This week, Daisy talks to her first extraordinary woman, Louise Reynolds, who talks about the importance of her psychological development before and after weight loss surgery.

Louise Reynolds is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three teen boys. In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and then moved into university and college teaching roles. She is an admin on the Ketogenic Forums, having addressed a number of her own and her family health issues with lower carb and now Keto since late 2015. In her spare time, Louise is strength training at the gym, planning overseas travel and preparing delicious tasty (#boringketo) ‘recipppppesss’.

LINKS

• Gretchen Rubin
• The books mentioned were:
  • The Happiness Project
  • Better Than Before
  • The Four Tendencies
• The therapy methods discussed were:
  • CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
  • Templates and worksheets
  • The “mental scan” that Louise talked about is really an assessment of where in your body you are feeling stress. This mind map by Paul Foreman is a nice illustration of this idea and where it can take you.
  • This body scan meditation is a practical “how to”.
• A basic description from the NHS of what a DEXA scan is and what it is generally used for – specifically in the LC community to calculate LBM and BF{fb00496d80bda9dbb64fc97c692e11314ab624bd34a4858080ccad1e40fefcae}.