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Thursday, 31st January

We realise there are a lot of you feeling unwell through the huge number of colds, viruses, flus around. It is the nastiest winter for some years, and we sincerely hope you get well soon.

A positive that has come out from it is that A LOT of you have shown an increased dedication to your food, and boosting your immune system.

Bottom line is that if you don’t feed yourself well, and eat more junk most days than you need, your immune system WILL be weaker that’s for sure.

Eat as many fresh foods as you can THROUGHOUT the year, and you will be stronger to fight off these terribly germs.

Nobody is totally immune of course, but doing the best you can for yourself and your family is something YOU MUST do to protect yourself AND those closest to you.

One thing’s for sure, when you are unwell, the whole world looks a whole lot bleaker, and we want your lives to come back to normal as soon as possible.

Any help you need, please let us know as your health is our absolute priority. YOU ARE what you eat, never forget that

Twitt
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Tuesday, January 30th

Love your energy and stay in your zone.

It’s much easier to stay where you are if you have had some success already, and keep your momentum going, so much easier to keep going remember that.

The hardest point is the stop starting that some of you go through, that is the real hardship and once you stop this vicious cycle, simply by carrying on and showing up regular, then you will get a lot of tension and frustration OUT of your life.

We can ALL have a nice cup of coffee all day and bitch about what’s wrong with the world, how the cards “haven’t fallen our way”, and how we never get opportunities. You will find that misery loves company, and you will always have plenty of takes to talk negatively about life.

If you want to stay in this zone of no hope, then that’s a choice. Plenty of you have been in last hope saloon, and battled through that and become a champion.

I can tell you until I’m blue in the face to keep going, but deep down you know this. You know that astounding feeling that exercise gives you, and you may wonder how some of you become “stop starters” in the first place.

Have a moment of truth, skip back to that time when exercise made you feel alive again, and the great things it brought you in life.

Everything in life suddenly looks rosier when you exercise and eat right. Don’t rely on anyone else, take real responsibility for your actions and don’t blame “circumstances” because lots of us may have unfortunate things happen in life, its our reaction to those blows that defines your character don’t forget.

I see people taking endless opportunities daily, and others who make up stories on why not to take them.

Which one are you?

Twitt
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Tuesday, 23rd January-Simple veg and nut stir fry

 

Simple weekday vegetable and nut stir fry

Serves 3 – 4

350g egg noodles (or rice noodles)
1 tablespoon rapeseed oil (or olive oil)
handful of button mushrooms, quatered
1 red pepper, sliced
1 yellow pepper, sliced
1 red onion, thinly sliced
2 handfuls of fresh spinach or pak choi
2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1 thumb sized piece of fresh ginger, grated
1/2 red chilli, sliced very thinly
4 – 5 tablespoons low salt soy sauce or tamarin
200g sweet and salty cashews (see recipe below)

Method

Boil the egg noodles according to packet instructions
Drain using a colander and leave to cool.
Meanwhile, fry the onion, mushrooms, peppers, garlic, ginger and chilli with the rapeseed oil for 5 minutes.
Add the noodles to warm along with the spinach and soy sauce. Give it a few more minutes. The vegetables should stay fairly crunchy.
Add the sweet and salty cashews and serve immediately.

Twitt