October 2010

GEORGIE – Detoxing!! Here I go!

October 31, 2010

Hey all – hope you all had good weekends – bit nervous this Sunday night – because tomorrow I got on a week long ‘cleanse’ that starts and ends with a colonic irrigation, and consists of vegetable juice, fruit juice, vitamins and minerals and er – water in between. And that’s it. ( I can [...]

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ZAR – Recipe for the weekend! Chicken with Capsicum, Fennel and Olives

October 28, 2010

This is a great dish to prepare in advance if you’re having people over or to freeze some for a later date. Not difficult at all. Delicious served with some green veg and potatoes if you must. Capsicum are also called peppers in England! Serves 4 4 chicken thigh fillets2 chicken breasts, cut in half2 [...]

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ROSIE – Love and Support

October 27, 2010

Looking back on my personal training days, one of the things I think some of my clients found hardest about sticking to a healthy diet and lifestyle (once they’d made the commitment to it), was fitting it in with their family life. Men notoriously can do a lot more damage to their bodies and, certainly [...]

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GEORGIE – Bridget Jones’s shopping basket!!

October 26, 2010

In my last blog I got stuck into the idea that frugal supermarket spending can be aided by paying by cash, not card. Researchers say it makes you more frugal and careful about what you eat. So I went and did it. It was fun actually – I worked out how much I was going [...]

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ZAR – Back basics

October 25, 2010

One thing that so many people have in common in this day and age is that they spend all day sitting at a desk.   Being so sedentary is one of the reasons that the population’s waistlines are getting bigger. Another impact that this can have is on the health of an individual’s back.  It really is [...]

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ROSIE – Boobies and Bras

October 24, 2010

This is a real one for the ladies, and one that I beg you to take note of. Regardless of age or size, take care of your boobies! Of course this blog mainly applies to exercise bras, but really it is important for ANY bra that you were. I have a reputation with my beloved [...]

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GEORGIE – Supermarket Stinge!!

October 23, 2010

Researchers at two US universities are recommending shoppers use cash instead of credit cards in Supermarkets – to ensure they end up with the right type of food in their trolley. It’s an idea I am not completely alien to – that parting with actual paper cash as opposed to signing the credit card slip [...]

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ZAR – Recipe – Baked Chicken, sweet potato and chickpeas

October 22, 2010

Sweet potato is a really good carb. Lower GI than others but with the texture of potato and will give you that satisfying feeling of having eaten carbs. This is a good midweek dish, quick and the fact it is cooked in the oven means you can get everything else done that a household requires [...]

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ROSIE – Illness…and how to get over it quick smart

October 20, 2010

I am now 31. How did that happen? And more to the point, aren’t I now officially “GROWN-UP”? Anything over the age of 20 is ancient when your young, so yes, I suppose I am meant to be older and wiser. So you would think I would know a think or two about staying healthy, [...]

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ZAR – Body Banter

October 19, 2010

I did the Pink Triathlon today. It’s the same one that I did last year, the one that set me on the ‘slippery slope’!! Just a mini – 300m swim, 9km cycle and 3km run. It’s a really great event, raising money and awareness for breast cancer and giving women the opportunity to challenge themselves [...]

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