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Losing The Last 5kg

Nov 30, 2020

Losing The Last 5kg

When people talk about their health and fitness goals, one of the goals I regularly hear is "I just want to lose 5kg". Sounds easy enough right? It depends.... If you are at a healthy normal BMI (18.5-24.9) and you feel good, your body functions well, you have energy, libido, and regular periods, you eat a healthy balanced stress-free diet, this means your body is happy and in homeostasis! A calorie deficit will disrupt this homeostasis and over time your body will fight the

Big scary goal? How to break it down and where to start

Nov 1, 2020

Big scary goal? How to break it down and where to start

If you have a HUGE weight loss or performance based goal that is very important to you, but also massively overwhelming, the easiest way to start is to break it down in chunks over a year (each year) and keep it as simple as possible. Start with your WHY. Start with a writing task- find and schedule time for yourself in a peaceful environment to sit down and write your 'why'. I encourage you to write this 5 times- each time explore what you wrote- go deeper and deeper- until

Is the scale making you depressed? Try performance based goals instead!

Jul 17, 2020

Is the scale making you depressed? Try performance based goals instead!

With every magazine targeted at women to "drop a dress size", "lose 3kg in 15 days" or some other sexist stupid fad claim that people buy into, it's easy to see how a lot of clients who come to me tell me they want to lose weight as their number 1 goal. I like to suggest instead of a "number on the scale" goal in the beginning, why not focus on a performance based goal? It takes the pressure off weighing yourself daily (and most probably an unrealistic number), and a feeling