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Wednesday, 6th february

One little thing have recommended for years and years is using no spread on anything.

Typically, this will be butter and margarine.

Theres a big piece in the papers today about non butter products, in other words butter “substitutes”. You know the ones, the heavily marketed ones, advertised all the time as being in some way healthy.

These products have turned out to be associated with heart attacks, as well as other diseases.

Butter is not wonderful for you, but is a far more natural product!!!

There is the old study regarding butter and margarine left out in a field overnight. The animals scoffed the butter no problem, but totally left the margarine!!!

The margarine contains hydrogenated fats, which is a total enemy for your body, and can really speed up ill health unless you take steps to avoid this terrible product!!!

The other side of eating spreads on food, apart from the ill health angle is avoiding needless empty calories, which ultimately will also lead to health problems!!!!

Each bit of spread you scrape on will have around 150 calories of needless rubbish for your body, almost pure fat going into your arteries speeding up the process of piling on weight!!!

This 150 calories, and often more will be the silent killer for your diet and when you’re wondering where the excess weight is coming from, just when you have eliminated a lot of high calorie foods, then THIS is the one area you really need to go after!!!

It only takes a couple of weeks and you will soon get used to being without spread forever! This will affect your diet and overall shape you eventually get in FAR MORE than you could ever imagine.

No time to waste so throw any spread out of your fridge right now!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 5th February

The power of exercise can never be understated.

I hear strong anecdotal evidence of this all the time.

I was with one lady this morning who has been ill for a couple of weeks, yet today after her first session, she felt so inspired that she has already plannned the rest of the week’s workouts, and she feels fantastic purely because she feels energy coming back in her life for the first time since christmas!

Exercise clearly means a lot to her.

Without seeming like a sexist comment, how many of you have felt like doing the housework after exercising because of the abundance of energy you felt come through your body? I have met a ton of people who felt exactly like this.

How many of you have been a student of some sort, and done markedly better in exams and your studies in general after you discover exercise for the first time. There is more than anecdotal evidence on this, there is scientific evidence on this matter in schools and colleges up and down the country!

How many of you feel low in energy if YOU DO NOT do your workout?!!! I know i do for one!!!

How many of you feel a huge sense of accomplishment if you run up a hill for the first time, especially if you consider most of you probably couldnt even run 30 yards when you first started?!!! These signs and evidence of progress are huge for your self confidence and self esteem, and spur you on to go and achieve even more!!!

How many have you experienced the exercise “high” during your workout? This is very common especially when you are having a great session, and is very much part of why we train. Anything that tends to make us feel better we tend to do more of, this is why workouts should be a normal and regular part of our lives!!!

Twitt
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Monday, 4th February

Two big sporting losses for me at the weekend, Wales of course lost against ireland with such a poor first half performance,it was scarcely credible! This left wales too much to do in the second half and so it proved.

You cannot continue to make such serious mistakes at such a high level so often and expect to get away with it!

Then the san francisco 49ers lost againt the baltimore ravens last night in the superbowl!

The 49ers didn’t really perform to anything like what they could normally do, and left the first half so far down,it seemed impossible to get back in front.

They nearly pulled it off though and finally lot 31-34 in a classic superbowl!!

This is the magic of sports,and the theatre is creates. This is why a lot of us watch it in such big numbers!!!

If wales and the 49ers were more consistent, and play like they could play, the result could have been much different.

This is exactly the same with your training and eating.

If you lack consistency with either,you are going to be struggling to perform well, lose body fat and feel as good as you know you could.

If you do not start the week off today by being consistent with a good training session and solid nutrition, then you are likely to struggle the rest of the week.

You should be concentrating on getting a lot of good food in during your supermarket shop. You will need the nutrients to power your workouts, recover from your workouts, and keep your immune system strong, especially in the cold and wet winter we are having.

Consistency will always be your best friend, and the more you practice it, the more it will seem like totally the most natural thing to do!!

Twitt
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Friday, 1st February

Cereals and breakfasts in general can be a difficult subject for most, ranging from people who miss breakfasts to those who fall for the cereals to the masses that often come in pretty boxes.

Let’s get the first one out of the way, if you miss breakfast you WILL NOT BE successful in your fat loss and performance targets FULL STOP!

If you think that by missing breakfast, you will lose weight because you’re not eating any food, then that’s totally wrong. You need to eat breakfast to get your metabolism going, the rate at which your body burns calories 24 hours a day. If you miss breakfast, you are giving your metabolism every reason NOT to get going, every reason TO hold on to body fat stores, and you’re creating no incentive for your bodily functions to get going in a normal and healthy way.

Missing breakfast is the VERY worst start to your day.

Then when you go down the supermarket aisles and come to the breakfast choices, you are often faced with seemingly hundreds of cereal boxes! They hve catchy names, some have actually the words “fitness” or playson that word in the title!!

It’s a shame then that this particular one and all of the ones with catchy names or have cool characters on the front, are the ones that are loaded wth sugar and often salt. At least 80% of the cereals on offer are exactly the sugary options you do not want to take up for breakfast.

The ones you want to take notice of and buy are still the all natural ones, the weetabix, the shredded wheat, porridge in particular is wonderful, and free range eggs are fine products too, full of goodness, full of nutrients and full of energy.

Wholemeal toast is fine, just avoid the spread and try chopping a banana and using that as a spread.

You get some people who say do not eat bread, but most people are unlikely to be off it longer term. The trick is to be sensible and have a couple of slices a day, avoid the butter and margarine and eating bread in moderation will be fine.

Eating right matters so keep up the good efforts!!

Twitt
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Thursday, 31st January

Mixing up your training is something we are always keen on talking about, and the benefits and freshness this can bring to your programme.

The same thing can and should be done to your eating efforts.

How boring can it be to eat the same thing all the time?

The trick is to use natural products in your food choices whenever you can.

The aisles in supermarkets sadly contain mostly processed, salty, pre cooked sometimes, and other choices of food that will definitely NOT help you one bit when it comes to supporting your training efforts.

If you stick to the aisles that contain mostly good natural produce, then this will give you more variety and give you different ideas.

You have the fruit and vegetables aisles, these are always going to be good for you. Simply picking different fruit and vegetables each time you go, or every other time you go shopping will give you different tastes and different choices when it comes to meal preparation and selection.

If you are a meat lover, how about changing all of that around and waking up to the delights that fish can offer.Whenever i tend to go in supermarkets, there tend always to be deals on fish.

You don’t have to eat the same fish all the time, as the deals will usually offer a different fish most weeks.

You don’t have to eat ALL of it the same time either, especially when you buy bulk purchase such as a whole salmon on half price for example. It’s easy to freeze it, and get several meals from the remains of the fish you froze.

Changing from meat to fish will not only freshen up your tastes but also give you the essential fats you really need in your diet that are vital for proper function in your body!

Fish is not as expensive as it can be earlier in the week, friday is always a good day in certain supermarkets.

Please don’t stick to the same thing all the time, the last thing you want to get is bored with your diet!!!

Twitt