Posted on

Wednesday, 20th February

Making your move early in your health is of paramount importance……………….and this is if you want to be in real shape by spring!!

How many people do you know that once a really warm day comes in late april, they panic and try to suddenly get in shape?!!!

The reality is that this approach is too late, and this rushed approach usually ends up in frustration because they are not giving it enough time!!Those of you who have started exercising seriously in january or even now, will be sitting pretty come the spring, and especially the summer!

Not only that, but you will be now appreciating the health benefits of exercising through our harsh winter this year! Training for health reasons AND looking good will always be the sustainable way to approach your programme.

If you’re building a healthy body, then laying the right foundations are the key to you being sustainable in everything you do.

If you want to learn how to eat properly and keep a healthy level of body fat, then you should know by now that slimming clubs are not the way to do it. Its time you took charge of your eating, instead of believing the marketing rubbish that these clubs bombard you with. You know deep down that eating food cooked from scratch is going to be the most effective way to go.

We should learn from the horsemeat scandal that we shouldn’t 100% believe what the supermarket puts into our food anymore. Food that has been in packages for months sometimes, full of fat, sugar and salt have no place in our lives.

The situation has become so bad, that its wise to avoid them completely and cook your food properly again. Who knows you may even get to enjoy the art of cooking again?!!

There have never been so many cooking shows on TV as there are now, and they ALL advise you to cook from scratch, especially when you’re looking at healthy meals done well so they actually taste really nice!!

Twitt
Posted on

Tuesday, February 19th

A lot was made yesterday in the press, about certain cereals and high fibre foods not actually telling us the total number of calories in the product.

This is another example to avoid foods that contain chemicals that we don’t really know anything about.

Muesli is a great example of this. The full sugar and full fat version are a nightmare for you if you are tryiing to drop body fat, in fact they are bad news if you are even trying to maintain a healthy weight!! They will drive body fat on to your frame quicker than you can say excess sugar and salt!!

You shouldn’t bundle all of these products and cereals into the same pile though!

I have always said that products such a weetabix and shredded wheat will always be good, because all they contain is wheat and the keep you away from dangerous chemicals and needless extra chemicals. You can’t go wrong with these.

You do need to avoid though variations of these products, when sugary coatings or/and sugary versions of fruit are added to the products. This is a perfect example of how to mess up a good cereal and make it no longer healthy for you!

Same with porridge, one of my favourites! I love porridge and eat it twice a day! Plain rollled oats with no additives are great and will give you long lasting energy, no catches with this one and no sugar, salt or saturated fat!

The problem starts when we add the sugary versions of sugar, the apple pie and blueberry pies versions for example. Al NO GOOD for you!!!

You need to keep it plain and simple with cereal, stick to the intended natural version and add natural ingredients to it, such as chopped fruit and or dried fruit with no added sugar.

Twitt
Posted on

Monday,18th February

Great results simply do not “just happen”, they are well earned and always come from a lot of blood, sweat and tears!

When i hear results happening for people, it really brightens up my day,whether that would be first thing on a monday morning or sunday evening, results are happening everywhere for people at the moment and nothing pleases me more.

This is why new people coming into the programme always wonder whether it can happen for them? Absolutely i always tell them! The reason is that i have seen an awful lot of people travel down this great path and succeed, often against the odds!!!

What i am here for is to give you the right path, the right exercises and the correct way to do them, but there’s a lot, lot more!

I am here to direct you on the right eating path, to steer you away from faddy diets and slimming clubs, to steer you away from shakes and bars diets, to encourage you to eat naturally and fresh when possible.

There has never been a better time to eat well, especially with the current supermakret horsemeat scandal. I’m betting that there is plenty more to come in this story, and i am also betting that other chemically enhanced foods are going to be dragged into this scandal of our generation!! You can eat well simply by avoiding this cheap rubbish, i have been on a million times about ready meals, this if your final chance to get away from them!!!

I am also here to listen to the problems when things never go to plan. This may be the right path, but the path is never completely smooth! There will be ups and downs, but i am here to get you through them, to pick you up sometimes when all you are thinking about is giving up.

It’s monday, the perfect time to change your life and make sure you start the week off on a hugely positive note!

Twitt
Posted on

Friday, 15th February

We are hitting a weekend already and while all of us will look forward to it, the dangers for body fat gain are always the highest for the next three days.

Most people associate the weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday with eating basically anything they want, and more than their fair share of alcohol consumption.

If you do this for three days over the weekend, then NO MATTER WHAT and this is a certainty, you will not lose body fat and it doesn’t matter what you have in the week in terms of exercise or how well you have eaten!

If you take this as a rule, you will start eating and drinking a little smarter.

Make it one day, rather than three days. Make it one day a week you drink alcohol, and when you do drink, the very next morning before breakfast, try and get some sort of exercise session in that gets you a little hot and sweaty, and a bit out of puff, in other words put some effort in!

No need to overdo it, but always try and exercise with purpose rather than going through the motions.

If you’re having your treats, and most people at some time DO during the weekend, try and make them less full of saturated fat and less full of sugar!

If you’re having indian food, try and select the dry dishes, rather than the ones smothered with cream and sauce. Select boiled rice rather than fried. This will help you a lot.

Chinese food is usually fried but you can select boiled versions like the indian examples I gave.

When you have fast food, you don’t need chips on top of it too! You don’t need the 1000 calorie milk shakes, you don’t need all the extra trimmings on ANY fast food.

Try making pizza yourself, have far less cheese, put on healthy tomatoes and vegetables, have a healthier thin base.

There’s a million ways to get your treats down in all those harmful fats, and dangerous sugars that if taken for long enough, will sure make you diabetic.

Making the right choices have never been more important!

Twitt
Posted on

Thursday, 14th February

Vaentines day and a big day for some, but the person you should be looking after the most (in a HEALTH RELATED way) is yourself!

If you look after your health, you instantly become more attractive to others and here’s why.

If you exercise regularly, then you ought to now have much more energy than when you didn’t train. This helps you to do MORE things in the day, accomplish more AND HELP OTHERS who are the most important people in your life.

If you eat well, you will be helping that energy booting process along tenfold!! If your diet if full of natural foods, then you will be more alert, ready to take any challenge on during the day, and helping yourself recover from exerting yourself all day, again making you more energetic and more ready to help others. You will be less likely to fall ill, and when you are healthy you will be considered the one that peopl can depend on, because of your seemingly endless energy.

If you drink more water, you know you will perform better and be on the top of your game. People will also find you a lot more attractive because your skin is likely to be a lot better, you will have a certain healthy glow about you, and in general if you are well hydrated, then you are very likely not to suffer from mood swings, which is VERY ATTRACTIVE!!!

If you follow these simple things every day, then you are already likely to be fit and therefore far more attractive than if you were some kind of “couch potato” who eats junk all day, and drinks too much alcohol, this is pretty much a CERTAINTY!!!

Spending all the money on flowers and chocolates wont get you that far today, compared to all that effort you have put into looking after yourself which is the best way to attract others on all sorts of levels!!

Twitt