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

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

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