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How To Manage Your Anger
Ever felt that horrible heat as your anger levels rise and you literally feel like your blood is nearing boiling? We’ve all been there at some point. Here’s six great tips for keeping your cool, in an article I contributed to for The Debrief. •‘Buy time and count to 10,’ suggests nutritionist and health therapist Pollyanna […]
Continue readingHow to set your fitness goals – and stick to them
How 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 readingIf You Don’t Like It Don’t Do It
If you don’t like it don’t do it. You’re an adult aren’t you? Are you just going to follow like a sheep, doing exercise you don’t like, eating food you don’t like, because you really really want to look good and you really really think this stuff is good for you? Well let me tell […]
Continue readingDon’t Give Up On Lent
Anyone 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 readingMaking A Habit A Habit.
I’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 readingNew Year New You
January 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
Advent, 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 readingWhich Comes First, Motivation or Results?
You 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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