Give the Gift of Health This Christmans

The gift of good health is probably the best gift you can give someone besides love.

Here's some Christmas gifts I recommend for family and friends or even yourself!

1. The Flat Stomach Solution Recipe Book

Take control of your diet with the Recipe Book and enjoy recipes that are suitable for all types of diet, there’s something for everyone in here!



Every aspect of your new lifestyle nutrition plan is taken care of with drinks, snacks, breakfast, lunch, dinner and a whole host of tips and advice that you don’t get from any other recipe book.

The book is also packed with tips on how to stock your kitchen, delicious recipes that guarantee your diet will be packed full of foods that nourish your body!

If you have barely cooked a thing in your life so far then this book will really help you to discover your kitchen and what it’s meant to be used for! If you are used to cooking but generally heavy fat laden foods then this book will be your nutritional saviour and show you the wonderful foods that can still satisfy but truly help you get the weight loss results you want to see.

Get your copy of The Flat Stomach Solution recipe book for just $20
**This offer is only available until December 24th 2010!



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2. An iTunes gift card – great for adding new workout music to an iPod.


3. Amazon Kindle - The perfect partner to your e-book collection and ideal for storing and using your copy of The Flat Stomach Solution Recipe Book.


4. Health shop voucher – fantastic for buying items such as raw almonds, almond milk, green tea, the list is endless. No excuses for eating rubbish foods going into 2011.


5. Massage or a facial – what better way to spoil yourself or a loved one, indulging in one of these little beauties after a hard workout is wonderful.


6. A Blender - I know this is not the most inspiring gift to buy someone but it is an awesome thing to have in the house. I use mine virtually every day, I whip up Smoothie’s and soups in no time at all and if you're looking to lead a healthy lifestyle then this is one tool no one do without!

There you have it, a list of presents that guarantee to get smiles on the big festive day….


Stay fit, keep focused and feel fabulous!

Steph.

Author of The Flat Stomach Solution

How to Avoid Energy Dips

As the winter comes, you may start to crave more comfort foods and your hope of achieving a flat stomach by the end of the year could fall by the way side!

You may find that your energy levels tend to dip around 3-4pm each day and all you want to do is dive head first into the nearest box of donuts.

Well help is at hand, I’ve put together my 6 top tips to stop you hitting the floor by mid-afternoon and to keep those extra pounds at bay.

Keeping you on the straight road to a flat stomach.



1. Eat Breakfast
Breakfast is breaking the fast after a number of hours of not eating; your body is craving nutrients to get it going. A good breakfast is vital in the morning and will set you up until your next meal. Slow releasing carbs are perfect, so go for oatmeal with some eggs on the side or perhaps throw some mixed berries onto your oatmeal. An Omelet with some spinach and peppers is also a great breakfast.

2. Caffeine
Limit the amount of coffee or tea that you consume each day to 1 cup of either coffee or tea. Caffeine is a stimulant and once you’ve had the high then the inevitable low will come, making you feel more tired than when you first started. Avoid drinking caffeine after lunch time as you certainly don’t want it to interfere with your sleep at the end of the day.

3. Snacking
Once you’ve had your breakfast in the morning you want to make sure that you keep your energy levels up by eating every 3 hours. So what you’re looking for is 5 small meals each day. Your mid-morning snack or your mid-afternoon snack should include a piece of fruit with some almonds or a few sticks or celery with some natural peanut butter.

4. Water
Always keep a bottle of water with you at all times, you’re looking to aim for at least 2 litres every day and remember this needs to increase the more active you become. Sometimes when you are feeling hungry you need to think when your last meal was, if it’s less than 3 hours then drink some water. Feeling hungry can sometimes mean that you haven’t drunk enough.

5. Food on the go
Keeping readily available snacks with you at all times is vital when you’re aiming for a flat stomach. Having your own foods means that you don’t need to even consider eating junk foods as you have your own healthy foods at hand.

6. The correct mix of foods
When you are eating healthy carbohydrates, fruit, vegetables, brown rice, brown pasta, always have a protein source to eat along side them. When you eat carbs on their own your blood sugar levels tend to spike but when you combine them with proteins your blood sugar levels will be kept at a consistent level, they basically balance each other out. Keeping your energy levels up for far longer.

There you go my top tips that will stop you from reaching for the junk foods mid-afternoon and by doing this you will achieve a beautiful flat stomach quicker than you think.

Stay fit, keep focused and feel fabulous!

Steph.

Author of The Flat Stomach Solution

Emotional Eating & The Flat Stomach Solution

Is emotional eating stopping you from fitting into your skinny jeans and wearing your clothes with confidence?

I have a friend who is in the process of going through a divorce and she confessed to me that she’s been using food to help her cope with all the stress.

Emotional eating is a stressful fat builder that can lead to not only weight gain but also confidence loss.

I’ve helped my friend stop her stomach from bulging out over her bottoms in a short amount of time and right now she’s where she needs to be, healthy, gaining confidence by the day, feeling and looking hot…hot…HOT!

The major challenges in life can often make you turn to food and until you gain control of what goes on in your head, it will always be difficult to gain control of what goes into your mouth.

Sue was able to take control and turn a negative into a positive with support from me as a friend and as a personal trainer but also with a heavy measure of self-worth and a desire to be the woman she had left behind when she got married.

My friends passion for change and a new beginning pushed her to contact me and I happily obliged by giving her my complete transformation package The Flat Stomach Solution.

She got copies of "The Flat Stomach Solution" (85 pages of expert advice), "The Flat Stomach Solution Recipe Book" (49 pages of mouth-watering recipes) and the bonus books The Fastest Fat Burning Solution Known to Women, Advanced Abs Workout and The 10 Minute Bodyweight Workout.

Within just 8 weeks Sue had beaten her emotional eating blues and had turned her bulging belly into a svelte sexy stomach.

If you check out my own personal journey you’ll see that I was once just like my friend, although divorce wasn’t my emotional eating trigger, mine was just every day stressors like a bad day at work or an argument with a loved one.

But Sue and myself are both living proof that with a little desire, a bit of work and a lot of fun, you can actually make the changes you want and discover a different side of life you didn’t even realize was there for you!

You can never afford to stop taking care of yourself. “It’s not selfish, it’s sensible”!

Stay fit, keep focused and feel fabulous!

Steph.

Author of The Flat Stomach Solution

6 Tips to Keep You on Your Weight Loss Plan

How are you doing on your personal goals so far this year? We all struggle to stay on track sometimes; even I have to adjust my steps on the path towards my goals regardless of how ‘together’ I think I am!

Yesterday I made myself a large cup of green tea and sat down in my sunny courtyard to go through my goals for 2010.

I asked myself how far I had come, if I was on the right track and what changes I needed to make.

Mostly I was on track but there were a couple of areas that I needed to adjust...

Those two areas are, ensuring I make time for me and losing some extra body fat. I find it hard to make time for myself as I’m so passionate about what I do it’s hard to focus the same attention on me.

I'm almost there losing some extra body fat but focusing more time on me would definitely help!

Because I took time to revisit my goals I was able to see the changes that needed to be made and because I want to continually move forward and improve myself I wrote down my goals to commit to that change.

So, more importantly how are you doing with your goals?

Are you on track?

If you're like me and you're finding yourself slightly off track, then it's time for you to sit down with your list of goals and a pad and pen.

Read through each of your goals and beside them write down what steps you have taken towards them...

Have you lost the 6, 12, 25 pounds you hoped to when you started at the beginning of 2010.

Can you fit into your little black dress, ready for the party season that's fast approaching?

Are you eating healthier, have you stopped eating processed foods and now only treating yourself once a week.

Have you picked up that extra workout session or started to get up earlier like you promised yourself?

If you are on track with your goals then that is fantastic news.

You're definitely an inspiration...

But if you're like me and perhaps come off track; then it’s time to adjust your goals and stir yourself back to making real, lasting changes on your journey towards success.

The great news is you have over 16 weeks left in 2010 to nail them.

Write down your reasons for not getting started on a goal or not following it through to the end target.

Have you given yourself unrealistic goals, if so then rewrite them so you will be able to achieve them in the next few weeks and if that goal needs to continue into 2011 then so be it.

Success is born out of habit, so although the changes may seem like a chore, it will be worth the effort in the end and the more you attack it the more it will become part of your routine just like brushing your teeth.

It's important to remember not to start thinking or talking to yourself in a negative way if you're not on track right now; we all have to adjust our goals along the way until we reach the outcome of our desire...

Good luck and let me know if I can help in anyway.

I'm always here ready to motivate, support and stir you back on course towards your goals.

Stay fit, keep focused and feel fabulous!

Steph.

Author of The Flat Stomach Solution

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Your Cellulite Solution

This week has been a fun packed!

I’m currently working on a few projects which I am excited to share with you over the next couple of months.

So watch this space…

The sun has finally returned to the UK, so shorts are definitely back on…

On that note it brings me very nicely into cellulite and the cellulite solution.

Thankfully it’s not just you and me that it affects but Jennifer Aniston and Katy Perry have both been spotted with dimpled thighs and butts…

In fact cellulite affects over 90% of women which can be made worse by a poor diet high in fat and processed foods, to raised stress levels and an inactive lifestyle.

Cellulite isn’t just found on overweight women, in fact it can be found on woman of any size and weight but the more body fat you have the more you will be able to see the cellulite.

The cottage cheese appearance is caused by fibrous cords that connect the skin to underlying muscle. The fat lies in between the muscle and the skin. As the fat cells accumulate, they push up against the skin, while the cords pull down.

This creates the uneven surface or orange peel effect.

So what is the cellulite solution?

The first important defense against cellulite is to clean up your diet, eliminating any processed foods that may have come in a box or a packet.

Also remove any high fat foods and start including fresh organic vegetables and fruit to your diet with lean grass fed meats, fresh fish and pulses. Stay away from soda and drink water to improve circulation.

Here's a great idea and something that I do every week. Go to your local farmers market, most towns have one. I buy organic eggs, organic fruit & vegetables and wild mushrooms which are one of my favourite buys.

Have a look for your local farmers market and next time it’s on; get yourself there…

The next thing you need to get onto is exercise.

Remember I said the more body fat you have the more you can see the cellulite regardless of your body shape and size!

Include full body workouts 3 times each week; try my metabolic circuit training and 2 interval training sessions.

These will help you to reduce body fat and keep you toned and lean helping you to banish cellulite.

One particular treatment you need to avoid is expensive cellulite reducing cream.
Creams have never been proven to reduce cellulite so please don’t waste your money.

There you have the one and only "cellulite solution" you’ll ever need.

Stay fit, keep focused and feel fabulous!

Steph.

Author of The Flat Stomach Solution

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