Weight Loss Archives - The Healthy Girl

How to fire up the body’s fat burning system 247!

by Healthy Girl | Apr 25, 2017 | Health, Nutrition, Weight Loss

I have learnt over the years that weight loss is about working with the body’s natural systems and functions. Sadly the traditional approach of calorie reduction can do the very opposite. There is evidence showing it’s possible to achieve healthy and...

5 Things To Help You Stay Healthy While Travelling

by Healthy Girl | Mar 12, 2017 | Exercise, Health, Nutrition, Weight Loss

I’m currently half way round the world from home in Sydney. I have travelled so much over the last few years that I have had to adopt certain strategies to ensure I stay healthy and in shape wherever I am. There can be challenges, however it is not as tricky as it may...

Breakfasts To Boost Your Day

by Healthy Girl | Feb 6, 2017 | Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Weight Loss

The Old English word for dinner, disner, actually referred the first meal of the day. It means to ‘break a fast’ i.e. breaking the fasting period from the previous days eating. It wasn’t until the 15th Century that the word Breakfast, as we know it, was used to...

Resolutions are Out, Results are In!

by Healthy Girl | Dec 28, 2016 | Health, Mindset, Weight Loss

If you’re about to set a New Year’s resolution, please beware. Particularly if you intend to set the same weight loss or health resolution you set last year and possibly the previous year too! If you failed to achieve it once, avoid doing the same again...

Are You Sleeping Soundly?

by Healthy Girl | Dec 12, 2016 | Health, Weight Loss

Sleep is equally important to achieve optimum health and wellbeing as nutrition and exercise. Yet with so much to cram into busy lives sleep is so often the first thing to suffer. The quality of your sleep affects the quality of your waking hours, your mental...

How Sugar Savvy Are You?

by Healthy Girl | Oct 21, 2016 | Health, Nutrition, Weight Loss

As far as I’m concerned when it comes to losing weight and staying healthy, sugar is the number one food to ditch completely. It’s a known contributing factor to weight gain plus premature ageing, diabetes and cancer. To cut out sugar, you really need to...