Fitting into old jeans better than sex - Health, Diet and Fitness Today - 29/12/09
30/12/2009 at 04:16pm by Rich Leigh, weight loss expert
Normally wouldn’t pay studies like this much heed, but hey, it’s nearly New Year, and it’s more fun than demonising corporate chains for making our children overweight. For now.
According to a survey by Special K cereal, more than a quarter of women say fitting into an old pair of jeans again would feel better than sex.
See the weight loss relevance there :)?
35 per cent of those surveyed admitted owning a pair of 'trophy' jeans they used to fit into and kept in the hope they would trim down enough to wear them again.
Asked how managing to put them back on would feel, 29.1 per cent said 'better than sex', 28.9 per cent thought it would beat a promotion and one in ten said it would beat a marriage proposal.
Now, we’re all right-thinking (I think) adults here, so we know that chances are these stats are: a) Made up to boost the media profile and brand awareness of Special K in the build up to New Year (my first choice answer), b) Exaggerated or c) the result of persuasion through poor alternative choices. Despite this, as I said, it’s a bit of fun - and I quite like Special K anyway.
The ‘poll’ of 2,200 women also found that a third of women fantasised more about fitting into their 'trophy' jeans than about the likes of George Clooney or Brad Pitt.
Ladies, is this right? Do you have a pair of trophy jeans, and would fitting into them indeed feel better than sex?
Let us know below in the comments section!
Jean wearing is now better than sex.
New Year's Resolutions - Health, Diet and Fitness Today - 26/12/09
26/12/2009 at 12:39pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
We hope you had a lovely Christmas day!
As a weight loss news and features website, we couldn't let the festivities go by without talking about something hugely important to people post-Christmas - their waist lines.
We're believers in enjoying yourself during the festive period, whether this means still going to the gym or tucking into a second helping of dinner, and hope that whatever you enjoy, you appreciate that health and wellbeing is a lifestyle, not something to just attempt to tag on to the start of the year because you overindulged. Treats are a huge part of any healthy lifestyle - it's when those treats become a daily occurrence, or habit, that it's time to reassess.
So, do you have any New Year's Resolutions? It may be weight loss orientated, you may want something new out of 2010, or you may want to change something for the better.
Whatever it is, let us all know below in the comments section!
Here at Fat Free Fitness, our one resolution is this: to give you celebrity interviews, more weight loss success stories, more product reviews, more great competitions and basically - more of what we hope you want!
Have a fantastic Boxing Day folks, we hope Santa bought you everything you wanted!
Christmas dinner nearly 1,500 calories - Health, Diet and Fitness Today - 23/12/09
23/12/2009 at 06:45pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
Families should resurrect the traditional Christmas walk to keep healthy, according to a statement today from the Government.
Going by generally accepted calorie allowances, a typical festive meal, including turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes and Christmas pudding, contains 1,470 calories, more than half of men’s recommended daily calories and three quarters of women’s.
Almost a third of the total is made up of just four small roast potatoes, estimated to contain around 400 calories.
Many news outlets are reporting that brisk walking burns off ‘just’ 210 calories an hour, something I’m not entirely sure should even come in to it – calorie expenditure depends entirely on the individual's weight, age, gender and more, also a reason not to necessarily treat the calorie display on exercise equipment as gospel.
Ministers, (rightly so in our minds!) have insisted that physical activity can make a real difference to health. Personally, I think that simplifying it to the fact that you’ll burn ‘just’ 210 calories isn’t the right message for media outlets to be conveying – healthy lifestyles are much more than just calories in versus calories out.
Gillian Merron, public health minister, said: “Whatever the weather, a traditional festive walk is a great way for families and friends to avoid that sluggish feeling and have a more active Christmas.
“Being more physically active can make a real difference to your health – taking that extra walk is something we can all enjoy as a family.” 
Just two days to go!
Can new 'wonder-belt' help you shape up? - Health, Diet and Fitness Today - 21/12/09
21/12/2009 at 09:49pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
Not quite weight loss for our daily dose of Health, Diet and Fitness Today, but more something that gives the illusion of it.
The Cinch, a foot-high canvas belt that wraps around a woman's waist, is selling very well in upmarket maternity shops and at the department store Harrods, according to the Telegraph.
It has arrived from America where it has been used by A-list celebrity mothers, including Angelina Jolie, Gwen Stefani and Minnie Driver. So, the press these celeb mums get for dramatic post-natal weight loss may actually be the result of wearing one of these belts.
The £85 "abdominal wrap" promises mothers that have just given birth that it can help them regain their figures, "by tightening all the abdominal muscles with the dual front panels and further cinching with double side wings". As weight loss professionals, we know that you cannot lose weight or ‘tone’ muscle to regain your figure by simply wearing a belt – it doesn’t affect you aesthetically at all.
The Royal College of Midwives has warned that such abdominal binders are not safe for some women.
A spokeswoman for the RCM said: "It is not safe to wear them just after giving birth. I wouldn't recommend it from a medical perspective. A midwife needs to check that a woman's uterus is going down after birth. Wearing that could hide the fact that a woman's uterus isn't going down, and conceal internal bleeding."
A spokesman for the manufacturer said no mother had ever complained about feeling unwell. Must be safe then, eh?
The success of the Cinch echoes strong sales of "shapening" tights and pants. Selfridges has said sales of Spanx control pants have risen by 60 per cent compared with last year, while John Lewis said sales of what it calls shapewear are ahead by 46 per cent, compared with last year.
Of course, use shapewear if you feel more comfortable wearing it, but don’t expect it to help you regain your figure once you take it off, because it won’t.
The Cinch, as worn by celebrities such as Angelie Jolie, Gwen Stefani and Minnie Driver
Just 5% hit UK exercise targets - Health, Diet and Fitness Today - 18/12/09
18/12/2009 at 08:06pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
Only a very tiny proportion of men and women actually do the amount of exercise recommended to keep them fit and healthy, a comprehensive study shows today.
The Department of Health recommends that adults should get 30 minutes moderate exercise, five days a week. But the annual Health Survey for England (HSE) reveals today that 94% of men and 96% of women do not achieve it.
When 15,000 adults were asked how much moderate exercise they had taken, 38% of men and 29% of women thought they had hit the target. But when researchers from the National Centre for Social Research and University College London gave a representative sample of the interviewees an accelerometer to wear for a week – a device which measures how much activity a person does – it showed a very different picture.
Rachel Craig, research director of the HSE, said that many people probably wrongly thought they were being more active than they are. Walking to the station, for instance, only counts as moderate exercise if you are walking briskly – that means at around 3-4mph. Walking up stairs is undoubtedly good, but does not usually take very long.
"As a rule of thumb, it is moderate activity if it makes you out of breath or sweaty," she said. "That indicates you are doing cardiovascular activity. Though that is not to say that walking generally is not a good thing."
Housework is also said to count towards moderate activity, but, said Craig, dusting and washing up do not count. Rigorous scrubbing may be physically active enough to register, but what the experts really have in mind is digging the garden, tilling rough ground, mowing large areas with a hand-mower and chopping wood.
What adults are really doing is sitting in front of the computer at work or at home, watching television, reading, eating, studying or drawing. This is how most of us occupy around 10 hours a day, the survey shows.
Children did better than adults. Among the 7,500 surveyed, half of boys aged two to 10 years old (51%) and a third of girls in the same age group (34%) did an hour's moderate exercise every day. But their activity levels slipped dramatically when they got older – only 7% of boys aged 11-15 and no girls in the study met that target.
Obesity may be levelling out, according to the survey, but at a high level. A quarter of adults (24% of men and 25% of women) are obese and a further 42% of men and 32% of women are overweight.
Just 5% of adults are hitting Government activity guidelines
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