Have you ever wondered why you have trouble losing weight, whilst those around you seem to melt off those pounds with little or no effort? The answer is in your metabolic rate, and in the foods you eat. Read on to find out more about your metabolism, and how you can boost your weight loss efforts with just a few simple changes to your lifestyle.

Some folks just seem to be lucky enough to eat whatever they want, and never seem to gain an ounce of weight. Well, it has nothing to do with luck. It’s all to do with our individual metabolic rates. And when it comes to metabolisms, we’re all very different.

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Counselling, whilst once the subject of much scepticism and criticism, is now recognised as a hugely beneficial form of therapy.

The act of discussing problems out loud, without fear of judgement, is in itself a healing and cathartic process. However, with the help of a trained professional, the issues at the heart of the problems can be addressed and dealt with, giving a positive outcome allowing the person to move on with their life, free of what was previously holding them back.

The decision to undertake counselling is not one that anyone takes lightly. Many consider the idea for months or even years before deciding to take the plunge.

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Whenever people ask me what I do as a Life Coach, my first response is to reply, ‘I help people unleash their potential’. More often than not I am met with intrigue, very inquiring looks or the response that, ‘Wow that’s a big job…tell me more’. Then ensues interrogative conversation about how I go about doing that. And, rightly so we would all like to be the best that we can be. People often think that a Life Coach is a posh/new name for a counsellor and comparisons to counsellors or advisors are made. Indeed this is far from the reality of coaching, as we deal with helping clients to set clear and realistic and achievable goals. Coaching does not delve into the client’s past, but works with a formula for dealing with what is going on in the present in order to have a desired future outcome.

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Being in the complimentary health business is a very rewarding and satisfying area to work in. We all have a body and we all have the ability to look after and nurture our body but what I notice, through my work, is how people can become distanced from their real physical needs and lose touch with their body.

I do a range of treatments that hopefully can offer something suitable to a broad spectrum of people. The majority of my work is massage in the form of Aromatherapy, Hot Stone Treatments and also Indian Head Massage. I am also a practitioner of The Bowen Technique, which is a very light touch therapy that has a profound effect on a whole range of conditions from neck and back pain, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, asthma, migraine, constipation and lots more. It triggers or prompts the body’s own healing abilities in a subtle way that helps the body ‘to heal itself’. I also offer Reiki treatments – this works with our energy field and harnesses ‘Universal Energy’ to restore and rebalance our body.

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In recent years there has been a proliferation of information that has been made available to readers concerning recommended calorific dietary requirements and associated indices such as the BMI index.

As consumers we have access to food contents, sugars and so on. It has never been easier to budget our calorific intake! So why it that some of us are having trouble in achieving is targeted goals we often employ with our dietary requirements?

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