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30 Minute Home Workout Without Equipment (video)
This home workout without equipment is taken from my award winning weight loss programme for Mums (the BodyBack programme), with energising music dubbed over for a bit of a party vibe. I was invited to present at the family fitness festival Refresh Festival hosted by Dame Kelly Holmes no less, so along with a Q […]
Continue readingHow To Stop Yourself Eating Too Much Cake
We’ve all eaten too much cake at some point in our lives and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. After all food is for enjoyment as well as nourishment and there’s no point in living a miserable life in pursuit of trying to be perfect all the time. But too much cake when […]
Continue readingHealthy Packaged Snacks
While making homemade snacks and cooking everything from scratch sounds idyllic, sometimes we just need some healthy packaged snacks to grab in a hurry, when you’re on the go or when you’re just too tired to choose anything else! These lists are not exhaustive, in fact the possibilities are endless. But they are […]
Continue readingIs Food Combining any good for Weight Loss
The Food Combining Diet, also known as the Hay diet after it’s founder William Hay, was developed as a lifestyle plan to treat obesity and other diseases and health problems such as heart disease and digestive problems. The principals are that since different foods digest at different speeds, combining them disrupts optimal digestion and […]
Continue readingHealthy Alternatives to Bread
There are a few reasons you might be looking for alternatives to bread but chances are it’s for health reasons and not taste – who doesn’t love warm fresh crusty bread?! But even if we rule out gluten intolerance, white flour and products made with it are very processed and nutritionally don’t offer many benefits. […]
Continue readingTo Meat or Not – Is Vegan Healthy?
The number of vegans in the UK has risen by over 350% in the past decade and continues to rise, but is Vegan healthy? A vegan diet contains no animal products at all, not even a tiny smear of butter or sweets made with gelatin from pigs. Animal products like meat, fish, eggs […]
Continue readingHow to Eat More to Lose Weight
It is actually possible to eat more to lose weight, but it’s very easy to get wrong. Hunger is a big problem for people trying to lose weight. Weight loss requires a reduction in calories (food), which, obviously, is going to leave you hungrier than before. Your body instinctively doesn’t want you to […]
Continue readingHow To Stop Counting Calories
Your biggest fear if you were to stop counting calories is likely that you’d accidentally overeat and gain weight. And that’s not an unfounded concern – it is possible that if you’re not aware of calories you could consume too many. But being aware of and mindful of calories is not the same […]
Continue readingCan you eat Too Many Vegetables?
For most people not enough vegetables, rather than too many vegetables is the problem. Vegetables as well as fruit and salad are high in vitamins, fibre & water and low calorie. But can you eat all you like or should you put a limit on them when you’re trying to cut calories and […]
Continue readingHow to Make Tasty Healthy Food
Being able to make tasty healthy food is important because no matter how dedicated and determined you are, if you food is consistently bland and boring your’re going to have a hard time sticking to it. But how do you make healthy food taste good without adding a tonne of calories? If you […]
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