1: You're Making Excuses Nobody gets anywhere if what they say is different to what they do. You don't have time for breakfast, yes you do. You don't have time to train, yes you do. If you have time to do everything else, why is health and nutrition at the bottom of your priority list, when the thing you said at the start of this year is that you want to change the way you look? Excuses are for the weak, solutions are what will get you closer to your goal. 2: You are not stre

People still believe that having a low fat high carbohydrate diet is healthier and better for body composition.. Are carbohydrates essential to life? NO! I don't know about you but I never heard of an 'Essential Sugar', or an 'Essential Glucose Acid'. However, the other two macro nutrients, protein and fats are essential. We have essential amino acids and we have essential fatty acids. These are not called essential for no reason. They are called 'essential' because the body

Burning fat is more than just balancing your calories, it is arguably more important to balance your hormones, namely metabolic hormones. You can decrease your calorie intake to lose weight, but if your hormones are not in check, you will not be burning any fat. My top 5 Methods to balance metabolic hormones to fat burn: 1. Strength Train! Lift heavy weights! The stress hormone cortisol is not all bad. That why you just need to balance your hormones not necessarily reduce you

Are you exercising regularly? Are you eating healthy? Are you still not losing weight? I have 5 top tips to help you lose weight, that you would have never thought applied to you, until now. These are in no order of priority. They are all equally important. Some people may need to address some points more than others in order to re-boot the fat loss process. A lot of these issues are directly related with stubborn abdominal fat, mainly stress and gut health. 1. STRESS: Simply

Stress is making you fat! Everyone to some extent is stressed. Physically, mentally, emotionally, or whatever stress you may experience could be the reason you are not able to shift the extra fat! So what is stress? Stress is the body’s response to a certain stimulus normally a perceived threat to the body. The adrenal glands will secrete cortisol, the stress hormone, to try and deal with the effects. It will provide the body with glucose by tapping into protein stores via a

Five Fitness Tips: BLACK COFFEE: Having a black coffee prior to working out will help you burn fat faster. Why? Because the stimulant from the black coffee will turn your cells into a more fat burning mode. As well as this, science has proven that drinking black coffee enhances any physical performance making you faster and stronger for longer. KNOW WHAT YOU WANT: Many people go into the gym every day and do the same old things, just to say they have been to the gym. If you h

Early Years: Throughout my time at primary school I was forever battling a diet problem, I was skinny as a rake and received comments such as ‘If you carry on eating like that you’re going to die…’ At this point in time I was oblivious to the meaning of the phrase and kept on eating what I liked, the only things I liked. My packed lunch would include a peanut butter sandwich, 2 packets of crisps and 2 chocolate bars, day in day out. Every day I would be one of the only kids w