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Monday 6th Oct

Nobody likes to struggle but it’s very necessary for us all to get stronger and improve.

Doing things we sometimes don’t want to even face helps settle and calm our minds. Meaning our initial fears about a particular something weren’t rational at all in the first place, and we will only be glad we got it out the way.

Our initial setbacks can often lead to an even bigger comeback, momentum can swing BOTH ways, make sure you initiate the fightback and don’t any setback beat you.

Life isn’t easy, especially at the start of the week, and this is precisely why we need a day of action, getting stuff done full stop and never letting things go or build up into one unmanageable pile of problems.

Clear your challenges as they come, take action every day, get your workouts in every day which creates the necessary energy to get through anything that comes your way.

Twitt
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Fri 3rd Oct

Potatoes get a bad rap, even a terrible rap. They were demonised in the Atkins diet days as terrible food for you and sole cause of the obesity epidemic (by some anyway).

A lady in the gym told me this week that in the supermarket, there was a whole aisle of potato products. Potatoes in cream, potatoes with bacon and cheese, just about every combination you could think of (and ones you definitely couldn’t).

Then the plain, farm grown potatoes were in another small section on their own!!

There is the problem, Putting all kinds of rubbish with the potato and trying to present it as “good for you, when the reality if different.

A normal potato is relatively low calories when there’s nothing on it. Add creamy products, with lots of chemicals and additives from the laboratory and you are asking for trouble. Worst of all these added products are sweet and addictive and make you want to eat plenty more than you think.

Potatoes are great for energy, and sweet potatoes an even better source with a slow release of energy which is unlikely to deposit as fat. Add a little olive oil on top and you had your own home made version of chips, and far better for you.

“Carbs are all bad” is a very general term and ultimately factually untrue. 

Simple foods in their natural state without lots of chemically filled additives are great for you. Learn to eat well but always keep it natural. You will not only fuel your workouts right, you will drop body fat, build muscle and keep your insides ultra healthy for years to come. A chemical free body will always win long term.

Twitt