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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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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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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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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