Weight management

So you want to lose a bit of fat? Who doesn’t?

If you’re like most of us you know the basics of a healthy life style and what to do to lose weight, you just need a friendly push and a bit of guidance to go and do it.

They are many places that offer diet advice. A few to be wary of are: --
Very low calorie diets.
These will strip muscle and fat away lowering your body’s metabolism. These diets are very hard, if not impossible, to maintain long term, and when you come off them the reduced metabolism will mean you pile on the pounds again, all in the form of fat and you will find it even harder to lose the next time.

Very high protein diets.
There is some evidence that an increase in protein consumption while dieting can promote fat loss, as some excess protein is simply excreted from the body. However, if taken too far, the reduction of carbohydrate will at the best leave you tired and lethargic, at worse the excess protein will pollute and block vital organs leaving you with liver or kidney failure.
Much of the success of diets such as these has been seen in the early weeks of the diet. This success has been shown to be mainly water loss from glycogen (blood and muscle sugar) depletion.

Let me just say, I am not a dietician or nutritionist. I do hold a certificate in optimal & sports nutrition so I can guide you towards a healthy and successful weight loss plan.

All successful long-term weight loss plans use a balance of exercise and healthy eating to achieve their goal.

These goals can be achieved though NASM's OPT™ IST SET & MDT