It’s the off-season. Which means ice-cream, holiday lager, lie-ins, learning sports that have maybe eluded me before and generally learning to be a normal human being again. It’s a few weeks of the year where I remember what it feels like not to need a snack every 2 hours and not need a nap at …
One of the most common discussions I hear around healthy eating and lifestyle is that “people can’t afford it”. As a kid, I lived in a two up two down terrace with my mum. I weekended with my dad and at some point, both of my parents were working two jobs to support themselves and …
Can we have health without wealth? Part 1 – The Food. Read More »
Back in the day, it was only elite sportspeople that had a coach – and that was basically a guy with a stopwatch who shouted “FASTER, BETTER, STRONGER, MORE!” at you. Nowadays, coaching is a whole different beast and it’s something that is both more useful and more accessible for most of us. But who …
You know what it’s like – you’ve just promised yourself for the umpteenth time that you’ll get in shape. Your new eating regime is going really well, you’re hitting all your fitness targets and you’re feeling great…then the family summer holiday comes along and derails everything. Often, it’s even more black and white with people …
No. That’s the short answer. Is that what you came here for? Awesome, that was easy. Okay, as I expected, you want a little more than that don’t you. You’re also wondering why someone who spends most of her life encouraging others to eat more protein and fat and less carbohydrate is on here telling …
We don’t understand just how serious excess body fat is. The reason body confidence has got mixed up in the “fat shaming” argument, is because people have become so obsessed with body image, that they pivot their entire situation on how they look in the mirror. If you are overweight, but you are confident about …
A very brief and broad search on a scientific database threw up 1,776 results when I searched “obesity covid19”. Wow. I’m used to seeing about five results when I first go and research something (admittedly, the search terms typically a lot narrower, but still). Furthermore, pretty much every article I clicked on, was freely available …
How Covid began to show us the real dangers of obesity. Read More »
We were about 7km into the 15km climb when the trees parted and left us exposed to the raw heat of the day. It was a muggy, moist heat, perfect for horseflies. We spent the next 2km comedically slapping our thighs as we felt each and every piercing bite through our sweat-sodden shorts. Why. Why …
Step into a gym, have a session with a PT or hook yourself up to a treadmill and you’ll be touted that the best way for you to shift that excess blubber is to crack on in the moderate or amber zone, because this is the “fat burn zone”. Day in day out, Slimming World’s …
The cheat meal. Every diet has one. “Oh, don’t worry, you can have a cheat day once a week.” What does this mean? What are you cheating? Well in the context of a calorie cutting diet, you’re cheating your calorie count for the day. In the context of a diet focusing on particular macronutrients, it …
