Next Tuesday, the 18th, at 10am, I’m doing a free talk via Zoom.
I’ll speak for about half an hour – send me a message and I’ll send the access details to you.
We’re going to cover:
– why 80% of people who start a diet this January will fail this year
– what you should focus on when you’re trying to change your body
– lots of strategies for making the changes work for you
– how to tune in to your body and stay mindful
– how to balance the various […]
Let’s have a think about gaining weight over Christmas.
We all worry about gaining weight over Christmas, but please remember that months of hard work are not undone with two days of extra food intake. If we’re talking about a whole week of turning a blind eye to every serving of every treaty food imaginable, then you’re looking at a different picture – but, a couple of days of a bit of extra intake is not going to undo the progress you’ve made up to now.
It’s true that every day you’re not following your […]
For our final part of this series, let’s take a look at how we should eat now we’re not 20.
I’ve left this one to last because really the upshot is that playing by the rules becomes more and more important as you get older, and given that I’ve previously written a lot about how to structure your diet, you’ll already know most of this.
The first thing is to remember that the way you eat really does make a difference to how you feel, how you sleep and to your overall health.
The days […]
Next in our series of things to do now you’re not in your 20’s, let’s look at exercise.
Exercise is important throughout our lives, but the way we approach it should change as we get older.
The first thing is to dedicate more than a minute to warming up before your workouts. Things take a little longer to get going than they used to, so do mobility drills and get the blood moving before you start to do the main part of your workout. You might be surprised at how well you can move after a proper […]
If you’re not in your 20’s any more, this series is for you!
As we start to get older, our bodies become a little different – I’m sure you’ve noticed that since you left your 20’s, things just don’t work quite the same any more.
But, getting older doesn’t mean you can’t do the exercise you enjoy and be fit, strong, flexible and healthy. Often, we can become even better than when we were younger.
This said, there are definitely legitimate changes around how we should approach exercise as we start to get […]
Boredom crops up in several different guises when we’re talking about health, fitness and weight loss, and I have some thoughts about it to share with you:
There is likely going to be a degree of boredom at times when you’re following your plan to reach your goals. The day to day boredom of remembering to keep plugging away can be hard at times, although I do sometimes wonder whether boredom is really the right word – perhaps ‘kind of wanting to rebel’ might be better?
You are not ‘being boring’ if you choose to decline something being offered […]
I’ve recorded this email as a video as well. You can find it on Facebook or Instagram.
While there are a lot of constants in all programs written for weight loss (or at least there should be, let’s exclude weird faddy diets here!).
Any well designed weight loss focussed program should be based on real food, include some variation of resistance training and give some focus to the impact of lifestyle factors like stress management or sleep quality.
But when we start to look at the specifics, we see that knowing exactly where to focus your attention, how […]
I’ve recorded this email as a video as well. You can find it on Facebook or Instagram.
We’re a complicated breed us humans, and overeating is a big issue for so many of us.
The evenings seem to be an especially popular time of day to over eat, and I’ve covered various reasons for that – you can read them here.
There’s (yet) another potential trigger for over eating which we haven’t covered before and that is distraction.
Eating while you’re distracted is massively linked to overeating. Just think about that tub of popcorn you […]
I’ve recorded this email as a video as well. You can find it on Facebook or Instagram.
I feel this is an important topic to cover, since so many of us are eternally seeking a certain figure, or a certain look.
We feel that once we reach our goal, life will be better because we will finally be happy with the way we look and we’ll just skip off into the sunset in delirious happiness.
But the truth is – the figure/look you want, is never the figure/look you want.
Even once you’ve reached your goal […]
The schools are back and we have a little more time and control over our days again.
It seems like a good time to get back on to the healthy lifestyle wagon, and to prepare for what could be, with a bit of luck, a much more sociable festive season than last year! Sorry. It’s inexcusable to refer to that time of year in September.
So, I’m looking for two ladies who are fed up with being stuck in a cycle of on:off dieting for low reward.
Do you feel like you’re always either ‘on it […]
