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Stress – Is It Derailing Your Efforts?

23.03.2022

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Stress – our reaction to the things that happen.

We all deal with things differently. Something which is stressful for one person, doesn’t even register for another.

In the short term and in the right dose, stress can feel like it gives us a nice boost – we feel energised, clear headed, focussed and ready to take on whatever comes at us.

An overdose of stress can lead to some pretty big negatives – disregulated blood sugar, hormone disruption, reduced immunity, poor sleep, compromised digestion, a preference to store body fat… In short, too much stress can make it harder to reach […]

Living For The Weekend? Gaining and Losing The Same Couple of Pounds?

3.02.2022

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Mindset, Nutrition, Weight Loss

Picture the scene. You’ve spent all week working hard to stick to your food plan and creating a calorie deficit with the hope of seeing the scales shift downwards at the end of the week.

Then, the weekend arrives, and you take something of a more ‘flexible approach’.

Have you ever thought about how (annoyingly) easy it is to cancel out your hard-gained calorie deficit over the weekend – and perhaps even end up in a calorie surplus?

Are you in a cycle of losing and regaining the same pound or two for months at a time?

The weekend […]

Celebrate The Small Wins

25.01.2022

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Mindset, Weight Loss

If you didn’t make it to my talk last week, you really missed out! We discussed loads of strategies to help you be in with the best chance possible of making your changes last for the long term.

I recorded the talk and I’ve uploaded it to YouTube, so, if you’d like to listen now please ask me for the link and I will gladly send it to you.

For today, let’s talk about small things. Small changes and small wins – they’re an important part of getting the results you want to see […]

Are You Free Next Tuesday Morning?

12.01.2022

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Mindset

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 […]

Eating Over Christmas – Make Life Easier For Yourself in January

22.12.2021

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Mindset, Nutrition, Weight Loss

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 […]

How Stuff Changes As We Age (Part 3 of 3)

14.12.2021

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Mindset, Nutrition

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 […]

How Stuff Changes As We Age (Part 2 of 3)

7.12.2021

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Fitness, Mindset

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 […]

How Stuff Changes As We Age (part 1 of 3)

30.11.2021

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Health, Mindset

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 […]

Some Thoughts On Boredom

15.10.2021

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Mindset, Weight Loss

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 […]

What Is The BEST Program For Weight Loss?

5.10.2021

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Health, Mindset, Weight Loss

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 […]

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