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 […]
No Gym Subscription? No Problem! How To Stay Fit At Home
Staying fit and healthy when you have children can feel like mission impossible. If, before you had children, you used to hit the gym every week, you will find adjusting to parenthood quite tricky. Now, you need to try to fit your workout regime to your current schedule. It is not easy, but it is […]
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 […]