Find a compatible food buddy and get started on your weight loss journey. You’ll soon realize it’s easier to stick to your diet when you connect with a partner who is going through the same weight struggles as you. You’ll experience the satisfaction of reaching your weight loss goals while helping someone else reach theirs as well.
Health and Nutrition
The Harsh Truth About Normal Weight Obesity
Excess body fat affects your health much like extra pounds. Find out more about normal weight obesity and how you can overcome it. Facts about Normal Weight Obesity 1. Follow the history. A study by the Mayo Clinic in 2008 coined the term “normal weight obesity” to describe people with high body fat, but normal …
Ask Delikan: I want to be healthier AND eat chocolate
Miss M asked Garth about what to do when she is trying hard to eat healthily, fruit for lunch and lots of veggies with dinner, no snacking, a good breakfast, but sometimes the urge to eat some chocolate hits her… “And yes I want to lose weight!” Garth says: Somehow it seems that you can’t …
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Metal meals – eating the right minerals
Your body needs metal. No, I’m not talking about eating iron filings but eating foods rich in minerals like red meat and spinach. Having enough iron in your diet is important as it helps to oxygenate your blood which improves oxygen levels in your muscles and increases fitness. Zinc is also an essential component for energy and …
The “Myth” of Spot reduction!
Contrary to popular belief you can’t “spot” reduce fat from a part of your body. When you lose weight, you lose it from all over your body because you reduce the fat cells throughout your system. Working out, with weights or against any kind of resistance will help you to tone up and firm certain areas, …
Another 10 ways to feel awesome right now! Part 2.
If you find your energy levels beginning to flag in the afternoon go and take a walk in the fresh air. Physical activity oxygenates the brain faster than a chocolate biscuit and energises your cells for the rest of the day by supplying your brain and body cells with fresh oxygen. Hup two three four! …
10 ways to feel awesome right now! Part 1.
You ready for this? 1. I know you’ve heard it before but cutting back on the booze doesn’t do you any harm at all. The odd glass or two of beer or wine may be good for your heart and also relaxing you but as soon as you overdo it alcohol becomes a depressant and …
Exercise and Weight Management
Being healthy and feeling good about yourself is not something that just happens! Not exercising, eating constant junk food or giving no thought to what you put inside you is a definite recipe for disaster! It doesn’t take much for us to start feeling bead ourselves, but also by the same token, it doesn’t take …
Health and Nutrition
Wanting to lose weight, tone up, get in shape and feeling healthy might seem like you have to climb an unassailable mountain sometimes! But getting healthy and eating a sound, fun and nutritious diet isn’t as hard as you may think. The first thing to do when you start off on any “get healthy plan” …
How often do I need to exercise?
Well if you look at government guidelines (and some people do) you’ll see it says you need to exercise five times a week for 30 x minutes at a time. However it’s definition of exercise can also mean gardening and walking which unless you’re hugely overweight or incredibly lazy isn’t really going to get you …