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Here’s Something I Hear Often

4.04.2023
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Something I often hear:

“I don’t actually know what a healthy diet looks like anymore”

There is SO much information available.

A lot of it is conflicting.

Is it any wonder you’re confused!

Here’s how I help clients filter through the noise and find an approach which works for them long term:

First, we talk about your situation – your history with diet and exercise, what you hope to achieve, your lifestyle, your preferences and what you can realistically commit to.

We’ll use that information to build a plan which is personal to you.

We won’t […]

The Impact of Meal Timing on Fat Loss

22.03.2023
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Our brains love overthinking things.

And food timing around exercise is an area a lot of us overthink.

We can be sold into the mindset that having eaten, or having not eaten, is a reason that the exercise we were planning is not going to be as effective.

But I’m here to tell you to just simply get on with what you’d planned regardless of how you timed your last meal because it’s really not going to make a massive difference either way.

Unless you’re about to do some kind of activity which requires a good […]

Improving The Difficult Things

13.03.2023
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It sounds obvious.

But, if you want to make progress, you’ve got to do the things you’re not already doing.

Of course, eating vegetables is good for you, but if you already eat plenty of veggies, the route to your goal doesn’t involve focussing on your veggie intake.

Likewise, if you’re already walking lots, the route to your goal doesn’t involve getting even more general activity.

Instead, we have to look at the things you’re not doing for whatever reason.

We don’t have to be perfect when we’re aiming to lose weight […]

Inflammation… Is It Really All Bad?

3.03.2023
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Last week, I heard a sales pitch for a product which has stuck in my mind ever since.

It used fear to sell the harm of inflammation and the apparent fact that if you want to be healthy you have to totally eliminate it. And of course, you should buy the product to save yourself.

These kinds of absolutes raise my eyebrows – I find they are rarely helpful.

And, this suggestion that we need to totally eliminate inflammation seems to be a common theme in a lot of things we hear. Inflammation = bad. Always, no exceptions.

But actually, it CAN […]

Upgrading Your Fertility – and Balancing Your Hormones

22.02.2023
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First up, if you haven’t already, please come and join my new Facebook Group – it’s full of practical advice and ideas to think about when working on your health and fitness.

A few weeks ago, I recorded an interview with a fabulous Naturopath, Inna Duckworth, who specialises in fertility.

We discussed how you can use exercise to optimise and improve fertility as well as speaking about specifics like PCOS. We also looked at how to make a start on what feels like a huge, overwhelming journey.

Of course, the interview is all angled towards ways to improve your […]

Don’t Throw In The Towel Until You’ve Read This!

15.02.2023
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First up, if you haven’t already, please come and join my new Facebook Group – it’s full of practical advice and ideas to think about when working on your health and fitness.

We often hold ourselves to very high standards when it comes to our diet and exercise routines.

If we’re not seeing what we want to see – or if we’re not seeing it as quickly as we would like – we often throw in the towel and quit.

We end up with a bit of an ‘all or nothing’ approach, which can look a bit like yo […]

Are You (Unintentionally!) Ignoring Your Progress?

8.02.2023
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First up, if you haven’t already, please come and join my new Facebook Group – it’s full of practical advice and ideas to think about when working on your health and fitness.

If your goal is to lose weight, and you’re only focussing on what the scales tell you – I think you might be selling yourself short.

You see, when you’re eagerly seeking weight loss, it can be easy to get disheartened when you don’t see an immediate change on the scales.

We can become convinced that nothing is changing, and this can contribute in no […]

Can You Avoid Boredom

1.02.2023
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Being bored is one of the many reasons people give up on their diet and exercise routines. Have you ever given up due to boredom?

Trying to motivate yourself to do something boring is definitely difficult – but, there are plenty of things in life that we find boring but do anyway. Yet, it seems more difficult to do something we find boring when it is entirely for ourselves.

I’m afraid that I don’t have any life-changing advice for you here which is going to magically make every workout and every meal rivetingly exciting.

But, there are a […]

Countering The Most Miserable Day Of The Year

11.01.2023
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Monday is apparently the most miserable day of the year – the third Monday in January has been marked out by science as the most rubbish day of the year, every year.

Whether you go with this particular date or not, we do seem to universally agree that January and February are the least fun months of the year. The days are short, the weather is cold and miserable and the long days and warm weather seem a long way away.

Which brings me onto the positive impacts of exercise for mental health.

Have you ever really thought about how much […]

New Year’s Resolutions – Are You Over Committing?

4.01.2023
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Happy New Year!

I hope you’ve all enjoyed a Christmas break.

Have you made any New Year’s resolutions?

Aren’t they FUN! We feel like we’ve already achieved something by writing them down!

Remember though that we’re making these grand plans for the year ahead off the back of two weeks of doing not a lot, having eaten in a different way to usual and having been in a different routine to usual.

This different perspective means it’s easy to forget that that ‘urgh I need to eat better’ feeling goes very quickly, as well […]

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