You’re probably here and reading this because you googled “why am I not losing weight although I’m on a diet?”. Am I right? Now, let me tell you why it doesn’t matter what the scale tells you. And believe me, I know what I am talking about. I have gone through more plateaus and weight…
Continue reading ➞ Why Weight Is Not Relevant
It’s the beginning of February and my guess is that a lot of people have or are just about to give up on their New Year’s resolutions. I totally get that. How many times have I barely made it through two weeks with my effort to get fit, eat better, stop smoking, do exercise. For…
Continue reading ➞ How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions Going
Here are a few of my favourite photos from the photo shoot with Chanti Fitography. If you have read my weight loss story, then you probably know why I am proud of these shots. They show me how far I have come. It's not perfection. It's progress that counts.
Another week and another popular question: “Do my boobs grow or shrink with exercise?” This is a common concern, and the reason why a lot of health and fitness magazines and websites have written about it. It often also involves the recommendation to do exercise to lift those boobs. Well, despite all this information out…
Continue reading ➞ Do My Boobs Grow or Shrink With Exercise?
As a personal trainer I get this asked a lot: “How many times a week should I work out and for how long?” I understand why this is such a common question. After all, we are all busy and want to spend our time as efficiently as possible. So unless you are a gym junkie,…
Continue reading ➞ How Often And For How Long Do I Have to Work Out?
As you may already know, I live in the desert. But with temperatures well over 50C in summer and a long school holiday, I spend the summer break in the Swiss Alps. And as you also may know, I am a big gym junkie and I love my spin and weight sessions and Muay Thai…
Continue reading ➞ Fit and Strong with Hiking
It is most confusing, and therefore most frustrating, that every doctor, nutritional expert, fitness enthusiast, friend or colleague seems to recommend a different diet in order to lose weight, gain muscle and look leaner. You decide to make a change, become fit and healthy and you look for the best diet out there. You google…
Continue reading ➞ Are You Camp Low-Carb, Paleo, Vegan, Ketogenic, Intermittent Fasting?
I read a book a couple of weeks ago that I think has a lot of potential in terms of changing our perception of why and how we gain or lose weight. The book is by Dr. Jason Fung and the title is “The Obesity Code”. As we all know, we are getting more overweight…
Continue reading ➞ Why Calorie In – Calorie Out Does Not Equal Body Fat
This is kind of an update on spinning since I have previously blogged about the benefits. But now that I have been doing it regularly (twice a week for one hour) for over 18 months, I thought I’d tell you more about my experience. Many people I talk to, who are not spinning, tell me they…
Continue reading ➞ Why I Like Spinning
As you may know, I have been trying the Keto diet lately. It is recommended that you eat about 7 to 10 cups (depends a bit on your size of course) of salad a day on keto to get all the necessary nutrients like vitamins and trace minerals and especially sufficient potassium. Now, this is…
Continue reading ➞ How I Get My Daily Greens
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