Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com When you are desperate to lose weight, change shape and become healthier we can fixate on ever more drastic methods to get results fast! Looking at how little others seem to have to do to achieve better results can leave us feeling disheartened. And the major difference is….. Your metabolism. ContinueContinue reading “Best Foot Forward…..”
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Easter All Wrapped Up!!
Photo by KH Tan on Pexels.com Photo by Duc Tinh Ngo on Pexels.com Photo by ROMAN ODINTSOV on Pexels.com With Easter nearly here, this is a good time to reflect on how far we have already come, how much we have achieved and how proud we are of the new strategies and behaviours we haveContinueContinue reading “Easter All Wrapped Up!!”
Do you know where you’re going to??
When it comes to setting goals, knowing what outcome we want to achieve in the long-term (like losing two stone or winning a race) gives us a place to start, but doesn’t show us how to get there. When we focus solely on the outcome, we might take an “at any cost” approach to reachingContinueContinue reading “Do you know where you’re going to??”
Just a coffee???
When I was younger, not so many years ago, if someone suggested meeting up for a coffee it meant you either went to their house, or they came to yours. It wasn’t a frothy coffee, a cappuccino, an americano, latte, mocha etc, it was a teaspoon of instant coffee in a cup with boiling waterContinueContinue reading “Just a coffee???”
Summer bodies are made in winter….
If these are the only items that fit from last year, now is the time to begin to shape the body you desire as summer bodies are made in winter! Our bodies have been buried under layers of jumpers, trackie’s and warm coats, and come the spring and summer we will all be peeling offContinueContinue reading “Summer bodies are made in winter….”
To Toss…. Or Not To Toss??
So are you a tosser??? ( pancakes of course) Can you include pancakes and still lose weight/eat healthily? Of course the answer has got to be yes!! However if you’re thinking of having 6 -10 pancakes, then maybe a rethink is needed. There a few important things to keep in mind, why do I wantContinueContinue reading “To Toss…. Or Not To Toss??”
N.E.A.T
There has been a lot of research on activity and its benefit to weight loss.A Horizon television programme with Michael Mosley “The truth about exercise” investigated various types of exercise within assorted groups of people and the outcome of his research is that being generally more active is more beneficial to everyone than a oneContinueContinue reading “N.E.A.T”
Why do diets fail?
Most of the media is aimed at trying to stop people thinking diet, and it certainly raises the issue of why? Could it be that we have had so many years of ‘dieting’ and not succeeding long term that we have become disengaged and disenchanted? Photo by freestocks.org on Pexels.com Could it be the negativeContinueContinue reading “Why do diets fail?”
Why?
We all want to lose weight, maintain weight or get healthier and it’s often a top priority as a New Year begins. But there tends to be a defining moment that makes you decide to act, and those reasons are personal to each and every one of us. At the beginning you have a strongContinueContinue reading “Why?”
What is SUCCESS…..
Success means different things to us all, for many it’s a direct association with what the scales say, so if its a weight loss – that’s a successful week, but often in the past when we have followed a strict ‘diet’ our expectation of what we should lose often falls short of what we actuallyContinueContinue reading “What is SUCCESS…..”
Success Lies in Mind 