Have you fallen off the wagon and need some inspiration to get back onto your healthy diet and exercise plan? It happens – whether it’s life that gets in the way or our own motivation waning, you can’t expect progress to be perfect and linear all the time. The important thing is you […]
Continue readingDid you know that your subconscious mind may be the reason you can’t lose weight? You make conscious decisions every day, about what to eat (or not eat), whether to exercise or not, and thousands of other decisions that determine your health and weight loss progress. Or do you? The mind has […]
Continue readingMy husband tells me there’s no point in doing more to help around the house, because as soon as I have more time, I fill it with more stuff. He is correct. I really do try and relax, but like most modern women you’ll probably empathise with our ‘need’ to be constantly busy, doing more, […]
Continue readingHow To Set Your Fitness Goals -And Actually Stick To Them. A guest blog post for wareable.com Polly from The Fit Mum Formula believes that to hit fitness goals using a tracker “you want a tracking device to make the process easier not irritating.” She explained that without realising it, most of us have different motivations […]
Continue readingAnyone giving up anything for lent this year? Do you feel pressure that you SHOULD be giving up some vice of yours for the 40 day duration of lent – chocolate, cigarettes, browsing Instagram after 9pm?! Lent is a Christian festival comprising the 40 days leading up to Easter, whereby people give up luxuries (it used […]
Continue readingI’d like to talk about habits. Habits are great. They are what people who are consistently fit and lean do. And the best bit? You don’t even realise you’re doing them! Because that’s what a habit is – it’s done unconsciously, automatically, without a second thought at all, and is therefore completely effortless. You’ve heard […]
Continue readingJanuary 1st. The day we start the diet/stop smoking/join the gym/whatever. Or perhaps January 2nd, to give us a day to get over the hangover and polish off what’s left of the Christmas chocolates. Either way the tradition of making resolutions at the turn of the New Year can be dated back 4000 years […]
Continue readingAdvent, derived from the Latin word for ‘coming’, is the term given to the three weeks leading up to Christmas, or more specifically, the birth of Jesus. Many of you doing The Fit Mum Formula’s Bodyback programme are Mums; do you remember those final weeks? How could you forget, right?! Backache, heartburn, swollen ankles, Braxton […]
Continue readingYou might say it is obvious, you have to begin first or you will not see results. Well that is true, but that is not to say you are going to feel motivated before you make that start. Motivation comes in many forms – perhaps you’ve been given a health warning and need to make […]
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