July 2010

ZAR – 10 Healthy food tips!

July 31, 2010

Instead of a recipe this week, I thought I’d give you 10 ways to spice up everyday fruit, veg et al. Natural almonds – roast for 10 mins in the oven; they taste even better! Nectarines, peaches or fresh figs – grill and serve with greek yoghurt. Roma tomatoes – quarter and place on a [...]

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ROSIE – Toning exercises

July 29, 2010

Last week I blogged on muscles and toning and promised you some ace exercises to tone up. Remember the FITTA principle? Apply that to this group of exercises and you’ll be lean and mean in no time at all – but remember the Adherence part, the most important of all! 1) Shoulder pressTake a dumbell [...]

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ZAR – Bad thoughts & bad eating…

July 28, 2010

Lordy, lordy I thought I was stronger than this. I’ve had alot on my mind recently and what I’ve noticed straight away is that I am making food my crutch. It’s proof that so much of success or failure in terms of weight loss or weight maintenance relies on a strong mental attitude. When I’m [...]

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GEORGIE – Rosie’s motivated – I need to get there…

July 27, 2010

Following Rosie’s rousing rally call for motivation yesterday I had a little think and, in need of motivation as I am – I decided to compose a list of things that will motivate me over the coming month to get back into the gym harder then ever… Here we go – this will be stuck [...]

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ROSIE – Find motivation!!

July 26, 2010

So, this is something that we’ve written about at least a couple of times over the last 6 months on Bingham Girls but, from my experience, both personal and professional, it is the BIG one when it comes to exercise. The biggest excuse for not doing exercise is “I don’t have time”. I’ve uttered it [...]

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ROSIE – A woman’s body

July 23, 2010

I think I can safely say that the majority of women AREN’T looking for that waif like model look. They want a toned, lean, healthy looking body, with a few curves, not like someone who would drop over if you so much as breathed on them. The problem is that most of us (I say [...]

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ZAR – Yummy…chicken schnitzel the healthy way.

July 22, 2010

This is very unusual for me. I actually don’t enjoy schnitzel because of the frying. Way to much oil for me. However, during this wintertime, I am of course, craving fat and carbs (I don’t think I’m alone) and I decided to try and make a healthy version of this Aussie favourite. I served it [...]

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ROSIE – More muscles!

July 21, 2010

Zar and I bizarrely wrote on quite a similar topic this week but I’m glad because it highlights the importance of resistance training in terms of shaping your body. Zar gave you the science – I am now giving you a little bit of theory on HOW TO… build those lovely lean looking muscles. I [...]

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ROSIE – More muscles!

July 21, 2010

Zar and I bizarrely wrote on quite a similar topic this week but I’m glad because it highlights the importance of resistance training in terms of shaping your body. Zar gave you the science – I am now giving you a little bit of theory on HOW TO… build those lovely lean looking muscles. I [...]

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ZAR – Muscles…

July 20, 2010

Pose says it all the time and we all know it – we have to get moving to burn kilojoules. Cardio is great for fat burning and you can’t expect to lose fat without getting your heart rate up. However, there are many benefits to adding some type of resistance training or strength training to [...]

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