What You Want For Yourself

Are you ready for the beach? Summer is here and if you haven’t already done so you may be thinking about your holiday. After all, we work hard and for most of us work is stressful, that’s without life’s other trials and tribulations. Therefore, it is no surprise that our holidays are one of the most important events in our calendar. Holidays allow us to recharge our batteries and spend quality time with family or…

Congratulations if you’re getting married in 2019 or have started to plan your future wedding! 

You may decide that you want to look your very best on your wedding day and the motivation and determination to lose weight will never been stronger. 

With the most exciting day of your life in the diary, you are probably feeling on top of the world, but do you feel disheartened when you look in the mirror and think that you will not fit into the wedding outfit of your dreams?

Celebrating with friends and family is always fun, whether it is a birthday, engagement party or Christmas and other festive celebrations. Seeing people that you haven’t seen for months or sometimes years is an exciting time. Or is it?  Do you dread going to parties because you only have one outfit in your wardrobe that fits? We have some of those in our wardrobe too! So what can you do rather than feel fed up,…

Are you looking for love? Who doesn’t like a bit of romance? Most of us are suckers for romantic films with happy endings and songs with soppy lyrics. Romantic love is an expression of the most fundamental human emotion. Love makes all the difference to our health and happiness. But overcoming the challenges of looking for love while on a weight loss journey may be scary, so reverting to staying at home every night in…

Imagine being told by your GP that: your blood pressure is high – a potential risk is a heart attack; your body mass index (BMI) is high and has gone above the recommended range for your age; you have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes – no cure, just learning to control it; your cholesterol level is high – a potential risk is a stroke.  All of these would be devastating news to hear and…

Wouldn’t it be great to not have be constantly on a diet, or thinking about being on a diet?  To be naturally slim and have eating under control? No more binge eating and then feeling guilty, or having the feeling that the biscuit/chocolate/crisps etc are the ones in control? How long have you been on a diet?  For some it feels like they’ve been on a diet all their life.  They’ve tried so many different diets over…

You decide to go on a diet.  You reduce your food intake, skips meals, eat only an apple or a plain crispbread!  By mid-morning you’re starving.  You’re probably also obsessing about food – you can’t think about anything but food! Losing weight does not mean you have to starve yourself.   Making yourself only eat small portions and remaining hungry will only make things really difficult for you (often ending up in a binge!).  Hunger…

We’re all looking for the miracle way to get to our ideal weight as soon as is possible.  When we start to see the scales showing results, we feel good about it.  It keeps us motivated (at least for a little while).  And the ideal is if we can see big results really quickly too. However, if we don’t see the scales changing quickly, then we can get disappointed and feel that it’s all too…

The chocolate is calling me from the fridge!  I don’t know what happened: I was doing so well, and then I ended up eating the whole pizza!  I can’t walk past the bakers without buying a bun/sausage roll/cake! There are a few reasons we crave food.  But there are also successful ways to stop them controlling you! REAL OR TRICK HUNGER We are often tricked into eating when we’re not really hungry.  Hunger is either…

Have you ever felt that you just can’t do it?  You can’t lose weight, you can’t maintain a healthy weight, you can’t do certain exercises?   You’ve tried all the diets there are, but you’re doomed to being fat forever! How about that you aren’t good enough, smart enough, confident enough to really achieve your targets?  You don’t have the skills to get to where you want to be?  If you’re like us, the answer…