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Love yourself with a healthy body image
6th Oct, 2024

Loving Yourself

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How you feel about your body affects your confidence, overall self-concept, and personal value.

It can be difficult to feel okay about what you look like when you're constantly presented with images on TV, on the internet, and in magazines that…

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Playing in the park is an exercise.
22nd Sep, 2024

Improving Both Body and Mind

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Exercise is important, but so is education and learning.

These three things keep the body and mind fit and active, promoting good health.

But, as we all know, it's sometimes difficult to make time for everything.

Has the focus of your efforts been…

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Walking for exercise
8th Sep, 2024

Why Fitness Makes you Healthy and Successful

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If someone mentions fitness to you, what images pop into your head?

You probably think about activities that make you sweat first, maybe running outdoors, weight training or taking a bike run.

But the truth is that fitness should be more about…

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woman sleeping
26th Jul, 2024

What does your sleeping position say about you?

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On your side, your stomach or your back?

What position should you sleep in?

If you have certain ailments or problems, the position that you sleep in can help to relieve these, or make them worse.

Here are some helpful hints to help…

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woman sleeping
15th Jul, 2024

5 Simple changes that could help you sleep better

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All too often we use our bedrooms like a store room, a pile of clothes in one corner, a suitcase in the other and maybe the ironing board folded up against the wall.

Who carers? We sleep with our eyes closed…

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Healthy smoothie? or not?
27th Sep, 2024

Taking care of your body

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When you talk about taking care of your body,

are you just meaning exercise?

or are you talking about your mind as well?

Or are you talking about the food that you eat?

All three of these subjects are important in relation to your…

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Balance in body and mind is important
25th Sep, 2024

Balance is the key

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No, I've not been watching too much of Cobra Kai

(Is there such a thing as too much?),

but Mr Miyagi was right, balance is important in life.

Some people are too concentrated on exercise for the body and not for their mind.

Do…

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Puzzles to exercise the mind
23rd Sep, 2024

Count to 9

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Do you ever get the feeling that you are just plodding your way through days?

Today was a bit like that for me.

Before you know it, it's time to get dinner ready, then time for bed!

I managed to fit in 45…

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Exercise is for the mind, as well as the body.
20th Sep, 2024

The mind is also a muscle!

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Has today been a busy day for you?

Maybe you have struggled to fit in any exercise.

Don't get stressed about it, thinking can be just as good for you.

Sometimes, when we talk about exercise,

we concentrate on the muscles of the body…

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improve your diet and reduce stress
13th Sep, 2024

Your diet is making you stress!

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Do you eat more when you are stressed?

Many peolpe do, I certainly used to

But I know now that this can simply increase your stress levels.

When we eat to try to reduce our stress levels, we usually go for sweet foods

This…

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walking for health
11th Sep, 2024

Fitness success

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Exercise can help you to improve your whole life.

A bold statement if ever there was one, eh?

But the truth is that I can prove it.

If you take the decision to include exercise in your eveyday life, you will start to…

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walking for fitness
9th Sep, 2024

Fit for success

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Did you catch yesterdays article about getting fit for success?

A healthy lifestyle is about so much more than just exercise.

It can improve your work / life balance.

It can improve your organisation skills.

It can reduce your stress levels.

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Get positive, love yourself
6th Sep, 2024

Kicking negativity to the kerb

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From personal experience, I know that being overweight can lead to negative feelings and thoughts about yourself.

This can also turn to anxiety about your everyday life and about your own image.

But it's time to change your mind.

Increase your exercise levels,…

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child in park
26th Aug, 2024

Don't stop

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Today I was visitng my neice with her little 2 year old daughter.

We went for a walk in the local park.

Well, when I say walk, with a 2 year old, it's not exactly quick.

She spent a lot of time just…

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Climbing mountains
25th Aug, 2024

Setting goals

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Sometimes setting a goal can be as easy as saying 'I need to get x done, so lets get started',

Sometimes the x that needs done is too difficult to achieve though, so where do you start?

Yesterday I mentioned setting goals.

There…

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