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Following on from the post yesterday regarding the dangers of too much sugar, and the evils of corn syrup which is practically in everything, i will share with you the difference it seems to make to people i train.

I do train people who are away for much of the week, and tend to live on hotel food.

No matter what hotel you stay in, the food is usually laden with sugar, not only that but salt too. This is on top of the saturated fat, so when you think of the composition of hotel food, its not really a pretty picture.

Consuming this type of food can be very destructive for your performance too. Its a double-whammy really, you put weight on because you start eating food thats of poor quality, and you struggle to get the performance out of yourself to burn it all off because this food can’t be absorbed quickly and efficiently for good workouts!

Wherever you go, there seems to be a problem with eating establishments dishing out effectively “rubbish” food.

Having had three children, i remember having to eat quite a lot in hospital canteens at all sorts of hours.

No matter how hard you try, the food is full of salt, sugar, and mostly saturated fat, this is exactly what you dont need!

Try a piece of fish there and its smothered in batter and fried.

Whatever half-decent turns out to be smothered in sauce.

So you end up eating all of these varieties of food, and guees what? You soon become used to eating food high in sugar again, and your sweet tooth comes back very quickly indeed!!

Then you find it hard to go back to where you were before, by that i mean eating much more plain food and avoiding added sugar whenever when possible!

This is why eating food made from scratch makes a lot of sense, and where possible asking the cook/chef to have something that was not battered, not covered in sauce or fried.

Don’t forget its your money and you should be able to get what you pay for, especially if staying healthy is a priority for you!!!

So you have decided to start exercise, you really want to do your best with your health for whatever reason that drives you on the most. Most if not all of us have reasons to exercise, most of them admirable.

You may be doing it because the doctor has warned you that you had better get active or else.

It could be because you’re sick and tired of slimming clubs giving you advice that never works long term, and you want to do things properly this time.

It could be because someone asked you whether you had put weight on, looked older, couldn’t fit into your clothes anymore, didnt feel good about yourself anymore, and your self-esteem was at an all-time low.

Whatever your reason, make sure its really important, because when the times of doubt and uncertainty come, you will need to remember why you’re doing this thing called exercise, and why you keep doing a good supermarket shopping trip, and avoid putting all of that chocolate and crisps in your trolley!!

If you are lucky to be attempting to get fit for the first time, then congratulations! There has never been a greater opportunity to get fit and healthy, and hope you don’t get fooled by all the mis-information out there.

If you follow some simple rules then you will not go far wrong.

Number one rule is that if someone promises you something to be good to be true, then it usually is! 30 pounds lost in 30 days is one such promise! Lose 2 dress sizes in 2 weeks is another one. Losing weight without exercising is yet another one, and so on! There’s a million of these out there so you had better keep avoiding all the snakes and charlatans out there!

We will discuss a simple way to reach your goals tomorrow, and what you need to do to be successful with a solid health and fitness plan!!!

We talked last week about how all sorts of artificial food,  how artificial sweeteners etc can really mess your body up (some of them have been banned in the states), mess your stomach up and brain up because your body doesn’t know when it is full or not, and how the food industry is continuing to market foods high in sugar and fat, in fact they are fooling us so much that the government knows we are getting fatter and more overweight each year.

This makes the government think that they need to bring a “fat tax” in to make these foods less attractive to people, because they know the way that high numbers of overweight and unhealthy people in this country are crippling the NHS because of the illness and disease related side effects of these foods.

Smoking has become socially unacceptable now, which I think is a wonderful thing. Smoking is the one very worst thing you can do, destroying vital nutrients in your body.

I think in a few years, eating and drinking rubbish and becoming extremely overweight will be seen as a huge burden to the state, this is why they have to act and act now and the government is taking tentative steps.

I am not against anyone as a person and believe everyone has the right to do anything they like within reason, but when they are pressing the self-destruct button every day, then self-responsibility has to be firmly encouraged, or the burden on the whole country gets overwhelming.

Im staying positive on this and im here to help anyone out of a hole they feel they cannot get out of.