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Weighing Yourself Every Day Can Help With Weight Loss and Maintenance Daily weighing is one of the most debated habits in weight loss. Some people believe it causes obsession frustration or anxiety. Others avoid the scale altogether and rely on how they feel or how their clothes fit. While emotional responses to the scale are very real the scientific evidence …
Why Willpower Alone Is Not Enough for Weight Loss For many people, losing weight is seen as a simple process of eating less and exercising more. While those things are important, research increasingly shows that weight loss is far more complex than most people realise. Psychological factors, social influences, daily habits, timing of meals, and the presence of temptation all …
Getting to Grips with Emotions Is Key to a Healthy Body When people think about losing weight the first things that usually come to mind are diet and exercise. Those elements are absolutely essential, but they are only part of the picture. One of the most overlooked components of successful weight loss — and the factor that separates those who …
It must be very confusing when starting a weight loss plan. The internet is full of different opinions regarding weight loss. One constant and wrong approach I hear to weight loss is to cut carbohydrate to very low levels when trying to lose weight. This is a simple method to monitor for many people as they just simply cut back on pasta, rice, bread and potato. Deleting your …
A study now shows that exercising before breakfast can burn 20 percent more fat than if you train after eating. That 20 % could well be the all important dress size for the Christmas party or a couple of notches down on the belt making that belly not so obvious. A 20 minute jog, swim or cross trainer workout before …
The market is over crowded with Personal Trainers. Some highly qualified and unfortunately an ever growing number barely qualified. As a Professional Personal Trainer who took the degree route with 4 years of my life dedicated to learning every aspect of human physiology, exercise psychology and body mechanics, I think I deserve the right to be a member of the …
I have some great facts for you each week to help you make better food choices. For example, a piece of pizza (200g) with Mozzarella and pepperoni is a whopping 650 calories. However a Vegetable pizza with cheese is over half the calories at 250 calories! This next example is even more shocking if you like Indian food – A …
Frighteningly, every 2 minutes someone is diagnosed with cancer in the UK. Surely it makes sense for us to take every means possible that are under our control to minimise our risk of getting certain cancers. Well the good news is that research now shows us that for certain types of cancers that taking regular exercise significantly reduces the chances …
Why go to a Bootcamp? Bootcamp exercise classes are now extremely popular and, in my opinion, here to stay. I currently have 4 Bootcamps in Bedford. A good Bootcamp should push you to do more than you would normally do if you were to exercise alone, whilst at the same time giving the opportunity to work to your own limits …
An hour of dancing = 286 calories Allows you to choose between a standard Mars Bar = 280 calories or 12 Brazil nuts = 275 calories
