Many people find it hard to imagine that you can take two diets identical in calories, differing in macronutrient makeup — say high carb vs. ultra-low carb — and lose more weight with one than the other. Or better yet, gain weight with one and lose weight with the other. A calorie is a calorie right?

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What’s the best drink to have when trying to lose weight? What’s the healthiest – beer or wine? Is a shot better than a pint? This is one of those articles I don’t like to write but feel a need to!

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There’s been a lot of focus on nutrients for the past several decades, trans-fats, saturated fats, simple/bad carbs, complex/good carbs…all in place of ‘the whole.’ Where has that approach taken us? What if in doing so we’ve actually made things worse for ourselves? A call for returning to a whole foods approach…

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I’m on my way to being a millionaire.
Just as soon as I can convince every person who says ‘I need carbs’ to give me £1 every time they say it.
Last October, I was in a small town in the middle of nowhere last year as we cycled across America.
I’d just screwed up reading the map [...]

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Following the continued expansion and popularity of the Guernsey Fitness Camp, we are adding more sessions to the timetable!
There will now be an additional GFC Express 2 day per week camp on Tues and Thurs mornings 0645-0745 at our fitness camp headquarters at the Indoor Cricket Ground.
We are also adding a Men Only Boxercise session [...]

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“Jon you need to accept that you probably won’t be able to run again or play sport to the same level.”
Speak that sentence to a 17 year old who barely had time to sleep due to playing sport, dreaming about sport and watching sport and it’s enough to destroy them. Even at 7 I knew [...]

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Apparently 28% of Guernsey people are big time stressed. Not good for the health and fitness obviously, so let’s sort it out.
I think they got this wrong anyway because from the looks on people’s faces driving down the Grange at 0830 on a weekday I think it’s more like 82%.
Whoever did the survey must have [...]

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Do you ever wonder how some people seem to effortlessly keep themselves looking amazing, full of beans and improving running time, cycling performance, strength and just about any other fitness goal they choose?
Do you feel like keeping fit is just a pain in the ass which gets in the way of other stuff and you [...]

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WARNING: This blog posts contains pretty disgusting photos of intestinal mucoid plaque!
Last week I spent 7 days fasting from any kind of solid food, 40 minutes per day lying on my back for intestinal cleansing, got introduced to Tai Chi and a masseuse called Kook who found knots in places I didn’t know existed.
Needless to [...]

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Unless you’re from planet Zonk, you have probably noticed that you feel much better about life when you get a decent dollop of sunshine!
There are clearly psychological reasons for just loving the summer but it’s what lies beneath that many people don’t understand.
Some of the things I’m about to tell you will be the opposite [...]

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