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Track These Areas Instead of Relying on the Scales

17.01.2025

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Following on from my last email about the shortcomings of using only the scales and mirror to gauge your progress towards your goals.

I have some better, simple, ideas for what you should assess in order to see how you’re doing. These areas should consistently improve as you go along – and they should stay around for the long term too.

This makes them really effective, encouraging and accurate at showing you how you’re doing. If one area isn’t improving, or starts heading backwards, then it’s a sign that you need to adapt you plan to get […]

Don’t Rely On The Scales To Gauge Your Progress

9.01.2025

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Health, Weight Loss

Happy New Year!

Have you read my latest post on the Facebook group? It’s about approaching your health and fitness goals in an approachable way – come along and take a look.

As you move towards your fitness goals this year, you’re going to want to assess how you’re doing – and I have some ideas which I think will be better than relying on just the scales and the mirror.

For today, let’s look at why the scales and mirror aren’t the best ways to gauge your progress, and next week I will explain the better […]

Diet & Exercise At Christmas

11.12.2024

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Health, Mindset

Discussing how to approach your diet and exercise routine over Christmas is a conversation I’m having a lot with clients at the minute.

It feels like quite a big topic, perhaps because I don’t think there’s really a right answer to how you “should” approach things.

How do you feel about your diet and exercise routine over the next few weeks?

Are you looking forward to a break? Perhaps you’re resigned to a break?

Perhaps you’re worried that the inevitability of all the tasty, extra calories and the ease with which you could avoid exercise […]

Have You Ever Considered A Weight Loss Supplement?

4.12.2024

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Health, Weight Loss

With all the talk about the GLP-1 inhibitors, I thought it might be handy to look at the easier to access, older school weight loss supplements.

Some of these supplements make some really bold claims!

But regardless of the marketing, the simple basic truth is that we will only lose weight if we use more energy than we eat. Our body then makes up the difference between energy need and energy consumption with stored energy – which we hope is fat.

And if we’re eating too much energy, it has to go somewhere – perhaps into heating your body, producing […]

Are You Accidentally Slowing Your Metabolism?

20.11.2024

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Fitness, Health, Weight Loss

If you’re consistently doing these things, then you probably are sending signals to your body to slow your metabolism down:

Eating less
Using cardio as your primary exercise
Skipping meals

I’ve met so many people over the years who do these things when they’re trying to lose weight. And quite reasonably so! This is pretty much the recipe we’re sold for weight loss.

But, the trouble is that it’s a race to the bottom.

Eating less and exercising more requires you to keep reducing your food intake and increasing your energy output in order to […]

What’s YOUR Definition of Fit & Healthy?

14.11.2024

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Fitness, Health, Mindset

How do YOU interpret “fit and healthy”?

Is it a particular look? A feeling? Something more specific?

For most of us, while losing a few pounds might be rather welcome, the bigger picture of what we want to achieve is more practical.

Think for a minute about the videos you see on social media from personal trainers and the like. Have you noticed how they’re almost always super-toned, mega-fit, live-and-breathe exercise people demonstrating exercises which would hospitalise most of us mere mortals?

Perhaps I’m being a bit flippant, but really – I think we are […]

The Most Impactful Things You Can Do For Your Health

7.11.2024

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Fitness, Health, Mindset

I’m a fan of keeping things as simple as possible. And, most of the time for most people, getting the basics right will get you most of the way to your goals.

And yet, we’re always drawn to believing that we need to do something “more”.

Whether it’s trying a particularly strict diet, following an intense workout routine, taking particular supplements or collecting data about ourselves with gadgets and apps, we always feel that more is better. And we often end up bamboozled with too much to do, or too much information, which leads to an on […]

What Do You Need For Your Body To Change?

31.10.2024

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Health, Mindset, Weight Loss

We all want quick results from our weight loss plan. We, quite reasonably, want to see confirmation that the effort we’re putting in is worth it.

But this can draw us to unnecessarily extreme diets, which might work in the short term if you can battle your way through, but in the longer term simply make the weight loss harder to come by.

So with this in mind, these are my top tips for getting your body to change without doing anything extreme.

In fact, despite the fact that they’re not going to be anything you haven’t […]

Losing Weight When Life Is Busy

10.10.2024

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Mindset, Weight Loss

It’s really easy to fall off the wagon when life is busy, but I have some tips for you to help you keep heading towards your weight loss goals when time is short.

Don’t seek perfection
This applies to both diet and exercise. Keep turning up and doing the best you can today.

Plan in advance
Note down a few breakfasts, lunches and snacks which you can keep the ingredients for at home. Don’t over complicate your choices – just remember how important both protein and fibre are, and how many excess calories you can save by simply […]

Gaining a Long Term Relationship with Exercise

1.10.2024

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Fitness, Mindset, Weight Loss

I think that the way we approach exercise has a bearing on how likely we are to create a long term relationship with it.

Let’s think about how most people approach exercise.

It’s with a dislike of a particular body part, a desire to punish themselves for whatever sins against body-perfection they feel they have committed. Often the exercise routine is either “full speed ahead” or “totally off” – there’s usually no middle ground with this approach.

It’s quite a stressful situation from all angles.

It’s not really using exercise as a partner to improve […]