Hydration Smarts: What You Need To Know

When most people start up on a healthy eating plan, they take a lot of time to figure out the perfect combination of proteins, carbs, andfats to be eating, making sure that their calorie intake is precisely where it needs to be. This is good news because your calorie intake is one of the primary [...]

Steady State Versus Interval Training

Over the years there have been many discussions and debates about steady state training versus interval training and which one is best to get the results you require.  Is one form of cardio exercise more effective than the other and who is each best suited to? In order to accurately assess the different types of [...]

When Hunger Strikes: Use These Tips To Calm Your Stomach Fast

If you’re currently on a fat loss health plan, one issue that is definitely going to creep up from time to time is that dreaded feeling of hunger. Even the most determined weight watcher who normally has maximum self-control can start to lose it when hunger rears its ugly head. Making smart choices is easy… [...]

How To Beat A Fat Loss Plateau

Struggling to see further progress with your workout or diet program? Feel frustrated that what you were doing seemed to be working and all of a sudden all progress has stopped? If you’re stuck in a rut, congratulations, you’ve just reached a fat loss plateau. Fat loss plateaus are all too common among those doing [...]

Avoid Overtraining With This One Technique

If you’re serious about making the most of your workout program and moving closer and closer to your long-term fitness results, one thing that you have to be extra careful of and make sure to avoid is overtraining. Overtraining can be a very real and serious issue for some people and could take weeks if [...]

Exercise Pairings To Kick-Start Your Metabolism Into High Gear

If you are currently working out, or been around the gym long enough, you would have inevitably either heard of, or been doing, supersets with your weights. This is when you pair two different muscle groups together one after the other generally in between your reps. Supersets are a perfect way to force the muscles [...]

Six Pack Ab Success: Your Step-By-Step Guide

If you’re someone who’s on a mission to get six pack abs, it’s going to be vitally important that you have a good plan in place.  Only those who are able to properly formulate a game plan to reach this goal are going to arrive at the end stage as getting six pack abs doesn’t [...]

Tomorrows Diet Never Comes – 5 Golden Rules to Weight Loss

So you’ve made the decision to lose weight or cut out sugar or start exercising, but it’s no point starting mid way through the day so you put it off until tomorrow.   You wake bright eyed and busy tailed the next day with all good intentions and then someone or something crops up and puts [...]

Prevention of Muscle Mass Decline – Find Out How You Can Delay This Effect of Aging

By Kerry  Fitzgibbon Oh dear.. if getting wrinkles, grey hairs and sagging everything wasn’t enough.. Imagine my shock when I discovered my once muscley arms had turned to jelly!!!  Ok it does seem a little unfair, as other than the lack of muscle, I am slim, run most days of the week and try and [...]

How to Stay Motivated to Exercise in the Winter Months

Winter weight gain is a common problem with many putting on extra kilograms over the cooler months!  Let’s face it most of the mammal kingdom put on an extra layer of fat for survival and to keep warm and we certainly are no exception to the rule! It’s often hard to get motivated to train and [...]

Improve Your Body Image to Aid Long Term Weight Loss

If you are overweight you know how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off.  You’ve probably tried many diets and may have even lost a little weight but it never seems to stay off for too long and you end up really frustrated, this can lead to depression and a vicious cycle [...]

Don’t Be a Victim of Emotional Eating – Be Free of the Temptation to Binge

Have you been trying to lose weight over a long time without any success? Do you start all sorts of fad diets only to give up on them within a short while? If your eating habits are characterized by periods of deprivation followed by binges then you are unlikely to lose any weight at all. [...]

Long Term Weight Loss – It Is Possible If You Know How

Long term weight loss is the only effective way of keeping fat from coming back on but it is also very difficult to achieve. People who take short cuts to lose weight tend to pile the pounds on back again. If you suffer from a fluctuating weight problem then you are certainly in for trouble because [...]

Get Active and Live a Healthy Life

If you’re active, you don’t need to exercise every day, or constantly watch your diet to live a healthy, happy lifestyle according to personal trainer Rob Quatro. Some might say Quatro is a little controversial, but he is helping turn lives around with his refreshing approach to health and fitness and his 10 week mentoring [...]

Detoxification – Unlocking the Secrets to Good Health

One of the realities of modern life is that we are surrounded by toxins in the very air we breathe and the food and water we consume. The body tends to store these toxins which naturally cause a whole lot of health problems ranging from immunity related ailments to cancer. Detoxification is therefore a very [...]

Nutrition and Exercise – A Power Packed Combo for Weight Loss

Having the desire to lose weight is necessary.  Check.  Having a plan in place is also necessary.  Check?  Well, truth is, most people don’t really have a solid plan when it comes right down to it.  Isn’t that sort of the reason why there are so many of us trying to lose that pesky 5 [...]

Life after Anorexia

Surviving through, good health, supplements and a role model

On the brink of death 26 year old Janice Elizabeth (Mardesic) booked herself into the New Farm Eating Disorder unit six months ago after passing out again from lack of food. She weighed 42kg with a body Max Index of 15 and thought she was fat! She knew she was sick and didn’t want to feel the pain anymore.

Seven Tips for Stellar Weight Loss

Pick up any magazine or browse a bookstore shelf and you’ll find all sorts of articles and books about diet, exercise and weight loss.  The fact of the matter is, weight is important – obtaining and maintaining a healthy weight is important to every person’s overall health.  That being the case, why is it so [...]

Sleep – The secret to Permanent Weight Loss

Is the lack of sleep making you fat? When in the midst of a weight loss journey, there are many people who may put their focus on diet and exercise.  While this is not wrong, it is also not balanced.  You see, there are several aspects to effectively and safely losing weight; and if you [...]

The Truth about Protein Powders

Are you sick and tired of seeing ad after ad featuring sexy, slim, lean fitness models who claim that by using a certain ‘weighloss’ product you too will look like them in a few short weeks? Did you buy these products, believing, or just hoping to duplicate their results? Yet you saw very little results [...]