Temptation! Just don’t allow it near you!

Yesterday I was sitting at my desk alongside my PA, two of my fellow Directors and their PA when some sample snack pots arrived. These were little containers with a variety of delicious snacks from nuts, dried fruit, baked wheat, mustard-coated nuts – you name it they were there. Initially I resisted seeing them as nothing more than food I didn’t need that, once I’d eaten one, I would want more!

As my colleagues munched away contentedly, making various comments on the good or bad qualities of each individual product, I ended up not being able to resist joining in the tasting party. I didn’t eat a lot but I ate more than if they hadn’t been there!

I then got a bit cross. These products were being marketed as being ‘healthy’ but I suggest that the fat and calorie value of them probably amounted to those contained in a Mars bar by the time you had eaten the whole pot – or two!

I wouldn’t mind having a £1 for every time a dieter has said to me ‘but nuts are healthy aren’t they?’ and ‘dried fruit is good for you, isn’t it!’. The answer is yes to both questions but they are HIGH IN CALORIES! The fact remains that if you eat something – whatever it is – extra, it is putting more calories in to your body which will prevent you from losing weight if that is what you are trying to achieve. Food producers want you to buy their products and we have to be aware that if we are to buy it, it must have a place within our healthy eating campaign.

So, remove temptation. Realise that if you have something around you that you basically like, you will probably eat it. Don’t put yourself to the test as you will almost certainly fail. I know I would.

Make sensible choices and you will be a winner in the long run. It really is worth the effort and resisting the temptation to buy them in the first place.

Let’s save our own life!

It is reported that if we eat healthily, are at a healthy weight, take regular exercise and we don’t smoke we can reduce our chances of developing a serious, life-threatening illness by a massive 80%!

Our problem is that we imagine we won’t have the stroke, the heart-attack, the bowel cancer or go blind – it will happen to someone else. But they don’t. The statistics are frightening when you learn how many people are affected and how lives are devastated. But the great news is that even losing SOME weight and taking SOME exercise can dramatically improve your health.

Last week we heard from one of the Trialists who had been testing out my new diet which will be the basis of my new book to be published in the new year. Bill is in his 60’s and is a big man. Bill lost over 1 ½ stone during the trial period and last week told us that he had serious case of cellulitis caused by a insect bite that become badly infected. Bill was told that had he not lost the weight, been eating healthily and taking regular exercise recently, his condition would have left the doctors no alternative but to amputate his leg. Bill is now well on the road to recovery, thankfully.

It’s never a ‘good week’ to start our diet and it’s never a ‘good’ time to get ill either. So, even if we only increase our activity by going for a 15 minute walk every day, or going to an exercise class or playing a sport, it can have a dramatic effect on our health. Then, couple that with eating less high fat food, stopping snacking on crisps and chocolate between meals, and cutting back on our alcohol by 50%, we really could save our life!

Check out our website if you want help, (www.rosemaryconley.com) – we have diet and fitness classes throughout the UK and an online slimming club for those who can’t make it to class – or just make a few simple changes to your lifestyle. You will be so glad when you’ve done it.