I have seen clips of this guy time and time again and he never fails to motivate me or make me re-evaluate my life, my trials and tribulations.

If you don’t do anything else today spend 4 mins watching this.

Apply his out look to your life, your goals. I promise you won’t be disapointed.

Fast Tube by Casper

Committed to your success

Keith and Clare

I hope your feeling on top form and not suffering from any of the problems below, but if you are these symptoms could point to a more sinister problem called adrenal fatigue, which could be scuppering your weight loss, motivation or even causing you depression.

Put a mental circle around any of the below that you are suffering from;

• Difficulty getting up in the morning don’t really get going until 10am
• Continuing fatigue that’s not relieved by sleep
• Craving for salt or salty foods
• Lethargy
• Feeling that everyday tasks required an increasing amount of energy to complete
• Decreased sex drive
• Decreasing ability to handle stress
• Increased time to recover from injury or illness
• Light headed when standing up quickly
• Mild depression
• Decreased enjoyment or happiness with life
• Increased PMS
• Symptoms increase if meals are skipped or inadequate
• Thoughts are more fuzzy and less focussed
• Memory less accurate
• Decreased intolerance
• Afternoon low between 3 and 4pm
• Feel great after your evening meal
• Decreased productivity

If you have circled several there is a chance that you may have an adrenal problem getting the way of your health. It also gets in the way of weight loss.

One more question;

Are you putting on weight round your middle giving you a spare tire or the, I swallowed a beach ball look?

Your adrenal glands produce hormones that enable you to handle the stresses of everyday life, from handling inflammation to keeping your blood sugar in check.

Adrenal fatigue = Low Blood Sugar = Weight Gain

Adrenal glands produce cortisol in response to stress demands on the body. If the stress demands are too high for too long the adrenal glands can become fatigued. When they become fatigued you may start to suffer some of the above symptoms, many of them are due to low blood sugar, hypoglycaemia caused by low cortisol levels due to the fatigue. Low blood sugar in its self is a stressful situation for the body further draining your adrenals.

If you are in this situation you are probably reaching for high calorie foods and drinks to pick you up, coffee, cola, sugary foods. These foods all drive the adrenals leading to further exhaustion. These foods are also highly fattening leading to weight gain. To much cortisol can also lead to weight gain, when eating and drinking stimulants you give your adrenals a good kick causing the to produce to much cortisol for a short while, this leads to further fat stores around your middle!!!!

The road to recovery

Recovery is simple but not easy!

Step one is to seek dietary advice, NOT calorific intake advice! You need to be eating to your metabolic type. This will bring your body back into balance.

Step 2 would be to get some coaching to make sure that you get balance into your life or to help you look at the causes of your stress, Emotional stress, Physical stress or Mental stress and find ways to reduce or cope in a healthy way with these stresses.

Small steps you can take right now

1. Slowly reduce and eliminate stimulants from your diet
2. Take out process and junk foods (bread and pasta ARE processed foods)
3. Base your food decisions around meat and vegetable
4. Eat little and often
5. Think about what’s stressing you out. Except that it is and then work out how to change the situation to make it less stressful for you

Committed to your success

Keith and the Team

I was just driving to Bootcamp and thinking about all my goals and decided to let you into a little secret of how I stay focused and happy all the time regarding my weight loss and fitness goals and you can use it to.

We all have goals right? Sometimes we get frustrated because we don’t seem to be achieving them as quickly as we want to. I have found that this leads to de-motivation which moves you away from your goal.

In order to achieve any goal you have to break it down into manageable monthly, weekly, daily and even hourly steps/tasks. Let’s take something relevant to all of us as a goal, but to be honest this could apply to any goal you have. So yes, you have it, weight loss, fat loss, inches loss or whatever you want to call it.

The Destination – I want to be slimmer, I would love to be slimmer, thinner, lighter

For now don’t worry about making that goal too specific. I want you to think about the process of getting to your goal. For me the process of achieving this goal would be as follows:

The Journey:

Eat 3 to 5 meals everyday

Exercise as much as 6 times a week

Weigh/measure myself

Track my progress

Now this list looks simple, but actually it is more complicated than you think. The reason for this is that there are more things that you have to love about the process than just this list, let me explain.

To Eat 3 to 5 meals every day, what do you need to also love?

• You need to love the shopping process of buying the food
• The thinking process to know what food to get
• The organisation process of thinking for the day ahead
• The cooking process and preparation process of the food
• Love eating food and knowing that you are a putting goodness in your body If you go to work during the day you need to love put your prepared food in a little container

To Exercise as much as 6 times a week

• You need to love the place where you are going to exercise and the people you find there. I have found that the people I see at boot camp are awesome so I love training with them
• Love the sweating that is involved in working out
• Love pushing your body to the point where it is uncomfortable so that it has to adapt and change
• Love the thought that you are going to exercise again tonight or tomorrow and let nothing get in your way
• Love the feeling of pain in the muscles after exercise Love the feeling off breathlessness you get when you push your cardiovascular system to the limit

Weighing and measuring myself

• Love standing on the scales in anticipation of the result
• Love knowing when I have moved in the wrong direction so that you can put it right
• Love sharing my results with others good or bad

Tracking my progress

• Love drawing a chart or writing in a diary when you have worked out
• Love tracking whether you have eaten breakfast, lunch and dinner and knowing which ones you struggle with so you can correct it
• Love knowing that your results, no matter what they are so you can move forward to the next solution or result

There you have it – it is simple really!

Love the Journey more than the destination

Please leave a comment under this post as I am certain that this list is not definitive and could do with some input from you. Not only to help Keith, I and Amy to understand more, but also to help all the other people in your situation achieve their goals and aspirations.

Also, share this information with others, so that it becomes your own and you believe the power of loving the Journey more than the destination. I promise you this, you will get there and faster than you thought you would and a hell of a lot easier!!

Enjoy your trip!

Clare Valvona

PS. Mmmm I am guess the next question is how do I love something I hate? This will become my next blog to you and I will teach you how!

So you live a healthy lifestyle, you exercise 3 times or more a week either at the gym or an exercise class such as a Bootcamp. You eat healthily, eating protein and vegetables and small amounts of low G.I carbohydrates you let yourself go a little at the weekend with some processed foods and alcohol, BUT still the fat stays!

There does not seem to be any reason for it. FAT should be melting off you. Below I have 7 reasons that it may not be shifting. It’s important to get the lifestyle basics right as getting these wrong can ruin your weight loss efforts, leaving you de-motivated and depressed.

So here we go, the 7 basics that you need to get right on top of your exercise and diet.

STRESS No. 1

Stress can be a massive barrier when it comes to weight loss. I do know people who lose weight when they are stressed. These people usually lose their appetite. This often leads then to putting more eight on than before the stress started due to the shutting down of their metabolism.

Other people use food to comfort them in their stressful situation. People tend to comfort themselves with high calorie foods often high in sugar foods that turn quickly to FAT. This type of food increase the stress on your system and in the long term leaves you more tired and even less motivated!

On a deeper level continued stress plays havoc with you hormones. This in turn plays havoc with your blood sugar making it harder to lose weight and increasing your risk of getting ill.

Lack of sleep

How much sleep do you get? Are you getting 8 hours or are you getting more like 5 or 6?

Ask yourself why you are getting so few hours of sleep. Is it because your life is so full of things that you work right up to the moment you go to bed or are you watching TV when you should have switch the box off and gone to bed. ‘Just until the next adverts, just till the end of this one, I’ll be ok tomorrow I’m used to it’….. What do you say to yourself?

Whether you’re busy or watching TV sleep is a very important to your health. It ties back in with stress and hormone disruption and therefore blood sugar level and your immune system.

Sleep is also important for other reasons as both physical and metal repair happens at this time. Between 10pm and 2am is when your body concentrates on physical repair of the body. After 2am the body focuses on mental repair. A lack of sleep means that you are missing out on parts of the repair system of your body.

Whether you’re watching TV or busy working, not getting enough sleep places STRESS on your body, which disrupts hormone balance, blood sugar levels and immune function. The impact of this will have to wait for another newsletter or blog as you can write whole books on the subject.

Just remember, when you’re tired you are more likely to reach for sugary snack as a pick you up!

Emotions

Do you comfort eat?

Emotions have a big part to play in weight loss and weight gain! Arguing with a loved one, bad day at work, your friend have lost weight again while you struggle or are you pissed off with yourself for failing at your diet again and pigging out!

When you’re depressed, run down or unmotivated do you comfort eat?

Comfort eating does makes you feel better but for how long, 5 mins? Not only do you have the bad day going around in your head you now have the added extra of the guilt of having the comfort food and failing on your diet again! You are also likely to suffer sugar blues on top of feeling bad as 20 to 60 minutes later your blood sugar level drops leaving you with feelings of hunger, irritability and depression. It must be time for another sugary treat!

Low Self Esteem

The way you feel about yourself has a massive impact on the way you act and what you say to yourself. Do you have more respect for others then you do for yourself, care more about other people’s health than your own?

You would never say the things you say to yourself to other people. So why do you think it is ok for you to speak to yourself in that way?

The more you say these things to yourself the more they become true as you will find ways to prove it to yourself! This will lead you to making the wrong choices regarding your food, exercise and lifestyle.

Boredom

I bet you have noticed that when you are busy and focused on the job in hand, you never think about or feel the need to eat! BUT, when you are lazing around and bored you feel hungry and the need to pick, the chocolate or biscuit tin calling your name!

Just like with emotional eating your boredom only subsides for the amount of time it takes to eat the treat, as soon as you have finished your back to thinking about the nibbles again. Often when you start this type of nibbling you don’t stop until there is nothing left, when the whole packet has been consumed!

Social events

Social engagements are one of my client’s favourite excuses for not sticking to a diet plan. Many see it as the ultimate get out!

Not so my friends!

Treating yourself at every opportunity is never going to be conducive to your health and weight loss. I’m not saying that you should never treat yourself but if you a regular social eater then be selective.

• Is it your birthday?
• Is it Christmas?
• A special calibration to mark a promotion or an achievement?

If the answer is no then why are you acting like a glutton? Everybody should have a cheat day but I know people who go out to dinner 3 – 4 times a week and go out for lunch 3 – 4 times a week.

Again I’m not saying don’t go, I’m saying pick your meals more carefully with an eye on your waist and your health. I normally ask restaurants to change things on my plate and very rarely have any problem; I find that 9 times out of 10 they are very accommodating.

The 7^th Barrier

There is only one barrier left to cover today and it’s the hardest one so I hope that you are sitting comfortably. It’s the hardest thing to admit as we tend to hide behind other barriers as excuses but really they all come down to one thing……… YOU!

All the barriers above lead to one thing, the wrong food choices. You are the one making the choices, so the only barrier is YOU!

You can lose weight, improve your health get fit have boundless energy as you have the choice of what to eat and whether to exercise.

Sometimes there are underlying health problems that can get in the way of weight loss. problems that do not allow easy weight loss, but these are for another day!

Committed to your success,

Don’t let YOU get in YOUR way

Keith and Amy

This session was awesome they all worked so hard and were so focused I’m sure some of them lost a pound or two just in this workout!!!!

I know that some of the moves are a little extreme but if you look closely you’ll find that everyone is working to their own ability.

Our boot campers build their exercise complexity carefully over time. We always offer options for people who are new to exercise or have injuries as you will find on the Bootcamp website, just check out the testimonials and then come meet the people!

Enjoy 52 seconds of other people doing the hard work!

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It was awesome but I’m not writing to give you a case of the green eyed monsters, I want to make you think about your eating habits?

Clare had too much food on her plate for her to finish so she asked if I wanted any.

“No I’m just fine,” I replied.

“Keith, there are children staving in Africa,” she replied in an almost monotone voice.

“And your dying to have a heart attack or diabetes,” I replied.

Clare blinked slowly and then a light went on inside…. “You have got to turn that into a blog!” she said!

So here we are….

There are children staving in Africa and other countries for the want of a good meal but there are also hundreds of thousands if people in developed countries dying from diseases of over eating every day.

In the Boot camp, Personal Training sessions and the Personal Nutrition course food is a major subject day in and day out. Not only do we discuss what we should and should not eat but also our psychological and behavioural attitudes to food.

There are many things that come up time and time again such as depression and comfort eating, the feeling of loving or looking after your loved ones or demonstrating your love for them through food treats, but the biggest one is the inability to leave food on your plate due to a few simple words that have been said to you as children time and time again.

You have to finish your dinner, there are children staving in Africa!!!!

If there was a way of measuring the health effects of a few simple words I’m willing to bet that this sentence is one of the most deadly!

Think about it!

Committed to your success

Keith, Clare and the Team

P.s 3 body fat scales sold already!!!

To Find out more and get yours click here

We have acquired 11 sets of Tanita body fat scales.   “What’s this and why would I care? I hear you think…..!”

These are the type of scales that we and large national gym’s use in their business to do their health assessments and to track weight loss and body fat progress. If you’re into your weight loss or health and fitness they are a very important tool to keep you focused on your fat loss goal.

Track progress, write your own diet plans

We use them to track progress, write diet plans and gain critical health information about our client health status and weight loss progress.

Understand your body Fat %

These scales will enable you to track your weight, (yes i know Keith, i don’t know if you’ve noticed but any scales will do that!), they will measure the % of your body that’s fat and the % that’s muscle. This is far more important than knowing how much you weigh as lean tissue weight’s 3 times as much as fat! If your training hard this will enable you to track the changes in body composition. This is very important as some people do not lose weight when training but they do change shape and change body composition.

You can also get fat % readings for individual parts of your body such as your right leg, left arms or torso.

Discover the amount of fat stored around you organs and therefore your health risk!

Visceral fat is the fat that is stored around your organs and therefore directly relates to your health. If you score highly here you know you need to take some action to improve your health!

Would you like to know how many calories you should consume a day? These scales will give you an estimate helping you to formulate a diet plan to suit your needs!

Bone and Water %

These scales will also give you bone %’s and hydration % give you the tools you need to make the right health decisions.

They are quick and easy to use… they need to be, you try retesting all the boot-campers on the last Sunday of each month! They have got to work fast.

Do not worry if you are not technically minded as they have a comprehensive instruction manual and I use them every day! For me to use something electrical it’s needs to be idiot proof, you just ask Clare what I’m like with technology!

When I brought these scale I paid £179.99 and if you buy them from John Lewis, Tanita, this is what you would pay. We have pick up 11 sets for Only £125.

Do you want a £55 discount?

Even if you wait for the January sales you’ll not get them at £55 off the RRP.

So who’s in?

• Would your weight loss be easier if you had a professional tool to help you?
• Is it time you used a professional tool to help you set your goals realistically?
• Would you achieve your goals if you were able to track and measure your success properly and understand what happening inside your body?
• Who wants a major discount that normally only comes if you have buying power of a large organisation?

If you would like one of the 11 sets then click the link below and you’ll be able to pop in a pick them up or we will hand deliver them if you are local to us!

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If you have not started getting into shape don’t leave it any later. The magazines with the headlines flat stomach in 2 week or a 6 pack in 6 days is lying to you…!

I have started my own summer regime, Monday was drop sets, Tuesday 10 rounds of hard boxing and today metabolic circuit training! If it wasn’t for the stiff and sore muscles I’d feeling fighting fit!!!

Our boot camps are about more than just weight loss and fitness this weekend was a big weekend for 12 of our campers!

On the Friday the 25^th a group of excited and slightly anxious Absolute Bootcamp Berkhamsted Bootcampers embarked on a 5 hour journey to North Wales.

For some of it was going to be an event of a lifetime, other a celebration of how far they have come in less than a year!

Joining last September some have gone from sedentary to mountain conqueror in just 9 short months!

We took 15 including me up and brought 15 back. I can’t say for sure that they are the same 15 people as many when through some changes as they conquered fatigue and fears.

We all arrived at the hotel at the bottom of mount Snowdon on Friday evening after a long 5 hour drive. Obviously there were only 2 things on people’s minds…

1)      A good meal

2)      Hitting the bar!

Some of us hit the bar harder than others but a good time was had by all.

By 2.30 most were in bed getting the necessary shut eye for the climb ahead… others (Amy) where still up trying to sober up a little before bed!

Here she is the following morning not looking ready to go????

I think she may have been still drunk as it was not long before she looked like this!

The alarm went off all too soon at 7 for a 7.30 breakfast, then we splint into 2 groups, a fast and a slower group.

The fast group had an extra job to do.

Drop the cars off on the other side of Snowdon and then get back and catch up the other group who would have about an hour head start.

I led the faster group and we quickly got our kit together and got off to the drop point. My dad (Tony in this photo) led the slower group who then signed out the hotel and started their climb up the mountain.

I don’t know if you like driving, but if you do I can recommend the Snowdon area, but make sure that you have someone who knows where they are going or a good satnav!

I thought we were trouble…. As I heard my co-pilot come out with the quote of the weekend…. She (Susan) was doing the map reading…

“I think we’re in trouble. There does not seem to be a wiggle for the wiggle that we are on!!!!…..

Possibly not what you want to hear when you are throwing your car through the lanes of Snowdonia we 3 other cars following you rely on you to not get lost!

All was good though the map just needed turning round so that all the wiggles matched up.

We quickly got back from the dropping off of the car and started our assent. The pace was brisk and I have to give congratulation to Angie White, Neil Williams, Susan Beddal and Gale Jackson as they kept the pace and stormed the mountain!

We caught the up with the other team at about 12.30.

It was then a hard climb to the top as we were climbing in 25+ degree heat without a cooling wind.

We regrouped before the top….

Amy had to regroup mentally as well as physically, hangover in full swing in 25 degree heat!!!!

The top was gained in 4 hours so we had celebratory nibbles, water and a photo. After we all used the new toilets and congratulating ourselves for getting there regardless of painful bits and medical conditions it was time to start back down.

We started in good sprit’s knowing lunch was going to be an hour or less away and that we were on our way home….  The happy campers soon learned that down is a lot harder than up. For those of you who have never climbed a mountain, the down part is harder for 2 reasons. 1) The strain on the leg muscle and knee joints is far greater and 2) uneven ground covered in lose pebbles becomes treacherous.

Although people knees and leg were getting tired after lunch everyone battled on. Strong breeze was cooling us and our bellies were full again. Amy’s hang over was subsiding and she was starting to look positively perky!

We got to the car park on the other side of Snowdon about 8 hours after the first group had left the hotel.

Time for a finishers photo a good congratulatory slap on the back!

Well done to everyone one who climbed, I really enjoyed myself. We’ll choose a different mountain next year for some more climbing and photo taking.

I have heard mention and interest for doing the 3 peaks challenge I’ll be asking those of you interested soon. But for the time being it’s time to look forward to the summer BBQ in July and then the next activity weekend in September.

Hope to see you all there,

Keith

P.S – You see Absolute Bootcamp Berkhamsted is not just about the exercise and the weight loss, we are also about the experience and friendship that can only be gained through experiencing things together.

Anyway, detoxinifcation, how toxins are making you fat and sluggish and which vegetable you need to by organic!

I think that we all know that it’s a good idea to buy organic varieties of fruit and vegetables but we are often unsure as to why. You can read articlse in the paper stating that organic varieties have a higher vitamin and mineral content and then read the following day that they don’t!

For me it’s not just about the nutrient density, it’s also about the toxic load. Before we get onto this let’s just stick with the nutrient density. You are always going to find discrepancies between which is better, the organic variety or the factory farmed. This is due to 2 reasons;

1)      It depends on who’s doing the study or who is paying for it and what they have got to lose by the study not finding in their favour

2)      Soil quality, let me explain with a little back groud information.

Back in 1936 a group of doctors introduced document 264. This document was a warning to the senate that the mineral content of the soil was eroding and that the vitamin and mineral content of our produce was at risk and would not be ble to support the health of the nation. Since this time nothing has been done to correct the problem and it has become a global problem!

It’s going to take time for the soil to recover it’s nutrient density therefore it’s going to take some time before we see supermarket organic produce that is consistantly higher in nutritional density than facory farmed produce.

Elmer Heinrich in his book, the root of all disease states that we need 10 servings of vegetable just too equal 1 serving of vegetable from 50 years ago.

Back to Toxins!

It’s better to buy organic as they do NOT have the toxic load that factory farmed produce has. A toxin is a substance that causes harm to the body. The immune system, liver and kidneys work hard to break down and excrete these toxins but they often become over loaded due to our level of exposure.

When you consider the exposure from our environment, factories, cars, air fresheners and then we add in perfumes, deodorant, cosmetics and shower gel and then on top of this our food we could over time overload our systems ability to cope and to detoxify us.

Just for a moment think of the pressure on your detoxification systems if you do this every day for 30 years, 40 years even 50 years and then add in that most people don’t get good quality exercise or sunlight in, don’t drink enough water, have poor quality sleep and consume processed food and don’t eat to their metabolic type. It’s not a surprise that our systems could be compromised and that we may suffer some symptoms such as fatigue, weight gain, stomach problems, regualar head aches or lifestyle diseases, cancer, coronary heart disease, diabetes etc.

Weight loss in itself is a process of detoxification. Many toxins are fat soluble, if the body can’t process them it stores them in fat cells to be delt with later, therefore increasing your weight. Many people never give their body enough of e rest from toxins to enable the body to retreve the toxins from the fat cells and process them. They therefore get fatter and fatter on the toxins they consume.

To assist your liver and to help your weight loss or health you should follow the advice of the Environmental working group;

12 Foods you should only buy Organic!

Buy these organic only

1)      Peach

2)      Apple

3)      Bell Pepper

4)      Celery

5)      Nectarine

6)      Strawberries

7)      Cherries

8)       Kale

9)      Lettuce

10)   Grapes

11)   Carrot

12)   Pear

Ok even if not organic

1)      Onion

2)      Avocado

3)      Sweet Corn

4)      Pineapple

5)      Mango

6)      Asparagus

7)      Sweet Peas

8)      Kiwi

9)      Cabbage

10)   Aubergine

11)   Papaya

12)   Watermelon

13)   Broccoli

14)   Tomato

15)   Sweet potato

Healthy weight loss, lifestyle disease prevention all require you to give you body a break from time to time, and let it detoxify itself and recharge.

Here is quite a simple detoxification programme for you to follow;

• For 5 days keep all sugar, grain, grain based products, dairy and processed foods out of your diet
• Eat organic fruit, vegetable and meat
• Drink at least 2 litres of water throughout each day
• Introduce some super foods such as  Spirulina, cocoa, macca powder and aloe vera

You can fine these and other products at the follow website;

www.creative-nature.co.uk

www.aggressivehealth.co.uk

To find out more about foods, detoxificcation and weight loss come to the nutrition course, the £1 bootcamp trial or £9.95 for 3 personal training session trial

Committed to your success

Keith, Clare and the Team

Hey, I hope that you day is going awesome,

One of the questions I get asked and emailed time and time again is;

What should I have to eat?

Now I know that this sounds like a really easy question to answer and I’m going to give you some guidelines at the end but I need to explain that it’s not as easy as it sounds.

Did you know that the failure rate for diets is about 80%?

Yep it’s a big failure rate and means that you need to ask WHY this happens?

You may have noticed with your friends, family or colleagues that one diet that works really well for someone makes someone else feel awful and actually gain weight.

Have you also noticed that when people participate in one size fits all guidelines their ailments do not improve in fact, they often get worse!

What do I mean by ailments? Headaches, muscle aches, digestive issues such as reflux, bloating, cramping, pains and IBS.

Again the word WHY springs to mind… They are on a diet, surely that means they are getting healthier!

The problem is that many diets are not healthy…. I know what you’re thinking…… “Thanks Keith, that’s great. I have come to your blog and all you have told me is what I knew already!”

Yep I know, it obvious that just eating cabbage or just drinking milk/soup or doing shakes is not healthy or cutting your calories down to 1000 per day and yes that is commonsense, but let’s look at the problem in a little more detail.

Hippocrates was an early observer of the importance of food to your health he equated food to medicine. Some foods can be toxic to your body, slowly poisoning you even though you may not be aware this happening, we call this a chronic degenerative pathways and is the reason why ‘one man’s food can be another man’s poison’ or for us one persons diet can be another persons poison!

Steak for instance makes some people feel really good and others feel really tired. I, myself start the day with a piece of steak as it will but me in a great mood and make me feel full of energy for the day, but I can’t give this guideline to someone else as their body might not like it! They could go the opposite way, tired and grumpy…..

One needs to eat to ones type!

I am, what’s known as a parasympathetic fast oxidiser….. Mmmmm sound complicated right, but this just describes how my metabolism is functioning at the moment. In reality it means basing my diet around carbohydrates would be a very BAD idea and difficult for me to stick to. I used to be a carbohydrate monster being a Personal Trainer and a competing Sportsman, it’s what I was told I had to eat for energy. (How wrong could they have been!) I was grumpy and tired almost all the time and never felt properly well and energised and I was in my early 20’s!

Once I started eating to my METABOLIC TYPE (MBT) or eating genetically correct foods for me I felt awesome having increased, sustained energy, maintaining a lower body fat percentage and all the little aches and pains that I was suffering from in my gut cleared up.

Eating to your MBT is possibly the single most important thing you could do to gain and maintain a healthy weight and overcome health issues at the same time.

Click here to find out your metabolic type and how to implement it into your life

Here are 7 top tips to get you started in the right direction.

1. Experiment with your food and listen to what your body is telling you about it. Have a day where you eat Carbs at each meal, a day where you eat lean protein at each meal and a day where you eat a high fat content at each meal. 2 hours after each meal ask yourself, how do I feel? Full/hungry, tired/energised, grumpy/happy etc. You’ll soon find out which foods make you feel the best and therefore what to eat at each meal to get the best results for you. This is far from your metabolic type but is a place to start before you come on the nutrition course with us.
2. Base your diet around real whole foods. Meat, fish, vegetables, nuts and a small amount of fruit.
3. Avoid processed foods, grains and COW’s dairy for at least 7 days. Add cows dairy back in on its own and see how you feel and then try adding in SMALL amounts of grain and see how you feel.
4. Sip water throughout the day. Although this will not directly help you to lose weight it will help your detoxification systems which will help your weight loss. It has also been shown to reduce the symptoms of back pain, arthritic pain and digestive issues.
5. Get some fresh air and sunshine everyday
6. Exercise at least 3 x per week at a high intensity
7. Come on the nutrition course and learn a little bit about how food works in the body so that you are in control of hunger, cravings and your weight loss rather than them being in control of you.

Committed to your success

Keith, Clare and the Team