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Thursday, 27th October

Hows your week of portion control and food selection going this week?

  1. Has it been plenty of fruit and vegetables, white meats, oily fish, good carbs, healthy nut selections and whole grains in relation to your supermarket shop?

2 or has it been no fruit and vegetables, white meats and fish but heavily coated with batter and butter, has it been white flour products, and have there been plenty of treats thrown in, even boxes of sweets thrown in?

3 and how is your alcohol intake? Are you thoroughly taking advantage of the mega deals on alcohol in the supermarket or do you drink just once a week and when you do, the volume is quite light?

These three points will provide big clues in the way you look and feel.

Whether your clothes are fitting a little better this week, or are they getting a little tighter again? Your food selections have the answer!

Have you plenty of energy and you have already put 3-4 workouts in already this week?

Or have you wrote off another week and have consigned yourself to just “treading water” for the next 8 weeks. One thing’s for sure, if you do try to somehow tread water, you are definitely destined to put on weight before Christmas, no matter HOW many baggy jumpers and black clothes you wear!!!!

So to avoid all of this happening, try making the right choices NOW you will probably do anyway in January, and avoid all the pain you were going to have then!!!

Nobody I know wants to feel sluggish and horrible now and up to Christmas should be a time of celebration and fun, being in your best shape and having compliments, and not of wearing baggy dark jumpers to hide all the abuse you have given your body all year in food and exercise terms, and everyone asking you “have you put on weight”!!!

Lets get it together!

Twitt
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Wednesday, 26th October

Halloween coming up and traditionally a big time for sweets and this means lots of sugar of course.

Most of us consumed lots of sweets as children and some of us are still consuming sweets on a regular basis now, but its when we become adults that the problems usually begin to hit home!!!

First of all, if we continue to get sugar from refined sources such as sweets, we can soon enough develop cardiovascular trouble and thats really bad news, especially when you start thinking about heart disease.

Eating a lot of sugar can increase the levels of “fluffy” fat that is between our arteries. This can form plaque and globules of fat that can lead to big trouble for us anytime.

When these forms of plaque break up, they travel to the heart, brain or kidney and can cause heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure.

The added sugars are just as bad if not worse, all of those names such as corn syrup, white sugar, brown sugar, dextrose, crystal dextrose etc etc are really devastating for your whole system if you continue to base your diet high in sugars!!

Sugar itself will not give you the heart attack, its just the sorts of conditions it brings with it. If you eat sugary foods every day then it doesnt take a genius to work out you will become overweight!! And from being overweight, diabetes, certain cancers and many other diseases become a lot more likely according to numerous studies!

A startling fact is that 36% of most overweight people’s sugar intake comes from liquid sources, pop, sports drinks, energy drinks are heavy contributors to ill health, and if most people just drunk water instead of sugary drinks, the obesity problem would be substantially decreased!!!

The bottom line is that a little sugar is needed by everyone, but fruits and grains are the preferred sources for good health and if you take this route, you are likely to regulate your health very successfully!

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