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January – Day 14/31
The difference between nutrient dense and nutrient “empty” foods. I’m pretty sure you will have heard somewhere down the line someone say something along the lines of “You’re just eating empty calories” but do you know what they actually meant by it? Did they know what they meant? All foods contain marco-nutrients which we spoke…
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January – Day 13/31
Just a quick one today – Monitoring weight loss. If you can, try to weigh yourself every day, at the same time, in the buff, before you have eaten or drank anything and after your morning wee. Log your weight each day. IT WILL GO UP AND DOWN! At the end of the week add…
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January – Day 12/31
It’s the weekend!!! What are you doing? Serious question, how do you spend your weekends? Do you have a million things to do? Do you work? Do you take time out for yourself? As well as getting fit and healthy and looking at weight loss, I think it’s important to look at ourselves as a…
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January – Day 11/31
We’ve talked about food, daily activity, structured exercise and water. But what other things are important in looking after your health and well-being? A huge one for me is SLEEP! Humans are the only species that will actively fight the desire to sleep. We stay up to binge watch TV series, waste hours on social…
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January – Day 10/31
Good Morning! How is everyone getting on? I want to have a look at exercise today and what the best exercise is for fat loss… So, where are you right now? Are you brand new to exercise, never done it before and don’t know where to get started? Have you tried a few classes back…
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January – Day 9/31
Yesterday we covered meal planning; today we’re going to take that one step further and look at prep. I’m talking meal prep AND I am talking planning how to hit your activity goals prep. First up, meal prep. We spoke about making a weekly meal plan yesterday so that you know, in advance, what you’re…
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January – Day 8/31
Make a plan to make life easier. If you know what you’re going to be eating for breakfast. lunch and dinner then it makes it a whole lot easier to stick to better way of eating. If you can aim to get the majority of your protein quota in with your main meals then the…
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January – Day 7/31
We’re on to day 7 and I want to know one thing; ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH? Enough fibre that is! Today is all about why fibre is important and making sure that you get your daily quota! Dietary fibre has a number of benefits when consumed in sufficient quantities including the prevention or relief of…
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January – Day 6/31
This one has a bit more body to it. We’re going to look at macro-nutrients or “macros”. All food stuffs are made up of three macro-nutrient groups: protein, fat, and carbohydrate. Each of these macro-nutrients are essential to the healthy function of our bodies. Let’s have a look at what each of them does and…
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January – Day 5/31
Just a short one today – It’s the 80:20 rule! The 80:20 rule is designed so that your eating habits are maintainable and avoid any binge behaviours. Basically, 80% of your daily food intake should be nutrient dense foods – whole foods that are unprocessed and are high in nutritional value (they provide you with…
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