THE HAPPY TUMMY MINICOURSE
"I Took Care of my Digestion -
and My Weight Took Care of Itself"

One of my patients had spent years trying to lose weight.
Different diets. Different plans.
Cutting foods. Starting all over again. Falling off again.
Nothing seemed to work for long. She said her weight felt like a mystery — something she had no control over.
In January 2020, she weighed 106.4 kg. Within months, that started to change.
Not from eating less. Not from forcing herself to stick to another plan. But from something much simpler. She learned how to work with her digestion.
By June, she had lost over 10 kg. By the following year, she had lost 32 kg — and has kept it off since.
No strain. No constant effort. Just a quiet sense that her body was finally on her side.
That’s what this course is about. Not another diet. Not another set of rules.
But understanding how your body actually works.
Inside The Happy Tummy:
✨ You’ll hear from that woman.
And you’ll learn how she came to feel in control of her weight.
✨ How she stopped the cycle of restriction and rebound
✨ How she let her body guide the process — instead of forcing it
✨ And why it’s not just what you eat — but when your body is ready to digest it
Weight starts to drop. And often, that’s just the beginning.
People frequently notice they:
wake up feeling more refreshed
have more energy during the day
feel lighter — not just in weight, but in themselves
There is growing evidence behind this.
Studies have shown:
✅ Significant weight loss and BMI improvement
✅ Better insulin sensitivity
✅ Improvements linked to gut health
What matters most is this:
You stop feeling confused. You stop feeling stuck.
And for the first time you feel as though your body makes sense.
The Old Way vs The New Way
❌ The Old Way
So often, I have heard my patients say: "I can't understand it. I was doing everything right.”
Counting calories.
Tracking every bite.
Weighing myself daily.
Cutting out the foods I love.
Following strict plans.
Pushing myself to stay “on track.”
And for a while that works. Until it doesn’t.
You fall off the wagon. Feel guilty. Start again.
And slowly, it wears you down.
You feel like a failure. Like you just don’t have enough willpower.
Your clothes stop fitting. You feel uncomfortable in your body. Aware that people might be noticing.
Eating out becomes stressful.
Time with friends feels complicated
You start to feel… restricted. Alone. Exhausted.
As if life is getting smaller.
✅ The New Way
It's not about willpower at all.
Your body already knows what to do and it just needs the right conditions.
Instead of forcing food rules, you learn when your body is actually ready to eat. No more restriction. No more constant tracking. No more starting all over again. You begin to feel:
✨ In control — without forcing it
✨ Free to enjoy food again
✨ Calm around eating
Your body starts to respond. Weight begins to drop naturally.
And for the first time it feels easy.
You’re not fighting your body anymore. You’re finally working with it.
The Problem
It usually happens after you’ve been “good” for a while.
For weeks you’ve followed the plan. Cut the foods. Pushed through the cravings.
And then something breaks. You eat more than you planned. Maybe a lot more.
And it hits you instantly:
“This is terrible.”
“I was doing everything right.”
“Why does this keep happening?
You’ve been trying so hard. Holding it together. Being disciplined and doing it by the book.
But it’s been heavy, restrictive and draining. Joyless.
And now you’re exhausted, not knowing where to turn.
Deep down, it feels like this shouldn’t be so hard.
You build the dam. You hold back the river. You stay in control for a while.
Until the pressure builds, and everything gives way.
And then you’re back at the start feeling like you failed again.
But what if you haven’t failed? What if the problem isn’t you, but in the way you’ve always been taught?
The Solution
Weight loss doesn’t start with food. It starts with your body.
Because it’s not about what you eat.
It’s about when your body is ready to digest it.
Most people have never been shown this. They’ve been taught to follow rules and to eat at set times.
We've been taught to control portions, but not to listen.
Inside The Happy Tummy, you learn something different. You learn how to recognise when your body is actually ready to digest food. Not guessing or assuming. Just feeling it clearly.
Because what most people call “hunger" isn’t hunger at all.
It’s:
❌ The urge to eat
❌ A habit
❌ Emotion
❌ Stress
❌ Even thirst
No wonder it feels confusing. So instead, we simplify it. We stop calling it hunger and start calling it what it really is:
✨ Readiness to digest
When you learn to recognise that signal, eating starts to feel surprisingly simple.
You eat when your body can actually process food. Not when the clock says so or when emotions push you.
And when digestion happens at the right time, weight begins to drop naturally.
Without force, restriction, or constant effort.
Inside the DigestionReady Coaching Programme, you don’t just learn this. You learn how to apply it in real life.
So it becomes natural and automatic. Something you can trust. No more guessing. No more fighting yourself.
Just a body that finally makes sense.
What You’ll Get in the Happy Tummy mini-course.
This isn’t about following rules. It’s about learning a new way to work with your body — step by step.
Step 1 — Learn to Recognise When Your Body Is Ready
Here you learn what “readiness to digest” actually feels like. Not guesswork or assumptions.
Just a clear signal from your body.
You also begin to understand something important:
Your body moves in a natural rhythm. Like a swing: push it at the right time, and all goes well. It moves from:
➡️ Ready to digest
➡️ Actively digesting
➡️ Resting
And then back again. When you eat at the right moment in that swing, it all feels easy.
Like pushing a child on a swing at just the right time.
✨ Smooth
✨ Effortless
✨ In sync

This step is also where you learn the most important skill:
Tuning into your body.
Because once you can feel the digestive signals clearly, everything else falls into place. These are simple shifts, but they change the experience of eating completely.
Step 2 — Enjoy Your Food Again
This might surprise you.
In this programme, you don’t enjoy food less. You enjoy it more.
Because when your body is truly ready to digest:
✨ Food tastes better
✨ Satisfaction comes quicker
✨ You naturally eat what feels right
There’s a simple truth behind this:
Food tastes best when your body is ready for it.
No forcing. No overthinking. Just a natural sense of enjoyment.
Step 3 — Stay on Track (Without Being Strict)
This is where everything comes together.
Instead of rigid rules, you learn how to stay consistent while staying flexible.
No guilt. No perfection required.
Because you’re no longer relying on willpower. You’re being guided by your body.
So even if things aren’t perfect, you don’t fall off track. You simply adjust and keep going.
What Makes This Different
These aren’t small tweaks.
They’re five powerful mindshifts
✨ Understanding readiness to digest
✨ Working with your body’s natural rhythm
✨ Learning to truly tune in
✨ Enjoying food more, not less
✨ Letting go of guilt and strict rules
This is why it feels so different.
The Result
When you start working with your body:
Weight starts to come down. Not through force. Not through restriction. But naturally.
✨Such as the woman who lost 32 kg — and has kept it off.
✨ Or the woman who lost 7kg in 3 months — while still eating the foods she loved
✨ Or the young student who lost 4kg — without the stress of dieting or restriction
(you’ll hear from them too inside the Happy Tummy).
And something else happens.
You wake up feeling more refreshed.
You have more energy during the day.
Your body starts to feel lighter. More responsive. More like itself again.
✨ Like the professor who reported feeling more in tune with his body, for example.
And for many people, there are deeper changes.
Blood sugar levels improve.
Insulin sensitivity improves.
✨ Including the overweight truck driver who lost weight and brought his blood glucose back into balance.
Again, there is real evidence behind this:
✅ Studies showing weight loss and improved BMI
✅ Improved insulin sensitivity
✅ Changes linked to better gut health
In some case studies, people have even experienced relief from long-standing inflammatory conditions.
And beyond the data, something deeper starts to happen. You stop guessing and you stop fighting your body. And instead…
You feel in control.
Calm around food. Confident in your choices.
✨ For example, one young woman was delighted to find she had “stopped thinking about food all day.”
Your body is no longer a mystery, but something you understand and can trust. That’s the real result.
If this feels different…that’s because it is.
You don’t need more willpower. You don’t need another strict plan.
You just need a different starting point.
👉 Start the course and begin to understand how your body actually works.
FAQs
FAQ 1 “Do I need to change what I eat?”
For most people, no.
This isn’t about cutting foods or following a strict diet.
It’s about learning when your body is ready to digest — and eating at that time.
When you do that:
✨ Your body handles food better
✨ You naturally feel satisfied
✨ You stop needing strict rules
In some cases such as type 2 diabetes for example, it can still be helpful to reduce very sugary or highly refined foods, but that’s not the focus here.
This is about something more fundamental: Learning to work with your body first.
FAQ 2 “What if I can’t tell when I’m ‘ready to digest’?”
That’s completely normal. Most people have been confusing it with other sensations for years. In this programme, you’re not asked to guess. Instead, you learn something different. You learn what it’s not:
❌ Not thirst
❌ Not emotion
❌ Not discomfort or pain
❌ Not just “feeling like eating”
This helps you clear away the confusion so you can begin to notice the real signal for yourself.
Because here’s the important part: You’re not told exactly what to feel - or at least not at first.
You discover it.
And that’s what makes it reliable.
If you later want help in refining that awareness even further (and many people do), that’s where the deeper coaching comes in.
FAQ 3 “Will this really work for me if nothing else has?”
It’s a fair question. Especially if you’ve tried different diets, plans, and routines and ended up back in the same place.
This works differently. Because it’s not based on willpower, restriction, or perfection.
It’s based on something much more reliable:
Your body’s natural ability to regulate itself — when digestion is working properly.
And it gives you something most methods don’t. A clear way to recognise when your body is actually ready to digest.
Some approaches encourage eating when you’re hungry.
But they assume you already know what that means.
This shows you how to understand that signal for yourself.
So instead of guessing, you’re working with something real.
And that’s why it starts to make real sense.
FAQ 4 “ Do I need a lot of discipline or willpower to do this?”
No. In fact, this works best when you stop relying on willpower.
Most weight loss methods depend on:
❌ Being strict
❌ Staying “on track”
❌ Pushing through cravings
But that’s exactly what creates the cycle:
Control → slip → guilt → start again
This approach is different.
Because you’re not forcing your body. You’re working with it. When you eat at the right time:
✨ Cravings settle down
✨ Appetite becomes clearer
✨ Eating feels more natural
So instead of trying to be perfect, you’re learning to respond to your body.
And that takes far less effort than fighting it.
FAQ 5“How quickly will I see results?”
It varies from person to person.
Many people start noticing changes sooner than they expect.
Not just on the scales, but in how they feel.
✨ Less heavy after eating
✨ More steady energy during the day
✨ A clearer sense of when to eat
Weight loss tends to follow naturally from that.
Because once your body is eating at the right time, it can finally do what it’s designed to do.
There’s no need to rush it.
No need to force results.
This is about creating something that works…
And keeps working.
You don’t need to get anything perfect.
This isn’t about rigid rules you must do right.
It’s about awareness. Awareness of what your body is telling you.
And if you later want help applying this in your own life…
That support will be there when you’re ready.
Watch the four core videos and experience the process for yourself.
Happy Tummy is the foundation of the DigestionReady Coaching Programme. Happy Tummy graduates are eligible for a discount on the Coaching programme.
All Happy Tummy content is included within DigestionReady, so those who prefer to begin directly with the full programme are
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ABOUT ME
Hi, I'm David!
I’m a medical practitioner from sunny Christchurch, New Zealand. For nearly four decades, I’ve enjoyed helping my patients improve their digestion. This has helped them lose weight, improve their blood glucose balance and feel better. I completed a doctorate on my findings from Auckland University in 2010. I have published in the medical literature and presented at medical meetings in London, Paris, Utrecht, Delhi, Auckland and the Gold Coast, Australia. Other researchers have taken up these ideas and published their results as well. This minicourse is a complete distillation of all my research over the last 39 years, condensed into just four videos. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I have enjoyed making them!
