The Secrets of Dietary Success for Weight Loss and Health

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I want to give you as close as I can a step up step process to get your diet absolutely, perfectly right.

The process below is one that we use with our client once we know what their metabolic type is and they have got used to their diet plans. This is a fine tuning process designed to get your fat protein and carbohydrate (Macronutrient), level just right for you.

MOST people following the system below lose between 2 and 8lb in the first week. This will slow to a stead 1 to 2lb per week if you follow the process properly. Weight loss usually stops dropping off after about 1 – 2.5 stone has been lost, at this point if you have more to lose you will need to look a bit deeper at your body and what is and is not working properly inside. The same goes if you have NO weight loss. If when you do diets you don’t lose weight it’s time to find out WHY.

Step 1

Cut the Crap and drink more water, but you knew this already right?

Always remember that ‘nothing does what water does inside your body’. Your body uses about 4oz of water every 30 mins just to run your metabolism. Most chronic illnesses and diseases have a dehydration component to them. For instance joint ware and tear, coronary heart disease or even something simple things you may suffer everday…. Fatigue headaches etc.

Do not count tea, coffee, fruit juices etc etc etc as water… Just drink water with nothing with it and give you body a break.

I need you to drink about 1.5liters of water sipped throughout the day.

Remember water is also important for detoxification and liver function, after the Christmas excess I need to detox and wash through my liver, how about you?

Step 2

Is to with draw starchy carbohydrates for 7 days. We call this a starch detox. I want to keep this short so I’m not going to head into the biochemistry of why this works, I’ll save that for another time, the short version is that it allows the cells with in your body the opportunity to burn fat without carbohydrates getting in the way.

Here is the list of what you need to remove for your 7 day detox;

 Rules of the Starch Detox

  1. No starchy fruits or vegetables
  2. Root and starchy vegetables – carrots – turnip – swede – beet root – chickpeas – sweet corn – etc
  3. Beans – lentils
  4. Rice brown or white
  5. Potatoes
  6. Bananas
  7. No Cows Dairy (Goats, Sheep’s, Buffalos are all fine)
  8. No processed foods – microwavable meals – pasta – pastries – pies
  9. Artificial / non foods – sweeteners – flavourings and preservatives
  10. No grain or grain products – cereals – bread –  baked goods
  11. NO Sugar
  12. No chocolate unless is 85% or above
  13. No alcohol
  14. No Caffeine
  15. Soya

During this period you may experience the following symptoms;

  • Headaches
  • Cough, cold, aches and pains (flu like symptoms)
  • Cravings
  • Depression
  • Spots and skin disruption
  • Changes in bowel habits

Step 3

So, what do you eat?

All meals should be based around having 30% protein, (meat, fish or eggs). 25% fat and then 45% of your plate should be non-starchy vegetables.

When I say all meal I do mean ALL meals, Breakfast lunch and dinner. There is not point trying to rebalance yourself at a cellular level if you keep have cereal or toast for breakfast.

Step 4

7 days later…..

You may have had a bit of a rough ride but are now feeling awesome OR you may still not be feeling at your best.

Lets see if we can either make you feel ‘even’ better or make you feel… better!

I still want to keep away from the powerful carbohydrates such as rice, potatoes, bread and pasta but I want you to carefully add in starchy vegetables these are root vegetables.

The table below will show you how:

Day Meals Spoonful’s of starch
1 Dinner 1 tablespoon full
2 LunchDinner 1 tablespoon full
3 BreakfastLunchDinner 1 tablespoon full
4 BreakfastLunchDinner 2 tablespoon full
5 BreakfastLunchDinner 3 tablespoon full

As in the table above you add in carbohydrates one tablespoon full at a time starting on day one at dinner. The following day have starchy carbs at both lunch and dinner and then on day 3 a tablespoon full at breakfast, lunch and dinner. You then add more starch day by day at each meal.

You should feel better and better. As soon as you don’t feel better and in fact feel worse decrease the amount of carbs back to where you were when you were feeling great.

If you felt worse the moment you added in starchy carbs then go back to low carb veg so that you can keep feeling great.

Step 5

Once you have found your correct Macronutrient balance it time to add in some more NUTRITION. This is best done in the form of superfoods. Below is a list of superfoods for you to try.

Sprouted beans, seeds and nuts

Wheat grass

Barley grass

Chorella

Spirilina

Aloe vera

Follow the process and you will have weight loss and after a small and short process of detoxification energy and even regulated moods and weight loss.

If you have any problems or want more information than contact us

Happy new YOU!

Committed to your success

Keith Tucker and Clare Valvona

01494 783 685

info@absolute-training.com

Therapeutic Nutrition Part 1

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Therapeutic Nutrition Part 1

Once you have your diet right i.e you know and are eating to your metabolic type, there are 4 fundamentals to nutritional therapy that you need to optimise. Get these right along with your diet and you should not need to count calories or do anything extreme. You should get healthier, thinner, and sexier with more energy, strong hair and nails and clear skin if after following your metabolic type and maximising the list below you are not moving in the right direction it is time for you to look a bit deeper and possibly get some lab tests done, NOT cut calories!

These 4 fundamentals are;

  1. Hydration
  2. Digestion
  3. Assimilation
  4. Elimination

Hydration

Are you drinking 1.5 to 2 litres of water per day? Rain or shine the basic Metabolic processes that occur in each of your 3 trillion cells require 4oz of pure water every 30 mins to run efficiently! ‘Remember nothing does what water does in your body!’ So fruit juice, tea and coffee don’t count as they all require further metabolic process to retrieve the water or to digest and assimilate them to get the nutrients out of them.

Bottled water is generally better than tap water but if you want to go one step further then look into getting a reverse osmosis water filter here;

www.healthy-house.co.uk

At this site you can get many other health products I recommend spending some time going through it and making a shopping list so that over time you can reduce all the blocking factors to your health that reside in your environment. First steps though, the water you drink and shower/wash in!

Digestion

‘You are what you eat!’

Is this a true statement?

Personally I think it’s a great line to get people to start thinking about food and what they are placing in their mouths but is it accurate…… NO.

You are only what you can DIGEST and ASSIMILATE, in other words, you are what you can break down and absorb into your blood stream and therefore use to build and fuel your body. You can eat the healthiest organic foods and take the best supplements but if you don’t have the digestive capacity to break stuff down into small enough elements so that they can pass through the wall of your small intestine then it really does not matter and you are probably waisting your money.

With this in mind we started to talk about supplementation primarily Hydrochloric acid (HCL) and digestive enzymes.

The stomach’s ability to produce HCL and pepsin is often inadequate.  It is affected by high carbohydrate diets, medication; particularly pain relief meds and allergy medication and it also reduces with age.

You will often hear people refer to this or that as the bodies first line of defence against parasites, bacteria, viruses, yeast, mould and fungi. The first step in your defence against invaders is the acidic condition of your stomach as most can’t survive the low pH of this environment.

HCL helps in the digestion of proteins along with pepsin so that it can be ASSIMILATED by the intestines. If too larger protein molecules are absorbed by your intestines then you immune system is called into action. This can lead to allergies such as hay fever or if you have continued exposure you could end up with an autoimmune disease.

HCL also triggers the pyloric sphincter to open (exit of the stomach), so that the pre-digested contents can pass into the small intestine. The pyloric sphincter is pH (acid/alkaline) sensitive. This means that it only opens when the pH of the stomach gets low enough or acidic enough.

Inadequate HCL causes many health problems and is a very important issue that is not addressed by mainstream diets, doctors or many other health professionals. As this is a big issue, a root cause of disease, we will be talking about HCL, HCL supplementation and a condition called hydrochloride in the future.

But in a nut shell…. If you don’t have enough HCL you can’t provide the right environment to maximise digestion, if you can’t maximise the breaking down of food you CANNOT therefore maximise assimilation which means you can’t give your body the nutrition that it needs. As you can see from this, inadequate HCL can be one of the root causes of all disease.

Digestive Enzymes

Breaking down food particles into small enough pieces that they can pass through the wall of your small intestine and be assimilated into the body. We have a finite ability to produce enzymes but have many environmental factors that inhibit or use up our enzyme capacity. Taking a digestive enzyme is beneficial as it will relieve the stress on our bodies digestive capacity as well as slowing the use of our enzymic capacity.

Digestive enzymes should not be taken with your meal, unless otherwise directed they should be taken about 20 minutes after eating.

I think that that’s probably enough information for one post. We’ll cover probiotic and elimination real soon.

If you’re struggling with your diet or your health then contact me for a free consultation.

Committed to your health and success

Keith, Clare and the Absolute Training team.

 

Soya, Friend or Foe?

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Before you launch into my take on Soya and Soya products, I have to apologise…. There are no pictures in this one and there is a bit of reading to do.

I often take people off cows dairy for a period of time when I work with them due to the high levels of adverse reactions it causes. Many people are reacting to dairy and they don’t even know it and it’s therefore a stressor and a blocking factor to their weight loss efforts or their desire to be healthier.

The first thing that people often say when I get them off the dairy is whether they should go out and buy a dairy substitute such as soya.

There are substitutes that you can use such as almond milk, (remember none of the milk substitutes taste the same as milk), but soya is NOT a substitute that I would recommend.

There are many people who come to me who have already taken out dairy and they can wait to tell me how they are making good choices as they use soya instead. Yep thats right I then take them off this as well but…. Why

Why don’t I like soya products? Why can I not recommend them to you?

Lets start with dispelling a myth about soya and Asian cultures;

Myth – Asians Consume large amounts of soya based foods and have done for 1000′s of years and it’s healthy for them!

Truth – Average consumption is about 2 teaspoonfuls per day in Japan and China. It is consumed as a condiment and NOT as a replacement for animal proteins in a meal. Soya has been used in China from about 1134BC but they ONLY consumed it once it had been fermented making tempeh, natto and tamari.

Fermenting soya makes it healthful and eliminates all the problem causing elements that are found in soya.

The soya we use in this country has NOT been fermented. It is a highly processed ‘food’.

Unfermented processed soya food has the following problems;

  • When soya is digested, a by product is made called phytic acid. Phytic acid disrupts the assimilation of the minerals calcium, magnesium, copper iron and zinc. It’s worth knowing that high phytate diets have caused growth problems in children. Other foods also release phytic acid but it can be neutralised by soaking, sprouting, slow cooking or fermentation.
  • Soya releases substances that can act like hormones in our bodies called phytoestrogens. This can disrupt endocrine function (hormone function), leading to infertility and breast cancer. Phytoestrogens are also antithyroid agents which can cause hypothyroid conditions and thyroid cancer. Autoimmune conditions of the thyroid have a strong link with infants that have been fed a soya formula.
  • The Vitamin B12 analogues that are found in soya are not usable, we cannot absorb it. These forms of vitamin B12 do in fact increase the bodies need for vitamin B12. The consumption of soya also increases the bodies need for vitamin D. In a country where most people are deficient in Vitamin D we don’t want to be eating anything that causes further requirements for it.
  • Soya products often have higher levels of aluminium in them which is toxic to us effecting both the kidneys and the nervous system.
  • Many people are now aware of, and trying to avoid, a product call monosodiumglutimate (MSG). This is a substance that is formed during the processing process of soya and many soya products have extra MSG added to them.
  • Further more the processing process of soya requires the soya to be heated to high temperatures. This part of the process denatures the proteins. Your body does not recognise the proteins and they will therefore place stress on your digestive system; possibly even your immune system as your body works out what to do with them. This stress could lead to inflammation in your gut over time causing you digestive problems possibly even IBS symptoms or if your immune systems involved you may find an increase or the development of allergies over time.
  • Finally for this article the processing of soya also leads to a nasty chemicals called lysinealanine being formed. This substance is carcinogenic nitrosamine and to be avoided!.

So the question is, do you really want to eat it?

You may be a cynical sort and are thinking to yourself… It does not seem to be harming me or just plain and simply… Prove it Tucker, show me some proof.

I understand and so right here I have included studies and references for you viewing pleasure. So please once you have been convinced, for me and for you…. Stop eating soya.

Committed to your success

Keith and Clare

Sources and references;

Studies showing the adverse effects of soy 1939 – 2008

 

Studies showing the adverse effects of isoflavones 1950 – 2010

Even if none of this completely convinces you…. I have only one question to ask; If there is doubt why take the risk?

Good health to you

What do my food reactions mean?

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If you are using a daily check record sheet (DCR), as mentioned in the previous post to track how your meals are reacting in your body and whether they are good for you or not it is very important for you to understand what different reactions may mean.

Some reactions mean that there is too much protein in your meal other reactions mean there is to much carbohydrate (or sugar) in your meal.

To keep this article short and simple, proteins are animal products such as meat, fish and dairy and carbohydrates are vegetables, fruit, rice, pasta, bread, cake and sweets. Fats are Cheese, full fat milk and oils such as olive oil or coconut oil and butter.

Below are specific food reactions and what they mean.  The DCR can be used to gauge the effectiveness of any meal in providing your body with energy and the nutrients it needs to keep you feeling full and happy.

Too much protein

  • Lethargy, sleepy, Depressed
  • Mentally sluggish / slow
  • Heavy feelings in your gut
  • Full but still hungry
  • Sweet cravings
  • Cravings for caffeinated beverages or foods

 

Too Much Carbohydrate

  • Tired but wired
  • Nervous energy
  • Energy highs and lows
  • Jumpy mind / ADHD type behaviour
  • Headaches, anxiety
  • Not satisfied / Get hungry quickly
  • Fat / Protein cravings
  • Sweet cravings

If you missed the first post on using the DCRs Click Here. Remember to fill in the daily check record sheet (DCR) 1.5 hours to 2 hours after every meal and with in a week you will have a good idea of which meals gave you energy and made you healthier and which meals tanked you out!

Committed to your success

Keith and Clare

How does food make you feel and what does this mean?

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Your body IS communicating with you… Every minute of every hour of every day it is telling you whether what you have eaten is right or what you have eaten is wrong for your health, fitness or weight loss goals. I’m not just talking about the common sense stuff and that little voice inside your head saying, ‘don’t eat the doughnut it’s bad for you’.

I’m talking about the important stuff, headaches lethargy, weight gain and illness. If you know how to listen you can start formulating a better diet - one more suited to your body; one that is more suited to your genetic makeup. This is a tool that we use with our nutrition clients to help them become experts in what foods are good for them and moving them towards their goal and what foods are bad for
them. People are often surprised by which foods make them feel great, full for hours and full of energy.

This simple tool will also allow you to cut through all the rubbish that the press pushes on us calling it health and nutrition advice and enabling you to make an informed decision as to whether a food, or diet is actually good for you.

The tool that we use is called a daily check record sheet (DCR). It is a way of keeping a food diary but is more comprehensive than just writing your foods down. Here is a an example of a section of a daily check record sheet;

REACTIONS TO YOUR METABOLIC TYPE DIET

FOOD INTAKE - List all foods & drinks consumed
TODAY’S DATE:

Place a check to the left of all descriptions that describe your experience 1 – 2 hours after each meal
Time Breakfast

APPETITE SATIETY CRAVINGS

   Feel full, satisfied   Feel physically full, but still hungry
  Do NOT have sweet cravings   Have desire for something sweet
  Do NOT desire more food   Not satisfied, feel like something was missing
  Do NOT feel hungry   Already hungry
  Do NOT need to snack before next meal   Feel the need for a snack

ENERGY

LEVELS

   Energy feels renewed   Meal gave too much or too little energy
  Have good, lasting, “normal” sense of energy   Became hyper, jittery, shaky, nervous or speedy
    Felt hyper, but exhausted “underneath”
  Energy tanked from meal – exhaustion, sleepiness, drowsiness, listlessness or lethargy

MIND

EMOTIONS

WELL-BEING

   Improved well-being   Mentally slow, sluggish, or spacy
  Sense of feeling refueled, renewed and restored   Inability to think quickly or clearly
  Some emotional upliftment   Hyper, overly rapid thoughts
  Improved mental clarity and sharpness   Inability to focus or concentrate
  Normalization of thought processes   Apathy, depression, withdrawal or sadness
    Anxious, obsessive, fearful, angry or irritable

How to use the DCR?

Fill in the left hand column with what you have eaten; just like a regular diet diary.  Then, 1.5 hours after consuming the food, use the tick sheet to determine whether the meal was good for you or bad for you; whether it had a positive effect on your mood, concentration and energy levels or a negative effect.

Why 1.5 hours?

It does not have to be exactly 1.5 hours, you can do anywhere between 1.5 and 2 hours. This time gap between eating the meal and filling in the tick sheet allows your meal time to be digested and absorbed. It should therefore be affecting you on a cellular level. How you now feel is a direct relation to how the cells of your body are feeling and operating.

Keith Tucker

54 second video of our weight loss boot camp in Berko

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The other Wednesday day I got my little camera out so that I could give you a real short snap shot of how well these ladies are doing at Bootcamp.

This session was awesome they all worked so hard and were so focused I’m sure some of them lost a pound or two just in this workout!!!!

I know that some of the moves are a little extreme but if you look closely you’ll find that everyone is working to their own ability.

Our boot campers build their exercise complexity carefully over time. We always offer options for people who are new to exercise or have injuries as you will find on the Bootcamp website, just check out the testimonials and then come meet the people!

Enjoy 52 seconds of other people doing the hard work!


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Starving in Africa or Obesity, Heart Attack and Diabetes?

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I’ve just been having lunch with Clare, steak and salad with olives and avocado, Mmmmm are you jealous?

It was awesome but I’m not writing to give you a case of the green eyed monsters, I want to make you think about your eating habits?

Clare had too much food on her plate for her to finish so she asked if I wanted any.

“No I’m just fine,” I replied.

“Keith, there are children staving in Africa,” she replied in an almost monotone voice.

“And your dying to have a heart attack or diabetes,” I replied.

Clare blinked slowly and then a light went on inside…. “You have got to turn that into a blog!” she said!

So here we are….

There are children staving in Africa and other countries for the want of a good meal but there are also hundreds of thousands if people in developed countries dying from diseases of over eating every day.

In the Boot camp, Personal Training sessions and the Personal Nutrition course food is a major subject day in and day out. Not only do we discuss what we should and should not eat but also our psychological and behavioural attitudes to food.

There are many things that come up time and time again such as depression and comfort eating, the feeling of loving or looking after your loved ones or demonstrating your love for them through food treats, but the biggest one is the inability to leave food on your plate due to a few simple words that have been said to you as children time and time again.

You have to finish your dinner, there are children staving in Africa!!!!

If there was a way of measuring the health effects of a few simple words I’m willing to bet that this sentence is one of the most deadly!

Think about it!

Committed to your success

Keith, Clare and the Team

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Tanita Body Fat Scales at a MASSIVE discount for only our Clients and friends

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A Very Limited Special Offer For YOU!

We have acquired 11 sets of Tanita body fat scales.   “What’s this and why would I care? I hear you think…..!”

These are the type of scales that we and large national gym’s use in their business to do their health assessments and to track weight loss and body fat progress. If you’re into your weight loss or health and fitness they are a very important tool to keep you focused on your fat loss goal.

Track progress, write your own diet plans

We use them to track progress, write diet plans and gain critical health information about our client health status and weight loss progress.

Understand your body Fat %

These scales will enable you to track your weight, (yes i know Keith, i don’t know if you’ve noticed but any scales will do that!), they will measure the % of your body that’s fat and the % that’s muscle. This is far more important than knowing how much you weigh as lean tissue weight’s 3 times as much as fat! If your training hard this will enable you to track the changes in body composition. This is very important as some people do not lose weight when training but they do change shape and change body composition.

You can also get fat % readings for individual parts of your body such as your right leg, left arms or torso.

Discover the amount of fat stored around you organs and therefore your health risk!

Visceral fat is the fat that is stored around your organs and therefore directly relates to your health. If you score highly here you know you need to take some action to improve your health!

Would you like to know how many calories you should consume a day? These scales will give you an estimate helping you to formulate a diet plan to suit your needs!

Bone and Water %

These scales will also give you bone %’s and hydration % give you the tools you need to make the right health decisions.

They are quick and easy to use… they need to be, you try retesting all the boot-campers on the last Sunday of each month! They have got to work fast.

Do not worry if you are not technically minded as they have a comprehensive instruction manual and I use them every day! For me to use something electrical it’s needs to be idiot proof, you just ask Clare what I’m like with technology!

When I brought these scale I paid £179.99 and if you buy them from John Lewis, Tanita, this is what you would pay. We have pick up 11 sets for Only £125.

Do you want a £55 discount?

Even if you wait for the January sales you’ll not get them at £55 off the RRP.

So who’s in?

  • Would your weight loss be easier if you had a professional tool to help you?
  • Is it time you used a professional tool to help you set your goals realistically?
  • Would you achieve your goals if you were able to track and measure your success properly and understand what happening inside your body?
  • Who wants a major discount that normally only comes if you have buying power of a large organisation?

If you would like one of the 11 sets then click the link below and you’ll be able to pop in a pick them up or we will hand deliver them if you are local to us!

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It’s not just about hard work. It’s about doing and achieving things!

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I hope that you are all getting lean and mean for the summer.

If you have not started getting into shape don’t leave it any later. The magazines with the headlines flat stomach in 2 week or a 6 pack in 6 days is lying to you…!

I have started my own summer regime, Monday was drop sets, Tuesday 10 rounds of hard boxing and today metabolic circuit training! If it wasn’t for the stiff and sore muscles I’d feeling fighting fit!!!

Our boot camps are about more than just weight loss and fitness this weekend was a big weekend for 12 of our campers!

On the Friday the 25th a group of excited and slightly anxious Absolute Bootcamp Berkhamsted Bootcampers embarked on a 5 hour journey to North Wales.

For some of it was going to be an event of a lifetime, other a celebration of how far they have come in less than a year!

Joining last September some have gone from sedentary to mountain conqueror in just 9 short months!

We took 15 including me up and brought 15 back. I can’t say for sure that they are the same 15 people as many when through some changes as they conquered fatigue and fears.

We all arrived at the hotel at the bottom of mount Snowdon on Friday evening after a long 5 hour drive. Obviously there were only 2 things on people’s minds…

1)      A good meal

2)      Hitting the bar!

Some of us hit the bar harder than others but a good time was had by all.

By 2.30 most were in bed getting the necessary shut eye for the climb ahead… others (Amy) where still up trying to sober up a little before bed!

Here she is the following morning not looking ready to go????

I think she may have been still drunk as it was not long before she looked like this!

The alarm went off all too soon at 7 for a 7.30 breakfast, then we splint into 2 groups, a fast and a slower group.

The fast group had an extra job to do.

Drop the cars off on the other side of Snowdon and then get back and catch up the other group who would have about an hour head start.

I led the faster group and we quickly got our kit together and got off to the drop point. My dad (Tony in this photo) led the slower group who then signed out the hotel and started their climb up the mountain.

I don’t know if you like driving, but if you do I can recommend the Snowdon area, but make sure that you have someone who knows where they are going or a good satnav!

I thought we were trouble…. As I heard my co-pilot come out with the quote of the weekend…. She (Susan) was doing the map reading…

“I think we’re in trouble. There does not seem to be a wiggle for the wiggle that we are on!!!!…..

Possibly not what you want to hear when you are throwing your car through the lanes of Snowdonia we 3 other cars following you rely on you to not get lost!

All was good though the map just needed turning round so that all the wiggles matched up.

We quickly got back from the dropping off of the car and started our assent. The pace was brisk and I have to give congratulation to Angie White, Neil Williams, Susan Beddal and Gale Jackson as they kept the pace and stormed the mountain!

We caught the up with the other team at about 12.30.

It was then a hard climb to the top as we were climbing in 25+ degree heat without a cooling wind.

We regrouped before the top….

Amy had to regroup mentally as well as physically, hangover in full swing in 25 degree heat!!!!

The top was gained in 4 hours so we had celebratory nibbles, water and a photo. After we all used the new toilets and congratulating ourselves for getting there regardless of painful bits and medical conditions it was time to start back down.

We started in good sprit’s knowing lunch was going to be an hour or less away and that we were on our way home….  The happy campers soon learned that down is a lot harder than up. For those of you who have never climbed a mountain, the down part is harder for 2 reasons. 1) The strain on the leg muscle and knee joints is far greater and 2) uneven ground covered in lose pebbles becomes treacherous.

Although people knees and leg were getting tired after lunch everyone battled on. Strong breeze was cooling us and our bellies were full again. Amy’s hang over was subsiding and she was starting to look positively perky!

We got to the car park on the other side of Snowdon about 8 hours after the first group had left the hotel.

Time for a finishers photo a good congratulatory slap on the back!

Well done to everyone one who climbed, I really enjoyed myself. We’ll choose a different mountain next year for some more climbing and photo taking.

I have heard mention and interest for doing the 3 peaks challenge I’ll be asking those of you interested soon. But for the time being it’s time to look forward to the summer BBQ in July and then the next activity weekend in September.

Hope to see you all there,

Keith

P.S – You see Absolute Bootcamp Berkhamsted is not just about the exercise and the weight loss, we are also about the experience and friendship that can only be gained through experiencing things together.

Are toxins keeping you fat and tired?

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I hope that you have enjoyed the weather over the last couple of days. BBQ’s are a good way of esting plenty of fresh vegetable and meat, just look out for the puddings and the acohol consumption…. I don’t know about you but when the Barbe comes out I go straight into holiday mode!

Anyway, detoxinifcation, how toxins are making you fat and sluggish and which vegetable you need to by organic!

I think that we all know that it’s a good idea to buy organic varieties of fruit and vegetables but we are often unsure as to why. You can read articlse in the paper stating that organic varieties have a higher vitamin and mineral content and then read the following day that they don’t!

For me it’s not just about the nutrient density, it’s also about the toxic load. Before we get onto this let’s just stick with the nutrient density. You are always going to find discrepancies between which is better, the organic variety or the factory farmed. This is due to 2 reasons;

1)      It depends on who’s doing the study or who is paying for it and what they have got to lose by the study not finding in their favour

2)      Soil quality, let me explain with a little back groud information.

Back in 1936 a group of doctors introduced document 264. This document was a warning to the senate that the mineral content of the soil was eroding and that the vitamin and mineral content of our produce was at risk and would not be ble to support the health of the nation. Since this time nothing has been done to correct the problem and it has become a global problem!

It’s going to take time for the soil to recover it’s nutrient density therefore it’s going to take some time before we see supermarket organic produce that is consistantly higher in nutritional density than facory farmed produce.

Elmer Heinrich in his book, the root of all disease states that we need 10 servings of vegetable just too equal 1 serving of vegetable from 50 years ago.

Back to Toxins!

It’s better to buy organic as they do NOT have the toxic load that factory farmed produce has. A toxin is a substance that causes harm to the body. The immune system, liver and kidneys work hard to break down and excrete these toxins but they often become over loaded due to our level of exposure.

When you consider the exposure from our environment, factories, cars, air fresheners and then we add in perfumes, deodorant, cosmetics and shower gel and then on top of this our food we could over time overload our systems ability to cope and to detoxify us.

Just for a moment think of the pressure on your detoxification systems if you do this every day for 30 years, 40 years even 50 years and then add in that most people don’t get good quality exercise or sunlight in, don’t drink enough water, have poor quality sleep and consume processed food and don’t eat to their metabolic type. It’s not a surprise that our systems could be compromised and that we may suffer some symptoms such as fatigue, weight gain, stomach problems, regualar head aches or lifestyle diseases, cancer, coronary heart disease, diabetes etc.

Weight loss in itself is a process of detoxification. Many toxins are fat soluble, if the body can’t process them it stores them in fat cells to be delt with later, therefore increasing your weight. Many people never give their body enough of e rest from toxins to enable the body to retreve the toxins from the fat cells and process them. They therefore get fatter and fatter on the toxins they consume.

To assist your liver and to help your weight loss or health you should follow the advice of the Environmental working group;

12 Foods you should only buy Organic!

Buy these organic only

1)      Peach

2)      Apple

3)      Bell Pepper

4)      Celery

5)      Nectarine

6)      Strawberries

7)      Cherries

8)       Kale

9)      Lettuce

10)   Grapes

11)   Carrot

12)   Pear

Ok even if not organic

1)      Onion

2)      Avocado

3)      Sweet Corn

4)      Pineapple

5)      Mango

6)      Asparagus

7)      Sweet Peas

8)      Kiwi

9)      Cabbage

10)   Aubergine

11)   Papaya

12)   Watermelon

13)   Broccoli

14)   Tomato

15)   Sweet potato

Healthy weight loss, lifestyle disease prevention all require you to give you body a break from time to time, and let it detoxify itself and recharge.

Here is quite a simple detoxification programme for you to follow;

  • For 5 days keep all sugar, grain, grain based products, dairy and processed foods out of your diet
  • Eat organic fruit, vegetable and meat
  • Drink at least 2 litres of water throughout each day
  • Introduce some super foods such as  Spirulina, cocoa, macca powder and aloe vera

You can fine these and other products at the follow website;

www.creative-nature.co.uk

www.aggressivehealth.co.uk

To find out more about foods, detoxificcation and weight loss come to the nutrition course, the £1 bootcamp trial or £9.95 for 3 personal training session trial

Committed to your success

Keith, Clare and the Team

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