Summer Salad, easy lunch idea

Summer for one week only only and this weekend I have been making the most of the fresh produce in my garden. I only have a really small 'crib' in which I grow salad leaves, rocket, lambs lettuce, parsley, carrots and beetroot, but it's so nice to pick fresh foods and know there's no crap been sprayed on it. In planters scattered around my door, there is more parsley, chives, thyme, basil and rosemary.

For a simple lunch that won't make you tired toast some rye bread (in packets of about 6 not the fresh one), drizzle 'good' oil on it and pile up with avocado, tomato, salad leaves and herbs. Rye bread is high in fiber and low in fat and very tasty.

By the way, I'm no green fingered genius, all the herbs were planted on from supermarket bought ones and the seeds sown in my crib tool all of 20 minutes to do. Give it a go, eating your own food gives a lovely smug feeling!

Feel the Guilt and Do Something About It

“You know what it’s like, you eat a whole chocolate bar and then you feel so guilty about it don’t you?” Well no I don’t, and that’s not me being smug, I do eat whole chocolate bars but I don’t feel guilty. That’s the difference. I do something about it. If I have pigged out I get down the pool and have a longer or harder swim. If my trousers feel a little tight it makes me feel very uncomfortable psychologically as well as physically because that is not who I am. My image of me as a slim person has been in my head since the day I saw myself wearing my mother’s clothes after my second child. Determined to never see that again I did something about it. What image do you have in your head and what do you need to do?

Go ahead and feel guilty but use that guilt to motivate yourself to get active and not put yourself in a prison of self-loathing.  Get angry if necessary, refuse to accept the feelings and decide to exchange them for positive and helpful ones such as respect and love.  

Just get out for a walk to clear your head and give you some energy to think straight. Work out why you keep doing things that make you feel guilty. What do you get out of it? And then make a plan to do something about it. What one thing could you do now to make you feel healthier and move you towards being trimmer and feeling good about yourself.


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Suffering from Anxiety, Depression or Insomnia?

New Device & Skills to Enhance your Experience

I am always excited when I expand my personal comfort zone by learning new ways to help my clients and this is definitely one of the best and easiest tools I have added but with almighty power.

Confidence is often a big issue with my clients and many suffer from anxiety and depression which contributes to them overeating. Along with my other therapeutic tools I have qualified to be an Alpa-Stim® practitioner. Often used to enhance the trance experience it works by ‘retuning’ the brain waves. I saw this when I had some electrodes attached to me and saw the pattern of brain waves change during my treatment. Featured in many press articles the small device has full FDA approval in the US for anxiety, depression and insomnia.  Check out www.themicrocurrentsite.co.uk for all the science and research.

It is one of the easiest devices to use with simple settings and 2 ear clips. I have used it working, gardening and just walking around tucked in a pocket. The best sleep ever has resulted and I feel really relaxed after the treatment yet alert.

If you suffer from anxiety, depression or insomnia you do not need me to tell you how debilitating it can be.

Call for a free no obligation chat with me to see if this new technology can help you feel better about life.

Tel: 0118 978 2409 or for more information

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Start Moving Differently and Lose 500 Calories from Your Fat Stores

Did you see the Horizon programme last week about exercise? If you didn’t I urge to do so before it goes off the iplayer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cywtq/Horizon_20112012_The_Truth_About_Exercise/

Dr. James Levine talked about NEAT- Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis. If you can increase your NEAT you could burn 500 or more calories a day extra. Simple things that involve no gyms, no sweating and no cost either. Now I’m a big fan of this and have been encouraging clients for years to ‘just do it’ as the slogan goes!

Sitting down all day puts the whole body system into idle mode and when you make an effort to move around at least once per hour you will increase your metabolism and have a positive impact on your physiology.

Keep on the move by walking everywhere you can. Walk up escalators and stairs instead of lifts. Walk to the shops.

Stand up to have a meeting or walk with your colleagues. Set a reminder on your computer every hour to march up and down under desk for 1 minute or better still get up and do so.

Not only will you feel more awake you will be burning excess fat. If you are one of the 80% who take no regular exercise then use simple methods to get moving.

Slim People Enjoy Food Too! Have a mince pie!

Slim People Enjoy Food Too!

Why do fat people think slim people don’t enjoy food? Someone said to me today “well of course I really enjoy eating”. What’s that supposed to mean, that I don’t? Being in the food trade for years developing new products I learnt to appreciate ‘quality’ food. Slim people love eating too but they know when to stop because they ‘listen’ and ‘feel’ their body. Being bloated and feeling sick is not on slim people’s agenda. Infact, over eating negates the enjoyment of food. No mouthful tastes as good as the first.

So enjoy small quantities of ‘quality’ food and stop wasting your money, your health and your time eating junk that clogs you up. One mince pie filled with lots of juicy raisins and sultanas is much more enjoyable than 6 filled with ‘gloopy’ filler to make them cheaper.

Ban TV Suppers- my Weight Loss thoughts on Waitrose article

I got really annoyed at the article in Waitrose magazine debating whether we should ban the TV supper. One argument that is missed entirely is that when you eat in front of the TV or computer for that matter, you go into an eating ‘trance’. Unless the food is overly hot or tastes ‘off’ you will not even notice what you are eating. You will be unaware of the texture, the smell, the flavour mix and you will eat everything on your plate. The TV hypnotises you with its minute flickers and I have helped more than one mother understand that her children are not deliberately ignoring her when she calls them. They are hypnotised and instead of shouting (which just winds you up) she goes and clicks her fingers in front of them she will break their trance and get their attention.

TV and computer eating is contributing to obesity in this country. You cannot be aware of exactly when you have had enough and know when to stop eating. Just look at the popcorn eaters in the cinema, munching mindlessly away.

How long does it actually take to eat a meal? If you can’t devote this small amount of time to thoroughly enjoy your food without the box then you really do need some help!

Burglars with Good Taste!

I got burgled last week and lost my sense of humour for a while as you can imagine. What did the thief take? Well he/she climbed over a wall to get in and then they went into my shed. Did they take my bike, garden tools, windsurfing boards, my daughters wakeboard? No they emptied my freezer of all my home cooked foods! They left a bag of ice, 3 cup cakes in a tin, ice cream and a bag of chicken breasts. I was very, very mad!

As I advise my weight loss clients to do, I make large meals for the family and use left over’s to freeze portions for later use. So our thief has obviously walked past our house and enjoyed the smells wafting along the pavement and thought they would have some of that.  They must have taken away 2 black sacks of meals in all the freezer containers I have collected over the years.

I haven’t bothered to claim on the house insurance, it’s not worth it with the excess but it’s all the work it was going to save me that’s so annoying. When working late it’s great to take a ‘proper’ meal to work to enjoy and knowing someone else had all my soups, risotto’s, curries, etc is galling!!

Anyhow rant over with, if you plan ahead as I would encourage you to do for those times you are too tired to cook and may then reach for rubbish food, make sure you have a lock on your freezer if it’s outside!!