Personal Training in Bahrain

Can I Help YOU?

Here is a recap of the services I offer including health challenges that I can support:

Services offered to clients worldwide including; UK, USA, Europe, Australia and Canada:

• Phone Based Nutrition and lifestyle Coaching
• Phone Based Functional Medicine Practice

Services offered to clients within Gulf States; Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Abu Dhabi:

• Phone Based Nutrition and lifestyle Coaching
• Phone based Functional Medicine Consultancy
• Personal training and Corrective Exercise Sessions available (travel costs added to total cost)

Services offered exclusively in Bahrain

• Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching
• Functional Medicine Consultancy
• Personal Training for weight loss & maintenance
• Corrective Exercise for postural complications

Who can I help?

• Pre and post menopausal woman suffering with chronic symptoms.
• Post natal weight gain and hormone complications.
• Expats with excess weight that has gradually appeared from nowhere!
• Working executives who want increased energy & productivity.
• Fitness Professionals who are heading for a burn out.
• Stressed out Mums who need some support.
• Busy working adults who want to prevent a future burn out.

Symptoms that I can support:

• Digestive complications such as IBS, bloating, cramping, abnormal bowel frequency
• Hormonal complications such as PMS, mood swings, crying or anger for no apparent reason, weight gain, depression
• Stress complications such as anxiety, depression, irrational thoughts, rebellious behaviour such as excessive drinking, smoking, eating
• Energy complications such as chronic fatigue, low afternoon crashes, addiction to coffee or other stimulants, sleep issues.

Contact me if you would like to find out more, I can help you!

Is Your Plastic Tupperware Causing You Harm?

Xenoestrogens are becoming an increasing concern to our health. In this post I wanted to share with you what they are, where they are found and what you can do to reduce you and your family’s exposure.

Alternative Health - Functional Medicine on Technorati

Link: Alternative Health - Functional Medicine on Technorati.

I practice Functional Medicine! What is Functional Medicine? Follow this link and watch the short video with a detailed overview of how Functional Medicine compares to conventional medicine.
Enjoy!

A little more about ME!

I'm not one for the usual forward emails, but thought this was fun, and rather than just share it with my close friends and family, I have decided to share this with my web buddies like you!

Four things about me that you may or may not know in no particular order.

Four jobs I have had in my life:
Fire Eater at Holiday Camp
Cocktail Bar tender in Marbella
Au pair in italy
Trolley Dolly in Bahrain

Four movies I would watch over and over:
The Departed
Good Will Hunting
Bourne Supremacy
Matt Damon is great actor!!

Four places I have lived:
Sarasota, Florida
Doniford bay, Somerset
Marbella, Spain
Riyadh, KSA

Four TV Shows that I watch:
So you think you can Dance
Supernanny
Gray's Anatomy
Desperate Housewives

Four places I have been:
Beruit, Lebanon
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Los Angeles, California
Tangier, Morocco

Four People who e-mail me (regularly):
Can't say!!! All my mates and family are lousy at emailing, I usually email them!

Four of my favourite foods:
Calves liver and bacon from the World Service Restaurant, Nottingham
Tender Japanese Pork dish from the Sato Restaurant in Bahrain
Tuna nicoise salad with anchovies piled high
Organic lamb dish from New York (posh hotel can't remember name)

Four places I would rather be right now:
Bahrain with Rob and the girls
Sarasota Florida with my mum
The gym
The Novotel beach resort Bahrain

Four friends I think will respond:
Mum 
Joanne
Sam
Rob
(no pressure guys!!!)

Four things I am looking forward to this year (next year):
Moving to Bahrain in 8 weeks
My mum coming over to Bahrain for Christmas
Getting Married March 20th!!!
Figuring out my Itunes library and transferring all my Masters audio to my Ipod

We Love Saturated Fats!

An important part of my practice is telling clients to stop eating processed foods that contain hydrogenated fats and commercial polyunsaturated oils. Instead, I recommend that they cook with saturated fats like butter or coconut oil and to not be so afraid of animal fats, eggs and cholesterol!!

Shockingly, Yes I do!

But, look at it this way...... remember when humans thought that the world was flat. Nothing could convince us (I say that as if I was around then!!??) to believe any differently. And now of course we know that the opposite is in fact true.

Well this is the case for the Diet Dictocrats who have been for the last 50 years brain washing us to believe that there is a direct relationship between the amount of saturated fats and cholesterol in the diet and the incidence of coronary heart disease; which was first brought to light by a researcher by the name of Ancel Keys in the late 1950's.

As a result of media and marketing pressure we, for almost the last 60 years, have reduced the amount of fats in our diet. However, isn't it strange that before 1920 coronary heart disease was rare in America
and that today heart disease causes at least 40 per cent of all US deaths!! And I won’t even mention obesity rates!

So! Let us take a closer look at dietary fats to understand the all too familiar terms like saturated, hydrogenated, cold pressed, linolenic acid so that we can make more informed choices about dietary fats...

Wedding Day Shape Up Half way through

Well, here it is, I have 8 weeks until I leave Saudi and then two weeks after it will be Christmas!!! Sorry for those of you who have been ignoring that fact. I do enjoy Christmas but don't allow myself or Rob to get stressed by last minute gift hunting or meal planning. Probably because we are going out this Christmas for lunch at somebody else's house and that last year we stayed at the Ritz Carlton Bahrain for a fabby weekend! Anyway, I digress!

Back to the Wedding Day shape up journal.

Millions of expats could be kicked out of Gulf - Politics & Economics - ArabianBusiness.com

Link: Millions of expats could be kicked out of Gulf - Politics & Economics - ArabianBusiness.com.

UH oh!! Bad news for Bahrain Expats!!! Let's hope no one we know is affected.
Shall we go to Oman Rob???

Millions of expatriate workers could face being kicked out of the Gulf if plans proposed by Bahrain are passed at the next GCC summit in December.

The kingdom will put forward a motion at the meeting in Doha to place a six-year residency cap on all expatriates working in the region in an effort to stop what it sees as the erosion of local culture and to stem soaring unemployment among nationals.

The cap could force many of the 13 million or so expatriates currently living in the GCC to return home, a significant proportion of whom have brought up families in the Gulf and now consider the region their home.

Follow the rest of the article through the link posted above.

Healthy Weight Loss Takes Time!

Many of you hear me say time and time again that healthy weight loss takes time and whilst the diet gurus can make you lose a dress size in three weeks, you will find that you put the weight back on (and extra)
Here is a great article from the Natural Holistic Health Blog

"Those having a vested interest in selling products for weight loss solutions tend to conceal the fact that there is no way of losing weight quickly. Reducing weight is a slow process and that is the way it is meant to be. Remember that you did not put on all the flab in a day and therefore, there is no way that you will lose it immediately. Excess weight cannot be wished away. It requires a concerted effort towards eating right and exercise. If you are looking for a natural weight loss solution and wish to avoid weight loss medications, you should pay attention to the following.

Day 25 - not so good!

Wow where has all the time gone! I recently came over to Bahrain for 12 days and to be honest it has been hard keeping up with the WDSU focus. Being over here means I get to have some freedom from KSA and so I have hired a car and I drive and drive and drive!! Which is hilarious when you know that Bahrain is the size of the Isle of Wight and that there are so many road works going on that you end up sitting in traffic!! hahhahahha.
I've also (as part of my Masters) started cooking! For those of you that know me, you will know that I shy away from cooking and would rather go out for a nice meal. BUT! the whole part of learning about Holistic Nutrition is to submerge yourself in fresh organic produce using the finest ingredients to make scrumptious meals that contain all your necessary vitamins!
Great! the only trouble is that so far it all tastes so good, that Rob and I haven't been leaving much of the left overs. So I have not stuck to my 5 small meals per day and have been having 3 main meals a day.
Not too bad and I haven't gained any weight and I have also religiously done my Pilates video everyday but I have to be careful as last night wasn't so great!!

Here we are drawing a close to Ramadan and we went for an Iftar (breaking of the fast) meal at the Ritz Carlton, Bahrain. Needless to say being at such a posh place the buffet was magnificent and there were cuisines from all over the world. And along with some delicious dishes I made the mistake of walking past the sweet section right at the beginning! I was like a child in a candy shop! My mind was focused on the sweets even before I had started my meal!
You know I hate to say but you can see the reason why obesity rates and diabetes is growing in this part of the world. I wasn't the only one to be drooling over the desserts! Mostly women, we crowded round the chocolate mouse, mango flavoured mouse and sticky honey covered arabic sweets and waited patiently for our turn.

The trouble is when you know you are going to be spending BD25 (about 33GBP) for an early bird meal, it doesn't bode well for being conservative!
I do think though that if I had had my small regular meals of good quality protein (or even my protein shake) then I would have felt more satisfied and not have been so drawn to the sweets like a crazy woman. (Note to self, must buy some protein powder tomorrow)

Oh well, Rob and I came home pleasantly stuffed and were asleep by 10pm!

The saga continues!