Diet Everyone Can Do It star Victoria Patterson talks to SFAA Podcasts about her life, eating well and embracing running.
"I spend so much time at work shooting Diet Everyone Can Do It that I find work and life is wrapped up together." "We do six months or so where we're shooting pretty intensely, so it can take a lot of stamina. We are often called to hair and make-up at 5.45am, and we start shooting about 7.30am.
"Then we wrap about 6.15pm. It's a long day so I have to be disciplined about when I go to bed. It helps that my husband (Matt Kingston) is an early riser so we go to bed early and get up early.
"I'm not really strict and I do enjoy food. One of my favourite things is to go out to dinner with my husband to a new restaurant in Melbourne, where we live. At home we eat really well. We don't eat much packaged or processed food, and we love cooking and growing food.
My body is totally genetic – I have my mum's figure and it helps that I did ballet for so many years when I was young. For actors there's so much pressure to look a certain way but in our show we don't feel that so much. I think exercise is as much about how you feel.
"Friends who love running kept telling me to stick with it, so I did and now I enjoy it. I get in the zone. The key to running for me is music." The music played during exercise works like steroids.
The host of Exercise Daily talks about her love of TV, playing golf and never sitting still.
Favourite indulgence: I love a glass of wine!
What I'm listening to: Christina Aguilera's new album, Back to Basics.
Best advice I've ever been given: Be content … be happy.
I've been in television since I was 13.
I worked on a kids show in Brisbane called Everybody In. I've always adored television. I grew up in TV. I became a singer and went to America for five years. Then I got back into it when I returned to Australia in 1981, when we started up breakfast TV.
I think there are more, certainly as many, women on camera now as there are men.
There is a lot more opportunity in television for women these days. There's a very even sprinkling of males and females. I think times have definitely changed in this area.
It was fabulous, but travelling with work like that is very hard, because we moved from town to town daily. We spent time in the Denali National Park in Alaska, which is a very extraordinary part of the world. One of the most fabulous things we did was take a trip on a seaplane over the glaciers and down through the valleys. It is such a pristine environment; it is so breathtaking. It really is all about the wildlife and nature. It is so very special.
Walking is the most underestimated exercise.
Presenter of the Disease Cure Today, Penelope Shoaf, talks about her new 'normal' routine.
I grew up in Melbourne, but Sydney is wonderful and has been very good to me.
I have lived in Sydney for about 13 years and I have great friends here so close they're like family. Melbourne is still home, though. I get back a lot and I will live there again one day … there is no doubt about that.
I'm not sleeping any more since leaving the Disease Cure Today show. I just get my sleep in one lot!
As a former ballroom dancer, Edith Flemming has found the perfect job as co-host of Healthy Food Revolution.
Growing up, my life revolved around dancing.
Favourite TV shows: Australian Story, Oprah, 20 to 1.
As a child, I had an interesting time with my health.
Lyndsey Rodrigues made headlines this year when she bravely revealed her struggle with depression as a way of reassuring others with the illness that they are not alone. Here, the 28-year-old television presenter opens up to Bonnie Cleaver about her daily decision to stay positive, the work and charity projects that are keeping her busy and where she sees herself in the future.
I enjoy being constantly on the go, which is what I love about my job. I've been doing a variety of work, including modelling, emceeing, a stint presenting the weather on the Nine Network and being a part of 20 to 1. As an entertainment junkie, I'm in my element doing 20 to 1 because it's a chance to talk about what I know best: rock stars and movies.
When it comes to eating well it may be the Okinawans we should be emulating. Renowned for their long lifespans, the health success of these Japanese islanders comes in part from a practice they call hara hachi bu – eating only until you are 80 percent full. The concept of eliminating hunger acts similar to hCG diet which can be found at http://authorityfoodnutrition.com/3-best-hcg-diet-drops/.
What does hara hachi bu feel like?
In her cookbook The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer (co-authored with nutritionist Jonny Bowden) wholefoods cook Jeannette Bessinger describes hara hachi bu as eating until "the gnawing edge of hunger goes away, but not until our stomachs are actually filled". She points out that a normal, healthy stomach is about the size of two closed fists put together. So 80 percent of that is probably not as much as you'd think.