Dad Deserves A Life Too!
As a Dad, providing a better life for the wife and kids is always your priority. Seeing smiles on their faces makes you the happiest man in the world. You couldn’t ask for anything more out of life. Nevertheless, it’s important that you take some time to invest in yourself too. The family might be […]
Simple Health & Fitness Tips for the Working Dad
You need to understand the value and importance of staying fit and healthy. As a working father, you might think this is difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. Of course, you’re going to need a balanced and healthy diet. But there are plenty of other ways as well. Here is a list of a […]
Dad’s Guide To Healthier Eating
The ‘Dad’ body might be in right now, but it’s not healthy. Shedding those extra pounds could be the key to feeling like you did in your prime. Even if you aren’t overly bothered by your physique, aiming to eat a healthy balanced diet should still be a priority. It doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy […]
Best Hobbies For Keeping Your Child Healthy
To make sure that your child grows up understanding the importance of fitness, it is crucial that you incorporate healthy activities into your lifestyle. But what is the best way to go about this? One of the best ways to make yours and your child’s lifestyle more active is with hobbies. As well as being […]
Simple and Healthy Desserts the Whole Family Will Enjoy
Creating food that the whole family enjoys can be a struggle. However, the following desserts are guaranteed crowd pleasers. They are also healthy, meaning you don’t have to feel guilty when you set to work preparing them. Fruit dipped in sugar-free chocolate One fantastic option is to prepare fruit dipped in sugar-free chocolate. Sugar free […]
Simple Ways to Cut the Risk of Sports Injuries
One of the depressing things about getting older is the fact that you can’t throw yourself across a squash court or hurtle around a football pitch with the same careless abandon you had as a teenager. If you want to stay out of A&E, you have to be more careful when it comes to your […]
100 Days of Dieting
It has now been over three months since I started my diet. Over the past 100 days I have spent weeks on Slimfast shakes, weight watchers soups, and even been electrocuted by a slender tone belt. The Bad There has been many times that my resolve has weakened and I delved into the children’s chocolates, […]
Review: Upbeat High Protein Dairy Drink
Diets are really tough and keeping track of what you eat and drink can be difficult. I have been dieting since January and since then I have tried both Weight Watchers and Slimfast. Slimfast brought me out in an itchy rash and Weight Watchers always seemed to leave me hungry. I needed something new. Then, […]
February Diet week 8/9 | Time To Quit The Booze
So it turns out I’m allergic to Slimfast. All the weeks of itching all over was not due to using biological washing powder, but to the delicious diet shakes I was having on a daily basis. As I quit Slimfast mid-week I treated myself on Thursday and Friday to a Subway sandwich. Tasty as it […]
February Diet | Week 7 | Temptation Strikes
The thought of a night out in London with friends set off alarm bells in the calorie-counting part of my brain. With each Gin and Tonic weighing in at around 100 calories each I knew Saturday would not be good for my diet. As such I told myself that after that after lunch I would […]
February Diet | Week 6 | Getting Bored
My resolve is weakening and the whole diet thing is getting very boring, very quickly…. Six pounds lost in six weeks meaning in order to reach my target weight of 11st 3lb I will need to be on this diet for yet another six weeks at least. My motivation is waining and whilst I am […]
February Diet | Week 5 | Teeny Tiny Titbits
[dropcap size=big] T[/dropcap]his week was pretty uneventful as I kept to my Slimfast shakes and indulged a little at the weekend with a large roast dinner. My wife has been more supportive at the weekend by getting me a couple of Weight Watchers soups to eat, so not to ‘diet’ in front of the girls. […]
January Diet | Week 4 | Now With Added Slendertone
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he first month of dieting is finally coming to a close and amazingly my results are finally positive. After last weeks ‘slip up’ I was back on track and working hard. I managed to drag myself to the gym three times and I stuck to my Slimfast lunches. In the evening the temptation was […]
January Diet | Week 2
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he weigh in wasn’t good. I put it down to new shoes and a change in clothes. Starting with excuses is not the best way to begin a blog post so lets start with the numbers [column size=one_half position=first ]Weight: BMI: Body Fat: [/column] [column size=one_half position=last ]12st 4lb +4lb 26.4 -0.6 28.9 -4.3% […]
January Diet | The Beginning
[dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]t is such a cliche to diet in January. I feel ashamed to be jumping on the band wagon and following the crowd as we fight the flab through the winter months in the faint hope that this year will be the year of the ‘beach body’. But what the heck, I am bordering […]