If you have been to a cafe for breakfast lately, I bet that you have seen chia seeds on the menu. Chia seeds are one of the newest ‘superfoods’ – these tiny seeds are full of natural goodness. In this blog, I will put the spotlight on chia and explain why you should make them…
Have you ever been on one of those fad ‘diets’ where you are restricted to eating a certain food but in unlimited quantities? Probably the one that was most ‘famous’ back in the 70’s was the grapefruit diet where you could eat as much as the fruit as you wanted due to its ‘amazing’ fat-burning…
The Festive Season is well and truly over, the kids are back at school so now is the perfect time to take on the challenge of losing those extra kilograms. You know you need to do it, yet do you feel that you are still struggling to make a dedicated effort to lose weight? It…
Can you imagine if you didn’t clean your house for a whole month? It would be looking bad pretty quickly and in no time dust and dirt would soon accumulate. The same principle holds true for our bodies. If you are still recovering from a holiday season of overeating and overindulging, your body really needs…
If you have vowed to lose weight this year, I hope that you have already seen some success on the scales. If you haven’t lost any yet, it may just be because you are sabotaging your own results. How? It simply is due to wrong information! There has been so much written about dieting and…
If your New Years’ resolution is to lose weight, then you may have started your new ‘diet’. While your focus (right now) is shedding the excess kilos, have you really thought about how you will keep your weight off once you get to your goal? To be perfectly blunt, losing weight is the easy part,…
So 2015 is officially over (and has been for a few days now) and here we are in 2016. I am sure that over the Festive season you enjoyed the food, the socializing and now your waistline may be ‘carrying’ the evidence of overindulgence! However, now 2016 is here, it’s time to think about what…
Santa will have been and gone by the end of the week, which means we entering the diet-nightmare known at Christmas. What do you do? Our blog this week is all about getting you through the festive season so you don’t feel bloated and blah by the time 2016 rolls in. Unfortunately, Christmas celebrations tend…
While I did not watch The Biggest Loser (TBL) this year, I did tune into the finale to see the weight loss results for the contestants. As usual, they were pretty phenomenal. However, it was the winners’ result that was amazing; Daniel Jofre (aged 24) lost a staggering 51.6kg in only 12 weeks! This equates…
Last week my blog focused on the reasons why drinking alcohol can put a serious dent in your weight loss efforts (see here: https://loseweightwithsue.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/alcohol-christmas-and-your-weight-it-isnt-a-good-combination-part-1/ ). But let’s face it – it is the time of year when you want to have some ‘Christmas cheer’, so what would be your ‘poison’ of choice? This week, I…
Christmas is less than four weeks away and we all know what that means! Christmas parties, family catch ups – basically, it is the time of year where you will be most likely to eat and drink to excess. While you may find it relatively easy to ‘pick out’ healthy foods to eat, you may…
It’s only just over a week until Summer is here but man, it’s hot out there already! The oppressive heat is here to stay for a while, so it is really important to pay more attention to your fluid intake. In warm weather, you sweat more, and if you’re also more active, you will sweat…
I received a really interesting email a few weeks ago, which basically highlighted how people from various countries typically eat and what they spend on food weekly. In fact, it was so interesting that I thought I would share it with you. Open the following link in a new tab and read through my observations…
The Natural Way has been helping their clients lose weight for over 35 years – and we are very proud of every one of our weight loss clients’ achievements! Each year, we put our successful clients’ in the spotlight and run ‘Slimmer Celebration’ competition. This year we ran the competition on Facebook and the winner…
You may have seen in the news last week that The World Health Organization (WHO) has deemed that processed meats — such as bacon, sausages and salami — have been deemed as carcinogenic i.e can cause cancer. Not only that, red meat (such as beef, lamb and veal) was also classified as being ‘cancer-causing’. While…