Author: Diane
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Taking Up Gentle Sport In Mid Life Maintains Fitness Levels
One way of maintaining fitness is to take up a sport. Not the heavy duty football or rugby kind. But an altogether gentler pastime such as badminton can bring untold benefits after only a few short weeks. It is relatively inexpensive to join in, just some fitness clothes, a raquet and shuttlecocks and a bag…
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Swapping Hi To Low Carb For Express & Permanent Weight Loss
I have found in the last few months that the easiest way to lose excess kilos is to stick fairly rigidly to a lower carbohydate intake. I had never really thought about carbs before a relative explained the significance of the keto diet and I had therefore never actually appreciated how many carbs I was…
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Helping Defeat The Mental Block Over The Word Diet
The very word diet is enough to put some folk into a state of depression that is hard to shake off. Not everybody can just look at their diet and adjust it to be healthier – their emotional tie to food is overwhelming. I have found with many of my pals that they just cannot…
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Lardy Loafing At The Petrol Station – Slim Thinking Needed Big Time
One thing that came to me only rather late in life – the fact that keeping slim and fit requires a vast amount of self discipline and certainly stacks more than I can own to. I struggle with the need to turn away from that array of chocolate confections that sit there aluringly along…
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Cutting Out Sugar To Cure That Sweet Tooth
When talking fitness it can be a bit daunting to think of our achievements as we get older – there is so much stuff all over the internet in videos about how to be fit this way and not to look after yourselves that way. Going at a gentle pace and keeping up the regular…
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Low Carb, Low Calorie, No Matter – Low Discipline Is The Problem
I have been following a fairly loosely based lower carbohydrate regime for a couple of years now. Some weeks are more succesful than others and my mind is less distracted by the very things I have been trying to avoid. My self discipline is appallingly bad so I do struggle to stay on track but…
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Worldwide Eating Habits & Poor Diet Having Consequences
Diet – such a small word but with such importance in our lives, both personally and globally. It seems incredible to me that our parents and grandparents were growing up after the second world war, after all the privations and rationing that brought the country almost to its knees. From the end of rationing for…
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Changing To Strict Low Carbohydrate Regime Has Effects
Ah the thorny subjects of diet and fitness creep into everyone’s minds whenever we are approaching times of festivity such as Christmas or Easter and all the others we are able to enjoy these days. Each has it’s own foods with particular flavours and favours. Each also has a rather nasty habit of staying with…