I like to think of today as Love Day. Why celebrate the love you have for only one person in your life? Why not celebrate the love you have for everyone? Why not celebrate the love you have for yourself? Whoever we are, and whomever we love, there’s always room for more love in our lives. Here are my tips for feeling l little more love today and every day.

Watch me chat to Trish Tucker-May about all things mindful eating, self-love and weight loss. To learn more about the hunger zone and knowing when to eat to aid weight loss, (hint: when you’re hungry) check out my interview on Trish’s YouTube channel.

Get my free Love Yourself & Lose Weight “Hunger Zone” Hunger scale to learn about how hunger affects weight loss and when’s the best time to eat if you want to lose weight. Eat when you’re truly hungry, not before, and don’t leave it too late.

Changing why and how you eat is way more important than changing what you eat if you're serious about weight loss. How you eat is not concerned with what foods you put in your body, but instead concerned with how you do it.

If you’re wondering how to get started with self-love, or how it can help with weight loss, have a listen to my latest podcast appearance. I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Juliana Leamen on her Confidence from Within Podcast. It was such a pleasure chatting with Juliana, the author of Release (a brilliant book about weight release). The show is now live and I wanted to share this with you because it was a profound conversation for me.

Hear me chat to Sacred Walker on her brilliant podcast! When we want to grow our health goals, we are taught too often they have to look perfect. To trust ourselves only after we have achieved the pinnacle of perfectionism, make the right decisions without fail, and to get us a return on our investment without sourcing the investment in ourselves.

Drinking a glass of water before you eat has many benefits when it comes to weight loss. Let's start with the physical ones.

Water fills you up, so, the logic goes, you'll eat less food.

Water quenches your thirst. Often people feel hungry when actually they are thirsty. If you’re actually suffering from thirst, those pangs will subside and you'll be less inclined to eat unnecessarily.

How can we stay awesome in a heat wave while working on our self-love and weight loss regimes? I have a few ideas!

My tips for heatwave awesomeness…

What is an affirmation? Simply, it’s just something you tell yourself that you want to be true. It may be slightly true, or not true at all yet, actually, but it will become true over time.

It can be written however you like in the first person usually works best so it’s personal to you. It can be about the here and now or about the future if you like, although the present has worked best for me.

At the core of my weight loss method is ‘Eating with Love’ and that has five steps. These 5 things will help you build your sense of self-love, which in turn will see the pounds start to drop off.

I was interviewed by Kindred Magazine recently about my view, which is that putting calories on menus is really not a good idea for several reasons. Calorie counting works for some people, but for other people, it leaves them stressed and confused. Worse, for people suffering from eating disorders, a reminder about calories can be a damaging trigger.

To help spread the word about my book “Love Yourself & Lose Weight: the Success Story of Self Love” I am giving away my new book and some fab weight loss goodies to help you kickstart your weight loss ambition.

What does being kind to ourselves look like and how can we use self-love at times of pressure? The four pillars of self-love (acceptance, appreciation, nurture and transformation) can help us to relieve the pressure we put on ourselves at times of stress and find a positive way forward.

Responding to seasonal changes helps us to develop with a natural rhythm, can spice up your routine a little and gives you time to reflect on your self-love practice and develop it to best suit your needs. Here are my top six tips for injecting a bit of spring magic into your self-love practice and self-care routine.

A few weeks ago I sat down with Janey Lee Grace, host of the Alcohol-Free Life podcast and founder of The Sober Club.com. I talked about my book Love Yourself & Lose Weight and how I hope to help other people who want to lose weight to harness self-love.

Telling someone who knows how to be healthy, how to be healthy is entirely pointless. We already know that if we did some exercise and limited our calorie intake, we would lose weight. As someone who wasn’t stupid, I knew all about the mechanics of weight loss.

I ran a total of 106km in March in aid of Breast Cancer Now. It’s no April Fool, however implausible that may once have sounded. With self-love, difficult things are possible. Difficult things can become easy things. Most importantly of all, you can do difficult things.

It’s important that we all make time for ourselves and after a busy week, the weekend is the perfect time to create a little space for self-love. This isn’t frivolous or selfish; far from it. Making space for ourselves means we’re able to do the simple things that help us recharge so we’re not only better for ourselves but for everyone else around us too.

I’m sharing my before and after pictures: Self-love can have dramatic results.

I want to share my self-love story and how self-love can be harnessed for weight loss with as many people as possible so I’m inviting you to join me on March 22nd at 7 pm UK time for a FREE webinar.