Healthy Eating & Exercise Advice
Exercise is just as important as a healthy diet when it comes looking after your body. If you’ve started to pick the exercise up a notch and are regularly training quite hard (60-90 or more minutes a day), then it may be time to start thinking about your pre and post exercise nutrition. Why have [...]
How is your metabolism? Still firing on all cylinders? Although everyone has one, over the years many of my clients have expressed to me that theirs simply doesn’t exist anymore. They feel that eating one piece of cake ends up straight on their bottom, and for some of them their journey with losing weight has [...]
How many excuses can you come up with for not exercising? As someone who has struggled to exercise regularly over the years I can think of plenty… It’s too cold. It’s too hot. I don’t have time. My knees hurt. I hate waking up early. I’m too tired after work. I hate gyms. I hate [...]
Over the past 12 months I have been on a journey of regaining my fitness after after having my two beautiful children. The greatest lesson that I’ve learnt over this time is that it doesn’t happen overnight, but it does happen, eventually. Earlier this year I shared with the readers of Feelgooder.com my journey of [...]
Seriously, this is the most frustrating aspect of my life – waking up early to exercise daily. Why is it frustrating? Because I don’t do it. My alarm goes off every morning and I am startled awake feeling unbelievably tired, grumpy and within seconds the alarm is off and I’m back asleep. I wake an [...]
Unfortunately, the answer is not a simple yes or no. There are lots of different factors that determine whether eating something before you exercise is recommended or not. Factors such as why you are exercising, how long you are exercising for and the intensity of that exercise will all play a part in determining whether [...]
Life, if you let it, will take you to places you never dreamed possible. Have you ever had a moment, that no matter how many times you ‘pinched yourself’ you still couldn’t believe it was happening? I had one of those moments today. Most of my readers would know that I set myself a goal [...]
Cancer, unfortunately, is one of those horrible things that has become ‘just apart of life’. I’m sure almost everybody has been touched by cancer in some way, whether it’s been through battling the disease themselves or seeing a close friend or family member suffer. This year, one of my goals is to participate in my [...]
This post is part of a series documenting my progress through Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation Challenge (12WBT). To read the first post click here. Have you ever joined a gym, bought an ‘Ab Circle Pro’, a Zumba DVD box set or embarked on some other exercise journey and found you are still doing [...]
This post is part of a series documenting my progress through Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation Challenge (12WBT). To read the first post click here. Week 1 As part of the challenge, Michelle encourages you to identify all the excuses that are holding you back from achieving the goals that you have for health [...]
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