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When it comes to weight loss, the most important factor is eating less. When you consume less calories than you expend, you will lose weight. There is no good or bad food as such, but the “diet” [...]

If you haven’t tried bodyweight training, you should! Here’s why… 1. It’s efficient – high output bodyweight exercises yield incredible fitness gains. Bodyweight workouts make it easy [...]

We are ultimately in control of what we buy and what we eat most of the time. If there are foods at home/work we are not supposed to eat whilst on a training/nutrition plan, it’s important to [...]

Many people struggle to fit fitness into their daily routine. Bodyweight exercises solve this problem by giving you an effective workout that can be done anywhere, anytime, with no equipment. In [...]

The decision to eat and choice of what to eat are influenced by many factors. These include both internal (hunger, appetite, satiety, sensory specific satiety) and external factors such as [...]

Let’s explore the differences between the two… Emotional hunger Turning to food to avoid uncomfortable emotions or to heighten pleasurable feelings. Eating based on how you feel as opposed [...]

Our emotional state often affects our food intake. How many of us rush for a sweet snack when faced with emotional difficulty? Are we really feeding our hunger or are we just feeding our [...]

What we think is a weight loss struggle is often a psychological struggle that expresses itself through particular eating and exercise behaviours. To overcome this, we must treat the the root [...]

Many people trying to lose weight often set outcome goals, with a deadline in mind. E.g. losing 10kg in 3 months… Focusing only on the outcome can sometimes derail your motivation. How? You [...]

As well as eating for physical health, what we eat may also affect the way we feel. If you eat a sweet snack, you’ll get a spike of energy, soon followed by a crashing low. There’s [...]