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New Year, New You- When Losing Weight, The Healthy Way is the Best Way..

If you like many other 100s of people are embarking on a new year new you programme, Please remember The Healthy Way Is the Best Way.

60% of Irish adults are overweight or obese up until Nov 2020, obesity continues to be a serious problem here in ireland. One way to prevent this scenario is to make people aware of the risks of being overweight or obese.

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Happy YOU Year!

Leap into the New Year with real resolutions – and make them stick!!!

On 1st January across the world, millions of us make lofty promises to ourselves. We’ll get healthy, go to gym, drink less wine and eat more greens. We plan to be perfect.

By February, most resolutions are gathering dust as we shake off the holidays and wrestle with the reality of work, friendship, parenthood and bills. It doesn’t happen to me so much these days because I have the skills to coach myself out of it but is this your reality?

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Will You Suffer From Festive FOMO?

Hey, would you like to come to this place, spend the evening at that place, have a mince pie, sausage roll, egg nog, mulled wine, taste my world-beating Christmas cake…?

And you’ll go because you can’t resist. You’ll feast like you’ll never see another meal, and you’ll consume frightening amounts of festive tipples because otherwise you’ll be missing out on all the fun, right?

FOMO – shorthand for Fear Of  Missing Out – is the acute and often unjustified belief that everyone is having way more fun than you, and that you’re somehow being left out of all the said fun. And it reaches its annual high any day now.

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Beat Stress At Christmas – Tips to keep stress under control in the run up to the holidays!!

It’s meant to be ‘the most wonderful time of the year’ but the pressure of the Christmas can often mean a stress overload. Here’s what to do about it.

Though you look forward to it all year, when Christmas arrives the experience can be pretty overwhelming. Trying to get everything ready in time can be incredibly stressful, especially for women – a third of whom feel more stressed in December than any other month, according to research. And small wonder, money worries, family tensions, pressure to socialise, and over-excited children on a sugar high is hardly a recipe for success. And, if you struggle to stay at your happy weight or often turn to food as a way of coping or rewarding yourself, being surrounded by treats and snacks over the Christmas rarely has a happy ending.

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Is Lack Of Sleep Sabotaging Your Health?

Sleep matters big time. Without enough sleep, you create an uphill battle in so many different ways. Sleep – how much you have and the quality of it – matters even more than you probably realise, and not getting enough is sabotaging your health and any health goals you might have. Today I’d like to share exactly why it matters so much and what to do about it.

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Mens Health “Movember”

It’s “Movember”, that time of year where normally clean-shaven men start sprouting moustaches – with varying degrees of success. “Movember” is the leading charity for men’s health worldwide. Every year – in November – it raises awareness of men’s health issues by encouraging men to grow a moustache, move more for the 30 days of the month (at least) and run men’s health charity events at work and in their social circles. The charity funds research and education about men’s health issues, focussing primarily on suicide prevention, prostate and testicular cancer.

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Diabetes

Has your weight been creeping up on you over the years and is proving difficult to shift – despite your best efforts? Or maybe your energy levels are on the floor?

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Hayfever

Itchy, watery eyes? Constantly sneezing? Hello hayfever! Now I really know it’s spring and you’re here to stay – like an uninvited guest – for the next six months.

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