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Tuesday, 25th October

Following on from yesterday, have you started to cut down on the things that cause you the distress of putting on weight, or better still, have you CUT OUT the things that cause you all of that distress of piling on the weight?!!!

It is a painful experience  to have someone ask you if you have put on weight, and there are usually two responses you decide to undertake.

1. You get really depressed about it, saying to yourself that you can’t do anything about it anyway, and you exercise even less and eat even more, after all, it “tastes good” doesnt it?!!!

2. You get the fire in your belly again and immediately the next day you go back to the tried and tested strategies that have served you so well in the past, and promise yourself that you’re not prepared to live your life again with all the extra weight, and you are going to do something about it right now!!!

Number two is something i have experienced myself and nothing makes you madder than someone telling you have put on weight. You either do this or you bury your head deep in the sand, and somehow hoping that it will all turn out okay in the end!!!!

The first couple of days of getting your eating to well-controlled and sensible levels is admittedly very hard, but once you break the back of it, it WILL get easier i promise you, and DOING SOMETHING about your body instead of “wishing it could be better somehow” is heck of a lot better and you know it!!

Plus there’s no better feeling of losing body fat, getting clothes to feel better and showing the commitment needed to do so, the pride and self-satisfaction you get from achieving this worthy goal will beat any short term uncomfortable feelings of cutting your food down a little bit!!!

Time to get onboard now and make yourself feel the best you could possibly be by christmas time!!!

Twitt
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Monday 24th October

As the urgency increases towards christmas, just 8 weeks sunday away, you had better be showing some urgency towards your health too!!!

Whats more important? The christmas tree or your health? Rhetorical question to most but not to all i’m sad to say!!!

If you are indeed struggling with your weight, you may be eating too much do you think? There’s a fair chance on that statement being right and the big question is what can you do about it now?!!!

You should for starters have a pretty decent idea by now on what works for your body and what doesn’t? That shouldnt be rocket science if you have been reading on here for a while. The hard part comes when you realise the moment you have put on weight, and WHY!!!

The putting on weight process never starts quickly, its usually more of a gradual process.

Weekend pizza on a saturday turns into a regular event, and sometimes turns into all weekend.

For example, you could do some shopping every week and sometimes go in the local market, you pick up some welsh cakes and your long lost love of welsh cakes is suddenly rekindled, and you start making them a regular feature of your weekly shop!!!

This means your sweet tooth is all of a sudden well and truly alive!

Then you will excuse yourself a bag of chips in the week, and some fish, pretending the fish is healthy even though it has a mountain of batter on it!! They are nice but can heavily disrupt your fat loss programme.

Then plain porridge isnt good enough for you, it has to be the one with sugar and syrup.

Then your one day a week alcohol turns into a saturday and wednesday affair, because “you are stressed”.

Your vegetables suddenly have to be soaked in salt, because they are “too plain”, so your whole eating programme goes from plain to highly “flavoured”.

These type of changes can make the difference between your body feeling “like a sponge” and something to be proud of.

Depends on what you want, but we both know which result takes more effort.

Get back on the right road and start being all that you could have been, and your diet is a key area for all of this to happen so lets cut out all the “flavourings” and make it happen!

Twitt
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Thursday, 20th October

Another scandalous piece of information in the press today, the fact that three quarters of men over 40 years of age are now regarded as overweight!

This is up on even recent figures and shows a big decline in our nation’s health.

This brings a host of problems to the NHS too, how we are going to be able to cope with the huge obesity problem that this brings.

With being overweight, the issues come thick and fast for our always overstretch health service.

Think diabetes, heart diseases, certain cancers as just three major diseases that are likely to explode again.

You have a million other diseases that will come too, mostly down to poor health that can start with being overweight.

It doesn’t take a genius to work out that not moving around enough in physical terms, and eating too many calories are the main culprits in causing such a terrible situation.

None of us are so grateful when we are able to visit someone in hospital, and be in good enough health to walk straight back out again after visiting time is over!!!

We are all grateful that we have good health, and we are able to function in a normal way in our everyday health, not everyone is so lucky as this.

We can celebrate this by using every day as a reason to exercise and eat healthy. Not only does this make us feel good but really cuts our chances down of having a serious health problem.

We can work our heart instead of letting it weaken and deteriate.

We can tone our muscles instead of letting them get soft and floppy.

We can improve brain power and concentration by exercise, up to 40% as latest studies show!

There has never been a greater time or more vital time to get up and exercise, lets make it happen right now!!!!

Twitt
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Wednesday, 19th October

Nine weeks left to christmas, and you can definitely tell this if you walk into B and Q for example, and the vast array of christmas trees and decorations they already have there!!!

I have always been puzzled by some people’s lack of drive for training up to christmas, as for me its a great time to hit your best levels and standards.

For example, the most popular time to get into shape is always after christmas in january, when most people have piled on the pounds from eating and drinking too much, and non-existant exercise of course!!!

The effort to try and get going from that situation is unbelievably hard, yet people do it in their droves with often very limited success.

When you are at your heaviest, the motivation you have is usually low and your self-esteem is even lower. So the confidence and drive needed to get going can be too much for a lot of people i have spoken to.

Compare that situation in january and the one y ou have now. You shouldnt have eaten too much by now, you should still be exercising to a certain level and generally its not exactly party season so your sleeping habits should be farely good too.

The step up from here shouldnt be that dramatic to get into great shape?!!!

You won’t be wheezing hard like you do in january from all the increased efforts in your workouts?

You wont have a big sweet tooth to overcome that you would have definitely developed over christmas and beyond?

The great foundation you could develop now from giving your best to your training and eating could be phenomenal!!!

Nine big weeks would make the difference between you going into christmas with real momentum and looking your best, or going into christmas overweight and unfit and no momentum and a grim effort in the new year to come!!!

Your time is right now so lets make it happen!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 18th October

Warren Gatland admitted today he thought about cheating when it came to saturday’s disappointing loss, by faking an injury to one of the other props so Wales could achieve uncontested scrums. This would give a big advantage to wales, especially when it comes to the fact that they were already playing 14 versus fifteen, and the game would end up more evenly balanced, instead of being under constant pressure in the scrum!

For the sake of the spirit of the game, he didn’t resort to that but that are plenty of teams who would, without naming individual countries, but cheating has been a part of professional sport since the year dot!!

Drugs are the most well known form of cheating, and there are numerous sports such as athletics, cycling, american football, baseball etc that are rife with widespread drug taking unfortunately.

You may know yourself someone who takes drugs in order to get ahead in whatever field they are in. It could be recreationally taken steroids, it could ephedrine type products for sport, whatever it is, it comes down to one thing-CHEATING!!!

Performance enhancing drugs are not only illegal, but like the gatland comments, they are totally against the spirit of the game and sport in general.

Once you have resorted to them, you have given up your right to offer advice to others on performance, because you will not have played on a level playing field. You won’t know the hard work it takes to do it naturally, to suffer more, to recover more, to hit the sack earlier to recover, to have greater attention to detail in your food, to make every training session count etc etc.

To aspire to get to the top of any sport naturally is a very noble thing, and unfortunately becoming more and more difficult.

The good news is that it is possible to do it, as long as you make the use of the latest science and have a monumental work ethic.

 The other route is cheating, plain old fashioned cheating and that doesn’t impress anyone, and when you take the longer term health side effects into consideration, it can’t be worth it surely?!!!

Twitt