On Saturday evening, I took part in a firewalk at Godfrey's Garden Centre in aid of the Sheffield Children's Hospital Make It Better Campaign. I didn't volunteer to do the firewalk as such, I was more volunteered by someone but I'm so glad they did now!
It was a long day with much excitement in Molly's cafe at the garden centre. Jo and I were ridiculously excited all day much to the confusion of many other people who wondered why! We then had 2 hours of training before the walk. Being a bit of whimp about it, I hadn't looked up anything online to do with firewalking so had no idea what really happened.
I walked into the training very excited and a little nervous. The nerves instantly disappeared as the laughing began. There is no hypnosis or brainwashing. I wouldn't even go as far as saying it was mind over matter. That does come in to it to an extent and the exercises we did really helped. I think the excitement of the walk got us through it. The exercises I learnt will start being used with clients to show them how powerful your thoughts are on your actions.
We actually saw the fire being lit and paced out the walk. It's 20ft long which sounds a lot but was about 6-8 strides for most people. The key was to walk quickly over the embers which still glowed red at around 1200 Farenheit.
What did I learn from it? I learnt that actually you can do anything you want if you have the confidence. Since the firewalk my confidence has grown massively. Suddenly, everything comes down to "Of course I can do that, I walked on fire". If you're looking for a challenge to do, I would definitely recommend it but make sure you use a reputable company. Ours was organised with Blaze who have been established for years and do firewalks on an almost weekly basis.
If you would like to sponsor me as part of the Mistress Cutlers Challenge, it's not too late to sponsor the team http://www.justgiving.com/Mistresscutlerschallenge2013 Molly's tea room is at Junction 31 of the M1 in Godfrey's Garden Centre.
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Monday 15 April 2013
Why you shouldn't diet
The sun is finally shining! Cue the panic setting in of what you might look like on the beach or in a pair of shorts and the decision to go on a crash diet. STOP! Before you set off on whichever crash diet you decide to go for there is something you need to do:
Remove the word diet from your vocabulary and replace it with healthy eating. There's no need to go out and buy all the diet products in the world either. You can lose weight without tablets and eating low fat diet food.
How? Eat real food. Look at what you eat now and work out how much is processed or pre-packed food. Start by removing that from your diet and replacing it with home made fresh produce. For example, the sandwich, crisps and chocolate bar you have for lunch can be replaced by a grilled chicken salad with some nuts and a piece of fruit or full fat yoghurt. Make the salad whilst your cooking dinner the night before to save time and use leftovers as much as you can to save on time and money. When you make your own food, you know exactly what's gone in to it and it's so much cheaper than buying ready meals, take aways or prepared sandwiches and salads etc.
Why shouldn't you eat the diet foods? Food tastes good because it has fat or sugar in it. Both are addictive but sugar is more so than fat. When diet versions of foods are created, they take the fat out and replace it with sugar or artificial ingredients or both. This then creates the taste we expect of the food but leads us to consume more sugar than we anticipate and can start sweet cravings within the body. You start craving junk food and enter the vicious cycle of craving sugar. This cycle has to be broken for you to lose weight.
If you want to lose weight, you have to look at it as a long term lifestyle change and not a short term fix. Crash diets work because in the short term you lose weight but over a longer period of time, you'll put the weight back on and often more because your eating habits haven't changed. Ultimately it is your relationship with food which needs to change.
For more information you can buy my ebook from here or visit the website www.wisechoicenutrition.co.uk and find out more.
Remove the word diet from your vocabulary and replace it with healthy eating. There's no need to go out and buy all the diet products in the world either. You can lose weight without tablets and eating low fat diet food.
How? Eat real food. Look at what you eat now and work out how much is processed or pre-packed food. Start by removing that from your diet and replacing it with home made fresh produce. For example, the sandwich, crisps and chocolate bar you have for lunch can be replaced by a grilled chicken salad with some nuts and a piece of fruit or full fat yoghurt. Make the salad whilst your cooking dinner the night before to save time and use leftovers as much as you can to save on time and money. When you make your own food, you know exactly what's gone in to it and it's so much cheaper than buying ready meals, take aways or prepared sandwiches and salads etc.
Why shouldn't you eat the diet foods? Food tastes good because it has fat or sugar in it. Both are addictive but sugar is more so than fat. When diet versions of foods are created, they take the fat out and replace it with sugar or artificial ingredients or both. This then creates the taste we expect of the food but leads us to consume more sugar than we anticipate and can start sweet cravings within the body. You start craving junk food and enter the vicious cycle of craving sugar. This cycle has to be broken for you to lose weight.
If you want to lose weight, you have to look at it as a long term lifestyle change and not a short term fix. Crash diets work because in the short term you lose weight but over a longer period of time, you'll put the weight back on and often more because your eating habits haven't changed. Ultimately it is your relationship with food which needs to change.
For more information you can buy my ebook from here or visit the website www.wisechoicenutrition.co.uk and find out more.
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