Allot of people who are a bit hard up at the moment tell me their diet is suffering because they can’t afford the good foods, this shouldn’t be a problem even when times are hard there is no reason you can’t get good sources of protein.  Below is a list of cheap good quality protein [...]

A client of mine at My Fitness Studio asked me recently “How strict does my diet really need to be to reach my goals?” this was following her recently reading an article by a London personal trainer saying what to avoid eating at christmas.  Many personal trainers give their clients extremely strict diet advice [...]

Following our last posts on goal setting I thought it would be interesting to discuss the psychology side of losing weight. Psychology of weight loss is so important because if you don’t have this right you will not lose weight.
Many men and women who are overweight tell people they don’t care about being overweight that [...]

How does your diet change during the winter period?  I know that when it gets cold I tend to eat a lot more.  In the summer I often find it hard to eat and sometimes end up eating as little as 2 meals a day.  Diet is easily affected by the weather.  When it’s cold [...]

Below are some common fat loss myths many people believe today.

Wearing a bin bag in the sauna is a great way to burn fat- will make you lose body water no fat, also quite dangerous if your not careful.
Not eating is a great way to lose weight- you lose muscle mass and end up putting [...]

The most common goal of most people who come to My Fitness Studio is to burn fat.  I have put together a few fat burning tips to help you burn fat over the winter, a time when lots of us end up putting on the pounds.

Do cardio training for minimum 20 minutes (body breaks [...]

Nowadays, supermarkets are aware that to sell products they need to put signs on products that people don’t want to buy because they are fattening saying “low fat” or “lower fat” but what does that actually mean.  ”Lower fat” can mean it is just slightly lower fat than previously but on a product like butter [...]

Allot of us eat and drink things daily which we have no idea of the amount of calories it contains.  Below is a list of different foods and drinks and there calories so you can easily see where a lot of us are going wrong and putting on weight which we could easily lose by [...]

When people come for the first time to My Fitness Studio they often tell me they have tried dieting and have stopped eating for 3/4 of the day as a drastic way to lose weight.  I tell them this is the worst way to lose weight and actually to do the opposite, to eat [...]

35 Weight loss tips for men and women

Drink lots of water
Eat Fruit daily
Eat vegetables daily
Take multivitamins
Do weight training weekly
Do cardio weekly
Avoid complex carbs
Avoid refined sugar
Take cod liver oil
Avoid coffee
Drink peppermint tea
Reduce alcohol consumption
Walk more instead of taking the bus or car
Reduce daily carbs
Reduce daily fats
Drink a glass of water before meals
Take fat loss supplements
break your [...]