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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
You ate, drank and made merry all through the festive season. “So what?” you thought, “it can wait till January. Well, January has come, and now, what a hangover! And not the boozy kind, either. I’m talking about what’s drooping over the top of your (once skinny) jeans.
If you want to shape up in a [...]
Tags: crash diets, january diets, weight loss.
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Did you wake up with a throbbing headache, a general feeling of physical misery, a tiger in your bathroom (?) and a bit of left over turkey on your shirt?
Guess my advice from my previous column on here’s the city didn’t quite make it to the bar with you. But before you choose to finish [...]
Tags: alcohol, christmas, detoxing, hangover, liver
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Yes we know, christmas time is a stressful time with all those festive parties, lunches and dinners, sorting out presents, getting the christmas tree up and running, writing christmas cards, queueing at the post office….The list goes on and on and you have probably stopped exercising weeks ago due to ‘being too busy’ and ‘you [...]
Tags: christmas diet, christmas turkey, weight gain, weight loss.
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
‘tis the season – and also the weather – for a cozy fireplace. But unless your office has a fireplace (lucky you), you’ll be heading to your local coffee shop to recreate that feeling.
And what better way than drinking yourself warm with a fancy holiday latte, hot chocolate, or mug of mulled wine?
But be warned, [...]
Tags: calories, christmas weight gain, coffee, skinny latte, sugar, weight loss.
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
How’s the liver-loving campaign going? Bought (and eaten) your first pack of mince pies already, washed down with brandy butter and some mulled wine?
Studies have shown that 50% of the average annual weight gain is most likely to be gained in the six weeks between mid-November and Christmas. So we’re about one week in to [...]
Tags: christmas, mince pies, nutritious christmas, over indulgence, surviving the christmas season, weight gain, weight loss.
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
In case you’ve picked up The Metro last Monday, you might have read it, in black on white, on a Monday morning: Britain is the fattest nation in Europe. Not the kind of motivation you want or need on a rainy Monday morning, when you are slightly depressed anyway (X Factor, rugby, winter blues). Next [...]
Tags: ghrelin, insomnia, leptin, Sleep, weight loss.
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