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May 7th

Your saturday treat may be happening right now, and you very much deserve it if you have been tight all week on your food. I don’t mean really small portions and missing meals either, i mean sensible sized portions of good quality food.

If you have made a good effort all week, then having a treat today will not matter at all will it?

If having a treat is just like another day, then making another excuse to have a treat today is just like another day for you, and you’re not really treating yourself, and getting or being in shape is not a very serious proposition for you.

Saturday is the day to let go a bit if you live a healthy lifestyle, because it switches off your mind a bit from the rigours of working out and being in shape, living a healthy lifestyle can be easy if you practice it a lot, but it can also wear you down if you don’t give yourself a break.

Whatever you are doing today, its a time to relax, eat of a bit of what you fancy, have a drink if you want and reflect on what has probably been a tough week.

Tomorrow is sunday and a workout early on would be the perfect remedy to your day of relaxing in all sorts of ways today!!!

Twitt
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May 3rd

May 3rd means you should be in the shape you promised yourself way back in January in your new year resolutions! The sad reality for most people is that never happens, and may instead signifies panic instead of satisfaction at the shape you could have been in.

We have also had two big bank holidays in a row, with two Fridays off too, which have made the job of staying in shape that much harder!

So if today means blowing off some cobwebs, then so be it, it has to be done and a process you have to go through to feel as if you’re back to life again!

The way you treat your body every day determines what kind of shape you’re in full stop. If you tell everyone you’re on fish salads all the time and never drink, yet go home and eat fish and chips every night as well as having a couple of glasses of wine every night, then the only person you will be fooling is yourself. Lying to yourself is common and doing it more and more is never going to get you magically in shape.

If a chicken salad is really fried chicken with salad drenched in mayonnaise and heavy dressing, then you may well have had a burger and chips, there really is no excuse for those kind of calories going into your body and you know it. This is one way to get fat, it works every time!

For example, if you went mad and had a good sized easter egg over the holiday, you would need to swim for around 3-4 hours just to work it off! This is heck of a task when you think about it and might deter you next time you have a treat as rich in calories as that.

These are the types of scenarios that stop individuals getting into the kind of shape they REALLY want, its these times when you really need to avoid constant streams of high calories that are so important to being in shape.

The bank holidays are done (at least until the end of may), so now is the perfect time to get your head down and really work hard again, starting right now!!

Twitt
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April 28th

As booze will be such a big part of the weekend coming up, its time to realise what it means to you in real terms. Nothing wrong at all with a drink, i will have one myself but all im saying is the reprecussions could be worth considering.

Booze has a massive effect on blood pressure, and can really set about ramping it up to levels you don’t really want over a period.

Alcohol is packed with calories and WILL lead to weight gain, there is no doubting this.

You dont even have to drink a lot, just 3-4 units per day will DOUBLE your chance of suffering blood pressure problems according to the health authorities!

If you are a woman though, just 2-3 units can increase your blood pressure risk by a third, anyone who has suffered from blood pressure will know that this risk is not worth taking.

Theres a good site at www.drinkaware.co.uk

Caffeine used to be seen as a big problem for blood pressure, but as long as its in moderation, this is no longer true.

Lifestyle factors are far more relevant when it comes to blood pressure issues.

If you’re a smoker for instance, thats flat out the worst thing you can do and will bring you a whole lot of trouble over time.

If you drink less alcohol, you will benefit immensely.

If you have a diet rich in nutrients full of fresh natural foods, you are very unlikely to suffer blood pressure issues.

And of course, if you exercise with purpose on a regular basis, you are very likely not to suffer from blood pressure issues especially if you combine it with the lifestyle choices already mentioned.

So this weekend, its fine to go out and have a drink or two, AS LONG as your general lifestyle is good, then there is no problem at all!

It makes me laugh when i see the everyday drinkers out on bank holiday claiming its a one off day for them, THIS IS everyday life for them and unfortunately they will be likely suffering from many ailments brought on by a life of alcohol abuse. When you add smoking and an unhealthy diet to all of this, its a grim picture!!

Time for everyone to change their lifestyle surely!!! If you are having a few drinks, get out the next morning and exercise!!!

Twitt
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April 27th Catch up

Two bank holidays in a row so we are right in the middle of it right now!!

Im was guilty myself of waking up very tired today, and the weekend has made me feel very sluggish, although I got through two good runs early on Sunday and Monday.

The great news now though is that I have had a massive morning of exercise and somehow my body feels very energetic once again!

Human beings like routine and depending on what yours is, the way you feel today will definitely be dependent on that routine.

How many people do you know who come back from holiday full of life first day into the exercise programme? The fact is that everyone struggles to get back into things after a short period of inactivity, so our routines become more and more important depending on what type of lifestyle we want to lead.

If you want to be sloth like in your lifestyle, expect to put on weight and feel very low in energy most of the time. Expect this because if you consume foods low in nutrients and foods high in saturated fat and high in sugars, this is the results you WILL get every time.

As a society, hopefully we are moving further and further away from this example and healthy food is becoming more and more fashionable at last!

People are becoming much more aware of the importance of fresh  fruit and vegetables, that they need to be consuming more fish and white meats, and they shouldn’t overdo their carbohydrate portions (size of your fist in terms of portion size and not the whole plate if possible!).

So to get your life back on track this week right in between the bank holidays, there’s only one way to go in terms of looking and feeling your best, a life high in energy means you are going to get a lot more done, and you will achieve far more.

Give yourself a fighting chance and life the lifestyle, the one big thing you can do today is consume much more water, instead of teas and coffees all day, instantly you will feel A LOT better and you will actually feel like DOING something.

Have a great start to the week!

April 27th

You may I have noticed I have been offline, but this has been down to my BT home hub for my broadband not working and waiting for its replacement!! Its finally here now and its times like these you wonder what you did before you had a 24/7 internet connection!!

Its quite funny how most people reported the sluggishness of the bank holiday yesterday and were struggling to get going.

I am really thankful that yesterday was a very tough physical day for me, so I have well and truly got the cobwebs out the way and I feel 100% more refreshed, PURELY down to great workouts, eating very well and drinking lots of water, which is always underrated!!!

The minute you don’t think that living this lifestyle is not important is the day your health will go downhill. Anyone who has been in great shape or at least their best version of being in great shape, it is impossible to forget how fantastic this feels and the desire to get back there must be huge in everyone who has perhaps let it slide over the years.

With modern train methods, it is entirely possible to get in great shape again, safely and relatively quickly is done with a well thought out plan, and realising that a good natural nutritious eating plan will make as much difference as the training will.

This always needs to be a 50/50 effort with the training and eating, anything less and you will fall short, its Wednesday 27th april and we are nearly in may, if its not time to do it now, then I don’t know what is, so let’s get out of bed and get some work done and finally get into the shape you really want!!!

Twitt
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April 21st 2011

How many of you now can’t eat so much chocolate or drink so much alcohol if you have already done well with your fitness plan and got to where you want to be?

This is what usually happens when you change your diet for the long term, and make exercise a very normal part of your life.

Other comments I get are that the once fantastic tasting sugary foods are now making you sick, because all that sugar is now becoming a sugar overload, and your body responds in a not very good way, in fact all that extra sugar as a one off will most likely make you feel sick and very low in energy usually an hour after consuming it.

If excess refined sugary foods have become a part of daily life for you, then you are at high risk of developing diabetes at some stage, and just ask anyone who now has diabetes what an uncomfortable existence that is!

Foods were meant to be sampled in their natural state, so whenever you can do this will be to your significant advantage.

We are now coming up to easter bank holiday, which means from now until Monday offers a significant window of making a pig of themselves for most people. Some people actually will go out and consume as much sugar and refined as possible, and then bemoan next Tuesday on how lethargic they are feeling, and how they have to get that weight off!!

Then you have two bank holidays next week so what do  most people do? They write off the next week again and overdo AGAIN!!!

This is of course a perfect example of a vicious circle, and these can be very hard to recover from. The monumental effort to get going again can seem exactly that….MONUMENTAL!!! These types of efforts can’t happen all the time, so the long and steady route is the way to go….FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! I MEAN!!!

Tried and tested is the way to go and make your life far more stable in health and fitness terms!!!!

Twitt