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Cleaning Up From The Inside Out

December 4, 2008 by Michele Neylon 1 Comment

detox tablets Over the last few years I’ve read quite a bit about how our bodies build up junk. Whether you have a good diet or not you still seem to end up with undigested leftovers and other undesirable stuff floating around your stomach and intestine.
Some friends of mine, who were into archaeology, used to purify themselves using quite an extreme method which involved drinking water and very little else for several days!

Fortunately there are other options open to us these days.

One of them, that I was interested in trying, is a series of detox tablets. Supposedly this helps reduce the amount of toxins in your bowel areas etc., which should help with weight loss and digestion. I know that it would probably do me good, as I’ve been treating my body like a playground for as long as I can remember!

Find out more about the detox tablets (and other solutions) here (the free shipping to Ireland really caught my eye!)

Exercising Without Leaving Your Desk?

December 2, 2008 by Michele Neylon 2 Comments

If you’re stuck in an office all day or simply don’t like the idea of doing exercise then you could be facing a problem. However it’s 2008, so someone somewhere has probably already come up with a solution…

So how about this? Imagine a treadmill that is part of your office desk… Don’t believe me?

Have a look for yourself:
The model pictured above is the Steelcase Walkstation, which costs about $5000 USD! If you want to see one in action check out the video over on the Time site.

I’m not 100% sure if it would work for me, but the novelty of it caught my eye!

Of course if you just want a “normal” treadmill you can expect to pay a LOT less – they retail from a couple of hundred euro upwards…

Time To Cut Out Sugar

December 2, 2008 by Michele Neylon Leave a Comment

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When I was a lot younger I didn’t take sugar in my coffee. Since then I’ve taken to drinking much stronger coffees, so adding sugar became a natural thing to do. I then decided to replace the sugar with artificial sweetener, but that’s probably not the best of ideas either…

But being honest about it, the sugar in the coffee might not be the worst thing. The sugar on the breakfast cereal is probably doing me a lot more damage. So I’m now going to try and cut it out. I might not be able to cut out sugar immediately, but if I can reduce the quantity I use it will probably help a bit ….

Why Christmas Sucks If You Want To Lose Weight

November 30, 2008 by Michele Neylon Leave a Comment

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You don’t need to be a genius to realise that Christmas is a really bad time of the year if you’re on a diet. That probably explains why so many people decide to go on diets in the New Year …

So what to do?

Christmas is a wonderful time of the year to see friends and family, but what on earth do you do about the food?

Christmas dinner itself is usually a calorie-laden feast – if not then there’s probably something wrong!

And in the weeks leading up to Christmas there are so many temptations put in your way… Think of mince pies, cakes, panettone, pan d’oro and of course office parties.

I don’t think there is an easy solution. The only thing I can try to do is eat in moderation and try to avoid as much of the junk as possible – even if it pains me!

Some Progress Makes You Feel Better

November 30, 2008 by Michele Neylon Leave a Comment

So I’m avoiding lots of food. Trying to eat better and more healthy options etc., etc.

Most of the time it’s relatively easy – munching on fruit throughout the day seems to work out okay and if I’ve got too much fruit other people in the office help make sure that it doesn’t go off.

Of course the big question is whether or not any of this is actually working.

While it’s nice that people say encouraging things it’s hard to know if they’re just saying that to help boost your morale. Not that I’m complaining, but tangible results would be so much nicer!

So I was delighted to find that I’d dropped a full kilo when I weighed myself this morning. A full kilo! That’s 2 lbs if you’re into Imperial measurements.

Unfortunately I suspect that the 1kg is due to my horrible hangover yesterday – as I couldn’t stomach food for most of the day, but let’s not dwell on that too much.

Other positive things …

I’ve bought a smaller belt for my trousers, as the one I was using couldn’t be tightened any further and my trousers felt like they were going to fall off me most of the time.

So what now?

Rome wasn’t built in a day, so I just need to keep on at it.

Web Services To Track Your Dieting

November 23, 2008 by Michele Neylon Leave a Comment

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As I’ve mentioned before, I work in IT, so I like gadgets and web services. However I am pragmatic. If it’s going to take me hours to setup a profile on a site and keep it up to date, then I probably won’t really use it.

In my quest to keep track of my dieting and weight loss (I prefer to refer to it as “change of lifestyle”) I sought out some online services to help me.

Weight Watchers have an online service, but as it’s pay to use I haven’t assessed it as yet.

Three other sites did attract my attention:
Daily Plate
Fit Day
Traineo

There were problems with all 3 sites.

Both Daily Plate and Fit Day are very American, while Traineo’s signup page was broken on my first visit. While I did eventually manage to signup a number of the site’s functions are not working correctly at present, which is more than a little annoying.
Of the three only two sent me confirmation emails after signing up. FitDay didn’t, so I had to search my browser history to work out the site’s name.
That is annoying.

Anyway, what about the site’s themselves?

All three offer very similar functionality. The main difference is in how you can access it and add your details ie. keep track of your eating, exercise and weight etc.,

Traineo would appear to be the slickest and simplest to use, as they give you a relatively simple “portal” to work from. Unfortunately, like the other sites, it allows you to enter data in lbs or kg, but then displays suggestions related to lbs only, which is really annoying.

Daily Plate is quite powerful by the looks of things, but to be able to access any of the more advanced features you need to upgrade to a paid subscription. It allows you to track what you eat by searching their database, but unfortunately it’s very American in its bias and the display of options when you search is confusing to say the least

Fit Day is quite easy to use and doesn’t seem to want my money to access any of its features. Unfortunately, while it allows me to set targets and enter data using metric values it provides all of its advice and graphs using Imperial measurements!

After playing around a bit with all three services I’m really none the wiser.

If someone were to launch a more Euro-centric solution I’d probably be a lot happier.

Is Weight Watchers A Good Option?

November 23, 2008 by Michele Neylon Leave a Comment

Weight Watchers seems to be a very popular way of losing weight amongst my female friends.

I’ve been looking into joining weight watchers, as I like to keep my options open, but I have a few reservations.

To start with, while I may be happy to write about my battle to lose weight or to tell anyone I know, I’m not 100% sure if I would like to get involved in a group of complete strangers. I’ve never been particularly good with groups or anything that involves regularly scheduled meetings, so I don’t think I’d feel particularly comfortable going to a meeting by myself. If a friend or colleague was attending as well then I probably would.

The other thing is that while weight watchers has “men only” meetings in some parts of the country, they don’t have any in my area.

Of course if I really wanted to I could always opt for the “Weight Watchers at Home” system, which gives you all the booklets that you’d get normally plus you have access to their consultants.

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