Author: Claire Sankey

Fad diets

Clean eating tips / Good Choices / Healthy Body / Processed Food

Why Fad diets don’t work long term, plus 7 simple things to change for long term weight loss and healthy eating.

What is a fad diet This is quick fix, short term, unrealistic eating plan.  It is something that you are not able to stick to long term.  It goes against your body natural nutrient requirements by depriving you of certain groups of food, as well as taking anything you regard as a treat and making it a sin to eat or drink.  All this can result in nutrient deficiency, dehydration, uncontrollable cravings and fatigue. If this is not enough, fad diets usually result in you gaining all the weight back and more.  It can take your body a fair amount of time to recover and heal from the trauma.  It makes you wonder why even after us knowing this we still go ahead...

Processed Foods

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Are all processed foods bad for our bodies?

There is so much confusion out there on what foods are good or bad for our bodies.  When most people think about processed food they look to fast foods like burgers, pizzas, kebabs, chips etc.  Then there is junk foods like chocolates, sweets, crisps, biscuits, cakes etc.  All things that most people can agree are not good in large quantities and should be more of an exception to what we eat and not the norm. But if we really get down to it, most foods are processed in some way or form in order to be packaged or tinned.  This got me thinking about which items that fell into the processed foods list where actually ok for me to include in my diet. ...

Glass Water

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Realistic changes specific for you versus drastic changes that won’t stick…

Any changes require your body and mind to be in sync. If we are making changes randomly without any thought or reason it generally never resonates and therefore becomes short-term. Until I started my own journey 6 years ago now I never connected the two. I would make changes to my nutrition, most of the time drastic changes that were not right for my body. I would choose the most energy-burning workouts and not fuel my body correctly for them. I would then Sustain this change for a few months at the most and then end up back where I started. It was only when I decided to select realistic nutrition and fitness that my mindset started change and the changes started to...

Never stop learning

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Your body and your choice…

Why is it that we think that medical professionals have all the answers to the issues that we have with our bodies and health?  They can absolutely help us in many ways but when do we ever get a resolution to a lifestyle disease like Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and Cholesterol to name a few?  In most cases the solution is always medication, and the medication generally increases over time, as this is the accepted solution to your issue.  In addition, these days the time a medical professional can spend with you to assess your issues is minimal, which is never going to give them the time to get to the bottom of the underlying problem. There is always a place...

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Changing the habits of a lifetime without stressing your body…

How is it that we make things so complicated and hard for ourselves in aid of being fitter, stronger, and healthier?  I can hold my hand up to this, as for years I made things as complicated for myself as possible and the change was short-lived.  I would say that I stressed myself and my body more than doing it any good at all. Over the past 6 years, I have been changing my lifestyle.  Changes that would be permanent and good for me.  This included nutrition, exercise, work-life balance, and career.  All of this is in aid of giving my body and mind the balance required to function at its optimum level physically and mentally.  I have read a plethora of books...

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Good Calories, Bad Calories

Good Calories and Bad calories are something that most people have an issue understanding.  We can eat the same number of calories in a meal, but the nutritional value can differ.  The nutrition that our bodies take from that meal varies a lot, due to the number of good fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. For years I was under the belief that fat was bad for me, and then it came out that carbohydrates were also bad for me.  Not once did I ever see a breakdown of what exactly in these two groups was the problem.  This led to me cutting out most foods that fell into these groups.  All in aid of me losing weight to reach my perfect weight.  I was...

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Diabetes Type 2 is not just affecting obese or overweight people!

This is something that I have done much research on since I have an underlying weakness in my gene pool for Type 2 diabetes. My Father, his grandmother and great-grandmother were all Type 2 diabetics and underwent periods in their life where they suffered due to this, resulting in ongoing health issues which in most cases resulted in the amputation of feet, legs, and toes, as well as affecting their eyesight. Something that was quite disturbing for me as I had grown up with a diabetic father and we had all followed as a family very specific nutrition advice from diabetic doctors and specialists.  Information we found years later was incorrect, escalated the issues, and moved my father from metformin to insulin injects...

Intermittent Fasting

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Intermittent Fasting NOT a fad diet

Firstly lets have a look at what fasting is and whether it may be for you? Fasting is a period of voluntary abstinence from food and drink, this has been and still is a practice used in a lot of religions and cultures globally and has been for many years.  A practice used to cleanse the body physically and spiritually. With this being said, IF (Intermittent Fasting) seems to be associated a lot with one of those fad diets.  What most people don’t see is how they are already fasting on a day-to-day basis naturally.  They have their last meal at night around 7 PM and then they have their next meal around 7 AM, they have fasted for 12 hours.  So, they...

Pure ingredients

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5 simple steps to getting a healthy body and mind through clean eating

Over the years most people have been programmed by whatever the latest fad is and I have definitely been part of this group. At one stage I was so confused with all the diet change suggestions and did not know what was the best for my body.   The problem with fad diets is that it is an extreme change that most people only take onboard for a limited period of time to hit a specific goal. It is generally kicked off by an event they want to get ready for like a party, wedding or holiday. Short term goals which then equate to short term results and in no time you are back to where you were before. It is extremely frustrating and...