Present day work environments and schedules are not usually very sympathetic or flexible towards those trying to follow a healthy lifestyle or on a diet. Shift work, overtime, deadlines, family responsibilities and commuting can all wreck your fitness regime if you let them. While some compromises may be necessary the secret is to [...]

Feast or famine:
Erratic eating habits are one of the basic problems for those trying to lose weight. Your body likes regularity, so, if you’re having trouble organising your weight loss program what you need is an eating schedule that allows sufficient time for the body to digest the food that you have planned and [...]

‘Fat’ is a word rich in negative connotations as well as health and emotional implications. So let’s just stick with the facts, and truth is, like it or not, women are simply biologically more prone to retaining body fat than men. However, there are other issues involved in women’s responses to body fat [...]

Eating more protein (30% of your total caloric intake) and eating smaller meals more often helps avoid muscle breakdown (catabolism) while exercising.
Choose foods high in volume (bulk). Green leafy vegies such as cabbage, spinach and broccoli are high in antioxidants and low in calories. Starchy foods such as sweet potatoes, brown rice and [...]

No matter how long you’ve neglected your body, it’s never too late to shape up and get rid of excess fat. However, as everyone has differing body types, simply losing weight on the scales isn’t the only criteria: how you look and how you feel are the best indicators of progress.
Step by step: [...]

The diet was developed by Dr Arthur Agatston, a cardiologist based in Florida who developed the diet as a response to the high-cholesterol, obesity and diabetes suffered by many of the patients in his clinic.  The patients found they lost weight easily and didn’t feel hungry, their health problems improved and as a result they [...]

Tell people you are trying to lose weight- by telling people you will work harder to lose weight as you won’t want them to think you have failed.
Take before and after photos- before and after photos are a great way to keep track of your results because you can often easily forget what you were [...]

Eat every 2-4 hours- keeping the body fed regularly ensures that it doesn’t go into starvation mode storing what you eat as fat.  Eating regularly will not only give you more energy as the body uses what you eat predominantly as energy but will stop it being stored as fat.
Drink water regularly through out the [...]

MMA is now a huge TV broadcasted sport, and many young men today want to get a body like the MMA fighters they are seeing on TV, but how do they achieve these bodies?  MMA fighters are generally muscular and lean.  They do a combination of weight training and cardiovascular training.  MMA fighters would train [...]

Cortisol is a corticosteroid hormone aka “Stress Hormone” produced in the adrenal gland, it is involved in response to stress and anxiety.  Cortisol increases blood sugar levels, increases blood pressure and reduces immune system responses.  This is one hormone that we really need to control.  In most peoples modern lives they suffer from cortisol being [...]