06/04/2010 by admin.

Saturday’s boot camp will be held at Lihou Island headland - starting at 10 am.

Well done to those that attended our dusk boot camp - it was a lot of fun.  Thanks to Claire for helping with the assault course.  Nice to see our regulars return from holiday and back to boot camp.

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06/04/2010 by admin.

There are not many women who haven’t tried some sort of fad diet.  Whilst many have initial success, in the long term the diet fails and the weight piles back on. 

I despise fad diets as they don’t teach people to have a healthy lifestyle.  They are a short term solution to long term pain.  They provide an opportunity for diet companies to make lots of money as they play on your weakness.  Here are some of the  emotional reasons why fad diets fail:

• Your emotional needs are not met.  Therefore you do not have anyone close to you to help you solve problems or share experiences with.  This leads you to eat for comfort.
• Your overeating habits are deeply ingrained in you through your subconscious.  These will not go away overnight.  After your initial enthusiasm and commitment to a new diet wears off, you slip back to your old habits.
• You lose your identity.  Some overweight people have become comfortable with the person they are.  Ask yourself “if there was an Island with just overweight people living on it and you could live there with no one judging you, calling you names or pointing at you would you be happy there”?
• If you lost weight, you wouldn’t have excuses for not taking part in activities or being included in more events. Perhaps you have been used to being excluded and are comfortable being excluded.

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