fit or fat? Can you be 'thin' on a scale yet overfat? Or could you can you be 'fat' on a scale but fit?

Understanding Metabolism: Understanding your basal metabolic rate and thermogenisis can change how you view exercise and weight control.

FEMALE HORMONES

FEMALE HORMONES Puberty, Pregnancy and Menopause are times of female hormone changes when women can often feel anxious and out of control

Percentage Body fat: What percentage body fat do we need? How much is good fat and how much is bad fat? How does this change from birth, to puberty, through pregnancy and menopause?

Hormonal Weight Gain: is common during puberty, pregnancy and menopause. From Estrogen, to Progrestrone, Testosterone and Androgen... they're all implicated in hormonal weight gain.

MENOPAUSE Are you finding that you're eating and exercising the same, but your body seems to have a mind of it's own, and it's getting fatter?

Menopausal Weight Gain: what to do about middle age spread - the do's and don'ts!.

PREGNANCY If I was obsessed with hating my body before I was started experiencing the weigh gain of pregnancy, well I really struggled with my body during pregnancy. What was baby gain and what was weight though?

Dieting during pregnancy? Dieting during pregnancy is never a good idea. Pregnancy is never a time to rob your.

Eating during pregnancy Your diet programs your child's food preferences. This section also discussed drinking during pregnancy.

MISCELLANEOUS

Diets for dogs is a fascinating article by Ethologist Pam Whyte who says that diets for dogs are just as dangerous as diets for humans.

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