Stories To Inspire You

Keep up your amazing work, live your life well & love what you do!


Dr Oz has some tips for maintaining weight loss

Read about this woman's road to health & fitness

This mum educated herself about nutrition and reaped the benefits

You CAN reach your goals!

Health Checks

If you would like any of the following information about your general health, please ask at your next training session.

Blood pressure: a blood pressure monitor gives you an accurate reading, as well as your resting heart rate, both of which give you useful information about your cardiovascular health.

Blood Glucose Levels: best done before the first meal of the day to test 'fasting' sugar levels. Higher than usual blood glucose levels may indicate a pre-diabetic condition, which when managed with adjustments to diet & exercise, reduces your chances of diabetes by up to 70%.

If any of your readings are outside the 'normal' range, I urge you to make an appointment with your GP.

Having a general health check once a year, especially if you're over 40, helps you stay healthy and allows early intervention if there are any issues.

Finally, look at these disturbing graphs from the Centres for Disease Control in the United States, showing the increase in obesity over time.
(use the 'previous' button to go back to 1994, when data was collected for all states.)

Given Australia's propensity for following US trends, this should concern us all.

As Simple As ABC...

The ABC website has a great Health & Wellbeing page packed with interesting information and tips on a range of health issues.

There's always an interesting Quiz plus information on a wide variety of health and fitness topics.

Links

This is the article I've given to a few of you, from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

And if your back pain has mysteriously disappeared since training, well done!

Remember that all carbs are not created equal, your brain & body need them; eat the whole grain & vegetable kind as part of your balanced plate.

And keep your thinking on the right track with lots of encouraging self-talk

Burning Fat

Some great articles here, specifically about how to burn more fat, which I'm asked about a lot.

"Finding the 'best' exercise to burn fat is less important than keeping at it" from the ABC Health & Wellbeing pages.

You've heard this from me time & again, keep at it, a little everyday is better than going hard (and hurting yourself) once a week, frequency beats intensity, get out there and get it done!

Also, this article from The Age earlier this year talks about reducing the amount of carbohydrates in your diet.

This is good information if you happen to regularly eat things like pastry, white bread, biscuits and crisps; cutting these out will yield results, however carbohydrates from vegetable sources, including beans, potato & sweet potato still contain important nutrients, so enjoy them as part of your 5 - 7 veggies a day, but leave off the butter or creamy sauces you may be used to.

Keep eating protein for breakfast, eggs, baked beans or good quality protein powder in you breakfast smoothie, and you'll bounce through your day.

Keep up the GREAT work! :)

Links

Nutrition Australia

Eggs Are A Great (and cheap) Source Of Protein

Why Some Foods Are Addictive

How Sleep Problems Contribute To Weight Gain

Preventing Osteoporosis

Are Recipes Making Us Fat?

The Problem With Salt

Dangerous Levels of Salt in Takeaway Food

Links

Heard of NEAT? Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis?

It's the moving around you do in daily life.. make it work for you!

More info on Incidental Exercise and the benefits of Physical Activity

Links

Some interesting links to Health & Fitness information...

Lifestyle Medicine

HealthFitness

ABC website

Enjoy!