This is where I think in public. Notes, unfinished ideas, and working theories around weight loss, habits, philosophy, and what it means to rebuild a life from the inside out.
Start with the Garden for short notes, or the Library for longer pieces and talks-in-progress.
Short, living notes. Half-thoughts, patterns I am noticing in my patients, in myself, and in the mess of trying to change a life without burning it down.
Most people do not have a willpower problem. They have a design problem. A body running on fumes, a brain drowning in noise, a kitchen that whispers “later” instead of “now.” When the environment fights you, discipline becomes a full-time job.
When you start changing your life, things often look worse before they look better. Old comforts fall away, new habits are fragile, and your identity feels blurry. That is not failure. It is the scaffolding phase. Do not judge the building by the scaffolding.
The way we eat is often a quiet summary of our life. Not just calories and macros, but how we cope, how we self-soothe, how we avoid feeling what hurts. Changing food without touching the story behind it is like repainting a burning house.
Longer essays, lectures, and frameworks I keep returning to. These are more structured than the garden notes, but still allowed to evolve.
A walk through the spine of my 13-week approach to change: why we stop worshipping motivation, how to build “minimum viable habits,” and why your identity has to move with your actions or nothing sticks.
Not a list of tricks to avoid chocolate, but a deeper look at why we keep reaching for it when life feels like too much. What happens in the brain, what happens in the story we tell ourselves, and how to step out of the shame spiral.
A quick sketch of who is behind this, and what I am trying to do here.
I am a South African dietitian and psychologist who has spent years inside clinics, therapy rooms, and my own head, trying to understand why changing our health feels so complicated.
This garden is not a polished brand site. It is my lab notebook. A place to map ideas about:
You are welcome to wander, take what helps, disagree with what does not, and come back later to see what has grown or died.