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Can Eating What You Crave Promote Weight Loss?

17.06.2025

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I stumbled upon an interesting study the other day.

It showed that people who ate a bit of what they craved alongside a generally balanced diet actually did better and lost more weight over a year than those who didn’t. And their cravings remained manageable for the following year too.

Really, this shouldn’t be a surprise.

Despite the fact that we all feel convinced that if we are to lose weight then our diet must be pretty much perfect. We’re either eating well and losing weight or we’re doing the opposite.

But yet again, the middle […]

Creating New Routine – A Handy Trick To Help

27.05.2025

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Health, Mindset

For most of us, there are certain things which we find easy and other things which we find difficult.

Life gets in the way, and those changes we’re trying to put into place gradually fall away until we remember them again!

I’m no exception. There are always lessons I’m re-learning and which I try to make a point of remembering.

Right now, I seem to continually forget how much better I feel the next day when I get to sleep by 10pm, and also, I’ll drink tea until it comes out my ears, but I […]

The Best Kind Of Exercise?

14.05.2025

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Fitness, Health, Weight Loss

I know you’re expecting me to say strength training (and as a whole package, strength training still wins hands down)

BUT

As something with pretty much zero knowledge, equipment or other requirement, walking is awesome.

Even if you already do a couple of workouts a week, if your daily step count is low, you’ll gain benefits from walking.

Although the 10,000 daily steps target is often spoken about, 7000-8000 steps likely brings the same amount of benefits.

You don’t need to start here though. Find out how many steps you’re already doing each day […]

Does Eating Breakfast Make You Hungrier?

7.05.2025

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Nutrition, Recipes

Do you ever feel like eating breakfast makes you hungrier than if you’d skipped it?

For many of us, breakfast can be a bit of a double edged sword. If you get it right, you should be good until lunchtime. If you get it wrong, you’ll likely be grazing the kitchen an hour later!

Sometimes, we feel like we’re getting breakfast right, but it doesn’t seem to be satisfying us as much as we expect.

There’s one particular healthy breakfast which seems to consistently have this effect – and that’s a protein shake.

Now, I […]

Getting The Best Out Of Corrective Exercise

2.04.2025

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Fitness, Mindset

Despite writing workout programs to help clients with niggles, pains and injuries every day, I continue to find myself surprised and excited to see how profound the effects of corrective exercise can be.

I’ve got a few examples of things I’ve found especially exciting over the last few months:

Two separate early stage workout plans have provided a pretty much immediate resolution to two clients chronic back pain. Another program has radically improved nerve pain which has been going on for years. A much more gradual approach has seen a client almost back to full function after an […]

Do You Breathe Through Your Mouth?

19.03.2025

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Fitness, Health

Perhaps this is a bit of a weird topic.

Who knew how you breathed was so important!

The way you breathe overall is linked to your posture and core engagement.

But whether you breathe through your mouth or nose has far reaching impacts on your body and health as a whole!

If you’re breathing through your mouth most, or all, of the time then it’s really worth trying to change that.

Mouth breathing is simply not optimal for your body. Of course, you can get air in quickly through your mouth, but it just doesn’t support your […]

Should You Supplement Creatine?

5.03.2025

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Health, Nutrition

I hear creatine is gaining popularity as a supplement, so I thought it would be handy to write about it so you can make an informed decision as to whether it’s something which might benefit you.

Creatine has been around for a very long time, it’s one of the most well researched and effective supplements for improving exercise performance and has long been taken by people who want this.

Now, it’s gaining popularity as a supplement for everyone because of its potential non-exercise based benefits.

The benefits of creatine are vast, but there is less research […]

Semaglutide & Osteopenia

26.02.2025

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Health, Weight Loss

I thought we’d pick back up on the semaglutide topic, as there’s been a bit of negative press about it being linked with osteopenia.

Obviously, I’m not here to suggest that everyone should be taking a GLP-1 inhibitor, but I also don’t think it’s a bad thing for the right person, with the right support.

ANY diet which involves an extended period of a very low calorie intake, particularly if the protein intake is also low, will lead to nutrient deficiencies.

When you add a lack of strength exercise to the mix, your body […]

Are You Losing Body Fat? How Do You Know?

19.02.2025

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Health, Weight Loss

When you lose weight, it’s possible to lose the wrong kind of weight.

If we send the appropriate signals to our body, we can instruct our body to pare down our muscle mass in order to result in weight loss.

It might look great on the scales, but the chances of maintaining this kind of weight loss for the long term are pretty slim.

It’s also possible to send appropriate signals to our body to promote weight from body fat, while maintaining our muscle mass. This approach is superior for many, many reasons!

But, how do you know […]

Aching After Starting a New Workout?

10.02.2025

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Fitness, Mindset

Are you feeling achey after starting a new exercise routine – or even just doing something different to usual?

It’s probably something called DOMS.

It usually comes on about 12-24 hours after your workout or activity.

It can be really quite painful and alarming if you’re not expecting it, but it usually starts to reduce on the second day and will gradually decrease over the following three days.

I think there might some individual variation to the chances of you experiencing muscle ache. I’ve worked with clients who get DOMS super easily, and clients who never seem […]