Healthy Twist Meals

Why not try a weight loss coaching session as part of your approach to meeting your goals?

Like having your own private slimming group only you set the agenda - there's no public weigh in, no chastisement for not hitting your target and you have the chance to ask all your questions when they come up.  It's a great way to address all the lifestyle, nutrition and emotional...

Enjoy Your Life!

It seems like a silly thing to have to point out but if you are making yourself miserable with your attempts at a healthy lifestyle, something is not right and there are plenty of places to seek help to remedy that.

Perhaps there are underlying conditions, either physically or mentally which make losing weight harder, maybe you have taken too strict a route and need...

Get Social About It!

Weight loss doesn't have to be a lonely goal.  Get together with friends and family and do things that help! 

Cook together - if you don't know how to, take cookery lessons together!

Exercise together - go out for a walk, take up a sport or head to the gym.

Talk together - sometimes getting things out is the most effective way to work...

Get Active!

It’s inaccurate to believe that taking exercise will allow us to eat what we like - if you were to take 30 minutes moderate exercise every day, you would be able to eat an extra one and a half hobnob biscuits each day.

So burning calories is not going to get us to to slim down by itself, but while diet will do the most of the work, exercise will always play a pivotal...

Keep a Food/Mood Diary

I have already touched briefly on the mechanics of keeping a food diary in previous patters, but there is a reason for keeping a food diary that is equally if not more interesting than simply marking calories.

A great way to monitor your energy balance but also how you feel about what you are eating and to help you identify what drives you to making slips. I...

A healthy eating plan does not have to ruin your social life - it’s all about making sensible choices and not being afraid to ask for nutritional info where possible.

Many restaurants are wising up to the fact that the public are taking more care over what they eat and are offering more transparency with their nutritional information so don’t be shy to ask for a guide, especially...

Don’t make promises you can’t keep

It’s no good to swear off booze, crisps or chocolate when you know you’ll be a cold sweat every time you go to the shops trying not to buy them. If you do that and fall off the wagon, you’ll be more likely to give up on you healthy eating regime all together.

Rather than go cold turkey, try to make compromises to include...

Portion Sizes

Leading on from tip 3, knowing how much to eat of a given food is important in not over eating.

Someone may claim to have a perfect diet, only eating fruit, veg, lean meat and complex carbs but if they are eating three times what they should be of those food, they will still put on weight!

A great way to make sure you are portioning correctly is to invest in a cheap...