If losing excess fat weight is your goal there is one thing that you need to achieve first and that is improved ‘metabolic fitness’. This means your body is efficient at burning fat and stops it being so efficient at storing fat. When you have poor metabolic fitness it is likely that your metabolism is […]

We used to believe that doing countless hours of some sort of long duration, low intensity activity was the exercise prescription for losing weight. This old fashioned model of fitness rarely included strength training exercise. Fortunately we know a lot more about the human body and it’s functioning and if excess body fat is to […]

It’s a fact – when we gain fat weight the first thing we think of is going on a diet of some kind. As many as half the population is engaged in an ongoing battle with body weight and the food we eat at any one time. We always blame overeating on our weight problems […]

Many overweight people think they just need to focus on eating less food so they can lose weight. But nothing could be further from the truth and what they really need to do. For starters they need to rebuild their metabolism and if that has been damaged by eating the wrong types of foods, too […]

We hear the statistics on the epidemic of overweight people in our society and wonder how this could be so bad. Yet is easy to understand when we boil it down to two factors that allow this to happen. Eating the wrong sorts of foods and too much of them and not doing enough muscular […]

You will have heard that word ‘metabolism’ by now and may have even heard that if you want to lose excess fat weight and keep it off it is your best fat burning friend. Your metabolism is your bodies engine and unless you are one of the lucky people with a fast burning model you […]

Most people who try to lose weight focus on just one thing – losing that weight in the fastest possible time frame. It is any wonder that 95 percent of diets fail as not only are they impossible to stick to long-term they do not address the problem as to why you have become overweight […]