Author: Catherine
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Why Weight Gain Creeps On Us As We Age (And What To Do About It)
Let’s try to understand why it’s not as easy to maintain weight as it was many years ago.
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The Right Way To Set Your Goals
Goals are wonderful, they allow us to strive and focus towards a better destination. To achieve Xkg weight loss or to lift Xkg in the gym or to do a photo shoot in X weeks/months. They give a sense of motivation. All too commonly though we end feeling like a goal is too big or…
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What To Do In A Weight Loss Plateau
You’ve been watching what you eat, saying no to the office complimentary donuts in the kitchen, putting lemon slices in your water and you feel you’ve been putting in the work but now the scale isn’t budging. Oh gosh what to do? Well this requires you to be realistic and honest about the work you…
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Positivity Tips During This Quarantine Period
The times are changing for the moment and I choose to look at it as an opportunity for change or to build on other areas of the life. Maybe because I’ve spent such a long time in the past with a negative mindset without any change that now having realised focusing on the negatives does…
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The Power Of Liquid Calories
If I were to offer a starting point for anyone’s health journey, before even starting with food, I would have one simple suggestion. Stop drinking your calories. Usually I don’t like blanket statements. Any rule anywhere that says you have to cut out X food or eliminate Y food from your life is usually wrong…
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Breakfast: The Most Important Meal Of The Day – Is It Really?
I love breakfast. I love waking up in the morning and looking forward to a delicious filling spinach omelette, bowl of all bran cereal and a cup of coffee. Especially right after a workout (early morning workout – initially painful,but sooo worth it) – it makes me feel like I’ve accomplished a feat even before…
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How To Use Your Brain And Habits To Reach Your Fitness Goals
The fact is making a voluntary, self-driven, conscious change to improve any area of life often leads to procrastination, fear, hesitancy, and self-doubt. We all get affected in many areas of our life to varying degrees. Want to know why? Its because there is no big reason WHY we should do it. There’s no one…
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Meal Prepping Made Easier: An Infographic
Whether you work 60 hour weeks, you’re a stay at home mother/father, or a university student, the idea of being able to prepare your own meals is a frequent activity – not only does it save money from eating out but you can make healthier meals for yourself and your family. However you might encounter…
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5 Unique Tips For Your Weight Loss Journey
Its a new year, the energy is fresh, the desire and will to finally get those old favourtie jeans to fit you again, or to take control of your health and be the best you that it can be. You may have tried a fad diet before, or keto for 3 weeks until you went…
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Lifting Weight Makes You Bulky?
Lifting weight + eating too much = BULKY. Lifting weight + eating just enough = NOT BULKY = TONED That’s the reality. If you are at a caloric surplus, regardless of whatever exercise is done, weight will be gained. This is why nutrition is key, and why getting an understanding of nutrition is important. Ladies, this…