Who Cares Why You Want To Lose Weight
Seriously, WHO cares? Weight loss has nothing to do with the number on the scale but sadly that’s often what people focus and even obsess over. Over time it’s easy to lose focus about some arbitrary number that has no emotion attached to it. Then you get some people that have a WHY for losing…
How To Quit Dieting Forever
How To Quit Dieting Forever The dieting world is full of many things; opinions, books, products, methods, marketing, clubs and a whole lot of nonsense. In general, the majority of the dieting industry is more concerned with making money than making people healthy. After all, it’s fantastic business. As a population we are more overweight…
Why Starting Tomorrow Never Works For Weight Loss Diets
Why Starting Tomorrow Never Works For Weight Loss Diets Every diet starts on a Monday, it’s like science. I mean why would you start on any other day? Unfortunately for most people, no matter what walk of life they’re from, what job they do or what their goal is, tomorrow never comes. There will…
Term Time Diets Are Ruining Your Weight Loss Progress
Term Time Diets Are Ruining Your Progress What’s the worst thing about dieting? Eating boring food? Feeling hungry all the time? Or maybe it’s the fact that it makes you feel grumpy and miserable because you can no longer enjoy life? Well if your diet is making you unhappy then it’s probably not for…
How To Enjoy Social Eating Without Ruining Your Progress
No matter how long you’ve been training or being mindful of your nutrition, no doubt the biggest pitfall you’ve encountered is eating things you haven’t prepared yourself or hadn’t planned for. You’ve been dieting hard all week, lifting heavy, maybe even doing some dreaded cardio sessions and then at the weekends it all seems to…
No Time To Weight – How Body Weight Affects Running Performance
By now you already know you should be doing weight training, long runs, speed work etc, don’t you? Whether you DO them or not is another matter… But do you find that all too often your run still feels like a mammoth slog after just a few hundred metres and you want to give up?…
How To Swap Gut Distress For Personal Bests
It takes real guts to push yourself into getting fitter & faster. But failing to look after your gut could lead you to be caught short in your PB attempt – literally. Your digestive system plays a huge role in maintaining you at peak performance and when abused you’ll certainly know all about it. Stomach…
Busy Mum’s Guide to Fussy Eating Children
Busy Mum’s Guide to Fussy Eating Children ‘I don’t like it’ they scream at the top of their little voices. The only responses you have in your locker are ‘PLEASE eat it!’ or ‘You DO like it, you ate it YESTERDAY!’. Sadly neither of these pleas are likely to result in a more compliant child…
How To Set Realistic & Achievable Goals
How To Set Realistic & Achievable Goals Every January I see and influx of enquiries for coaching from people who have decided that the new year is the time for a fresh start. Most commonly their e-mail goes along these lines ‘I want to lose 4 stone by April’. The weight and timescale vary but…
How To Overcome Cravings
How To Overcome Cravings “I NEED a chocolate bar!” How many times have you told yourself this? Whether your vice is crisps, biscuits, cakes or cookies we all experience cravings at some time. They most commonly attack mid-morning, mid-afternoon or either side of dinner like a stealthy ninja and you are powerless to stop them.…