April - 2016

No time to workout? Try this...

There is one answer that comes up more than anything else when I ask this question: “What stops you from exercising?” It is actually reason I called my business Fit In Minutes because it is the one thing that I struggled with too. It’s TIME. But the funny thing about time is that we can actually control how we use it. And once you start exercising it is usually one excuse we can overcome. In truth to reach certain goals, yes you may need to invest lots of time in your trainin

Are You Consistent?

You start off with masses of enthusiasm. You exercise at least 3 times a week. You are feeling good. The food choices you have made in the last few weeks have frankly contained a years’ worth of your usual vegetable intake. You are on it! Or are you? Life starts to set in, there is only so long you can focus on this being healthy stuff right? One workout slips and then another and then there was that packet of crisps, the chocolate and the take away because you were too tired

Push The Button

Many years ago I worked in Training and Development, back in the days when I put on a pair of heels instead of trainers and strutted my stuff in the corporate world. I loved it. Standing in front of a group of people and usually spending the first half hour persuading them that being there was actually for their benefit and well worth a day away from the to do list. That feeling when I knew I had got through to them and they actually wanted to be there and often thanked me at

The Sugar Challenge

Whenever I ask about nutritional challenges it seems there is one thing that blocks our path more than any other. One thing we all seem to struggle with to some extent and I am including myself in this! We know we shouldn’t do it but frankly it is just so tempting! It’s sugar, it’s everywhere and it’s getting in the way…. There is always a story in the papers about how we should cut the sugar from our diets it’s a good story to bring out again and grab the headlines when othe

Do you believe you Can?

So it has been an interesting week. Lately I have been working with a group of people to help them change their eating habits one at a time, so I have been thinking a lot about what we eat and especially about my own diet. I am pretty good in the norm and my diet is mainly clean with about 20% room to relax a little. But then Christmas came and I am a believer that at that time of year it is important to enjoy the festivities so I let myself go a little. Usually January comes

Stop Counting Calories

One of the first things I tell clients when I meet them is that I won’t be counting calories or watching the scales. Sometimes I can see that this makes them feel a little uncomfortable and sometimes I see visible relief. There are some really fundamental reasons why I believe that we should be moving away from the old fashioned measurements like weight, calories, BMI etc. There are also some very important psychological reasons too, weighing yourself every day and checking t