On mirror.co.uk there’s the fantastic story of Anne-Marie Marshall who used to weigh 16 stones until she overheard colleagues at work calling her fat and lazy. That gave her the kick she needed to shed 6 stone and she now looks great! Anne-Marie’s success came from good old fashioned eating of a healthy balanced diet, the ditching of unhealthy food and a big serving of motivation.
Here’s Anne-Maries’s top tips
● Plan your meals in advance so you won’t grab the easiest and quickest thing out of the freezer to cook.
Well not such a secret anymore. Cheryl, voted the world’s sexiest woman by FHM, has told another magazine “Recently my mother told me about Eat Right 4 Your Type, in which you’re told what to eat and what to avoid depending on your blood type”
She says she’s benefited not just in weight but also getting loads more energy. The Eat Right 4 Your Type diet seems to make a lot of sense, getting you to eat food that compliments your body.
For more on the diet see this website HERE
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An open air workout is better for you than the gym. It’s kind of obvious that exercising in fresh air would be more beneficial than being stuck indoors but did you know it’s also better for you mentally?
Doctors are now being urged to prescribe outdoors exercise for people with mental illnesses after a study showed people who workout in the open have better self esteem and better moods than those who do it in the gym.
Read more HERE
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Scientists from University of Warwick and the Federico II University in Naples have found a link between the amount you sleep each night and how long you live. They’ve discovered that poor sleepers are 12% more likely to die prematurely than those who get between 6 and 8 hours sleep a night.
The reasons are fairly obvious, people who sleep longer are less stressed and have had more healing time each night but for the sake of an early night you might end up with a later life! Read more HERE
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People on diets order less food for a slim waiter or waitress than they do from a larger one! That’s the surprising finding from a team of university researchers in North America.
The survey had some complex results on dieters vs non dieters but in short
- People on a diet ordered more when their waiter was overweight
- People who were not on a diet didn’t order as much when they were served by a larger waiter
- People not on a diet got stuck in when they were served by a slim waiter
Did you know people spend an average of £3,000 a year on keeping fit and healthy? Have you thought about how you can keep the cash and the fitness?
Mirror.co.uk has 40 tips for keeping fit for free – like these
1) When you’re away on your holidays, exercise on a sandy beach for the ultimate high-intensity work out.
2) Try YouTube for a huge number of exercise videos you can do for free.
3) Clean your house vigorously. You can burn 50,000 calories a year! That’s 14lbs in fat – exactly one stone.
A concerning number of adults have a daily diet which includes the equivalent of taking 46 teaspoonfuls of sugar!
The problem is that many of us don’t know the hidden sugar count in everyday foods. For example there could be as much as 6 teaspoons of sugar in your breakfast cereal. 8 in a ready meal and almost 9 in a can of soft drink.
The long term health problems don’t bear thinking about; it just proves the medial adage ‘always read the label’.
Read more about the research from the Emory School of Medicine HERE
From the YouMakeItUp blog, click HERE to find out how to tell the story of your body, how to think yourself beautiful and how to recognize the truth as a good thing
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Eating more of certain types of food could actually be part of your weight loss diet. Here’s a list of filling foods that will keep you going but won’t pile on the pounds.
Eating more of certain foods can actually help you lose weight. Bump up your intake of these fillers and watch the pounds drop off.
Fibre – it doesn’t add to your calorific intake so check out the wholegrain options all
Protein – found in lean meat, eggs, and fish makes you feel full. So more of these and less carbs means you’re staving off hunger without putting on weight.
From mirror.co.uk here are the top reasons that a man will find it easier to lose weight than his partner
Men have the physiological advantage when it comes to ditching the pounds.
Men just get on with it.
Men pump iron.
Men don’t give up the food they like.
Men aren’t as bothered as you.
Men don’t use food as therapy.
Men crave steak instead of chocolate.
But while women might not have the edge on losing weight they can pick up some male habits to help their own diets – there’s more info on how to do that HERE