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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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.

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

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  • Is it time you used a professional tool to help you set your goals realistically?
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  • 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