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					<description><![CDATA[Health is very complex, it&#8217;s no wonder people try to simplify it with approaches like ‘shake’ diets and such like. It’s no surprise we are seeing things like studies done on Herbalife and their products with scary findings. The most recent, linked the use of Herbalife to liver failure and found traces of heavy metals, toxic compounds and pathogenic bacteria. Now, I don’t think the ‘original’ idea of the founder was for it to end up this way. Yet, it has. When I consider the health industry, I actually right now see it as a ‘reactive’ industry. A study (whether good or rubbish) is released implicating a certain food &#8211; then the next week there are ‘supplements’ to help. It’s<span class="excerpt-hellip"> […]</span>]]></description>
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<p>Health is very complex, it&#8217;s no wonder people try to simplify it with approaches like ‘shake’ diets and such like.</p>



<p>It’s no surprise we are seeing things like studies done on Herbalife and their products with scary findings.</p>



<p>The most recent, linked the use of Herbalife to liver failure and found traces of heavy metals, toxic compounds and pathogenic bacteria.</p>



<p>Now, I don’t think the ‘original’ idea of the founder was for it to end up this way. </p>



<p>Yet, it has.</p>



<p>When I consider the health industry, I actually right now see it as a ‘reactive’ industry.</p>



<p>A study (whether good or rubbish) is released implicating a certain food &#8211; then the next week there are ‘supplements’ to help.</p>



<p>It’s a crazy scenario in my brain!!</p>



<p>Yet with all this reactivity, things are getting worse.</p>



<p>Lifetime expectancy went DOWN for the first time in our modern world.</p>



<p>With all this money we spend on ‘research’ for things like heart disease, cancer and such like&#8230;</p>



<p>You would think we are getting <em>closer</em>.</p>



<p>Truth is, <strong>we are not</strong> as the answer is very much under our own noses.</p>



<p>Yes, you are born with genes, you inherit many things from parents.</p>



<p>Ladies can thank mothers for their little cellular batteries (mitochondria) which dictate your energy and so on.</p>



<p>Yet this is a <strong>TINY</strong> piece of the puzzle.</p>



<p>You could argue I got the dregs of the gene pool.</p>



<p>Born with spinal deformation, HLA genes that triggered to set off an autoimmune disease&#8230;</p>



<p>A brain tumour.</p>



<p><strong>You’d think I’d have a right to moan, right?!</strong></p>



<p>Yet, here <strong>I am 10 years free of ANY and all illness.</strong></p>



<p>How so? Firstly.</p>



<p>I spent 10 years, studying, researching and applying changes to my life.</p>



<p>From my mind to my body.</p>



<p>I pride myself on going pretty deep.</p>



<p>Those that get me speaking on health can attest!</p>



<p>But I haven’t to date found a ‘quick’ way to restore years of poor choices and believe me I’ve tried them all.</p>



<p><strong>From shake diets to apple diets to cabbage soup diets to fasting etc</strong></p>



<p>Yet let’s be honest<strong> NONE </strong>of them are set up to be long term.</p>



<p>What I teach is not a ‘fix’ it’s the fundamentals of health at a biochemical and cellular level.</p>



<p>Do all the <strong>‘lymphatic drainage</strong>’ you want or <strong>‘fix’</strong> the digestive system or try to <strong>balance hormones</strong>&#8230;</p>



<p>Yet understand this&#8230;</p>



<p>A system is made up of organs, organs are made up of tissues and tissues are made up of cells.</p>



<p>Trillions of cells.</p>



<p>If we do not know what is creating imbalance in the cells, it’s all reactive work.T</p>



<p>ake bruising easily &#8211; we can easily point to Vit C deficiency.</p>



<p>So you take a few grams a day over a month.</p>



<p>What if it doesn’t get better?</p>



<p>Or what if it does but when you come off the supplement, it comes back.</p>



<p>Have you learnt anything? No.</p>



<p>My view is to understand why a deficient pathways would occur.</p>



<p>That’s where</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Environment</li><li>Food</li><li>Deficiencies</li><li>Genetics</li><li>Sleep</li><li>Stress</li><li>Radiation</li></ul>



<p>To name a few have to be assessed!</p>



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					<description><![CDATA[10 reasons, as a lady you can&#8217;t lose and sustain weight loss (that aren&#8217;t calories or exercise) 1. Irregular meal timings Your body works on very specific &#8216;clocks&#8217;, thus meaning its used to secreting hormones / enzymes at specific times, thus when you have erratic meals you can put the body in &#8217;emergency&#8217; as it wasn&#8217;t expecting food. This puts pressure on your bodies ability to burn fat. 2. Poor Sleep This will 100% screw your weight loss and lead you to high cravings, poor mood and weight gain. Its essential that the first 4 hours of your sleep are the best as that&#8217;s where you make up for the &#8216;debt&#8217; of the day. If you go to bed at<span class="excerpt-hellip"> […]</span>]]></description>
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<p>10 reasons, as a lady you can&#8217;t lose and sustain weight loss (that aren&#8217;t calories or exercise)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">1. Irregular meal timings </h3>



<p>Your body works on very specific &#8216;clocks&#8217;, thus meaning its used to secreting hormones / enzymes at specific times, thus when you have erratic meals you can put the body in &#8217;emergency&#8217; as it wasn&#8217;t expecting food. This puts pressure on your bodies ability to burn fat.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">2. Poor Sleep </h3>



<p>This will 100% screw your weight loss and lead you to high cravings, poor mood and weight gain. </p>



<p>Its essential that the first 4 hours of your sleep are the best as that&#8217;s where you make up for the &#8216;debt&#8217; of the day. If you go to bed at 12pm or after this can&#8217;t happen.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><br>3. Not listening to your body </h3>



<p>Many ladies believe that &#8216;more is better&#8217; when it comes to exercise. WRONG.<br>that&#8217;s just the basic level fitness industry telling you that. When we use real science you actually can do LESS and get more weight loss. We just have to track your recovery.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><br>4. You haven&#8217;t accepted where you are</h3>



<p>This is crucial. Most of you are rushing away from the &#8216;pain&#8217; you feel of your current situation</p>



<p>Thats why we use the A.R.A. Method to help you release the past anger, shame and guilt associated with the current situation. You will never be happen in your body if you can&#8217;t be happy with it now.</p>



<p></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">5. Hydration</h3>



<p>Not just drinking more water like the fitness industry tell you, but proper cellular hydration. This comes from ionic trace minerals and food you consume.</p>



<p>Poor hydration will freeze weight loss.</p>



<p></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">6. Inflammation</h3>



<p>So many that come to us have gut issues, diabetes and other metabolic issues. These are messing up crucial pathways in the body and make weight loss much harder.</p>



<p>In our 12 week program we address inflammation because honestly, most people struggle with some, even if its a niggly long term joint injury.</p>



<p></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">7. Circadian Rhythm</h3>



<p>Think of this as the master switch to all your cells. When its off, you are off.</p>



<p>That could be mentally or physically. </p>



<p>Your circadian rhythm is regulated by<strong> light, food &amp; movement</strong>. Making sure they are all at the correct times is vital.</p>



<p></p>



<p></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">8. You continue to reinforce a story that doesn&#8217;t serve you (without even knowing sometimes)</h3>



<p>This might be putting yourself down around friends or family, it might be when you look in the mirror or try on clothes.</p>



<p><strong>This has to stop.</strong></p>



<p></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">9. You believe restriction is needed to get results</h3>



<p>Most ladies are so used to restrictive diets that if they see something that isn&#8217;t that, unconsciously dismiss it.<br>Its important you get over the &#8216;it has to be paleo, vegan, keto to lose weight.&#8217;</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">10. You believe will power and motivation will be enough.</h3>



<p>Nope, not even a little bit.</p>



<p>In our programs we teach the basics of<em> why </em>trying to change a behaviour is pointless if you don&#8217;t understand the deeper unconscious trigger.</p>



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<p>Think about how many times </p>



<p>you have tried different diets, exercise regimes or protocols,</p>



<p>Now think of how many you fully followed through on&#8230;</p>



<p>Not a lot right?</p>



<p>Unless you can unlock your subconscious and get it on side, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before a trigger (excuse) comes along to derail your efforts.</p>



<p></p>



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<p>So there you have it, 10 reasons that MOST ladies we work with are not addressing before they join us.</p>



<p>I could write 20 more but if you committed to even HALF of the above you would kiss goodbye to the struggle and allow it to be easier.</p>



<p>And, if you want to let the inner slim version, the truest, happiest and most purposeful version of you out.</p>



<p>We have just 8 spaces left on our 12 week WOW program, striating next week.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and not like a bear with a sore head! Women on average sleep worse than men and report more long term sleep problems (says the science). &#8211; Would you say this is your experience, or are you a lady that sleeps great and your male partner doesn&#8217;t? Either way, we are in a sleep epidemic right now and it should concern us all. Sleep regulates mood, lord knows we are all horrid to be around when you&#8217;ve had a poor nights sleep. It&#8217;s like trying to reason with a bear with a sore head, right? There certainly are a few reasons WHY women might not sleep as well as men, 1. They often are more empathetic, compassionate and outwardly<span class="excerpt-hellip"> […]</span>]]></description>
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<p>&#8230; and not like a bear with a sore head!</p>



<p><strong>Women on average sleep worse than men</strong> and report more long term sleep problems (says the science). </p>



<p>&#8211; Would you say this is your experience, or are you a lady that sleeps great and your male partner <em>doesn&#8217;t</em>? </p>



<p>Either way, we are in a sleep epidemic right now and it should concern us all. </p>



<p><strong>Sleep regulates mood</strong>, lord knows we are all horrid to be around when you&#8217;ve had a poor nights sleep.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s like trying to reason with a bear with a sore head, right? </p>



<p>There certainly are a few reasons <strong>WHY</strong> women might not sleep as well as men,</p>



<p> 1. They often are more empathetic, compassionate and outwardly caring</p>



<p>Thus stressful events often play on the mind.</p>



<p>2. Their hormones at various times of the month (depending on health status) can throw things out.</p>



<p>After working with hundreds of women on their sleep and improving every single one of them, I&#8217;ve learnt several things that I see can be improved, and when they are, sleep is always better.</p>



<ol class="wp-block-list"><li><strong>How you manage your food</strong> &#8211; without consistent meals and balanced blood glucose levels, they&#8217;ll always be issues with sleep. You have to start by working out how healthy your blood glucose management is, this can be done with a simple device used around meals. </li><li><strong>Movement</strong> &#8211; Women because of social media, magazines and TV have these often impossible images being sold to them and it&#8217;s a huge pressure. Leading them to over train and under-eat the right things. The down side is when things don&#8217;t go well, binges often occur. Movement should be based on recovery, not a look of your body. Testing your resting heart rate, blood glucose levels &amp; HRV are some of my ways to help women like you judge movement choice. </li><li><strong>Stress</strong> &#8211; Finding ways to calm the mind, even in the most stressful of places is essential. A little stress is great for you, a LOT of stress over a long time will wreck your sleep. </li><li><strong>Inflammation</strong> &#8211; One of the KEY reasons in those that have tried everything and still wake up between 3-5 am is unidentified inflammation. Inflammation the body burns through energy much faster, thus waking you up in the night. </li><li><strong>Sleep patterns</strong> &#8211; 8 times out of 10 I see poor behaviours around sleep. Watching Netflix till late or in bed, going to bed at all different times, eating late at night and drinking too. These will all mess up with the quality of your sleep. </li></ol>



<p>Now, you can just take the above, change them and get a better sleep&#8230;</p>



<p>But I am going to put on a workshop that takes the guess work out of sleep, even if you&#8217;ve always been a bad sleeper.</p>



<p>(this is coming from someone that was awake for hours a night for years)</p>



<p>I want to show you: </p>



<p>1. A simple to follow checklist to start getting unbroken sleep. </p>



<p>2. A process that takes less than 20 minutes and will improve sleep quality by 20+% </p>



<p>3. How to balance your blood glucose levels with the right diet for you. </p>



<p>4. How to stop waking up to go to the toilet every night.</p>



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<p>If that sounds like something you need, its going to be just £47. </p>



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