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This was going to be The Year. Mid-December, and I was going to be jaw-droppingly svelte. Shimmying about the place in something fabulously small and soignée. Smiling gracefully as the congratulations rolled in - "Oh my, I hardly recognised you!" "How much weight did you say you had lost?" "Two stones? Really? That's fantastic!"
It wasn't for want of trying. James Duigan, Mr Bodyism himself, was funny, charming, endlessly encouraging. Then there was the lovely Ollie, who chased me around the park with kettle bells and elastic bands and all manner of strange fitness contraptions. Handsome Luke at Ten Pilates, ever patient, ever tolerant.
Amelia Freer , she did her level best. Sent me daily deliveries of her delicious food : delicate poached salmon fillets, lovingly soaked seeds, little notes of encouragement. The nice people at Victoria Health gave me some raspberry ketones. I spent a heavenly week at Grayshott , eating tantalising healthy titbits and nodding sagely as I learnt all about good fats and bad fats and the evils of sugar.
And yet here I sit, lardacious as ever. Well, not quite. Ladies and gentlemen, in 2014, under the tutelage of some of the most effective and experienced experts in the business, I have lost precisely three and a half kilograms.
I have no one to blame for this appalling failure but myself. I am lazy, ungrateful and very possibly criminally irresponsible. I am the sort of person who shows up in government statistics about fat people costing the NHS a fortune.
And I'm a hypocrite too: I am the co-founder of a health and wellness website, for heaven's sake. Surely on that basis alone I should be a size 10.
The thing is, I have a funny suspicion that, bad as I am, I am not alone. That my behaviour is not as abnormal as, on paper, it would appear.
In fact, the more I think about it, the more convinced I become that being a healthy weight is as much to do with the mind as it is to do with the body.
Not a day goes by when I don't wish I could be two stone lighter. I flick through my wardrobe: nope, too fat for that; can't wear those trousers; that shirt gapes at the bust; that dress pulls on the back. I have to resist the temptation not to spend my days in giant black sacks.
And yet if I desire slenderness so much, why then does it continue to elude me?
Is it because secretly I don't really care? Am I perhaps just pathologically lazy? Or is my inability to slip into a pair of size 12 Joseph leggings simply a reaction to the relentless fat-shaming that seems to dominate today?
If there is one thing I do know about the psychology of weight it's that the more you nag a fat person about their size, the hungrier they become. That is because very often being overweight - especially in young girls - is not a sign of indolence or greed; it is a symptom of unhappiness.
MORE GLOSS: 10 things they never tell you about diets
I understand comfort eating because I do a lot of it myself. Food can ease anxiety in me like nothing else. I would far rather tuck into a piece of hot buttered toast with Marmite than smoke a cigarette or have a vodka and tonic. It is the best emotional anaesthetic I know.
If food is your principle source of solace, then you have a real problem. For while it is possible to give up cigarettes and alcohol and enjoy nothing but positive effects, humans cannot give up food and remain alive.
That is why people who suffer from anorexia also tend to be binge eaters. They fear food in the way an alcoholic fears a shot of vodka. They're terrified that if they have just one, they won't be able to control themselves. In the end they feel the only way to overcome their compulsions is to stop altogether. Which of course is not possible.
Anorexia is really just an extreme form of food phobia; obesity, meanwhile, is at the other end of the scale: a food addiction. Both are equally damaging; and in both cases the symptoms may be physical, but the disease is mental.
That is why cajoling the overweight into exercise programmes and lecturing them about dietary regimes is about as effective as force-feeding an anorexic.
Their conscious mind understands that their behaviour is abnormal; but their subconscious can't reform. Most people with weight issues fall somewhere in between the extremes, myself included. And every year, around now, we tell ourselves that this time it's going to work. That we will embark on the 5:2 , or the High Intensity Training , or whatever it happens to be - and we will stick to it. But deep down, we're lying. We know that, come February, we'll have fallen off the food wagon - again. And what little we've lost will start creeping back on again.
Those people I know who do succeed in staying slim well into their 30s and beyond all have one thing in common: they have absolutely no emotional engagement to food. For them it is simply a fuel, their stomach a tank, to be replenished when empty, like that of their car.
They are the ones that interest me. I want to know which switches in which part of my brain I need to flick in order to be able to think like them.
Meanwhile, I wish you a happy Christmas. Enjoy those mince pies.
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One of Tinseltown’s most in-demand PTs, LA celebrity fitness instructor Simone De La Rue has developed a reputation as the go-to trainer of some of the A-list’s most famous and hottest bodies. And now with her high energy, dance-based class, Body by Simone - Sweat (popular with the Kardashians), having just landed exclusively at Third Space London , her method looks set to make similar waves across the Atlantic too.
Fun, fast and effective, the 55-minute workout takes inspiration from her signature classes in the States and experiences as a dancer on the West End and Broadway stages. Using a base of ballet to sculpt, tone and shape and featuring fast-paced routines and great playlists, Simone actively encourages attendees to not take themselves too seriously and to let go of their inhibitions. “It should be fun and joyous,” she tells us. “We're not auditioning for the West End, the idea is really just to get your heart rate up. It's a fun way to get women together, be supportive of one another and have that creative outlet.” Balancing choreography with cardio perfectly, we’d highly recommend a visit.
With studios in LA and New York, three DVDs, an online streaming service, a clothing line, a co-branded shoe, book deals and a show on the E! Network under her belt, the Body by Simone business is booming. How does the woman behind it all stay fit, motivated and inspired? We caught up with her to find out...
When it comes to fitness, do you prefer routine or variety?
Definitely variety. I need to constantly mix it up. The beauty about dance is that it's never the same. You're always using different muscle groups, different planes of motion and moving in different directions. Variety is good for the brain mentally and it's good for the body to not keep doing the same thing.
What would we always find in your gym bag?
Klorane Dry Shampoo . It’s a lifesaver because I sweat so much and teach so many classes. My Fitbit , so I can always know how many steps I've done and how many calories I've burned. My BBS dance cardio shoes that I designed with Newton Running - I can't live without them. I've always got some kind of crazy outfit on - my leggings have to inspire me. Today I'm wearing Sukishufu , £95, a British brand that I'm supporting. They make me look like I'm from out of space. You'll also always find a bottle of water in there and my iPhone for my music (you can follow me on Spotify for my playlists).
Where do you get your fitness motivation from?
My clients and working out with them in order to motivate them.
MORE GLOSS: How to get fit when you’re feeling unfit
What's the best body shaping exercise that you've tried?
A Pilates exercise where you lay on your belly, make a diamond with your legs and drive your heels towards the ceiling. You're forced to fire from your glutes and you can't cheat. It's a really great booty exercise. Then there's the good old fashioned squat and different plies and Arabesque exercises where you lift your legs.
How did you get your big break?
Working with Sandra Bullock on the film Gravity.
What's the key piece of fitness advice you give to clients?
It’s 80 per cent diet, 20 per cent exercise. Calorie intake to exercise input is really important. I think we make the mistake of saying 'Oh I just ate a salad today,' but then afterwards drinking our calories through a bottle of wine. It's diet-related and that and exercise go hand in hand.
What's the best thing you've learned from a client?
I was a ballet dancer so I love people who are disciplined, ambitious and driven. It’s great seeing my celebrities getting in the zone when they're working towards the Grammys or a movie role. That inspires me because I respect that kind of ambition and drive - it's hard to make people do that, it has to be in them.
MORE GLOSS: Do you have fitness fear?
How do you know when you're rundown or have been overdoing it?
I sleep. I travel a lot and spend a lot of time on planes and so I often pick up bugs. I’m a sleeper and most nights I'll be in bed by nine and up at six. I have to eat really well as well, but I try not to take vitamins or anything like that - just water, sleep and listening to my body.
What's your secret to staying sane?
My friends, my family and my boyfriend - they keep me very grounded. Sometimes I can be a fairy and fly off into the air, but then they pull me right back down to reality. That's what I love about Australians and Brits, they're very down-to-earth. I like to go out for brunch, to the theatre, I meditate when I can, I try to cook, watch Netflix...just try and find balance.
What's the product you tell everyone about?
Good shoes to prevent injuries from the high impact jumping we do in the class. It’s really important to replace them regularly and have proper insoles if you pronate.
What's your best budget beauty buy?
I do love Lucas Papaw Ointment , £5.99.
MORE GLOSS: 5 top makeup artists reveal their top budget beauty buys
What's your biggest health spend?
Maybe massages. I see my body as my tool and I have to take good care of it, so I try to get some sort of massage, acupuncture or cupping regularly.
What are you surprisingly good at?
Cooking and rock climbing.
Third Space is the exclusive London destination to do Body by Simone - Sweat in the UK.
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(CNN) — Simply saying the word "Japan" can bring up images of manga, maid cafes and neon lights.
But for Dutch photographer Maan Limburg, Japan is a series of rural landscapes punctuated by empty houses.
Her photographs of these places -- from houses departed in the wake of natural disasters to closed-down theaters with the lights still cued up -- are now featured in a book, "The Lost World," which published in May.
Japan's ghost houses
Japan has one of the oldest populations in the world, with an estimated one in every 1,500 people over the age of 100. As more young people move to the cities in search of jobs, rural areas have become more difficult to maintain. And that's not the only major force affecting Japan's landscape. Events like earthquakes, typhoons and the Fukushima nuclear disaster have also caused widespread destruction or abandonment. Enter the phenomenon of akiya, or ghost houses.
A 2014 government report sounded the alarm, saying that, should things continue at the present rate, about 900 villages and towns throughout Japan will be "extinct."
Limburg didn't just find empty homes -- there were also abandoned businesses like this DVD store.
Maan Limburg/The Lost World
But even free houses aren't necessarily the cure for Japan's akiya situation. While other countries with aging populations, like Italy, have given away or sold very cheap houses to foreigners, they often come with a visa or residency permit attached. Japan's houses, though, do not.
As a result, it can be hard to find people willing to live in the homes and fix them up, especially if they don't speak Japanese or have access to a car. Limburg, who is based in Utrecht, found herself irresistibly pulled to the lesser-known regions of Japan where many of these houses exist. She and her partner spent months there at a time, renting a car or van and driving through parts of the country that many tourists rarely explore.
Finding ephemera like calendars and newspapers can help Limburg figure out when a place was abandoned.
Maan Limburg/The Lost World
Leaving the cities
Limburg says she "fell in love" with rural Japan.
"Every village we got to, the people were like, 'What are you doing here? The nearest tourist attraction is 35 kilometers. We can send you there. We can draw you a map if you want to.' It was just really nice to see this different side of Japan," she says.
And once she began visiting smaller villages, it was practically impossible not to find empty homes or abandoned buildings. At one point, Limburg says, her boyfriend asked if they really had to stop at every single one.
One of the reasons Limburg connected with rural Japan is that it reminded her of her native Netherlands. Though both countries have a reputation for being cold and not always welcoming to foreign visitors, Limburg disagrees.
"As soon as Dutch people see you're actually interested, they will share a lot of information with you. That's something I also really found in Japan to be true," she says. "It's one of the things I really enjoy in both countries that, if you have real interest in the people, suddenly they really share their life with you,"
But of course not all countryside is the same, and that was reflected in the kinds of empty buildings she found.
In Hokkaido, Limburg explains, many people had time to properly close up and weather-seal their houses before moving away. But in areas like Fukushima, where people had fled in a hurry, it wasn't unusual to find teacups still set out or TV sets still plugged in.
One of her personal favorite discoveries was a former theater. The sets, costumes and lights were still intact, as if the actors had merely taken a lunch break and were due back any minute.
Some of the smaller homes had the most emotional punch. Limburg saw family photos still tacked up on the wall and found herself wondering what had happened to the people who lived here and what had made them leave.
"I hope to have treated the locations with enough respect," she says.
Her favorite region was the "magical" northern island of Hokkaido.
"it's rough and it's rugged and it's weird," the photographer says. "We had a feeling that we were in an Edward Hopper painting without any people."
"Once you start looking for empty houses," Limburg says, "they're everywhere."
Maan Limburg/The Lost World
Reflections
In all, Limburg has visited Japan about 10 times, beginning when she was a teenager.
Because she is a freelancer, she's able to spend long periods of time away, so her average Japan visit was three weeks. Multiple trips enabled her to see different parts of the country, as well as to meet and connect with some of the people she encountered along the way.
"The Lost World" is more than just a photo book -- it's an homage to the country she loves and respects.
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I’m a sucker for any fitness space that comes equipped with straighteners, luxe conditioner and high thread count Egyptian cotton towels, but there comes a time, about a week after payday, when my fondness for luxe fitness becomes unaffordable. Health may be wealth, but when you’re dropping £575 a month on gym fees (as members of one exclusive London gym are known to), give or take extortionate joining fees, you best have buns of steel and weights made of pure gold, not to mention a considerable fortune, to justify the spend. Yet amongst a landscape of mushrooming plush, premium studios and members clubs, a crop of cutting edge, butt-kicking classes, contract-free gyms and free group exercise programmes promise to get endorphins (and glutes) firing without the lavish expense. Welcome to fitness on your terms that’s not requiring of a trust fund.
The good value gyms
Whether due to unrealistic resolutions or swanky add-ons as above, many gyms don’t have a reputation for ‘bang for your buck’ performance. Gym debt could be self-inflicted in that you’re not getting your money’s worth in terms of cost-per-visit, or it could be that you’re locked into a seemingly eternal contract that’s not meeting your needs. Gyms can be ruthless commercial environments, so if you feel short-changed, it’s worth reading up on your rights. Just for the record, your contract should never be for longer than a year; in 2011 the High Court deemed it unjust for gyms to bind members to a contract for over twelve months.
Other contractual stipulations to look out for are gym policy on freezing membership, notice periods, automatic contract renewal, changes to your circumstances (such as pregnancy, injury, illness or moving house) and where you stand should gym amenities or services be removed. If it’s not written into your contract, and you’re not satisfied with a gym’s membership benefits, fees and payment structure, don’t go there. Seek transparency, take a stand and if it comes to it haggle so that you’re getting your money’s worth, not to mention a fair deal. When the going gets tough…
If you’re satisfied that the gym life is for you, but you’re just not quite sure where to sign the dotted line, many high street gyms are upping their games to get you inside. Good old Fitness First offers free three days passes in all but the Black Label clubs, and ‘bring a friend for free on Friday’ is also a perk on offer in many of the brand’s 75 clubs across the UK and Ireland. If a day or three isn’t enough to convince you, one month memberships are also available from £19 to get you in the swing.
Money Saving Expert reports that, along with Fitness First, Virgin Active is one the UK’s most receptive gyms in terms of fee flexibility, member rewards and guest passes; from discounts across a range of major brands to reduced rates for under 16s, 18-25s and joint members, the global gym giant is likely staying well under the industry average customer drop-out rate (50 per cent). Exclusive classes and innovative technology also make it a cut above the competition; tailored Tough Mudder training and fresh cycling concept The Pack (spinning goes space age) are just a few of the state-of-the-art elements that secure Virgin Active as a key player in the reasonable but revolutionary fitness market.
For commitment phobes, PayasUgym provides the perfect portal by which to not only buy short term passes to a huge variety of gyms and fitness spaces (2300 and 410 pools currently), but you can also snoop on each venue impartially. If you’re a Londoner, ‘take your mind and body somewhere new’ by hitting up Another Space when it opens officially on 23rd May. With no membership, no joining fees, the ability to book classes for up to three friends and a very hip vibe, it’s giving high-end boutique gyms a run for their money. HIIT, various forms of yoga and spinning will be on offer on launch, with an introductory offer of two class credits and a buddy pass for £20. Expect plush towels, Cowshed toiletries and those much coveted changing room ghds. There’s also a juice and smoothie bar onsite, plus daily changing menu by Natural Fitness Food and The Detox Kitchen.
The canny classes
There’s nothing like a bit of group motivation to get your guns in gear, but if your points of reference are limited to ‘legs, bums and tums’ and Mr Motivator, you’ve got a world of online and communal workout adventure waiting for you.
First, the freebies. Sweaty Betty and Lululemon regularly offer complimentary yoga, pilates, HIIT and other workout classes in their branches nationwide. You can normally sign up instore on a first come, first served basis and you’ll receive top notch, expert tuition during your session. Reebok Fithub in Covent Garden also runs an ever changing roster of complimentary classes, while OnlineGym4Me is currently offering a 14 day free trial of its extensive range of live and recorded classes, from yoga flow to HIIT challenges and ‘healthy joint’ workouts.
Less free but incredibly effective is barrecore’s online workout library . For just under £25 a month (a steal given that a single in-studio class goes for £28), you’ll have access to unlimited barre workouts, allowing you to progress in terms of intensity, zone in on a particular area you’d like to target or bash out an express class when time is tight. Your butt will be tight by the end of the month too; it’s one of the most ‘hardcore’ yet easy to follow home workouts I’ve tried. You can purchase a barrecore accessory pack online so you’ve got all the gear, but the team upload many a ‘no equipment required’ online class so it’s not an essential. If you prefer your classes IRL and live in the capital, Slice Live are currently offering 30 days unlimited access to classes across London for £25, with single classes at £9 and generous ‘bring a friend’ bonuses.
If you’re more ‘bootcamp’ than barre, a free week’s pass with British Military Fitness will also put you through your paces without hurting your purse. With 140 outdoor class locations throughout mainland UK, you can attend as many sessions as you wish during your seven day trial period. We think that might be an underhand challenge right there. Speaking of al fresco fitness…
Natural highs
Apparently nothing gets British endorphins soaring quite like a jog; according to Mintel research released last year, 24% of us are regular runners (48% of 16-24 year olds), with one in three Londoners pounding the pavements to stay fit. The North East and Wales aren’t far behind, although walking is the most popular heart rate raiser of all, with 39% of Brits striding out to stay healthy.
David Walmsley, Senior Leisure Analyst at Mintel, thinks that the practicality and minimal economic impact of such accessible activity not only encourages us to workout more regularly, but keep up the good work for the long term too:
“Ease of access to participation opportunities is key to enabling regular activity, which is why individual ‘doorstep’ sports are most popular at the highest frequencies of play. Walking is obviously at a significant advantage over swimming in these terms but it also has another edge in being more accessible physically than most other sports too, in that you don’t have to be especially fit to be able to take part.”
“In-home and individual fitness activities are low in cost and high on convenience, a combination that makes the products and services that cater to consumers’ needs in these areas some of the UK’s most important sport and exercise markets. Affordability has been a central factor in sustaining the appeal of these activities during the economic downturn, but it is wider trends in demographics, technology and public health policy that now offer the key opportunities for longer term growth.”
One brand that has been quick to recognise the importance and popularity of on-the-spot, cost-free fitness is Nike. The Nike+ Training Club and Nike+ Running apps offer expert advice and training plans wherever and whenever you choose to train, while in-store meet ups and free Run Clubs bring you face to face with Nike master trainers and like-minded exercisers, whether you’re a beginner or a pro.
If jogging is your jam, signing up for timed weekly 5k runs with parkrun will help you to track your progress and connect with other runners, young and old, while Good Gym will have you running with more purpose than ever; combining regular exercise with good deeds in the community. Whether you’re running (quite literally) a group project, solo mission or simply sprinting over to an elderly person’s house to make them feel less isolated, you’ll receive advice and support from a qualified trainer as you go about your philanthropic fitness business. Green Gym has a similar ethos, although is focused on conservation and environmental projects.
Lastly, our wonderful NHS are doing their bit to make fitness open to all. From free workout podcasts to the ‘couch to 5k’ plan , incentivising getting sweaty is high on their wellbeing agenda. If you’re feeling especially ambitious, you can join the British Heart Foundation’s MyMarathon campaign , which is encouraging the nation to complete a 26.2 mile challenge by the end of May. Obviously it may have been a tad easier had you started at the beginning of the month, but the heightened challenge should hopefully see you attracting heftier donations to fund crucial BHF research. Getting fit for free and actually generating money for your efforts has got to feel good.
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With Christmas finally over and the New Year well and truly here, we’re looking for a way to rev up our exercise regimes to give us a head start for seeing our fitness New Year’s resolutions through to completion. Thankfully, That Girl’s Christina Howells has the perfect quick and effective fix you can do anytime and anywhere which fits perfectly into even the most hectic of January schedules.
Taking high intensity interval training to the next level, it’s been designed to give your workouts an added boost to get you feeling fitter, trimmer and better equipped to deal with the post-Crimbo aftermath. “This workout is high intensity interval training but in a different format where the moves have been ‘stacked.’ With each round you increase the amount of effort but not the rest time,” says Christina.
“Not only does the workout give your metabolism a boost for the day helping you to burn more calories even when you have finished, it will also increase lean body mass which is 3 times more metabolically active than fat - over time you will become a fat burning machine.”
And the clincher? These are all exercises you can do at home.
Feeling motivated? Enter the code GLOSS 20 at www.thatgirllondon.com and receive a 20% discount on the That Girl Original and That Girl 2.0 workout plans (from the 12th of January 2014 to the 12th of February 2014) to keep you fit, lean and strong all year long. Sounds like a recipe for success to us. Here's a taster of the moves you need to know...
How to do it
1. Do Exercise 1 for 30 seconds; rest for 30 seconds.
2. Do Exercise 1 and 2 for 30 seconds each; rest for 30 seconds.
3. Do Exercises 1, 2 and 3 for 30 seconds each; rest for 30 seconds.
4. Do Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4 for 30 seconds each; rest for 30 seconds.
5. Rest for 1-2 minutes and repeat the sequence again for a real intense burst to your day.
Notes
If you are newer to exercise then increase your rest period to 45 or 60 seconds, but remember to decrease this as your fitness improves.
Exercise 1: Rock ‘n’ Rolls
Challenges your abdominals with movement.
Position
Sit on your mat with your knees bent and feet wider than hip width apart. Pull your abdominals inwards to create a C-curve spine and lightly clasp your hands in front of you.
Action
Scoop the abdominals in deeper so your spine is round and on an inhale, rock back onto the base of your shoulder blades. Using an exhale, keep the abdominals scooped as you roll back up to the start position.
Top Tips
Keep the abdominals engaged and your back in a curved shape throughout.
If you have a medicine ball to hand, then you can always hold this between your hands for an added challenge. Choose a weight that does not compromise your technique.
Exercise 2: Glossy Hops
A cardio burst - anytime, anywhere!
Position
Hands and feet on the floor with hips held high to form a pyramid position. Your knees are slightly bent.
Action
Keeping your hands firmly planted on the floor, bend your knees deeply to propel your hips upwards as you jump, feet together, from right to left. Focus on drawing your abdominals inwards and tucking your heels towards your buttocks.
Make sure you land softly.
Top Tips
Too difficult? Keep working on bending through the knees and springing upwards from the hips.
Too easy? Find a low bench or use a gym bench. Stand to one side and, holding onto the front of the bench with a hand either side, soft jump up and over the bench.
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Exercise 3: Glossers
Want to maximise your plank? Then add movement to challenge stability. You don’t need real gliders – paper plates, tea towels, padded envelopes or dusters work just fine.
Position
Come into plank on your hands and feet with the your “gliders” under your toes. Your wrists should be directly beneath your shoulders. Your body forms a straight line from head to feet, neck is long and gaze is down.
Action
Focus on engaging your abdominals and keeping the back flat as you open one leg outwards towards the hip and return.Alternate legs.
Top Tips
Be mindful not to arch your back or stick your bum in the air. You can most certainly do this one on your forearms too.
Exercise 4: Zombies
The full body ultimate challenge.
Position
Lie on your back, arms over your head and legs together.
Action
From a lying position, roll your body up using your arms for just a little momentum to a crouched position and place the hands on the floor beside you. Immediately jump back into a plank position and lower into a full press-up. Now jump the feet back to the hands and from this crouched squat position, jump your body upwards using your arms to propel you.
Top Tips
If you are still working on full press-ups, then for this exercise you can eliminate the press-up and focus on pausing momentarily in the plank position. Keep the speed up while maintaining quality.
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When it comes to sport and training, the most important muscle is your brain. Your brain, or rather the thoughts and feelings it churns out - the constant chatter that feeds or fumbles our sense of self - has a powerful effect on our athletic performance. I can still painfully recall a tennis match during which, at the moment I was winning, I began to think how it was only a matter of time before I messed up. As any pop psychologist will tell you, thoughts become actions. Needless to say, I threw the match.
Since then I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been running or working out and persuaded myself that I can’t do it, it’s all pointless, I might as well stop. Normally these moments coincide with a general funk, a bad week at work, a fight with a loved one, or lack of sleep. During times of emotional duress, feelings of anxiety can creep into our sports routine, sabotaging our confidence. I would hazard a guess that women are even more prone to this negative self-talk than men. No matter how perfect your form, how expert your lunges, stress levels scupper our abilities and can even lead to injuries. Brooding over an argument at work causes muscle tension, restricts movement, hampers coordination and suddenly you’re dropping dumbbells on your toes or hurtling over your bicycle handlebars.
It seems ridiculously obvious to say that our emotional state can powerfully affect our performance, or that positive mental attitude is important to exercise. It’s not just a theory, either. According to its author, Dr Michael Duncan, a study by Coventry University showed that “heightened cognitive anxiety, brought on by the competitive scenario, really does affect performance abilities in physically active people." Which is one of the reasons Olympians and full-time athletes use psychological training as an essential part of pre-competition training. Considering which, it’s amazing how little we adapt the teachings to improve our own training regimes. Sports psychologists have fantastically useful tips to get your brain into the right frame of mind. Here are three ways to change your thinking:
1) Visualisation
See yourself – in as much detail as possible, down to the colour of your socks and the sound of your feet on the ground – achieving your goal. It’s a way to tell yourself that you are more than capable of the task in hand (you’ve already done it in your head!), and is a proven means to boosting your performance.
2) Positive self-talk
Rather than thinking, ‘Oh God, look at that hill,’ say to yourself, ‘Here I come!’ The change in attitude is heard in both brain and body, and you’ll find speed and willingness miraculously communicated to your muscles. ‘I know I can do this!’ might be cheesy but it works.
3) Mindfulness
Rory McIlroy credited his Masters win to ‘staying in the process on every shot’. Complete concentration on what you’re doing, moment to moment – whether that’s the next 30 seconds of your interval training, or the next five sit ups - means your thinking isn’t distracted by external stresses, or overawed by the scale of what you’re trying to achieve. The mental focus and clarity then enhances your overall abilities. (Your brain can’t bitch when you’re concentrating.)
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The morning of the race finally arrived and I don’t think any of us have ever been more nervous. Hearts pounding and palms sweating, we made our way to the start line, eager to get moving but terrified to begin. All the concerns and pressures of doing badly that had plagued us throughout this experience came hurtling into an acute focus as we waited through the two minute countdown. The following accidental and premature horn blow from the Mayor of Wembley certainly didn’t help to calm our nerves.
Once we’d begun however, it really wasn’t that bad at all, I’d even go as far to say it was quite fun. Running amongst men and women, both young and old drummed up a great sense of camaraderie which, as cliche as it may sound, really helped to carry us through the race. With the course lined with well wishers, the atmosphere was fantastically electric, lighthearted and motivating. Plus, the many supporting spectators meant we were also shamed into running when we wanted to walk - nobody wants to amble past a cheering crowd.
At the end of it all though, we not only finished the race but smashed the times we initially set ourselves out to achieve. Let this be a lesson to all of us - no matter how unfit or incapable you think you are, it’s always possible to get motivated and moving. Trust us, it will be the best decision you ever make. Somehow the early mornings and side splitting stitches had all been worth it. Half marathon anyone?
That being said, it certainly wasn’t all smooth sailing and if we could do it all again there’d be a few tips and tricks we’d definitely keep in mind;
Ideally you need twelve weeks to get from couch to 10k - plus the guidance of a runner friend/personal trainer. Failing that, pick up a copy of ‘ Run Fat Bitch Run ,’ £5.99 by Ruth Field - it contains all the straight-talking, no-nonsense advice you need to get you going.
Download the Nike+ Running App - it’s free and will be your saving grace when you realise that rookies find it hard to run, breath and time themselves simultaneously. Plus, it’s a great tool for measuring how far you’ve run, so that 10k on the day doesn’t come as such a shock.
Sign up for a 10k! If we hadn’t signed up for the run we would never have forced ourselves into the gym four times a week - trust us, the fear of ‘fluffing it’ before you reach the finish line is a huge motivator.
Set up a goodwill goal - knowing that you’re helping to raise money for a great cause will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Train with friends - unless you’re super competitive and looking to achieve a Mo Farrah worthy personal best, train with your buds. Simply put, you’ll have a laugh, won’t feel as though you’ve abandoned your social life and they’ll make your session plans much more bearable. It’s a win, win.
Turn to Instagram for inspiration - when you’re tempted to pack it all in and nestle up with Netflix, head over to an inspiring instagram account and/or consider buying yourself some new kit (we, personally, like to kill two birds with one stone by checking out @nikewomen and @nikerunning - it won’t take long for the ‘just do it’ mentality to kick back in.
Things to remember for the day
Carbs and water are the cure - the importance of carbo-loading and hydrating the day before cannot be underestimated. Yes, you’ll feel heavy, sluggish and weighed down at the time, but trust us, come morning you’ll be bursting with powerful energy to help push you around the race.
Don’t carry a large bottle of water - you only need a few little sips to keep you going on the day - a full bottle is cumbersome and heavy and largely unnecessary. Plus, drink too much and you’ll find yourself making a few too many pesky toilet stops.
Keep your equipment light - when you’re struggling up a steep hill you’ll never be more grateful that your music player/gadgets are firmly strapped somewhere on your body and out of sight. Having to hold them in your hand or have them jiggle around in your pocket will only feel uncomfortable and distracting.
A good playlist is essential - music is so intrinsically linked with our ability to move well the bodies rhythm and our ability - nothing will help you power through more than a fast tempo tune.
Know your race route - after a combination of running indoors and on fairly flat ground outside, we were pretty unprepared for the many gradual, steep inclines that laced the track. If you can, take a look at the route as early as you can ahead of the race so you know what you’re up against and what level of training will really help you on the day.
Listen to your body - there’s a temptation to get carried away on the day and push yourself too hard, but you’ve got to pay attention to what your body is saying. If you need a drink, have one, if you need a breather, slow down. At the end of the day it’s just a race and not worth injuring yourself over.
Mind over matter - surprisingly, the biggest obstacle on the day is your brain not your body. Try not to psyche yourself out, keep calm and do your best. At the end of it all, you’re your biggest motivator and If you think you can, you will.
Warm up and warm down properly - it will really help limber you up and get your muscles moving just before the run and will also help prevent you from feeling like an arthritic oap the next day.
Enjoy it! It’s so easy to get caught up in the stresses and pressure of a race but remember that at the end of the day it’s meant to be a day of fun. Starting from scratch and completing a race is a fantastic accomplishment regardless of what time you finish with. So, stand back and take time to enjoy the journey and appreciate how far you’ve come - you’ve earned it.
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If you’re anything like me, your workout wardrobe will far surpass your going out wardrobe. But with sustainability at the forefront of my mind, I’m trying to be more conscious when I’m shopping for leggings.
Much synthetic fitness wear is made from plastic and if you find yourself spinning and gyming as much as I do, you’ll know gym wear doesn’t tend to have a very long life. Rather than compromising the environment by constantly buying and throwing out your gym attire, it makes sense to invest in environmentally conscious kit - which means workout wear that comes from brands committed to sustainable and safe, ethical production - ie. made from recycled plastic bottles / made from renewable fabric or is packaged without plastic.
What to look for in eco leggings
“Firstly, look at what is your kit made from and where the materials are sourced from” says Tori Porter , who works with ethical activewear brands. Look for material made from recycled bottles and from items rescued from landfill.
“Secondly, look at longevity of your activewear. Sustainability isn’t just about the materials, but it’s also how long your clothing lasts for and sustainable consumption. Good quality fabrics and manufacturing ensures that activewear lasts longer, so we aren’t buying more and more and throwing the old away. Finally, I would also look at the packaging and the plastic use - i.e. look for brands that use cardboard boxes and tags, rather than unnecessary plastic”
Best eco leggings for barre to brunch
As well as creating leggings I'm proud to be seen in at brunch, Perff creates high-performance leggings that are 100 per cent eco-friendly and made from 50 per cent recycled materials. When choosing partners they select them according to their sustainability practices, and all of the manufacturing of the Perff fabric lower expenditure of water and energy.
Best eco leggings for yoga
Our resident yogi (and editorial director) Victoria sings the praises of these relaxed trousers with tapered legs; made from bamboo they’re looser than normal leggings making them perfect for practising yoga in. Plus, they’re made from bamboo, which is sustainable and low-impact environmentally because it grows fast and needs no chemical fertiliser, pesticides and very little water. The fabric is processed without harmful chemicals, so it’s great for sensitive skin too.
Best eco leggings for spin
Luxury Australian activewear brand Nimble has sustainable and ethical practices at its core, with the signature fabrics made from recycled bottles - so far they’ve saved 800,000 from going into landfill. The recycled plastic bottles are broken into flakes, melted into pellets, spun into yarn and knitted into the performance fabrics. The poly bags the leggings are sent in are compostable, and the swing tags are made from recycled PET and organic cotton. These are hardwearing, but feel like you’re wearing nothing because they're so light - ideal for when you’re sweating it out on the spin bike.
Best eco leggings for boxing
Manchester-based brand Contur not only creates gym-wear in the coolest colour-ways (gold straps, anyone?) they also use repurposed nylons, ocean plastics and recycled cotton to create sustainable sports fabrics. The garments are made in London by a social enterprise and are packaged in recycled materials - recycled cardboard boxes and tags. Why for boxing, you say? Because to get through a boxing work out, I need to feel my sassiest self, and that’s exactly how these make me feel.
Best eco leggings for giving back
These bold colour block leggings are hand-crafted in London and made from Econyl regenerated yarn - a fibre created from nylon waste such as discarded fishing nets blended with other waste destined for landfill. While we'd love to show these off pounding the pavements or doing weights at the gym we'll have to settle for just wearing them for our live stream work outs for the timebeing.
During the pandemic, the brand is donating 10 percent of sales to The Trussell Trust , who supports a national network of food banks providing food and support to people in poverty.
Best eco leggings for pilates
Designed in London, Evverrvital invests time into researching fabrics that have used sustainable fibres and processes. Selected products are made from 100 per cent regenerated nylon yarn, derived from pre and post-industrial waste such a fishing nets and carpet fluff - yes, really! Plus, the leggings are seamless which not only maximises comfort, it also means fabric wastage is minimised. Seam free makes these great for pilates - no irritating seams rubbing your leg while you’re trying to find your centre.
Best eco leggings for ballet classes
Since 2019 100 per cent of Pepper and Mayne’s body wear has been made from recycled materials that are fully biodegradable. The materials are made from a nylon yarn that is generated from waste such as fishing nets from the oceans, fabric scraps from mills and materials that would otherwise end up in land fill - we bet they prefer being an ombre pair of leggings to festering in landfill! Victoria credits these as one of the softest leggings she owns. The baby pink hue and control wait band makes these ideal for wearing to ballet workouts.
Best eco leggings for outdoor running
Not as stretchy as some but perfect for outdoor exercise, these leggings are made from plant-based fibres extracted from bamboo, soybean and aloe vera. the fabrics offer breathability, moisture management and are quick drying. Plus, I'd feel jazzy running in these at Park Run.
Best eco leggings for yoga newbies
17 plastic PET bottles are used per pair of Super Sculpt leggings - these bottles have been rescued from landfill but the leggings are just as soft as we’ve come to love from Sweaty Betty. The brand has also teamed up with global textile recycler SOEX - just take any old pair of leggings into a SB store, they’ll recycle them with SOEX and you’ll get a £10 off voucher for spend in store. There's nothing like a pair of Sweaty Betty leggings to make you feel like you fit in at the yoga studio...
MORE GLOSS: 10 best yoga mats recommended by yoga teachers
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It may look like a glorified rubber band but the humble resistance band can add as much power to your workout as a dumbbell/ double espresso combination. Sure, it appears unassuming, but the fact that the likes of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jennifer Lawrence rely on a resistance band or three to improve strength, flexibility, tone, technique and general fitness levels proves that a session with a stretchy band can reap serious rewards, plus you can take a band anywhere in a way that you most definitely can’t with a barbell.
Whether you want to perfect your squat, sculpt your arms or get your thighs burning, you can turn your resistance band to almost any body part to speed up your fitness progress safely and without shelling out for expensive gym equipment. Wondering exactly what to do with that floppy band in front of you? Doesn’t look too powerful right now does it? Celebrity trainer Dalton Wong explains how to use a resistance band on each body part.
Resistance band glute exercise
"Placing the band around the ankles or knees when moving side-to-side can help you to target the glute muscles for maximum effect. Simple, but difficult at the same time.
"Place the band around your knees and move your knees in and out. Here, you can use your glutes to help to stabilise the back and tone your bum," says Wong.
Resistance band exercises for abs
"Single leg or double leg raises with a band around your ankles are surprisingly challenging," says Dalton. "By using the band it adds more resistance to the core: you hold your tummy while your feet are moving."
Resistance band exercises for arms
"Place the bands around the ankles and perform a push-up," says Dalton. "In this move, the triceps have to stabilise the body with the bands, and the tension engages the arm muscles."
Different types of resistance bands
You might have seen a variety of different types of resistance bands, especially if you've been watching online resistance band workouts. Harry Grosvenor , personal trainer and head coach at Virgin Active Mansion House, explains the difference between them and what each one is best for.
"There are generally three types of resistance bands: short loop, long loop and thera-bands," Harry says. "Their purpose is the same: to apply resistance to a movement, however their usage is different due to their size and shape."
"These are long strips of bands, widely used for the rehabilitation of shoulder and arm injuries. They tend to be quite low resistance but there's no reason why you can't use them for other exercises too. By standing on the middle of the band and holding each end, you can perform a number of upper body exercises such as a bicep curl, a bent over row, an upright row, or a standing tricep extension. Using the same method, you could even do some deadlift variations if the band is thick enough to apply an appropriate load. They are quite thin so are more prone to snapping than other bands, though."
Short loop bands are the ones you most commonly see fitness influencers using. "They're designed to be looped around your legs or arms and are primarily used for applying resistance," explains Harry. The increased resistance makes moves such as squats, fire hydrants and leg raises that little bit harder.
"The long-loop band is by far the most versatile band," says Harry. "They can be used in so many different ways, including all the ways mentioned above and much more. By doubling up the band you can similarly loop it around your arms or legs and by standing on it you can perform a variety of upper body exercises. You can also anchor one side of the band to your feet and the other over your neck/ shoulders allowing you to perform a number of deadlift and squat variations.
Best resistance bands
For such a basic piece of equipment, there sure are a lot of them on the market. As well as mainstream fitness brands like Gym Shark , many fitness influencers such as Ciara London (you'll see her workouts below - we have a massive girl crush), Made in Chelsea's Louise Thompson have created bands too. Like dumbbells and mini trampolines before them, resistance bands flew off the shelves when home workouts became popular, but here are a few that are still in stock.
Gym Shark medium resistance band , £15
Amazon anti-slip pink resistance band , £9.99
Amazon three-pack of resistance bands , £15.59
Three pack of mini rubber resistance bands , £4.99
Argos Women's Health set of four yoga and pilates bands , £6.99
Now that you're armed with your bands, here are some of our favourite online resistance band workouts to try at home.
Best online resistance band work outs
Ciara London's quick fire leg and glute resistance band workout
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What are your gym leggings doing for you? If the answer is bagging, chafing or giving too much away, it’s fair to say that your sportswear’s not serving you. Colossal advances in fabric technology, clothing engineering and the way we think about sportswear is fueling a sea change in what we desire and expect from our fit kit, with fitness giants such as Nike paving the way for performance led pieces that pass muster from a sartorial point of view too.
One such area that in which Nike is blazing a trail is cutting edge textile development to not only enhance your sporting ability and general comfort, but regulate your temperature too. With temperamental British summer weather in mind (baking one minute, blowing a gale the next), we feel that this is an especially considerate design move. A top with the potential to both keep us warm and let some air in when clouds roll over is on a par with an invisibility cloak in terms of magical apparel inventions.
So what’s the deal with this fresh new fitness wear, and what can it do for you? Short of filing your tax return and taking the bins out, quite a lot as it turns out. Here’s how Nike’s Modern Craft summer edit can revolutionise your workouts this summer…
It’s got style and substance in the bag
Coveting this season’s bomber jacket? Go for a bomber with bells on to fulfil both form and function credentials. Tech HyperMesh Bomber , £79.99, reinvents a classic, injecting it with breathability and ventilation around your body’s ‘hot spots’ by way of an innovative mesh fabric. Put another way, back, armpits and chest stay cool, but chill around the arms and tummy is held at bay thanks to smart fabric layering. You’ll be not too hot, not too cold, but ‘just right’, which is pretty much miraculous in Blighty’s current climes.
It knows where you sweat
Sounds gross and intrusive, but mapping the body’s ‘high heat zones’ is incredibly shrewd. Hypermesh does just that, fusing sports science, painstaking design and flattering cuts to offer the perfect balance of breathability and warmth. If you’re a leggings fan, Bonded Mesh Leggings , £50, combine light jersey and wraparound mesh to help you to stay cool during workouts or when running around town, while Bonded Shorts , £35, will not only give your legs an airing but actually channel airflow around the hem, making runs refreshing rather than cumbersome. Basically, mesh is fresh.
It gives you room for manoeuvre
I always find it somewhat ironic that even expensive fitness wear can end up being more restrictive than conducive to PBs and such doing workouts. None of us relish the idea of pushing our limits in a skin tight bodysuit, and thankfully the likes of artfully dropped, vented hems, roomy armholes, loose draping, soft textures and smooth jersey waistbands put paid to awkward gym feels, physically and mentally. For the ultimate in easy breezy workout wear, throw on the Bonded T-Shirt , £31.99. Ergonomic seams move as you do (no rubbing to speak of), blocked jersey and mesh sleeves allow air to circulate, silky fabric provides a luxe level of comfort and an adjustable cord at the front lets you hang loose or define your waist, depending on your activity and mood. It also wouldn’t look out of place somewhere chic post-training.
It’s knit, but not as you know it
Knitwear for summer workouts? In our unpredictable climate, it’s often a necessity, but all the better if it’s lightweight to allow for fluctuating internal and external temperatures. Enter Tech Knit, a fabric that’s 3D engineered for warmth where you want it, and not where you don’t. Tech Knit Crew , £110, remixes the long sleeved crew for warmer weather, with soft, heat conserving arms and a ventilated upper chest and back. Sleeves are raglan style, so move with you rather than constricting you, and a longer back hem provides coverage, so that your top doesn’t ride up. So simple, but also gamechanging.
It gives rain the runaround
The Notebook style downpours have a remarkable knack of starting just as you lace your trainers up. An anorak won’t help you (it will become a sweat tent in a matter of minutes), but a light, versatile layer will help to shield you from the worst of the elements without dragging you down. Hypermesh Gilet , £66.49, is not only directional from a fashion perspective, but strategically placed mesh panels provide ventilation in key areas, while a two way zip allows you to tailor coverage to your needs. Crucially, there’s also a hood.
It makes fleece cool
I promise you, and in every sense of the word. Tech Fleece Mesh Shorts , £27.99, are cloudlike in their softness and fit, warm without being oppressive and can be styled out from sprint to street, as they’re sleek rather than revealing. Sleek fleece is something I never thought I’d say.
It will keep your feet healthy
Summertime is peak pedicure outing season, but hot, red and sweaty feet aren’t what we had in mind. Air Max 90 Ultra Breathe shoes , £76.99, come complete with an antibacterial sock liner, because athlete’s foot ain’t fun, along with a mesh upper to cool feet down during wear. Crafty cushioning and grooving is designed to make them feel nigh on weightless during workouts, and a pair in simple back or crisp white will likely go down well in the office too. Given that 52% of Brits wear activewear day to day according to Mintel, you’re unlikely to be the only one wearing kicks in the boardroom.
This feature was written in partnership with Nike
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DeBary Freedom Fest Draws thousands to Gemini Park
DEBARY, Fla. - DeBary, Florida held its annual Freedom Fest in the heart of Gemini Park to celebrate the Fourth of July. The spectacular festival drew thousands of people for its highly anticipated fireworks show.
For those wanting the best spot for the show, they showed up right when the gates opened to reserve their spot in the grass.
"We do it because so many people come out here because it’s one of the best displays ever every year. It wows me. I love it," said Marcia Kendrick.
Although some even believe the light show is the real main event.
"The laser show," said the young Kylee Deluca. "Seeing all the cool lights when it gets dark."
Freedom Fest 2022 was highlighted by numerous vendors, food trucks, and music echoing through the park. For some like Jake Fauls, this year’s event was the first for his new business Foodie à la carte.
"It can be challenging at times but in the long run, it’s worth every dollar and every face I see and every person I meet. It’s actually a very awesome experience," said Fauls.
Beyond the kettle corn and snow cones was the "Kid Zone". The fun-filled area had over 120 volunteers from Grace Baptist Church providing patriotic games and a little history lesson.
"We’ve got the Boston Tea Party where the kids get to go on a boat and throw the teabags. The Daniel Boone shooting range where they are shooting bows and arrows. Kid-friendly bows and arrows and lots of other things," said Pastor Jacob Samples.
The fun festivities weren’t limited to the kids.
"It’s so fun. I like the corn hole. We are about to do [Johnny Appleseed Toss] too," said Angela Pedraze.
At the end of the night, no matter your age or where you are from, fireworks always find a way to bring us together.
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Flight cancellations slowing as Fourth of July weekend ends
DALLAS (AP) - Travelers flying home from July Fourth getaways faced flight delays Monday, but airlines were canceling fewer flights than in the days leading up to the holiday weekend.
Airlines had canceled more than 2,200 U.S. flights, and another 23,000 were delayed, since holiday weekend travel picked up on Thursday.
Airports were packed.
More than 9 million flyers flocked to U.S. airports between Thursday and Sunday, peaking at 2.49 million, a pandemic-era record, on Friday, according to figures from the Transportation Security Administration.
By early Monday afternoon on the East Coast, more than 1,300 U.S. flights had been delayed and nearly 200 canceled, according to FlightAware.
The good news: Those numbers were down sharply from recent days.
Flying during the peak vacation season has always been challenging. Big crowds and summer thunderstorms can quickly overwhelm an airline's operations. That has been compounded this summer by shortages of pilots and other workers.
"It's not just in North America, it's everywhere," said John Grant, an analyst for OAG, a travel-date provider based in the United Kingdom. "It's a combination of available resources and demand picking up much more quickly than anyone anticipated."
Grant said labor shortages in Europe and North America have affected airlines, their suppliers including caterers and aircraft fuelers, airports and air traffic controllers. He sees no reason to think the situation will improve anytime this summer.
In the U.S., the rate of cancellations over the last two weeks is up 59% from the same period in 2019, before the pandemic, likely due to a combination of weather, staffing shortages and air-traffic issues.
However, the rate of delayed flights is only slightly worse than it was in the last summer before the pandemic — 19.7% then, 21.5% now, according to FlightAware numbers.
While some of the disruption was due to bad weather, especially along the East Coast for part of the weekend, airlines also made unforced errors.
American Airlines accidentally dropped pilot assignments for thousands of flights in July because of a glitch in its scheduling program. A spokesman for the airline said Monday that the problem had been fixed and crew assignments had been restored for "the vast majority" of flights. He said the issue had no effect on July Fourth travel.
Ed Sicher, the new president of the union representing American's pilots, said the airline had disregarded their contract by unilaterally reassigning pilots to about 80% of the affected flights.
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Highland Park 4th of July shooting person of interest: Who is Robert Crimo?
CHICAGO - A gunman on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago on Monday, killing at least six people, wounding at least 30 and sending hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles fleeing in terror, police said.
Highland Park Police Chief Lou Jogmen said a police officer pulled over 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III about five miles north of the shooting scene, several hours after police released the man's photo and an image of his silver Honda Fit, and warned the public that he was likely armed and dangerous.
Police declined to immediately identify Crimo as a suspect but said identifying him as a person of interest, sharing his name and other information publicly was a serious step.
FBI released photo of Robert E. Crimo, III and a photo of his car and license plate. (FBI)
The July 4 shooting was just the latest to shatter the rituals of American life. Schools, churches, grocery stores and now community parades have all become killing grounds in recent months. This time, the bloodshed came as the nation tried to find cause to celebrate its founding and the bonds that still hold it together.
"It is devastating that a celebration of America was ripped apart by our uniquely American plague," Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a news conference.
"I’m furious because it does not have to be this way... while we celebrate the Fourth of July just once a year, mass shootings have become a weekly — yes, weekly — American tradition."
HIGHLAND PARK, IL - JULY 04: First responders work the scene of a shooting at a Fourth of July parade on July 4, 2022 in Highland Park, Illinois. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)
Illinois parade shooting suspect: Everything we know
An FBI wanted poster describes Robert E. Crimo III as a thin White male with brown eyes and neck-length brown hair, weighing 120 pounds. The poster also describes his tattoos: "four tally marks with a line through them on his right cheek, red roses and green leaves on his neck, and cursive script above his left eyebrow."
The poster describes him as "armed and dangerous."
Crimo is also known as "Awake the Rapper."
According to his IMDB page, Crimo is a "six foot Hip hop phenom" born on Sept. 20, 2000. "He's the middle child of three and of Italian descent."
Crimo began uploading his music to the internet at age 11, but first gained traction with his 2016 track "By The Pond" featuring Atlas, according to IMDB. His estimated net worth is "$100 thousand."
Crimo is the son of Bob Crimo, president at Bob's Pantry & Deli in Highland Park. According to his Facebook account, the father ran for Highland Park mayor in 2020.
The rapper released a cryptic track called "Are You Awake" on Oct. 15, 2021. The track appears to suggest that Crimo was planning a life-defining act beyond his ability to stop. The video includes drawings of a man aiming a rifle at another person.
A brief timeline of the shooting
The shooting occurred at a spot on the parade route where many residents had staked out prime viewing points early in the day for the annual celebration. Dozens of fired bullets sent hundreds of parade-goers — some visibly bloodied — fleeing. They left a trail of abandoned items that showed everyday life suddenly, violently disrupted: A half-eaten bag of potato chips; a box of chocolate cookies spilled onto the grass; a child’s Chicago Cubs cap.
"There’s no safe place," said Highland Park resident Barbara Harte, 73, who had stayed away from the parade fearing a mass shooting, but later ventured from her home.
Highland Park Police Chief Lou Jogmen said a police officer pulled over 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III about five miles north of the shooting scene, several hours after police released the man's photo and an image of his silver Honda Fit, and warned the public that he was likely armed and dangerous.
Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli said at a news conference "several of the deceased victims" died at the scene and one was taken to a hospital and died there. Police have not released details about the victims or wounded.
Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said the five people killed at the parade were adults, but didn’t have information on the sixth victim who was taken to a hospital and died there. One of those killed was a Mexican national, Roberto Velasco, Mexico’s director for North American affairs, said on Twitter Monday. He said two other Mexicans were wounded.
NorthShore University Health Center received 26 patients after the attack. All but one had gunshot wounds, said Dr. Brigham Temple, medical director of emergency preparedness. Their ages ranged from 8 to 85, and Temple estimated that four or five patients were children.
Temple said 19 of them were treated and discharged. Others were transferred to other hospitals, while two patients, in stable condition, remained at the Highland Park hospital.
The shooter opened fire around 10:15 a.m., when the parade was about three-quarters through, authorities said.
Highland Park Police Commander Chris O’Neill, the incident commander on scene, said the gunman apparently used a "high-powered rifle" to fire from a spot atop a commercial building where he was "very difficult to see." He said the rifle was recovered at the scene. Police also found a ladder attached to the building.
"Very random, very intentional and a very sad day," Covelli said.
More than a dozen police officers on Monday evening surrounded a home listed as an address for Crimo in Highland Park. Some officers held rifles as they fixed their eyes on the home. A large armored truck, marked "Police Rescue Vehicle," occupied the middle of the road near the residence. Police blockaded roads leading to the home in a tree-lined neighborhood near a golf course, allowing only select law enforcement cars through a tight outer perimeter.
Highland Park is a close-knit community of about 30,000 people located on the shores of Lake Michigan just north of Chicago, with mansions and sprawling lakeside estates that have long drawn the rich and sometimes famous, including NBA legend Michael Jordan, who lived in the city for years when he played for the Chicago Bulls. John Hughes filmed parts of several movies in the city, including "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off," "Sixteen Candles" and "Weird Science."
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Dr Zoe Harcombe isn’t exactly known for sitting on the fence. The nutrition expert, researcher and author has a PhD in public health nutrition and a special interest in obesity, and she’s particularly eminent when it comes to debunking fake health news and going under the hood of sensationalist dietary headlines. Her latest book, The Diet Fix , condenses her 20 years of nutritional analysis and research to dissect the diet lies you’ve been told, explore why conventional diets don’t work and present a ten-step plan to help you to maintain a healthy weight without feeling hungry, deprived or stuck in the familiar yo-yo weight gain and loss cycle. Zoe not only has the academic know-how to back up her approach, but she’s also been there and done that where dieting and disordered eating is concerned.
It’s fair to say that Dr Zoe Harcombe PhD doesn’t always toe the official line where dietary guidelines are concerned. Here are the nutrition beliefs she’d like to bust (they will surprise you)
A former calorie counter and serial dieter, at one point Zoe existed almost solely on apples and cups of black coffee, aiming for a 400 calorie daily intake before entering into a period of bingeing and subsequently resuming starvation again. She describes her late teens as “the worst period of my life” due to her eating disorder, but has now been in recovery for over 20 years and “enjoys food in ways that I could never have imagined”. Her turning point came when she got real about the fact that punishing herself with food wasn’t working from either a weight loss or general wellbeing perspective:
“I realised I couldn’t carry on when I sat back and reflected that, after ten years of trying to eat less in order to lose weight, it wasn’t working and it never had. I stopped attempting to lose weight and prioritised my health instead - I shifted my view to seeing food as a friend and appreciating it for the nutrients and energy it gave me rather than the weight loss it could facilitate. I recognised that food was there to nourish me, help to give me great skin and hair and allow me to do the things I love in life. I concentrated on breaking my “addiction” and quitting my constant cravings, removing weight loss as my “goal”. As a result, I felt better and lost a bit of weight naturally anyway without it being the focus.”
As such, Zoe understands the turmoil and fear that can surround food and weight loss from both her extensive research and personal experience and is here to shed some light on some common dietary misconceptions, from why she takes issue with calorie counting to why the ‘eat less, move more’ equation doesn’t quite add up…
MYTH 1. Calorie counting is the key to weight loss
Zoe doesn’t hold much truck with this, despite calorie counting being a long established method of weight maintenance and loss since its popularisation by American physician Lulu Hunt Peters in 1918 in her book Diet and Health with Key to the Calories. Quite aside from the maths induced headache involved with constantly totting up calories (and that’s saying something given that Harcombe has an MA in maths from Cambridge University), concentrating solely on the calorific “value” of food often prevents us from appreciating its real nutritional benefit, not to mention our enjoyment of it:
“A collective obsession with calories has lead to us seeing a plate of food as a number rather than a source of nutrients. For example, if you consider the ‘bang for your buck’ when consuming 400 calories of food, technically you’d get “more” if you had processed snacks or calorie controlled snack bars, but a serving of buttery scrambled eggs with smoked salmon would deliver far more high quality protein and nutrition, even if it looks like you’re getting “less” for your calorie spend.
“Despite this, restaurants, cafés and public health organisations slap calorie counts and limits on almost everything we buy, yet the ‘calorie deficit theory’ (that you need to create a deficit of 3500 calories to lose 1lb of fat) still cannot be proven. We then end up eating ‘fake foods’ when we should instead be choosing food for the nutrients that it contains.”
It’s not just the fact that we’re missing out on valuable vitamins and minerals in a calorie trade off either according to Zoe - attempting to maintain a calorie shortfall sets most of us up for misery in the long-run:
“It’s bad enough that the calorie theory is a myth. It’s bad enough that you won’t lose the amount of weight that you expect. It’s even worse that you will lower your metabolism such that you need to continue to eat substantially less merely to avoid regain.”
Instead of deciding on a day’s food intake according to what the calculator generates, Zoe recommends shifting your view of food so that you can appreciate what it can do for you, rather than what it will ‘allow’ you. For example, “choose food because it will sustain you, strengthen your hair and skin and enhance concentration. The higher calorie plate of buttery eggs and salmon would do just this but the sugary low-cal snacks wouldn’t, and given that the fat-carb combination in many processed foods and refined sugar heavy products is so irresistible and addictive, chances are that you’d be tempted to eat more of these anyway, making the low calorie argument redundant and weight gain more likely.”
MYTH 2. Eat less and move more and you’ll automatically lose weight
Most of us seem pretty sold on this one and it seems like sensible advice on the surface, but Zoe maintains that if we don’t have enough petrol in the tank to start with, we’re unlikely to be able to maintain this rhythm from both a mental and physiological perspective:
“The first time you try this, sure it might work. The second time, however, you’ll probably notice that the results aren’t as good and the third time it might not work at all. Our body is masterful at adjusting - just like a car, you can’t put less fuel in yet expect greater output. The body will do what it can to ‘turn the heating off’ or make economies and this affects everything from your mood to your reproductive health to your weight. Basically, your body isn’t simply a cash machine for fat - it doesn’t count calories as currency or use them in the way you’d think.”
Not to mention the fact that this pattern is even harder to sustain because, as Zoe highlights, as soon as we start to eat less, we’re conversely driven to eat more as we’re hungry. Add in the ‘doing more’ part and we’ll be even hungrier. In Zoe’s view eating three essential protein and fat based meals a day, reducing our dependence on blood sugar rocketing processed carbohydrates (more on that in a moment) and building movement into your routine is far more effective for weight maintenance and loss and overall wellbeing than tipping the scales in the ‘eat less, move more’ direction.
MYTH 3. You should base meals around the EatWell guide
Zoe has somewhat controversially renamed the EatWell guide the ‘EatBadly guide’, principally owing to the fact that “it advises people to base their diet around starchy carbohydrates, yet the body can’t use carbohydrates for the body maintenance roles, such as building bone density, fighting infection or repairing muscles and cells. Those activities require fat and protein. Hence any carbohydrate that you consume needs to be used up as energy, or it will be stored as fat.” Zoe also impresses that the EatWell guide as it stands is “deficient in fat soluble vitamins such as vitamins A and E while recommending insufficient fat and protein and excess carbohydrates.”
To redress the balance, Harcombe instead suggests basing meals around ‘real food’ that you’d find in nature - think eggs, meat, fish, pulses, grains, plants, dairy products and small amounts of olive oil or coconut oil. She notes that there are no ‘essential carbohydrates’ in nature, only carb proteins and fat proteins - the only 100 per cent carbohydrate based food is sugar (sucrose), that brings no vitamins, minerals, complete proteins or essential fats to the table so should ideally be limited. Zoe’s not a ketogenic or paleo diet follower where carb dodging is concerned, but she does highlight that even ‘real food’ carbs such as oats, brown rice and baked potatoes can cause blood sugar to rise and lead to weight gain when consumed too often - in general she opts for maximum two carbohydrate inclusive meals a day with her third meal based around ‘fat protein’ such as meat, eggs and dairy rather than ‘carb protein’ found in grains, pulses and beans. Throw vegetables into the mix and you’re golden, although bear in mind that simply chasing fruit and vegetables doesn’t make for a healthy diet per se...
MYTH 4. You need to eat ‘5 a day’
Zoe’s keen to point out that you shouldn’t ditch vegetables and fruit from your diet by any means, but ‘5 a day’ is an arbitrary target devised by the food industry without any specific evidence or research behind it. It’s an achievable, easy to remember goal, but Zoe believes that fruit and vegetables shouldn’t be equated in this way as fruit contains fructose which causes blood sugar to rise, particularly when eaten in large quantities. Zoe also reckons that consuming fruit and vegetables coated in pesticides is a growing health issue so recommends that, when getting your fill of fruit and vegetables, that you opt for organic where possible and ideally shop seasonally and locally if you can as plants are likely to have more nutritional value and fewer pollutants and pesticides involved in their production. In a nutshell, Zoe describes vegetables and fruit as a “marker” of health, not a “maker” in themselves. Speaking of which...
MYTH 5. A vegan diet is healthier
From ‘veganuary’ to adopting a vegan diet for personal or ethical reasons, eating a plant-based diet is totally up to the individual, but former vegetarian Zoe began to include animal products in her diet again after extensively studying nutrition and coming to the conclusion that the healthiest foods are often animal derived and that to get all of the macro and micronutrients to enable optimal nutrition, she’d need to eat meat and fish again. She states the example of hitting the 15 mcg of vitamin D target - a small tin of oily fish would do the job but she would have needed to have eaten 39 eggs to achieve the equivalent amount as a vegetarian. She emphasises that it’s still possible to eat a healthy diet as a vegetarian or vegan but it can be tricky to get sufficient micronutrients, ‘fat protein’ and ‘complete protein’ when following a vegan diet especially:
“Supplementation could help, but supplements would need to work in the same way as the nutrients would in the body for maximum benefit and this can be hard to guarantee. Basically, if anyone tried to tell you that a vegan diet is superior from a health point of view, there’s no nutritional basis to support this.”
MYTH 6. Go to the gym and you’ll be slim
A particularly topical subject given the annual January gym membership rush, but Zoe thinks that forcing yourself onto the gym floor could potentially make things worse not better in terms of health and weight:
“Slogging it to the gym is actually more likely to make you more hungry rather than help with weight maintenance or loss initially. It’s far better for your mood, muscles, weight and wellbeing to build activity into daily life rather than punish yourself in an expensive, artificially lit gym for half an hour or so and then spend the rest of day sitting down or ‘rewarding’ yourself for your gym session by way of empty calories.
“A sedentary lifestyle is the second most significant health risk we face after smoking so incorporating as much functional activity as possible into our day is key. There are so many ways to do this - try designing your office to be as inefficient as possible so that you need to get up regularly to fetch paper from the printer or run errands. Do push-ups while you wait for the kettle to boil, walk whenever and wherever you can, carry heavy shopping and tweak your commute so that you’re getting off the bus a stop earlier or climbing the escalator on the tube. Cleaning is really effective too - washing windows and mopping floors delivers an all-body workout that’s more balanced than an isolated exercise machine. That said, where exercise is concerned, just do anything you really enjoy. Dance, walk the dog and snatch moments of movements where you can.”
MYTH 7. You’ll have “good” days and “bad” days
Zoe rejects the idea of attaching value to food, your body and yourself depending on what’s been on your plate that day:
“Look at food only as nourishment. Don’t force yourself to go to bed hungry because you’ve been “bad” - simply reflect on what’s worked and what hasn’t in the past and recognise when you were in a positive space and mindset and when things felt out of control. Taking ownership of the past and focusing on changing lifestyle habits gradually is far more useful than jumping on the latest grapefruit diet because things aren’t going as you’d imagined or you need to “punish” yourself. A healthy lifestyle doesn’t consist of extremes.”
Read more in The Diet Fix by Zoe Harcombe , £7.99 (Short Books Ltd)
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‘Join us in California’: Newsom targets GOP in Florida ad
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — - Gov. Gavin Newsom is running for reelection in California, but his latest television ad is airing in Florida.
The 30-second spot scheduled to air on Fox News starting Monday takes shots at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his policies, while drawing a contrast with California.
"Freedom, it’s under attack in your state. Republican leaders, they’re banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors," Newsom says while images of DeSantis and former President Donald Trump flash on screen.
"I urge all of you living in Florida to join the fight. Or join us in California, where we still believe in freedom — freedom of speech, freedom to choose, freedom from hate and the freedom to love," Newsom says.
Newsom has said he has no interest in running for president, but the ad is sure to stoke speculation that the 54-year-old Democrat is eyeing national office. DeSantis is a potential 2024 GOP candidate for the White House.
Newsom handily beat back a recall attempt last year and is expected to cruise to reelection in November.
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Lifeguards watch rip currents, lightning as people flock to beaches
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Volusia County lifeguards kept an eye on the heat, lightning and rip currents as massive crowds packed the beaches for Fourth of July weekend.
"Everybody’s in that Fourth of July spirit so you know it’s good," said Harold Rivera, visiting from Deltona.
Aaron Jenkins with Volusia County Beach Safety said lifeguards are being proactive and watching the waters close.
"A lot of times the lifeguards are calling you out of the water before you even get in trouble, and you're wondering why is the lifeguard calling me out, the lifeguard sees something, and they’re trying to prevent it before it comes an issue," he said.
As lifeguard shortages affect many beaches, Jenkins said they were able to pull in enough staff to handle the crowds.
"I was looking at the stats for all three days… we were sitting around anywhere from 115 to 120 – that’s all personnel – and we had close to 70 lifeguards up on the towers which is a pretty good number," he said. "That puts us right up there, if not a little more, than we had last year."
He reminds people to swim by a lifeguard and stay alert while in the water.
"It is rough now. There’s no doubt about that, but you go just a certain amount it’s perfect," said John Zino, visiting from Orlando.
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Pass 'Go' and collect $25,000: Florida Lottery debuts 5 new Monopoly themed scratch-offs
LAKE MARY, Fla. - The Florida Lottery has introduced the new MONOPOLY DOUBLER family of Scratch-Off games.
Five new MONOPOLY-themed scratch-offs are available for purchase beginning on Monday for a chance to win over $851 million in cash prizes.
Players can purchase a variety of tickets ranging from $1 to $20 with 36.6 million winning tickets available according to a press release by the Florida Lottery.
According to the Florida Lottery, players can also enter their non-winning MONOPOLY DOUBLER tickets into the MONOPOLY Doubler Bonus Play for an extra chance to win up to $25,000.
Two drawings will be held, according to the Florida Lottery, the drawings will be held between July 20 and August 3 where two players can will $25,000 each, 20 players will win $5,000 each and 75 players will win $1,000 each.
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US reports sharp drop in boating fatalities
The U.S. Coast Guard says boating deaths in the U.S. are dropping despite an increase in the popularity of the recreational activity.
Data released by the agency shows that there were 658 boating fatalities nationwide in 2021, down from the 767 deaths in 2020.
A spokesperson attributed 75 percent of the deaths to boats where operators had not received boating safety instructions.
Despite the prevalence of hazardous boating conditions caused by the weather, the agency said that most incidents happen when waters are calm, and there is good visibility.
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Alcohol is one of the leading contributing factors in deadly boating accidents and is blamed for dozens of fatalities each year.
The Coast Guard said the total number of accidents decreased 16 percent, and the number of injured victims decreased 17 percent from last year.
"We praise the work of our boating safety partners who have resolved to reduce casualties through educational outreach and enforcement," Capt. Troy Glendye, chief of the Coast Guard’s Office of Auxiliary and Boating Safety, said in a statement.
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And with the busy summer season here, the Coast Guard is reminding all boaters to take a safety course before hitting the water.
Boating experts say Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day, account for more than 30 percent of all boating related incidents and in many cases victims were not wearing a life jacket.
"A life jacket is one of the most important safety items on your boat," Glendye said. "It is critical to wear one when underway as it may be difficult to don in an emergency.
Florida is the boating capital of the world, with more than 1 million registered recreational vessels across the state.
It’s year-round boating weather provides plenty of opportunities to take advantage of more than 12,000 square miles of water.
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Regular readers will know that, when it comes to diet and exercise, I have the attention span of a gnat and the willpower of a toddler. On numerous occasions I have bored you with gushing accounts of how I have finally managed to find a regime that suits my chaotic life , age and temperament - only to find myself straight back at square one within a matter of weeks .
But the reason I've been so quiet lately is that this time it's all true. I have found The One. My fitness nirvana. The one thing that not only works - but that, far more importantly, I can actually stick to.
Truth is, exercise is like men. There's no accounting for taste. Susannah , for example, likes to run triathlons . I would rather boil my head. I have another friend who loves riding. Personally, I can't stand horses. Yoga? Alright if you don't mind other people's feet, which on the whole I very much do.
As with men, it's also important to learn from your mistakes. I may fancy myself as the sort of woman who can do 100 lengths in the fast lane of my local pool, but the only physical change I experienced from swimming was the appearance of a verruca on my foot. And sure, I would like to think of myself as a runner, but the reality is the bra has not yet been invented that can make jogging comfortable for me.
Getting it right means knowing yourself, your strengths and your limitations. It means finding something that does not require a hugely impractical lifestyle change, or relocation to California. It means finding something you can stick with through the ups and downs and daily vicissitudes of ordinary life. In short, something that can become as much a part of your daily routine as brushing your teeth or tying your shoelaces.
This has only ever happened to me once in my life, when I met David Higgins, the Pilates trainer. For years I relied on David to keep me in shape. But then my health deteriorated for a couple of years, and even that became impossible. By the time I resurfaced, he had left Ten Pilates, and it just didn't seem the same without him.
I found myself in a kind of fitness wilderness. Nothing I tried seemed to work, or it made me too tired or caused injuries. So when I first met Zana Morris of the Library Gym , I was pretty much on my last legs. I felt old, knackered and fat. I was tired, grumpy, restless and motiveless.
Not for much longer. After just 12 days on her kick-starter programme, I was transformed. Energised, slimmer, enthused and annoyingly evangelical about her programme. I wrote about it for Get The Gloss . And then, I rather assumed, I would move on and go back to my old ways - before doing it all again with someone else six months later.
But that hasn't happened. Yes, it's expensive, at over £500 a month, but I am still there, wafting back through her door every morning like a bad smell. I go four days a week, come rain or shine, sick children or work crisis. Unless I am not physically in the country, I cannot wait for my morning fix. It's like coffee: I'm not quite myself until I've done my workout.
There are several reasons for this. Firstly, it's fast. Very fast. 15 minutes, all told. I'm in and out in the time it takes some people to choose what to have for lunch.
Secondly, no two sessions are the same. The team of trainers on constant call keep a very, and I do mean very (no cheating) close eye on what I'm doing. They're forever changing weights, adding or taking away bits of the routine, tweaking here and there.
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Thirdly, results: I'm getting them. I've lost two inches on my upper arms. About four on my stomach; half an inch on my neck; even my feet have slimmed down. My clothes are getting bigger - but I'm not feeling the effort. I look healthy, and I can walk up the hill behind my friend's house in Somerset without getting out of breath. My body, which I had all but given up on, works again - and it really is one of the most exhilarating feelings in the world.
Fourthly, food. I'm still allowed to eat it, which is a great relief. And while the diet side of the package is definitely my weak spot, I enjoy the training so much I know it's not the end of the world if I accidentally give in to a glass of wine or a passing pavlova.
Friends are amazed. Not just at the difference it's made, but at my ability to stick to it. 'My god,' they exclaim when they see me, 'don't tell me you're still doing your thing!'
Several have even followed me, with similar positive results. One, who, laid low by IVF and illness, arrived there drawn and in pain is a new woman. Another, always slim but not as fit as she would have liked to be, now has small but perfectly formed biceps. Husbands have started joining in too.
There's another reason it works, too. It's not gimmicky or pretentious. It's just good, sound sports science, combined with expertise and a very large helping of charm. No one dresses up (apart from one Russian lady, but we forgive her) or shows off. People bring their dogs and children, who wait in the garden or loaf around until you're done (it's so quick, they never mind much). There is tea, coffee and - another great motivator - regular weighing and measures, just to make sure things are all going in the right direction.
I still don't have a perfect figure, and I probably never will. But Zana and her team have given me back my body, and for that I cannot thank them enough.
Zana's team work at The Library Gym in London. Membership is £550 a month.
Buy Zana Morris's book, The High Fat Diet on Amazon here
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The search for a 22-year-old man who authorities suspected of opening fire at the Highland Park Independence Day parade, killing at least six people and wounding more than two dozen others, ended Monday evening when he was taken into custody on the North Shore.
The arrest of Robert “Bobby” Crimo III came about eight hours after the mass shooting, which stunned the Chicago area and country as it celebrated the Fourth of July.
Late in the afternoon on Monday, Highland Park police Chief Lou Jogmen had identified Crimo as the person of interest, saying he was believed to be driving a 2010 silver Honda Fit.
Crimo was spotted by North Chicago police near U.S. Highway 41 and Buckley Road. The officer tried to stop Crimo, but he briefly fled before being stopped, Jogmen said.
More than 100 law enforcement agencies had helped throughout the day to search for the suspect after he opened fire from a rooftop along the parade route. The police dragnet had started with a perimeter around the core of Highland Park, gradually spreading to include police activity in nearby neighborhoods and finally other suburbs.
Crimo was described as a longtime resident of the suburb who posted online videos under the moniker “The Awake Rapper.”
An archive of 17 YouTube videos apparently belonging to Crimo alternates between wholesome and foreboding.
In one video, a teen who looks like Crimo happily skateboards and roughhouses with his pals. Another captures what appears to be a police-escorted government motorcade leaving an airport before a man who appears to be Crimo swivels the camera to his tattooed face.
A black-and-white video, taken with a selfie stick, shows a glum figure that looks like Crimo walking through a neighborhood. In another, a newspaper with a Lee Harvey Oswald headline can be seen over his shoulder.
The most chilling video is the final one in the series, uploaded eight months ago, which features footage of a young man in a bedroom and a classroom along with cartoons of a gunman and people being shot.
Superimposed on the video is a rotating image of interlocked triangles. ”I need to just do it,” a voice-over says over instrumental music. “It is my destiny. Everything has led up to this. Nothing can stop me, not even myself. Is there such a thing as free will, or has this been planned out like a cosmic recipe? It is what I’ve been waiting for in the back of my head, ready to be awakened. It’s what I was sent here to do, like a sleepwalker walking steady with my head held high, like a sleepwalker walking blindly into the night.”
Meanwhile, an investigation into the firearm used in the attack was underway after authorities announced that a rifle had been recovered at the scene.
Details about the recovered rifle were subject of an urgent, expedited trace by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Firearms trace information, in general, provides manufacturing details as well as where a firearm was shipped to for sale by a federally licensed firearms dealer.
The trace includes contacting the dealer, who must check paperwork to determine who the firearm originally was sold to. Once complete, the information will be turned over to Highland Park police, authorities said.
The Lake County Major Crime Task Force, Highland Park police and the FBI were leading the investigation, but “there are dozens of police agencies on the scene and our federal partners are deployed as well,” according to police.
The chaos began about 10:15 a.m. when the gunman, allegedly Crimo, stood on a roof and opened fire, shooting at least 30 people — at least six of them fatally, about 15 minutes into the northern suburb’s Fourth of July parade, according to police and the Lake County sheriff’s office.
Prior to Crimo’s arrest, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Chris Covelli had urged people to stay in their homes and be careful as a search got underway, with armored police vehicles descending on quiet suburban streets and law enforcement guarding the perimeter of neighborhoods with rifles.
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“No neighborhood is safe,” said Jonathan Kozera, 56, who lives around the corner from the Highland Park home that was the subject of law enforcement work. “There’s too much hate going on in this country. We should be celebrating today, not making people suffer. There’s a lot of sick people.”
Meanwhile, on a block in nearby Highwood, neighbors looked on as FBI agents massed on the driveway of a home where Crimo was thought to live.
Gio Montenegro didn’t know the suspect, but saw him ride by on his electric scooter almost every day. His brother went to school with Crimo, he said.
“He was quiet,” he said. “Never said nothing. Just minded his business, put his loud music on his scooter.”
As officers moved around the house, Crimo’s next door neighbors walked down their driveway. They knew nothing of the boy and family next door, they said.
Later in the day, police in Chicago advanced on a house on West Taylor Street apparently linked to a Crimo relative. They were still there with streets closed in the area when Crimo was arrested on the North Shore.
Tribune reporters Jeremy Gorner and John Keilman contributed.
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It may sound a little crazy but the winter months (and even Christmas) are but a stone's throw away, and we all know what that means - hibernating indoors and loading up on comfort food. Good for the soul, bad for the body.
So, knowing full well how difficult it is to train outdoors in the cold, dark and dreary weather, here at GTG we've been getting our sweat on testing out the latest and greatest fitness DVDs so that you can trim and tone from the comfort of your own home.
Davina Intense
Price: £7.00
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Feedback: “I know what you’re thinking - eugh, not another cheesy celeb workout DVD. However, TV presenter-turned-fitness fanatic (evident by her rock hard physique) Davina McCall’s version is the absolute real deal. Presenting three effective, fun and down right knackering routines, Davina focuses on high intensity workouts designed to be done in short, energetic boosts that are ideal for fitness, toning and fat-burning. A great option either for when you’ve only got time to squeeze in a 15 minute session of even for those days you just can’t face leaving the house to make that spin class.”
Was it worth the money?
Absolutely - I felt as tired as, if not more than when I take part in an exercise class at the gym!
Would you recommend this to a friend?
Most definitely.
Score: 10/10
10 Minute Solution - Rapid Results Pilates
Price: £9.89
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Feedback: “I’ve been using this DVD on and off for about 2 years and would highly recommend it to those of you who aren’t gym bunnies - the difference I’ve seen in the toning of my stomach has been incredible.
"This DVD is split into five 10 minute slots, allowing you to do the whole sequence or mix and match depending on your needs or time! Alongside yoga I’ve been doing this routine around 3-5 times a week and even over the space of 2 weeks, you’re able to see and feel your stomach, arms and legs becoming tighter and stronger."
Was it worth the money?
Much cheaper than going to the gym and with quicker, more effective results.
Would you recommend this to a friend?
Yes.
Score: 9/10
Insanity: The Ultimate Cardio Workout and Fitness DVD Programme
Price: £105.95
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Feedback: “This is without a doubt the best workout I’ve ever done. It’s super hard work but I’ve found the results really are worth it. With only a small space needed, Shaun T (the hunky, bulky trainer) takes you through a series of really high intensity training programmes that in the first three weeks are 35-45 minutes long with 30 minutes recovery and 50-60 minutes long in the last 3-4 weeks. There were definitely days in the beginning where I physically couldn’t last past the first 5 minutes, but if you stick with it for a couple of times a week the gains of fitness and body toning are big and fast.
"Unlike other DVDs where instructors appear unfazed and perfectly calm about the workouts their doing, with Insanity, you can visibly see how tired the trainers are by the rivers of sweat pouring off their faces and when they’re forced to stop and catch their breath - in a strange way it makes the whole workout seem much more relatable and realistic - as if you really are taking part in a group class. Not to mention it also makes you feel less of a pathetic partaker when you’re spluttering in the background. It’s also refreshing to see that the women fitness instructors on screen all have strong, toned bodies - no stick insects here."
Was it worth the money?
Every single penny - my fitness skyrocketed even after a couple of weeks and I’m sure I’m starting to spy the beginnings of some abs on my tummy (but I don’t want to jinx it).
Would you recommend this to a friend?
Yes - I would recommend this to anyone and everyone. I really can’t praise it enough.
Score: 10/10
Jillian Michael Yoga Meltdown
Price: £9.72
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Feedback: “Having only ever tried one fitness DVD before and falling off the wagon pretty quickly, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this one - especially having heard a friend raving about it in the past: “Absolutely amazing! The downside? It’s the toughest workout ever!"
"Jillian starts by explaining that various exercises would be demonstrated for various fitness levels, and that beginners should follow the lady on her right (needless to say, I was soon very thankful for the lady on the right). This made the routine a lot easier to follow if, like me, you are new to yoga and (let’s face it) pretty new to fitness DVDs. It also allows for another element for when you feel ready to step it up a notch as the first segment can be watched again with a different routine followed.
"The DVD contains two complete 30-minute workouts, Level 1 and Level 2, with a warm-up and a cooldown. It was hard - and by the end I was definitely feeling the burn - but the instructions and exercises were easy to follow and 30 minutes was the perfect amount of time for each routine.”
Was it worth the money?
For under £10 I would say that yes, it is definitely worth the money. You get an hour of routines along with warm-ups and cooldowns, and the DVD includes variations for different levels of ability.
Would you recommend this to a friend?
Definitely - it was fun to do and a great workout that wasn’t too time consuming!”
Score: 9/10
Tracy Anderson Method: The Mat Workout
Price: £6.38
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Feedback: "Tracy Anderson is the renowned personal trainer responsible for the taut, toned bodies of the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Shakira. Very much focused on targeting common problem areas to create a longer, leaner body, Tracy's entire method is based on re-engineering your muscular structure to get the body you want.
"The workout itself is ideal for beginners and focuses on toning without 'bulking.' While the exercises don't feel too repetitive, as Tracy constantly changes angles, she doesn't offer a great deal of narration about the moves and how to maintain proper form. In addition, the ab section in particular involves a lot of movements which are more akin to what I can only describe as 'drunk dancing' and, quite frankly, it's highly amusing. Once you're over the initial giggles though, it's easy to get into the swing of things."Tracy states for best results the workout should be done 4-6 times per week. In light of the fact that this isn't a cardio DVD (that needs to be bought separately) this mat workout, plus doing additional cardio workouts is quite an ambitious goal for the time-poor. I would ideally have liked the toning exercises and cardio combined in one workout."
Was it worth the money?
Yes, Tracy clearly knows how to achieve superb results and the exercises have obviously been constructed carefully.
Would you recommend this to a friend?
Yes, if they had time to fit it in to their schedule.
Score: 6/10
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As world champions will attest, a winning performance is the sum of many parts. Training is obviously paramount, but as, if not more, important is a motivating support network, truckload of self-belief and high-spec, cutting edge kit. When margins are tight, the tiniest of tweaks can make the world of difference, be that to your mental state, physical technique or sportswear of choice. Moments of glory can be few and far between, so making the most of the occasion and opportunity is vital, not to mention seriously rewarding.
Not every workout, drill or challenge you set out on is going to be your PB - there are stressy office days, botched commutes and mental blocks to hurdle over. Yet, as with the pros, motivation and progress can emerge from many sources, and workout wear that serves your needs, desires and natural inclinations is one of them. According to Mintel, sales of sportswear will soar to £7 billion in the UK this year, following the upward curve in our fitness habits (over 53% of us take part in sport at least once a week). Given that 16% of us train five times a week or more, a stat that shoots up to 28% in the 16-24 age group, it’s clear that we require kit that can not only keep up, but actively improve our poise, power and speed. Enter the limited edition Nike Free Connect Gold. It’s not accented with gold for nothing.
You may think that the shoe itself looks a bit different, space age even. As futuristic as it appears, the design is actually anchored in ancient tradition, inspired by the stability of the Roman sandal. Added to this solid sporting heritage are innovative elements such as a flexible, dynamic upper, that works with you and never against you, formed of a single piece of mesh that ensures breathability, no matter how tough your interval sessions get. A reactive outsole expands and contracts with every movement that you make, while the lace-free, slip on design hugs the unique shape of your feet and makes it that bit easier to slip into a workout, no matter how you go about it (although the Nike Free Connect Gold adapts beautifully to cardio, circuits and group fitness classes).
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As gear goes, this is possibly as well thought out and creative as it gets, but then that just reflects the athletes that they’re intended for, be they world leaders or ‘once-a-weekers’. Unconventional, definitely, but then playing safe doesn’t necessarily ‘win’. Setting yourself apart, driving forward and keeping others, and indeed your own body, guessing is what gives you an edge and gets results. As Track and Field multiple medal winner Ashton Eaton emphasises, in sport, as in life, going against the grain can pay off, big time:
“Some of the techniques haven't changed for hundreds of years. What if we played around a little bit more? To do something that's never been done, you have to do something that's never been done.”
Evolving ideas and mentalities, along with our actual workouts, helps to build strength, resilience, and most key of all, confidence. You never know what’s holding you back until you change the game, so whether it’s planning fitness sessions in advance, trying something unfamiliar, getting a sports massage or splashing out on more streamlined, slip-on kit, variation, and investing in your goals, is a huge motivator, not to mention a cue for physical change. The summer sporting calendar provides a huge source of inspiration of course, but the legacy of getting involved now can carry over until winter and beyond. Keep in mind that you can start small, as Nike Elevated NTC Trainer and Psycle instructor extraordinaire Tameka Small emphasises:
“Setting mini goals along the way is a great strategy for staying motivated, and don't forget to celebrate your successes and wins along the way too. You'll be surprised what a boost you can get by just acknowledging something that you achieved or improved on, no matter big or small.”
“Obviously we’ll not all get to professional level, but what we do to improve our fitness, minds and bodies should always be celebrated and recognised, even if it's by ourselves. Striving for our best version of ourselves will always be our gold!”
So how do you seize a little bit of that elusive fitness goldust, the stuff that galvanises us to keep going through pain, pressure and relentless opposition? First off, Tameka advises training in a pack, as the experts do, and using the group energy as a force for good:
“Our greatest competitors are usually ourselves, but sometimes training with friends can create a nice buzz and add an element of accountability. If you know you're more likely to go for that early morning run if you set the date with friends, then set that date and help yourself by helping your friends.”
As for finding something that really lights you up, that propels you to slip on your shoes and get going without a second thought, Tameka encourages you to take some time to find your niche:
“For me, the African-Brazilian martial art capoeira is what set my fitness on fire. In terms of its combination of skill, strength, rhythm and complete variety of movement when playing a game, training for it works so many energy systems and muscle groups, it's hard to find anything like it.”
“To fall in love with fitness, start with something you enjoy, something that gives you that feelgood factor, whether you go hard in a session or not. It's more than just the physical side of training, it's also the family and team of positive people that you are surrounded by and the feel of the place in which you train that you fall in love with.”
Tameka’s golden rule for ensuring a successful outcome to a fitness session has nothing to do with the physical, and everything to do with your headspace, as is the case with athletes on the starting line:
“I always suggest taking a moment before a session just to fully be there. Most of the time we expect to completely crush a workout while we are still annoyed about how packed the trains were on the way, or we half a mind still worrying about work. When it's time to train, train. Keep it simple. Put your full focus and energy into doing your best for that day and that time.”
Mindfulness it where it’s at, but what you wear isn’t trivial either. After all, Michael Jordan ran in golden shoes. Just saying…
The Nike Free Connect Gold is available for a limited time only during this summer’s sporting calendar- buy online at Nike.com , £85
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Deciding that it was finally time to trade in our Twix bars for trainers, Kiran Branch (Health and Beauty Editor) and Hanna Ibraheem (Community Co-ordinator) and I agreed to take part in Sure Run To The Beat - a 10k race around Wembley park on September 14th. No ordinary 10k race, Sure Run To The Beat is based upon the importance of music in exercise and includes DJ sets playing all around the course, whilst a headline act waits to lead a celebratory party at the finish line. More importantly though, all the money raised for the event goes towards funding life-saving research into blood cancers, specifically Leukaemia and Lymphoma research - an extremely worthwhile cause.
Three members of the Glossy Posse have embarked upon an almighty fitness journey to complete a 10k run, and it's not all plain sailing
Unfortunately, to say that we three are inexperienced in exercise is an understatement of epic proportions. Recently, after waking up late for work I was clambering around my bedroom throwing clothes on, and I got a stitch - yes, a stitch from dressing myself. The finish line was looking very, very far off.
So, filled with enough trepidation and self-doubt to sink a small ship, we set off for our first meeting with our Fitness First personal trainer, Andy McTaggart (we’ve taken to calling him Handy Andy which I’m pretty sure he finds fairly irritating) to discuss our workout plan.
“Ideally I’d advise beginners to train for about twelve weeks when working up to running a 10k," Andy informs us, shortly after we establish we have around six - well, five given that we’re not allowed to train in the week before the race, as otherwise “you’ll run the risk of wearing yourselves out.” So that’s five, just five measly weeks to breathe some life into our limp and feeble bodies - but hey, what’s a challenge without a disastrously close deadline?
Before embarking upon our exercise journey though, Andy had a few horrifying demands up his sleeve - a weekly food diary, so that he could monitor our nutrition intake and an appointment for him to collect our weight, height and *gulp* body fat percentage. In theory, being shamed into improving our diet along with tracking the changes to our bodies was a good thing, but having to actually step onto those scales and then confess to devouring not two but three Mars bars wasn’t cool.
Week 1
In the first week of training the aim was to get our bodies moving but not to go too hard - it was about regular workouts, not ruthless ones. We were tasked with completing three half-hour interval runs based on a run-walk principle whereby, over the next few weeks, we will gradually increase the time spent running and limit the time spent walking. For our first ever run, the machines were ‘coincidentally’ placed by a window overlooking a sunny pub garden filled with beer drinkers and chip scoffers - a test of our commitment and mental endurance I’m sure. By some miracle however, we managed to cover 3k - not bad for a bunch of sissies.
In addition to running, we were also under strict instructions to complete a yoga or Pilates session each week to help stretch out our never before used muscles and mentally ‘wind down’. I’m not so sure about the downward dog or halasana move, but when called upon to adopt the corpse position, we really came into our own.
Week 2
We switched things up in week two by swapping in a cycle session in place of one of the runs so that we kept up the level of cardio, but gave our joints a breather. The runs were slightly lengthened too. Two minutes of running became three and we started increasing our speed levels after noticing that 7.0 on a treadmill was actually more of a quick march and that even the borderline obese man alongside was smoking us at a speed of 11.
Our new found cockiness was shortly outlived, however. Early on in the week Hanna suffered an allergic reaction to something which, after having calmed down, reared its ugly head again after a gruelling 70 minute workout in the gym - we concluded that she’s in fact allergic to exercise and are concerned that it may be highly contagious... (official conclusion still to come).
We skipped our compulsory yoga session (whoops) for an early morning HIIT class with Handy Andy himself. I’ll admit, I turned up thinking ‘how tough can a half hour class be?’ Extremely is the answer. It’s now been nearly a week and I’m only just regaining the feeling in my thighs and walking less like a constipated turkey. The lesson here? Never underestimate the power of an intense HIIT class, and burpees are the work of the devil.
So, we managed to complete our first two weeks of training without anybody crying (publicly), projectile vomiting or dying - largely it all went much better than expected. Join us in two weeks' time when we'll let you know how we've improved...
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Stressed? You’re not alone. Called 'the health epidemic of the 21st century' by the World Health Organisation, experts believe it can contribute to life-threatening diseases such as diabetes, dementia and types of cancer, costing the economy billions of pounds. Why as a nation are we more stressed than ever and are there ways to tackle it? These were the questions posed by host Fiona Phillips in BBC One’s The Truth About Stress. From the latest scientific research to how it affects body and mind, how to use stress as a weapon to changing the way we perceive it, the show provided a valuable insight into its many manifestations, its origins and various treatments. Revealing that millions of us feel close to breaking point, it couldn’t have aired soon enough. Here are the key truths uncovered by the series’ latest instalment.
1. Acute stress can protect us
Known as our bodies’ fight or flight response, acute (i.e. short-term) stress is our primal emergency reaction. In fact, it was relied upon by cavemen back in the day as their vital survival mechanism for avoiding being eaten by predators. Short, sharp and intense, symptoms include a higher heart rate, rising body temperature and increased breathing rate - all demonstrated when three volunteers in the show were exposed to animal stressors (namely tarantulas and snakes - BLEURGH).
How does it work? When we sense danger, our brain’s fear centre (known as the amygdala) sends a distress message to its control centre (the hypothalamus), which alerts the adrenal glands to release stress hormones into the bloodstream. The heart beats faster to send more blood to our muscles and our breathing increases for the benefit of our brain to sharpen our senses. Sounds like a lot of stages, but it’s actually incredibly quick, so quick in fact that before the brain even sees the threat, the body is primed and ready to either fight or run away. While we no longer have to contend with crossing paths with the occasional wild animal in the modern world, there are a host of new triggers we now have to deal with which, although aren’t life-threatening, can incite the same stress response.
2. Too much stress causes us to lose control
Ever suffered from a brain freeze in a high stress moment? It could be because of a battle of the voluntary and involuntary. When asked some quick-fire mental arithmetic questions, Fiona Phillips experienced this first-hand, finding herself unable to answer questions she normally would have been able to in a less pressured situation. Too much stress can cause the rational part of our brain to get hijacked by the primal part and our ability to think clearly becomes clouded by our emotional response. As a result, we lose control and therefore feel unable to complete tasks that in other situations, we’d be more than able to do with ease.
3. You can train your brain to see stress differently
This was a particularly interesting point as it addressed the very thing that many people find causes stress in the first place - a lack of control. According to Professor Ian Robertson, Neuroscientist and author of The Stress Test, we can change our perception of a threat from a negative to a positive. He pointed out that the bodily symptoms associated with fear, anger and anxiety (a dry mouth, beating heart, twisting stomach and sweaty palms) are also the same for excitement. By adopting a head up, confident posture and saying to yourself “I feel excited,” it is possible to train your brain to create another emotion. The difference is all in the mind.
The thinking centres around the hormone noradrenaline, released by the brain when we feel anxious or excited. It’s sensitive to the amount of carbon dioxide in the blood and so it can be regulated by taking a few small breaths. By almost tricking your brain into thinking it’s excited instead of nervous while also adopting a physical stance that allows for deeper breaths, you’re able to encourage optimal production of the hormone, tap into the energy of a stressful situation and take back control.
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4. You can use stress to increase physical performance
Following a lengthy lay-off due to injury, middle-distance athlete Ellie Stephens found stress hindered her performance to a distressing degree upon her return. However, it improved dramatically after a couple of months after working with Sports Psychologist Tom Bates to see stress in a more positive light. “We can’t exceed our own self-image and the way we see ourselves becomes our reality,” commented Tom, meaning that if we expect to be stressed by work or by daily triggers, then we’re certain to live out our expectations. According to Tom, top athletes don’t perform as well in the absence of stress and have learned ways to see it as a sign that their bodies are getting ready to perform at their best when they need them to the most. As he put it, “Mindset defines performance,” and those skills can be used to gold-medal winning effect.
MORE GLOSS: Could stress be sabotaging your health, hair and skin?
5. Acute stress can help you lose weight
The theory centres around the concept of brown fat according to Professor Michael Simons from the University of Nottingham’s School of Medicine. “What’s brown fat?” we hear you ask? Good question. Brown fat stores are switched on when we’re first born and they have a unique capacity to produce large amounts of heat (with 1g producing 300 times more than 1g of muscle of 1g of white fat). When we’re physically stressed, it becomes activated and burns calories. On the show, this was demonstrated by volunteers who were asked to jump into a lake of cold water and then swim for 10 minutes. Professor Simons is currently researching ways to switch on brown fat in less extreme ways (thankfully), the results of which could be particularly useful in helping those with diabetes and obesity manage their weight.
6. Chronic stress is the real danger
While acute stress can have its benefits, a state of permanent stress can give rise to chronic stress and here is where the real danger lies. An overproduction of cortisol affects blood sugar levels as the body seeks to create more energy. Long-term, this can have serious effects on our health, causing a weakening of the immune system, a greater vulnerability to disease and a rise in blood pressure (which can lead to heart disease). From a mental health perspective, it can also lead to an increased risk of developing anxiety and depression.
The consequences also extend to our DNA, or more specifically, our telomeres - the parts of our chromosomes that protect their ends and prevent ‘drippage’ of the important information contained within them. According to Professor Thomas von Zglinicki, Professor of Cellular Gerontology, chronic stress can damage them and reduce their length. However, through eating well, exercising and making suitable lifestyle changes, you can reduce the risk of this happening.
7. Stress can affect your sense of taste
Stress, comfort eating and cravings unfortunately come as a package deal. The reason? Our emotions actually affect our sense of taste. According to studies by Professor Robin Dando of Cornell University, we find foods taste less sweet when we’re stressed. In fact, they can taste sour - a finding reflected by an experiment involving the losing and winning sides of a football match and an order of lemon curd donuts. Coinciding with large scale studies he’s also done in the US, the thinking is that because moderately sweet foods no longer taste the same, we are more likely to go for something more intensely sweet (and unhealthier) as a result to get our fix.
8. Certain foods can reduce your stress response
Thankfully though, there are foods that can help both satisfy our comfort food cravings and reduce our stress response. The key is keeping our energy and blood sugar levels stable, because if they dip or rise, we can feel more anxious as a result. Nutritionist Christine Bailey’s top picks? Fruit-wise, blueberries due to the fact that they’re high in vitamin C and antioxidants while also being not being so sweet as to upset our blood sugar levels. She also highlighted pumpkin seeds, almonds and walnuts as good sources of protein, important for stabilising blood sugar levels. Walnuts also have the additional benefit of being rich in omega 3 good fats (good for lifting mood if you’re feeling anxious) and are great sources of magnesium, effective in creating feelings of calm.
Other stress-reducers include oranges and berries due to their vitamin C content and their positive effect on the immune system, as well as plenty of water due to the fact that dehydration puts the body under more stress and triggers the production of cortisol.
Things to avoid? Mainly coffee, which can cause you to feel more stressed and lead to sleeplessness and an elevated heart rate. Instead, Christine recommends swapping your morning latte for a cup of green tea. High in L-theanine, an amino acid, research shows that it helps improve concentration and focus and instils a feeling of calm. Other no-nos? Skipping breakfast, as studies show that if you do, cortisol levels will rise and as a result, cause your blood sugar levels to increase too.
MORE GLOSS: Are you getting enough magnesium?
9. Exercise makes a huge difference
Exercise was highlighted as a key way to lower stress levels. However, it needn’t cost you a gym membership each month. Testers were found to experience noticeable health benefits by simply incorporating activities such as walking more briskly, steps, stretches and laps in the park and skipping rope for five minutes a day, all of which release feel-good hormones and endorphins to counteract negative feelings and anxiety.
10. Mindfulness works
Although skeptical at first, host Fiona Phillips was soon won over by its effects following a visit to King’s College London and speaking to specialist, Dr Elena Antonova. With its roots in meditation, it focuses on anchoring your attention on the present moment on purpose and without judgment. So effective are its results and scientific credentials, it’s even being rolled out in schools to help children better deal with exam stress. With rates of depression and anxiety in teens having increased by 70% in 25 years, it looks like a welcomed addition to the school day, with over 500 teachers being trained in mindfulness techniques.
According to Dr Antonova, mindfulness particularly helps when our mind wanders (research shows we spend 60% of that time worrying). To see the effect it has on the brain, Dr Antonova showed Fiona Phillips two brain scans of a mindfulness practitioner. In the first, the volunteer had been asked to let his mind wander and then react to what he was experiencing. In the second, he was asked to switch to mindfulness. There was a clear difference between the two scans, namely a greater level of activity in the frontal lobe of the brain in the first scan. The reason for this being the constant agitation he was putting his mind under. Mindfulness effectively silences this 'running commentary' and provides for greater clarity and openness. Fiona was convinced that it was a skill definitely worth investing the time to become better at and considering the evidence, so were we.
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With summer now well and truly upon us, many of us will be contemplating taking our training outdoors. And if you’re ready to brave the heat, a 10K could be the perfect distance to set your sights on.
“In the summer, when the heat can be a major issue on longer runs, a 10K strikes a good balance as it’s not too short that you don’t reap the benefits, but it’s also not too long that you struggle in the heat,” says James Heptonstall, adidas Runners captain. Suiting a variety of different abilities and age groups, it’s surprisingly wide-ranging in its appeal. How long should you look to set aside to train? A couple of months, but it differs from person to person and depends on your specific goals. “If you are generally fit and active, you will be able to run 10K without any training; you might not necessarily get the best time but you'll certainly get round,” says James. “However, if you’re looking to get a decent time, running-specific training is a must to chip away at that clock and push yourself to the upper limit of your own ability. If your current state of fitness is pretty low and you are new to running then a 10K distance would be a big ask with no training. If this is the case then you could look at a structured two-month training plan to get you up and running the full 10,000m.”
The perfect summer running distance, here’s how to get your training regime started on the right foot.
What is the best type of training I should do when preparing for a 10K?
“When training for a 10K, variety in the type of training you do is key,” says James. “It’s not just about getting out and running, you should be mixing up your training with intervals, tempos, fartlek (speed play) and hills as well as the steady run. It is also important to listen to your body and not do too much, rest and recovery is a critical element in all training schedules.”
How can I improve my 10K running time?
“If you’re looking to improve your 10K running time, a key piece of advice is to actually run with someone of a similar ability, be it a friend or in a group at a run club,” recommends James. “By training with others, you will push yourself much harder and work off other people to get more out of your training. Running is a mental game as well as physical so if you have others around you to support and encourage, it can make the world of difference to your training.”
Are there any other activities apart from running that will improve my 10K running ability?
“When training for a 10km run, there are plenty of other exercises that you should consider to compliment your running training,” highlights James. Strength training is one of them. “Working on your core stability as well as your strength and conditioning, in particular for your legs, provides a great base for an effective and efficient technique as well as helping with injury prevention,” he adds.
Not only will a stronger body lead to a faster time, but also better form. “Running isn't just about running countless miles, it's also about being strong enough to maintain good running posture to prevent injury, and being as energy efficient as possible,” says Luke Copeland, Head of Physiology for Speedflex . Gains also include improved time-to-exhaustion and neuromuscular coordination too.
Furthermore, incorporating exercises that focus on flexibility can also be pivotal. “Flexibility through stretching, yoga or Pilates are also excellent for injury prevention and range of movement as a runner,” says James. Not only will this improve your stride length, but also your energy expenditure too.”
MORE GLOSS: The 12 best yoga hotspots in London
How can I improve my endurance further?
“One of the most important aspects of endurance running performance is lactate threshold,” says Luke. “This is the point at which we begin to build an oxygen debt and soon have to slow down. One of the only ways to improve the lactate threshold is by doing high speed interval training.” Involving alternating short periods of exercise with less intense periods of rest, it’s particularly beneficial at increasing overall cardiovascular fitness.
What type of footwear should I be wearing for a 10K run?
“Wearing shoes that you are comfortable in and have used in your training is key when preparing for a 10K race,” advises James. “It is always worth heading to a mainstream running shop which offers Gait Analysis, so you know whether you pronate, supinate or are a neutral runner. This will help when deciding the type of shoe you wear. Your choice of footwear should reflect this and provide stability where it is needed. In terms of cushioning, I would recommend either a lightweight racer such as adidas' adizero adios , £139.95, or you may prefer a more cushioned shoe such as the adidas UltraBoost , £139.95. This will come down to personal preference, but comfort and fit are key.”
MORE GLOSS: The Gloss Report - trainers
What top nutrition tips do I need to take on board for a 10K run?
For food that fuels you, forward planning will prove invaluable at keeping hunger pangs at bay. “Pre and post nutrition is an essential part when preparing for a run of any distance,” says James. “For a 10K run, you will likely only need to take on water during the race, depending on the weather conditions. Pre-race I would focus on slow release carbohydrates such as brown bread, porridge or brown rice to provide sustained energy release. Post-race, I look to fast release carbohydrates such as white pasta or jacket potato, to replenish depleted energy stores.”
Are there any clubs in London that will support with my training?
If you’re looking to train in a group, adidas Runners London offers the perfect solution. “Sessions are one hour long and focus on intervals, fartlek (speed play), hills and recovery activities such as yoga, all of which is aimed at making you a better runner,” explains James. “Check out adidas Runners London for more details.”
Are there any top tips for the day of a 10K race?
To help you cross the finish line successfully, James recommends the following as a final checklist...
“Don't change anything...be it your diet, shoes or kit. You shouldn't introduce something new on race day.”
“Arrive at the race with plenty of time to spare so you can warm up, go to the loo and drop your bag off.
“Use a watch so you can keep track of your pace over the km splits.”
“Stay hydrated, before, during and after.”
“Don’t forget to stretch and cool down after the race.”
“And most importantly.... enjoy it!”
Tempted to sign up for a 10K? Adidas City Runs are coming soon to London. Enter now for their first event, the Shoreditch 10K, here on 8th October 2017 .
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For Victoria Pendleton, breaking into the cycling world was no easy ride. She was often judged and underestimated by others for being “too small and too weak.” Rather than letting that discourage her, Victoria used it to fuel her drive, pushing her further to become the woman she is today. "I love nothing better than someone throwing down the gauntlet," she says.
Today, she's on a mission to inspire young women to live with the same mindset and to help provide them with more opportunity. Since retiring from cycling, she has taken up riding. Just 12 short months after riding a horse for the first time, Victoria surprised everyone when she competed in the ‘Olympics of jump racing’, the Cheltenham Festival, earlier this year. Many people said it was an impossible feat, but she finished fifth in the Foxhunter Chase.
Not content with that, she's now learning to play polo. “Taking up a new sport at 35 – why not?” she says, simply.
As part part of Clinique’s #DifferenceMaker campaign, Victoria will be hosting the Clinique Run Or Dye 5k race in Kent on Sunday 3rd July. More than 5,000 runners are expected to take part - running, walking, dancing or jogging, while getting covered in paint. The event is in support of the Kiss It Better appeal with Great Ormond Street Hospital. For Victoria, the connection is very personal as her twin brother was treated for cancer there when they were both four.
We caught up with Victoria ahead of the race to find out what drives her as well as how she refuels and relaxes.
GTG: What are you like in the mornings? Snooze button or up and at ’em?
VP: "I never snooze my alarm, ever. I only like to go through the suffering once. I like early mornings before everything gets busy in the world. In summer, quarter to six is a nice time to get out and walk the dogs - all the wildlife is still around and the birds are singing and the sun’s rising and you just think, 'oh heavenly'. I’ve loved being outside since I was a kid. If you take the time and space to stop and look around, you can always find something that’s either beautiful or impresses you - the symmetry in something, or the quietness, or the noise. Having a bit of time and space to do that is important and sets me up for the day."
GTG: What’s the first thing you put on your face?
VP: "Most mornings I don’t have to make myself up or do much with my appearance as I’m going to the yard mostly at the moment. I’ll have a wash, put some sunscreen on, maybe a bit of mascara."
GTG: What’s for breakfast?
VP: "I make a batch of my own muesli once a month, because I found I couldn’t buy anything that had the things I liked. I lightly roast lots of nuts and grind them coarsely, then mix that with oats, pumpkin, sunflower and chia seeds, dried cranberries or apricots, which I have with almond milk and fruit. When I was training, I’d have five or six Weetabix for breakfast, with sugar on. My energy levels are more sustained now. I have taken a lot of sugar out of my diet."
GTG: How has your body changed since you retired from cycling?
VP: "I lost a lot of muscle mass on my legs and back, which is annoying because I actually really liked having muscly legs. Through riding, a bit of it has come back – it’s muscle memory. My arms are as good as they’ve ever been from holding on to the horses. I really like to see girls with muscles because I know how hard they have had to work for them. I’m like, 'Yeah! Good work!'."
GTG: What’s your workout routine now?
VP: "Riding is my main source of exercise. I’m at the yard at seven o’clock and will ride two different horses. I’ll probably spend about 40 minutes on each. Washing them off, carrying tack around and putting them away is a workout in itself. If I’m feeling good, I’ll go for a run. My attention span is tiny, so 5k for me is an enjoyable distance - you can push yourself hard if you want to."
GTG: What's on your running playlist?
VP: "If I’m feeling a bit flat, I like anything by the Foo Fighters or Chase & Status. Something with either a good beat or a bit of aggression definitely helps pick your knees up. But mostly I like to just be aware of the environment."
GTG: How do you wind down?
VP: "My wind down starts when I’m preparing the evening meal. I’ve been doing the Mindful Chef healthy recipe box delivery; everything is gluten free and they do a vegan one (although I’m not a strict vegan). Everything is measured out, ready to go with a recipe card and it’s great in terms of giving you new ideas. The sweet potato nachos with vegetarian chili was really tasty."
GTG: You’ve started reading poetry to relax, we hear…
VP: "Yes! I did English literature in school but that was really the last time I read a poem. Someone recommended Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennet. You can just dip in, you don’t have to be committed to reading the whole thing. I quite like that with my short attention span."
GTG: Is switching off a challenge for someone as active as you?
VP: "No, I’ve never had trouble sleeping and relaxing. I could fall asleep in the back of a car. If I feel tired in the middle of the day and if there is time for a power nap I will have one, and I’ll still sleep at night. I’ve always been a good sleeper, I think because I’ve always had physical activity in my day. The hardest time I had sleeping-wise, was heading into a big competition. It’s a time when you’re nervous and your training has reduced massively because you’re trying to prepare. Your body’s not tired but your mind is very active. You have to be very disciplined with your sleep hygiene - being in a quiet environment, not having the television on in the bedroom unless it’s something low key."
GTG: How would you calm your mind?
VP: "I used to take time out, mindful time, to try to put everything in its place. If you don’t address some of the concerns in your head, or even speak them through with someone, they can just go round like a hamster in a wheel. If something was troubling me, I would write it down, even if I didn’t switch the light on. It’s more of a process of ‘downloading’ than actually what you write. Having a notebook and a pen on your bedside table is always a good shout."
GTG: As an athlete, what can you tell us about motivation?
VP: "I hate the word motivation, I don't use it. It sounds like it’s in control of you if you say, 'it’s not me it’s my motivation'. But if you replace it with the word ‘commitment’, then you have a very different scenario. If you think, 'I’m not really feeling that motivated' and change it to, 'I’m not really feeling that committed', suddenly you feel very differently about it - 'I am in control of this and I’m not accepting it'."
GTG: How do you get yourself out there on a rainy day?
VP: "I thoroughly enjoy cycling in the rain or running in bad weather, because you think to yourself, 'how many other people are out today?' It just makes you feel a bit smug. Rain is a good excuse to buy some waterproof socks and a nice jacket. New waterproof kit - always exciting!"
GTG: What else is on your kit list?
VP: "I really like Stella McCartney for Adidas and Teeki leggings (they are made from recycled bottles). I have a Pilates reformer in my garage, which is like a mini gym. When I retired, I realised how much I missed the gym. I trained as a personal trainer but didn’t get round to doing my final exam. In the last year the horse racing took over. Now I’m learning polo."
GTG: What’s in your makeup bag?
VP: "I’ve always really loved makeup because it was something I could do that was fun and different from my daily routine of wearing a tracksuit. I love having my makeup done professionally because you learn so much, like the importance of prepping the skin, spending time working products in to create a base before you even apply your makeup. I love the Chubby Stick collection by Clinique for lips/cheeks/eyes and now foundation too. My makeup kit is full of these chunky crayons, they are so quick and easy to apply and the texture looks so natural and feels nourishing. I also love the Even Better Dark Spot Defense SPF45, £26. It is great if you are outdoors and need sun protection, but adds a little colour too."
GTG: You’ve broken barriers for women in sport – what work is there still to do on that front?
VP: "I’d like to see equal representation across all sports - the opportunity for women to participate in sport at all levels because we’re far off that."
GTG: What’s stopping women from participating?
VP: "A million and one sponsorships, the size of the field; if there are no opportunities women aren’t going to pursue it, and if they won’t pursue it there will never be a big field, and if there isn’t a big field there won’t be big sponsors and if there aren’t big sponsors, women can’t afford to do it. So it’s a vicious circle."
GTG: How do we step in and make that happen across more sports?
VP: "Good question! Be avid supporters of other women in sport, watch the matches, buy the T-shirt, demand to know the results. If there are enough spectators, it would have to be done, because it’s entertainment at the end of the day. You need to have an audience - and an audience that wants and needs to know."
GTG: Do we need more women in coaching?
VP: "We need a lot more women in leadership roles full stop. It needs to change from the top down. There need to be more women in roles with major decision-making powers not just token board members, which is what most sports organisations have - which is rubbish. We need women in charge making the right decisions to offer opportunities.
GTG: Great Ormond Street Hospital is a cause close to your heart. How did that come about?
VP: "My twin brother Alex was diagnosed with leukaemia when we were four years old. He was diagnosed very swiftly by the family general practitioner and received his treatment, which included chemotherapy and radiotherapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He was lucky to soon be in remission after receiving state-of-the art care. I have a huge amount of appreciation for the work they do and give support at events such as Run or Dye whenever I can."
Clinque Run Or Dye with Victoria Pendleton on July 3rd 2016, supports the Kiss It Better appeal with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. It was set up by Carmel Allen (ex Beauty Editor of Vogue), whose daughter Josephine was treated at the hospital for neuroblastoma. Carmel will join the event with her daughter Jojo. Victoria is a #DifferenceMaker for Clinique. See her inspiring video and meet the other five global Difference Makers here.
Follow us on Twitter @GetTheGloss and Victoria Woodhall @VWyoga
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SoulCycle is not new. It was launched in 2006 by three women (Elizabeth Cutler, Julie Rice and Ruth Zukerman) who sought to bring excitement to traditional spin classes in NYC. They wanted to create a tough workout that would create a lean, mean body. They were bored with uninspiring fitness classes; they wanted to add a feel-good spiritual element and to give it a special, boutique feel. Most importantly they wanted to set the spinning classes to incredible, inspiring music.
The combination was fitness dynamite, and within six months of opening their first studio, the company turned profitable and the classes had waiting lists. SoulCycle now has about 50 locations in the US, offering classes to about 90,000 people every week, and the buzz, nine years in, shows no signs of abating. With a huge celebrity following from David Beckham to Selena Gomez, Lena Dunham, Oprah and Lady Gaga (who is apparently so obsessed she owns a Soul Cycle bike!), rumour has it the spin sensation may make it to the shores of the UK soon, but having gone to New York last week I couldn’t miss the opportunity to check it out.
I wasn’t disappointed. In fact, I would go as far as saying it was the most fun I have had in an exercise class IN MY LIFE. Why? Well, it's partly the soul-shaking music - I can only describe the music at SoulCycle as like being in the best club in Ibiza, the sort of music that from the beginning to the end had me literally grinning from ear to ear. I counted about 18 speakers in that room and the sound was bouncing off the walls, thrusting energy into our minds and bones so we couldn't think of anything else for an hour. I almost had to fight back the urge to get up out of the saddle and dance.
And dance was exactly what the instructor, Seth, did. The other key to the SoulCycle magic formula is the instructors, who are all cleverly chosen performers and dancers instead of more serious personal trainers. There's no talk of 'aerobic activity' or 'glute strength' at SoulCycle - it's fun all lthe way, making it accessible for everyone. Seth (who must have been a dancer) was literally performing his honed, toned buttocks off for the whole hour. Shrouded in a spotlight, while the rest of us were in darkness, the energy was beaming out of him as he took us on the ride of our lives - a journey cycling at different speeds through amazing soundtracks.
So good was the music, so mesmerising was Seth that I never once cared how hard it was (and boy it was tough, I could have wrung my vest out at the end). We went crazy fast, turned the resistance up to climb imaginary hills, and we were up and down in our seats constantly, legs beating in time to the music. There were weights, press-ups on the bike handles, and even an ‘in your seat, out of your seat and clap at the top' move that involved a lot of focus and balance .Then came the spiritual bit - just as I thought I'd pushed myself harder than I ever had before, Seth started whooping and shouting words of encouragement. Sound cheesey? I was too darn happy to care. Then he unsaddled and start dancing. At one point he was doing the splits in time to the beat. No joke.
With its scented candles, lovely white and yellow changing rooms (no verrucas here, just everything you need from Tampax to spare hair bands and deodorant if you need it) I would challenge anyone in the bleakest of moods not to leave SoulCycle feeling almost euphoric. It’s no wonder Lady Gaga had her birthday party here, no wonder Americans go to SoulCycle instead of staying in and sharing a bottle of wine, and no wonder they are paying $34 a pop for it. This was an adrenaline high, one big fitness orgasm, like nothing else I’ve ever experienced (apart from perhaps on the dance floor in Ibiza).
My only complaint? When the hell is it coming to the UK? Bring it on I say; we Brits are not as prudish as you think.
Find out more at www.soul-cycle.com
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A Youtube phenomenon (3.5 million subscribers and counting), successful blogger, purveyor of her own makeup range, author, ambassador for The Global Goals and actress in training, it’s a wonder that 27 year old Tanya Burr has time to preheat an oven and whip up a batch of biscuits at all. With baking playing such a big part in her downtime, however, and given the popularity of her baking vlogs and recipes, it’s certainly a smart move that she’s turned her hobby into a business venture, last week publishing a baking centred cookbook, Tanya Bakes. Unsurprisingly it’s already selling like hotcakes and has a spot within the Amazon Top 10, while the hashtag #TanyaBakes is simmering along nicely on social media.
Having started her career in the beauty industry, on counter at Laura Mercier before launching her beauty focussed vlog in 2009, Tanya has made the transition from makeup marvel to passionate amateur baker very smoothly indeed, but unlike her beauty ventures, she’s the first to admit that her foray into baking is fairly amateur. She has fun, she makes mistakes (look up the S’Mores Cupcakes online before you make them) and she bases her ideas and recipe selection on happy memories rather than technical impressiveness. Given the interest in her daily life and relationship with fellow Youtuber Jim Chapman, this is all just as well, but what the impelled the already time starved Burr to embark on a larger cookery project, and how does she make sure that her switch to the kitchen stays relevant to her audience? We took a tea break with Tanya to discuss the joys of baking, relating to her fans and how she switches off from life online.
Get The Gloss: You've been baking since you were young - what is it about baking in particular that appeals to you so much?
Tanya Burr: For me the ritual of baking is so much more than making cakes - some of my happiest memories are linked to the process of baking and enjoying what I’ve made with others. It’s such a stress reliever, and also satisfying in that it’s a science; it’s very soothing when a recipe works! I enjoy every aspect of baking, from making a big mess and then meticulously cleaning my surfaces to weighing out ingredients. Another lovely side effect of spending a day or afternoon baking it that it makes your house smell amazing. It’s just a very wholesome thing to do, and I love it!
GTG: How does the book reflect you as a person?
TB: I didn’t give that much thought when I initially came to make the book, I just knew I wanted to keep it personal. My mum’s bakes are in there, as are recipes from friends and family and special times in my life. Basically, I’ve packed in everything I love!
GTG: You yourself admit that you're not a pro baker - how do you avoid being too perfectionist?
TB: Prep plays a part, and as baking is such a precise art, with the right measurements you shouldn’t go too far wrong. Knowing your oven is key, and is resisting the urge to constantly open the oven door! I’m not a perfectionist though as I view baking as fun rather than something to attain.
GTG: When you’re not baking, you’re known for your beauty reviews, vlogs and blogs. What’s your one foolproof, failsafe beauty product at the moment?
TB: Good Genes by Sunday Riley , £85, is just incredible. It’s a serum/mask hybrid and I absolutely love it- it smoothes skin like nothing else.
GTG: How about fitness? Do you workout often, and what's your preferred way to stay active? Do you have a favourite class?
TB: I’m very spontaneous when it comes to fitness- I definitely don’t have a routine. I’m not particularly consistent, but I do love yoga. Basically I do what I feel like, when I feel like it! There’s a great place near my house that runs HIIT classes, so I might pop down to one of those every so often.
GTG: As you've mentioned in the book, you've had your fair share of jobs in the past. As a successful vlogger, blogger and influencer, what would be your ultimate career advice for young women starting out in the world of work?
TB: Never, ever take no for an answer! Also dreaming big is important. Both of those have worked out well for me.
GTG: How do you make time for baking amongst the demands of editing, meetings and keeping your site and social media feeds up to date?
TB: Recently baking has actually been the bulk of my work, so I’m glad that now I can do it to relax again. I wouldn’t normally bake during the working day, so I’m back to doing it in my spare time.
GTG: Lots of your baking creations reference social media, either by way of inspiration or in reference to presentation and how a cake might look in a photo. What's your personal approach to social media? How do you deal with the pros and cons of sharing your life online, and do you ever manage to switch off?
TB: I do detach myself from it, but I have to be very strict with myself. I’m constantly on my phone during the day, that’s part of my job, but at the end of the day I try to switch it off as constantly checking in with social media can become a bit intense. In terms of dealing with the pros and cons, I try my best not to take any kind of feedback too seriously.
GTG: You encourage readers to write down their 'top ten baking moments' at the back of the book. What would be your top moment?
TB: Probably every time I licked the bowl when baking with my mum! That’s not very specific I know. I also remember baking a lot with my good friend Vanessa, who is the master of chocolate fondants.
GTG: You mention having a dream of opening your very own bakery- might you pursue baking as a full time career in future? Would you ever take a break from the digital world?
TB: Not at the moment, as my full time job is online, but when I’m in my thirties with kids, not living in London, it’s definitely a possibility. It’s a dream for when I’m older!
Tanya’s Rhubarb and Custard Muffins
When I came up with the idea for a rhubarb and custard muffin I was so excited. Rhubarb crumble with custard is one of my all-time favourite puddings, so to take those flavours and put them inside a soft pillowy muffin was a no-brainer!
Makes 12
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
You will need a 12-hole cupcake/muffin tray
INGREDIENTS
300g rhubarb
35g caster sugar
300g self-raising flour
150g light brown soft sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
200ml buttermilk
1 egg
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
100ml ready-made custard
METHOD
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/GM4. Line the cupcake/muffin tray with paper cases.
Wash and chop the rhubarb into chunky pieces, then arrange in a shallow dish and cover with the caster sugar. Set aside to macerate for 15 minutes.
Mix together the flour and sugar, then add the vanilla extract, buttermilk, egg and vegetable oil and combine to form a smooth batter. Add the rhubarb, reserving 12 pieces to decorate, and fold through the mixture.
Divide half of the batter between the muffin cases, then top each one with a spoonful of custard. Carefully add the remaining batter to each case to cover the custard, then pop a rhubarb piece on top of each muffin.
Bake for 25 minutes until risen and golden. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
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Tanya Bakes by Tanya Burr is published by Michael Joseph, £16.99
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Size, long-term comfort, durability and support: according to a new survey, these are the qualities that top many a woman’s sports bra wish list. According to the 2015 Bra Insights report from global information company The NPD Group , sports bras are fast-becoming a wardrobe staple - particularly for Millennials, with a whopping 41% saying they had worn a sports bra in the past seven days.
With demand for sports bras picking up pace, it seems more important than ever to ensure that the perfect fit is found. However, finding ‘The One’ can often prove frustrating. There’s no such thing as one-size-fits all, yet historically, the noticeable lack of choice could be blamed for suggesting otherwise. However, times are changing and Nike is leading the way in providing all the tools needed to help all women find their ideal match. The golden rule they abide by? The support you need is a combination of your size and your sport - a point perfectly exemplified by the brand’s collection of Nike Pro Bras, each designed to provide an option for any woman and any workout.
We put them through their paces to see if they truly delivered on their individual promises. Ranging from big to small bust-wise, yoga to HIIT workout-wise, suffice to say GTG HQ served as the ideal testing ground for seeing which delivered least wobble for our wonga and minimal bounce for our buck...
Nike Pro Indy Cool Sports Bra, £33
Support: Low
“When it comes to sports bras, (and much like with most products actually), you don't really know what you've been missing until you give a really great one a go. I have to admit that this was very much the case here until this particular bra came into my life.
“My bust is very much on the smaller side and I didn't really know that it was possible to hold everything in place this well. With its soft fabric and Dri-FIT technology, it is extremely comfortable and perfect for keeping you on the cooler side when getting hot and sweaty. It says it's best for light-impact sports like yoga and Pilates - and I definitely agree with that, but after giving it a go in a more intense spin class, I can vouch that it works perfectly for that too (albeit, for smaller busts in particular). I may still have come out looking like a hot and sweaty mess, but the bra’s welcomed feature of added ventilation in key sweat zones kept me feeling far cooler than I usually would.”
Reviewer: LP
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Nike Pro Fierce Reflective Sports Bra, £50
Support: Medium
“It’s not often you can simply ‘slip on’ a high to medium impact sports bra - in my experience they involve a bit of ‘upholstery’, so the sleek, smooth and easy to wear styling of the Pro Fierce Sports Bra is very refreshing. Once you’re in, nothing moves, but again, you don’t feel winded, just nicely supported (that’ll be the compression cups at work).
“What I particularly love about this racerback is that it moulds to your shape; the under bust band fits snugly and doesn’t dig in, the cups themselves create a flattering line while remaining totally functional throughout even vigorous workouts, and the straps keep everything in place without getting in your way. Basically, the bra is facilitating your workout to the max so that you forget you’re wearing it and get on with the sweating and exerting. On the topic of sweating, the Dri-FIT fabric really is efficient when it comes to moisture wicking; damp patches simply don’t happen, whether you’re sprinting, dancing, weight lifting or simply busting a move in hot weather. For ultimate comfort, I would recommend cutting out the label pre-wear. Otherwise, top marks, and the ever-so-subtle padding is very welcome during the cooldowns if you know what I mean…”
Reviewer: AH
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Boost your HIIT session further with the Nike Free TR Focus Flyknit training shoe. Here’s why...
Nike Pro Hyper Classic Sports Bra, £45
Support: Medium
“I put this sports bra to the test in a lovely 6.45 am HIIT session. At that ungodly hour, it’s safe to say that having to leave the freedom and comfort of my pyjamas to strap myself into a sports bra was anything but appealing however, this particular pick made the experience all the more bearable.
“Now I don’t need a shedload of support in the sports bra area - there isn’t much to work with - but nonetheless, I still want to feel supported but able to breathe at the same time. And this thankfully, is where this sports bra comes in. Its fabric and mesh racerback allows skin to breathe and as a result, gives a greater level of comfort during your workout. Its removable cups are extremely flattering and well-fitting, but what is particularly great about them is that they don't cause your chest to become too hot while you’re doing your thing in the gym - they simply add extra support. The band at the bottom feels lovely and soft on the skin and doesn't dig in at all which I have sometimes found a problem with other sports bras in the past. Plus, it doesn't budge. All in all I’d highly recommend this bra. Not only is it comfortable and breathable but the bright flashes of colour in its range of different designs looks great in the gym too!”
Review: RM
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Nike Pro Rival Sports Bra, £40
Support: High
“I’ve found it pretty tricky finding a sports bra that fits me and my needs to a T. Size-wise, I tread that fiddly middle ground between little and large - I’m not super small, nor will I be rivalling Pamela Anderson in the silicone stakes anytime soon. I look for size and support in equal measure, but finding a bra that ticks both boxes has proven troublesome. So much so in fact that I’ve been known to ‘double-bra’ in workouts past - a padded bra underneath for shape and a sports bra on top for support. Not the most comfortable of fits as I’m sure you can imagine; or the most convenient. So on paper, the Nike Pro Rival Sports Bra looked promising. And to my delight, it didn’t disappoint.
“Its soft moulded cups provide that extra dimension of shape for those tentative to swap underwire for wire-free, while still being study enough to keep bounce to a minimum during a particularly hardcore HIIT session. Above all though, it is really comfortable and its flexible racerback keeps everything locked in, rather than locked out to help instead of hinder your overall session. Providing the best of both worlds (mid-sized busts will benefit most in my opinion), I’ve been able to streamline my gym prep routine from two bras to one. Sounds like a success to me.”
Reviewer: AM
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Nike Pro Hero Sports Bra, £50
Support: High
“I’ve got big boobs… well OK, not so massive that I have to shop granny style (not yet anyway), but big enough that safety measures need to be taken. The solution? A sports bra that a) is big enough, b) holds me in tightly while also being comfortable enough to wear during a rigorous workout and, c) looks good. I admit, I am not one of those people who parades around the gym with tiny gym gear - quite the opposite - but I do want to feel good during a workout. It’s what motivates me.
“Admittedly, it’s the lack of style that has put me off buying a proper-fitting sports bra in the past - shopping experiences often ending in me opting for slightly less supportive wear as a result. I am therefore really excited to have discovered Nike’s Pro Hero Sports Bra. The fabric is soft to touch but durable and I particularly like the comfortable wide bra straps which sit snugly over the inside of the shoulder and adjust at the bottom. The best elements for me though are the individual padded cups which firmly hold and support my breasts without limply leaving them for a good bounce around - or squashing them flat against my chest. A good HIIT session proved that they have been rigorously engineered for high intensity workouts and I was surprised to learn that such support could be achieved without any metal wires.
“Overall, I'm superbly happy with this Nike sports bra. A little over my ideal budget at £50 but with Nike, the value can always be found in the product.”
Reviewer: GP
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Bidens 'shocked' by Chicago-area shooting as White House marks July Fourth
President Joe Biden began Independence Day by sharing a message that looked to the country's future, but quickly had to respond to another mass shooting in the United States.
"Jill and I are shocked by the senseless gun violence that has yet again brought grief to an American community on this Independence Day," the president said in a statement Monday after at least six people were killed in a shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, during a July Fourth parade.
Biden noted that he had "surged Federal law enforcement to assist in the urgent search for the shooter, who remains at large at this time," and pointed to the gun safety legislation he recently signed into law. "But there is much more work to do, and I'm not going to give up fighting the epidemic of gun violence," he added.
Later on Monday, Biden declined to say whether stricter gun laws would have prevented the deadly shooting when pressed by CNN's MJ Lee. "We don't know the circumstances yet," he said.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who's in California for the holiday, touted the recently signed legislation in her own statement, but added, "Today's shooting is an unmistakable reminder that more should be done to address gun violence in our country."
In remarks commemorating July Fourth with military families at the White House later in the afternoon, Biden made reference to the new gun safety law and the Illinois shooting, saying, "You all heard what happened today. ... Each day we're reminded there's nothing guaranteed about our democracy, nothing guaranteed about our way of life."
The president called on Americans to fight for democracy, while also broadly acknowledging national challenges.
"Our economy is growing, but not without pain. Liberty is under assault -- assault both here and abroad," he said, alluding to the US Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last month.
"In recent days, there's been reason to think that this country is moving backwards. That freedom has been reduced. That rights we assumed are no longer -- a reminder that we remain in an ongoing battle for the soul of America, as we have for over 200 years."
Video below: Police describe suspect in Illinois parade shooting
The July Fourth holiday comes amid a challenging time for the nation marked by deepening division, inflation and a recent set of polling showing that the vast majority of Americans across party lines are unhappy with the state of the U.S.
In an AP-NORC survey released last week, 85% of US adults say that things in the country are headed in the wrong direction, with just 14% believing things are going in the right direction. That's a more pessimistic reading than in May, when 78% said things were headed the wrong way and 21% that things were generally moving in the right direction. And currently, both 92% of Republicans and 78% of Democrats are dissatisfied with the direction of the country -- the highest number among Democrats since Biden took office last year.
Video below: Hospital officials give update on shooting patients
Still, Biden attempted to reassure Americans, saying, "I know it can be exhausting and unsettling, but tonight I want you to know we're going to get through all this."
America, he emphasized, is and always will be a "work in progress."
"It has so often been the case that after we've taken giant steps forward, we've taken a few steps backwards. And after doing the hard work of laying the foundation for a better future, the worst of our past has reached out and pulled us back on occasion. But I know this: From the deepest depths of our worst crises, we've always risen to our higher heights," Biden told the crowd on the South Lawn. "We've always come out better than we went in."
Earlier in the day, Biden had released a forward-looking statement about how the "best days still lie ahead."
"The Fourth of July is a sacred day in our country -- it's a time to celebrate the goodness of our nation, the only nation on Earth founded based on an idea: that all people are created equal," Biden said in a tweet. "Make no mistake, our best days still lie ahead."
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Heard seeks to throw out verdict in Depp defamation trial
Amber Heard's lawyers have asked a judge to throw out the $10.35 million verdict against her in the defamation case filed by ex-husband Johnny Depp, arguing that the verdict was not supported by the evidence and that one of the jurors may not have been properly vetted by the court.
In post-trial motions filed Friday, Heard's attorneys call the jury's June 1 award of $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages to Depp "excessive" and "indefensible." They ask the judge to set aside the verdict and dismiss Depp's lawsuit or order a new trial. Immediately after the verdict, the judge reduced the compensatory damages to $350,000 under a state cap.
Depp sued Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse." Depp's lawyers alleged he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned him by name.
The six-week televised trial turned into a spectacle that offered a window into their dysfunctional marriage. Much of the testimony focused on Heard's claims that she had been physically and sexually abused by Depp. Heard described more than a dozen alleged assaults, including a fight in Australia — where Depp was shooting a "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel — in which Depp lost the tip of his middle finger and Heard said she was sexually assaulted with a liquor bottle.
Depp said he never hit Heard and that she was the abuser.
Depp had to prove that he never assaulted Heard, that her op-ed piece defamed him and that she wrote the article with actual malice.
In their post-trial motions, Heard's legal team argued that to find that Heard had actual malice, Depp would have had to show that at the time Heard's article was published, she did not believe she had been abused.
"Instead, the evidence overwhelmingly supported Ms. Heard believed she was the victim of abuse at the hands of Mr. Depp," Heard's lawyers say in their motion.
Heard's lawyers also ask the judge to investigate "potential improper juror service," alleging that one of the jurors who was chosen to serve on the jury was listed as being born in 1945 in documents given to the attorneys before the jury selection process, but is listed as being born in 1970 in publicly available information.
"This discrepancy raises the question whether Juror 15 actually received a summons for jury duty and was properly vetted by the Court to serve on the jury," Heard's lawyers said in their motion.
Depp's attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The jury also awarded Heard $2 million in her counterclaim against Depp, finding that that Heard was defamed by one of Depp's lawyers, who accused her of creating a detailed hoax that included roughing up the couple's apartment to look worse for police.
In some ways, the trial was a replay of a lawsuit Depp filed in the United Kingdom against a British tabloid after he was described as a "wife beater." The judge in that case ruled in the newspaper's favor in 2020 after finding that Heard was telling the truth in her descriptions of abuse.
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It's a question we’ve all asked ourselves at one point or another. Whether at 8am or 8pm, weekday or weekend, why are so many of us lacking in energy on such a regular basis?
“There is a common misconception that energy ‘in’ automatically means energy ‘out’ but actually the process of producing energy is much more complex and also more vulnerable to malfunction than many might think,” explains nutritional therapist and Get The Gloss Expert Henrietta Norton .
“Our body produces energy from our food, via ‘power factories' called the mitochondria. These power factories are found in all cells in our body, in fact, some cells have more than one. However, a deficiency in micronutrients such as magnesium or vitamin B12 and iron for example, or insufficient macronutrient intake, such as protein or healthy fat from the diet can affect how well these factories work.
“The availability of these micro and macro nutrients can be greatly influenced by how effective our digestive system is in making these available to us as well as the way we cook our food. But they can also be affected by medication such as regular use of NSAIDS or statins for example. Irregular eating patterns and a greater ‘energy’ demand than the body can keep up with (think those especially stressful periods at work coupled with a demanding workout routine) can also affect our energy levels.”
A problem affected by both internal and external factors, we asked a trio of experts for their top diet, sleep and fatigue-fighting fitness tips to serve as a wake-up-call for all walking zombies among us (*sleepily raises hand. Presses snooze button*).
1. Switch up your exercise routine
“Exercise and movement help us to release ‘happy’ hormones called endorphins, but it can be best to avoid more vigorous exercise such as spinning, fast running or squash if you are going through a very stressful time or suffer from fatigue,” recommends Henrietta. “These types of activities tend to further over-stimulate the adrenal glands. Instead, try brisk walking, swimming, a dance class or yoga. These ‘calmer’ kinds of exercise are more likely to put the nervous system into a desirable parasympathetic state; away from the more ‘panic’ or anxiety-inducing mode of the sympathetic nervous system which is very energy demanding.”
Furthermore, opting for more high intensity exercise before bed could prove counterproductive for encouraging healthy sleep patterns. “Try and wind your body down, not up, at the end of the day,” recommends Founder of Clean and Lean and Bodyism James Duigan . “Think about doing Pilates or yoga rather than high intensity exercise after work. High intensity is great, but if you've had a stressful day, doing exercise which produces cortisol is only going to make you more stressed - the opposite of what you need to get you ready for a good night's sleep.” What does James personally like to do? “I like to do some yoga and relax before bed. As I always say, if it sounds crazy, it is crazy - so running around for 45 minutes a few hours before bed is exactly that!”
MORE GLOSS: Pilates vs yoga - which one’s best for you?
2. Boost your B vitamins
“As well as magnesium, B vitamins are essential for energy production and for the normal functioning of the nervous system,” explains Henrietta. “Vitamin B5 in particular is needed for production of the glucocorticoid hormones in the adrenals, such as cortisol which supports brain function. Good sources include wholegrains, eggs, beans and lentils, a wide range of vegetables, fish and meats (choose good quality or organic meat).”
3. Get your vitamin C fix
“Vitamin C is another nutrient that is vital for the production of energy. Fruits and vegetables are the best source but, contrary to popular belief, oranges do not have the highest levels; better sources include peppers, kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, watercress and red cabbage,” highlights Henrietta.
Unwanted blood sugar highs and lows, which are triggered by cortisol, can leave us feeling very tired and foggy-headed
4. Re-stabilise your blood sugar levels
Blood sugar fluctuations can prove to be energy’s biggest slayer. How so? “Unwanted blood sugar highs and lows, which are triggered by cortisol, can leave us feeling very tired and foggy-headed,” explains Henrietta. “This stimulates appetite and cravings for high-sugar, high-carbohydrate foods (which can stress your body and adrenal glands further).”
To re-balance bloody sugar levels, Henrietta recommends the following:
• "Eat foods high in protein with every meal and snack. Protein slows down the breakdown of foods and absorption of glucose into the bloodstream. Protein foods include: eggs, meat, fish, nuts, seeds, beans and lentils.”
• “Healthy fats may also help to slow down the absorption of glucose. Good sources include oily fish, nuts and seeds, avocadoes; and good quality, cold-pressed oils such as olive oil, flaxseed oil and hemp oil (always use flaxseed or hemp oil on cold or warm foods, never for cooking with; and ideally use olive oil only at low temperatures)."
• "Always have breakfast, even if it is a bit later in the morning, and make sure it contains a good amount of protein. If we skip breakfast, blood sugar can drop very low by mid-morning. This puts strain on the adrenals, which have to manufacture more cortisol to get our blood sugar back up again; prompts us to reach for a sugary snack; and once more kicks off the blood sugar rollercoaster. This can also happen if we have a sugary or carbohydrate-based breakfast such as pastry, toast with jam, or breakfast cereal (even oats, without adding a source of protein to them). Good protein breakfasts include anything egg-based such as poached eggs or omelette; porridge oats with plenty of nuts or seeds added; grilled sardines or mackerel and grilled tomatoes and mushrooms."
• "Eat every 4 hours. This will help to stabilise blood sugar levels and if you are eating good quality meals every 4 hours, then there is no need to snack in between. However if for any reason you can’t eat every 4 hours, then choose good quality protein-based snacks between meals which can be helpful to prevent hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar). Examples of good protein snacks are two oatcakes or rye crackers topped with hummus, or a teaspoon of nut butter, or half a packet of sliced free range chicken with a few cherry tomatoes; or a whole boiled egg sprinkled with sea salt and black pepper."
Finding it extra hard to fight your sweet tooth? Try whipping up this energy-boosting smoothie by James Duigan. “Have a smoothie filled with protein and good fats - I always have a Body Brilliance , £50, in the afternoon with rice milk, cacao and cinnamon. It gives me a sweet fix without any of the horrible side-effects of sugar!”
MORE GLOSS: Amelia Freer - the truth about sugar alternatives and sweeteners
5. Support your adrenal glands and nervous system
“Taking care of your adrenal glands and nervous system also supports your thyroid gland health – another major area of energy control in the body,” says Henrietta. “The stress hormone cortisol can limit your capacity to convert thyroid hormones into their required active forms. The thyroid itself also requires special nutrients such as zinc, vitamin A, selenium and iron.”
6. Re-balance your bedtime regime
“Going to sleep before midnight is the key,” says Naturopathic Doctor, Dr Nigma Talib . “Getting into a routine of going to sleep early rather than sitting on your phone is best. If you can, get your phone out of your bedroom and into another room,” she recommends. “In terms of factors that affect the energy in room, keeping your phone by your bed really is the worst thing you can do.”
In terms of revising your pre-bed rituals, maximise your bath with a valuable macro-mineral. “Taking a bath with some magnesium salts in it is one of the most important things I advise for those who are stressed or fatigued," says Dr Talib. "If you prefer taking it in tablet form, taking it last thing at night is best."
get your phone out of your bedroom and into another room
"The following 15 minute meditation from my book – ‘Reverse the Signs of Ageing’ - is also hugely effective in calming the mind and keeping cortisol levels low at night.”
• Sit comfortably with your spine straight and your arms placed out in front of you, palms towards the ceiling. You can literally do this meditation anywhere you feel comfortable but you do need to speak out loud, so I wouldn’t recommend doing it on the bus or train! Repeat the following sounds out loud for two minutes in your normal voice: Saa...Taa...Naa...Maa...
• As you make each sound, touch your fingers in turn with the tip of your thumb:
- On Saa - touch the first/index finger
- On Taa - touch the second/middle finger
- On Naa - touch the third/ring finger
- On Maa - touch your last/little finger
• When the first two minutes are over, repeat the same process but as follows:
- For the next two minutes repeat the words in a whisper
- For the next four minutes say them silently to yourself
- For the next two minutes whisper them
- For the final two minutes say them in your normal voice
• To finish, inhale deeply as your stretch your arms over your head, and shake your hands, then bring them down in a sweeping motion as you exhale.
MORE GLOSS: Am I just down or am I depressed?
7. Awaken senses with ashwagandha
“Herbs such as ashwagandha have been traditionally used to support energy and nourish organs that may be negatively affected by stress, so it’s a great herb to supplement for anyone feeling pressured or worn out. Wild Nutrition Food-Grown B Complex Plus , £22, combines B vitamins, minerals, CoEnzyme Q10 and organic ashwagandha to support energy during busy periods,” recommends Henrietta. “Medicinal mushrooms are also helpful, such as cordyceps and reishi as they also provide support for the immune system that can be affected by low energy production.”
8. Keep hydrated
Sounds simple, but how many of us have been guilty of prioritising our to-do lists above a trip to the water cooler? Upping your water intake could make for one of the easiest yet most effective ways to give energy levels a boost throughout the working day. “So many people underestimate water,” says James Duigan. “If we aren't drinking enough, it will affect our energy levels and our workout potential. Good fats and good protein will keep your energy levels high and don't be afraid of carbs either - it's what gives you energy!”
MORE GLOSS: The lowdown on good and bad fats
9. Look after your gut
Does a healthier gut mean a healthier you? The evidence makes for a compelling case for the pro-biotic crew. “Most of our immune system resides in our gut, so anything unwanted inhabiting the gut will burden our system even more and will affect our mitochondria,” says Henrietta. “If you suffer from bacterial infections or a yeast overgrowth, then supporting your immune system is vital. A qualified nutritional therapist will be able to look into whether you require specific gut support and work with you to remove anything creating ‘gut dysbiosis’. Foods such as garlic have an antimicrobial affect and a type of fatty acid called caprylic acid has an anti-fungal effect.”
10. Re-calibrate your caffeine
Need your coffee fix first thing? We can relate. However, with plenty of negative press, are we better off without it? “Coffee gets a lot of flak, but actually one well-made organic expresso coffee can be part of a healthy diet,” says Henrietta. “It is a rich source of flavanols that can actually support cell, and therefore mitochondria, stability. It is also a ‘bitter’ that can stimulate digestive juices and therefore, a good expresso 30 minutes after a meal can be supportive.”
“There are a couple of caveats to coffee drinking however,” cautions Henrietta. “Don’t drink it on an empty stomach and preferably have it with a little fat and protein (i.e. cream, coconut oil or whole milk), as this supports energy levels better and can reduce the caffeine crash that some experience. I also recommend not drinking it first thing in the morning - mid-morning or just after lunch is the best option for most. This is because it will encourage a higher release of the stress hormone adrenaline which can be an energy drain later in the day.
“If you are drinking more than one cup of coffee a day though, try substituting the others with green, white or oolong tea.”
MORE GLOSS: The supplements nutrition experts swear by
And finally...
While the above recommendations may go some way to increasing the quality of your sleep and decreasing tiredness, don’t be disheartened if you’re still finding fatigue a common daily occurrence. It could be indicative that something else may be responsible and a trip to your GP may be in order. “If your tiredness is unrelenting regardless of dietary changes, there may be something deeper at stake such as persistent iron deficiency anaemia, pernicious anaemia or low vitamin D,” says Henrietta. “These can be explored with the help of a nutritional therapist or functional medicine practitioner.”
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Officials have captured Robert “Bobby” Crimo III, the suspect in the Highland Park parade shooting Monday morning that left six dead and twenty-four others hospitalized.
Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, age 22, was taken into custody around 6:30 p.m. in North Chicago.
Authorities said he was driving a silver 2010 Honda Fit, Illinois license plate DM80653 and was pulled over during a traffic stop. After a brief chase, he was taken into custody without incident, police said.
Who is the Highland Park parade shooting suspect?
Officials named Robert Bobby Crimo III as a “person of interest” in the Highland Park parade shooting. They previously described the suspected gunman as a white man with longer black hair, a small build and wearing a white or blue t-shirt. Crimo is considered armed and dangerous.
The FBI released more information on Crimo, saying he weighs 120 pounds and has four tattoo marks on right cheek, across his neck and above his left eyebrow. He has ties to Rockford, DeKalb and Elgin, Illinois.
Officials said while they named Crimo as a “person of interest,” they say he is the suspected gunman.
“Calling someone a suspect or person of interest, it’s really synonymous,” Lake County Sgt. Christopher Covelli said.
Who is Robert “Bobby” Crimo III?
A check of the Lake County Sheriff’s website and the Cook County Sheriff’s website shows Crimo has not been in their custody in the last few years.
WGN’s Ben Bradley investigated Crimo’s background and learned he is from Highland Park. Online accounts associated with Crimo feature him in music videos acting out the aftermath of a school shooting. In one clip, a newspaper headline of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is tacked to a wall behind him. That music video was posted in March.
A music channel associated with his performance name has more than 3 million streams on Spotify. Bradley’s quick check has not revealed a criminal record but he continues to search databases. Crimo’s father unsuccessfully ran against Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering in 2019, Mayor Rotering confirmed to WGN.
Did the Highland Park parade shooter take hostages?
Police said there is no indication that the gunman took hostages or was barricaded.
Where can I report tips about the Highland Park shooting?
If you have photos or videos from the scene around the parade route, or have any information about the gunman, you are asked to call 1 800 CALL FBI or the Highland Park police at at 847-432-7730.
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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Michael Schwartz was with his wife, who is confined to a wheelchair, and his 2-week-old grandson, who was in a stroller, when a gunman sprayed bullets at a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois on Monday morning.
“So we did not have the option of fleeing,” Schwartz said during an over-the-phone interview Monday with NewsNation’s Kelsey Kernstine on “Rush Hour.”
Five adults were pronounced dead at the scene and another person whose age is unknown died at a hospital. The ages of the two dozen who were injured ranged from 8-85 years old, officials said. At least “four or five” of them were children, hospital officials said in a news conference Monday afternoon.
Since he couldn’t flee when the shooting began, Schwartz told NewsNation he tried to get his wife and grandson as close to the ground as he could. He then said he stood up to see what was going on and even saw the shooter.
“I know this is going to go against the grain of what people are saying: But I saw the shooter. I saw his gun. In between the rounds, I stood up because — he was reloading and I thought it was safe — and I saw him,” Schwartz said.
“He was a young kid, skinny, and he was in a military shooting position very close to the ground — the kind of position only a young skinny kid could get into, and when he began shooting again, I hit the ground,” he continued.
Officials say the shooter was positioned on the roof of a local business in the area of Second Street and Central Avenue in downtown Highland Park. They say after the shooting, he likely climbed down a ladder attached to the building to flee the scene. As of 6 p.m. Monday, the suspect remains at large.
Schwartz’s account of what took place differs from the police narrative. He said he saw the shooter in the street.
“I had a good look at this guy who was not on a rooftop. He was on the street. He was right behind the street post that had a stop sign on it and he was shooting from behind that,” he said. “This information about being on a rooftop — just because there was access to the rooftop, doesn’t mean he was there,” he said.
Schwartz says he doesn’t feel like the shooting was random.
“They say these were random shootings — this kid who was doing the shooting had a scope on his rifle. I saw his scope and I saw his eye in the scope, he said.
Officials are asking anyone with information, surveillance footage or cellphone footage taken in the area of Second Street and Central Avenue in Highland Park around the time of the shooting to call 800-CALL-FBI (225-5324).
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Six people were killed and 24 others were hospitalized in a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, according to officials.
The parade was halted Monday morning after shots were fired about 10 minutes into the event.
Police continue to search for the gunman.
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TYLER, Texas (KETK) – A Palestine man arrested for conspiracy to transport illegal aliens resulting in death admitted his involvement to a confidential informant, according to court documents.
Christian Martinez, 28 of Palestine, was arrested on June 29 in connection to the tractor trailer smuggling incident in San Antonio that resulted in 53 fatalities, and it was soon identified after incident that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tyler had an active investigation into Martinez.
Through HSI Tyler and Palestine Police, an informant was identified, who told investigators that “Martinez said the driver was unaware the air conditioning unit stopped working and was the reason why the individuals died,” the criminal complaint said.
The informant also stated, according to investigators, that Martinez identified the driver of the tractor trailer as “Homer.”
At the location, San Antonio police officers encountered and detained Homero Zamorano Jr., and recovered his cell phone, hat and wallet.
A search warrant of Zamorano’s phone, according to investigators, revealed a series of texts from a number identified to have been utilized by Martinez.
Documents state that Zamorano received a picture from Martinez on June 27, the day that officials responded to the scene, showing a truck loading manifest. Zamorano reportedly responded to the photo by saying “I go to the same spot.”
Officers who responded to the scene that same day “discovered multiple individuals on the ground and in nearby brush, several of whom were deceased,” according to documents. Officers were then led to the location of an individual that was observed hiding in the brush.
Martinez’s preliminary and detention hearing is set for July 18 in San Antonio.
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Hands up who uses their smartphone in the hours before bed? Us too - and it might just be the reason that we’re a nation of such bad sleepers. We know that the blue light emitted from our many tech devices is silently ageing us faster , but as well as its ability to affect our delicate skin barrier and cause fine lines, it’s also working at a deeper level to stop us from sleeping well - by preventing the production of melatonin, the sleep hormone.
The sleep experts at Simba - creators of the world’s most advanced mattress - recently teamed up with Nina Ryner, founder of Chroma Yoga , a unique London studio combining colour therapy with yoga, to tell us more about the connection between light and sleep.
"You have a scale of visual colour; on one hand there’s blue, and that’s a short wavelength of light, and on the other hand you’ve got red, orange and yellow - the warmer tones," explains Nina. "Blue suppresses melatonin in the brain, which is the sleep hormone; it sends a signal to make us think it’s daylight, that we are supposed to be awake and energetic.”
Of course, nature does this for us - Nina points out the sky is blue and daylight is what keeps us energised - but the problem is, we’re now artificially suppressing our sleep hormone thanks to the light emitted from our iPhones, TVs and tablets.
“We are now constantly on a laptop or smartphone, or exposed to cold light in our offices or at home into the evening due to working late,” continues Nina. As a result, she explains, more of us are suffering from sleep disorders and more serious health problems, with the consequences of this digital disruption being linked to increases in depression, obesity and even some cancers.
While it's unlikely we'll all be taking a digital detox anytime soon, there are plenty of ways to bring our hormones back into their normal rhythm.
Under warmer light you can continue to function as normal, only you won’t be suppressing the production of melatonin
Inspired by light installations at exhibitions where she noted how the colour of a room would affect her and others, Nina studied colour therapy and thought it was a natural pairing with yoga, going on to create the studio where classes are colour-coded depending on the mood or energy you want. The amber class at the Shoreditch studio is particularly calming, and is a great precursor to a better night’s sleep, as it’s these warmer tones that don’t disrupt your natural sleep cycle. But aside from attending a class, what can we do to ensure our hormones are working as they should be?
Nina, Founder of Chroma Yoga
Nina advises trying to expose yourself to warmer tones of light where possible - but don’t worry, you won’t find yourself dropping off at your desk. Under warmer light you can continue to function as normal, get your work finished and do whatever you need to do, Nina says, only you won’t be suppressing the production of that all-important sleep hormone, melatonin.
Still attached to your phone come bedtime? You can still avoid a sleepless night - most smartphones now have a Night Shift mode (Apple introduced this to their iPhones with iOS 9.3 whereby you can even set it to come on at a regular time. Find it in Settings under Display or toggle it on by simply swiping up) which adapts your screen’s light to be a warmer, more orange hue.
Tech not quite up to date? Nina recommends trying the free f.lux software , which works on both Windows and Mac, to do the same thing for your laptop or computer as you work.
A little home lighting project could help, too. “Lots of people have cold blue bulbs, so change them to a warmer frequency of light,” agrees Nina. “But also decrease the brightness on everything - try to incorporate these ideas into your lifestyle in general. If you are the sort of person who works late on a laptop every day, these things will really make a difference if you do them regularly.”
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I first came across personal trainer Tally Rye a year ago when I took one of her spin classes at spin studio Digme . I came out feeling elated, positive and ready to take on the world. She broke up sprints with words of encouragement and made a point of reminding us we’d chosen to be there, and this time was for us to enjoy, not to punish ourselves. I immediately looked her up on Instagram and saw that she was part of the 'intuitive movement' concept (which I then looked up as well - if it made you feel this good, I wanted more).
Like intuitive eating , intuitive movement is essentially listening to what your body wants. Rather than feeling like you have to go the gym, or need to do a certain exercise, it’s about doing what feels right for your body - going to yoga if you want a bit of headspace, not feeling like you have to do a HIIT class because it's part of some ideal body goal.
“Intuitive movement refers to your body’s innate ability to communicate how, when, how much and how often to move," explains registered nutritionist and intuitive eating counsellor Laura Thomas. "It moves us away from looking at exercising and working out as a means to control our body and towards a way of grounding into and being our body.”
I believe in actually tracking what matters: the physical, tangible progress AND the overall happiness, confidence and wellbeing of each individual
Tally, 29, one third the Girl Gains fitness influencers, grew up believing that exercise was something you did to lose weight or to offset what you ate. It wasn't self-care, it was a necessity, a chore to be endured not enjoyed. She would track her food obsessively and the need to exercise purely to work it off became all-consuming. Being on social media to promote her work didn't help. "Social media had created a fitness body ideal I felt I didn't live up to," she explains in her new book, Train Happy: An Intuitive Exercise Plan for Every Body.
With a photo shoot coming up for her Girl Gains website she dieted for 12 weeks. "When the shoot rolled around my body hadn't really changed and I couldn't help but compare myself to the other girls and feel inferior."
Things clicked when she discovered the book Intuitive Eating £9.03 by dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch and began to let go of the need to shoehorn herself into somebody else's idea of the perfect body and trust her own instincts. "Their 10 principles have been an integral part of my journey to self-acceptance," she writes. "Subsequently, discovering intuitive movement has also opened up a whole new way of approaching fitness."
Fitness is now an important part of her life and the way she looks after her physical and mental health, but it's no longer punitive. "I look forward to my workouts as a form of self-care... I love food and it no longer has power over me - I don't know what I weigh and I don't care."
A key part of the intuitive movement is losing the focus of how you look on the outside - and you what we love about Tally's book is that she makes exercise truly inclusive. You'll see her exercises demonstrated by all body types. It is the most refreshingly upbeat and can-do fitness guides we have seen. You won't find any 'before and after' progress pictures, so beloved of celebs with workout videos to promote. Indeed according to Tally, pictures like this combined with traditional weighing and measuring serve to reinforce the body beautiful culture that she found so damaging.
Here, she explains why it's time to ditch the scales, put away the iPhone and tear up the tape measure and track your progress the 'weight neutral' way.
Intuitive exercise: why it's time to stop weighing, measuring and taking progress pictures
"Traditionally, diet culture has told us to track progress by stepping on the scales, testing body fat percentages, taking measurements and progress pictures. But this constantly reinforces the idea that exercise is not valid unless you are losing weight and transforming your appearance.
"This is how a lot of the fitness industry operates - in a weight-centric paradigm that considers ‘results’ to be weight loss and fat loss. But we know it’s about so much more than that! You CAN have improvements in fitness, strength, balance and flexibility without the number on the scales changing. What I find most frustrating is that often progress in strength, endurance and stamina are overlooked, because the number of inches or the weight loss seems to bear greater value.
"A person may have gone from being able to do zero press-ups to being able to complete five full bodyweight press-ups, and yet if their weight stays the same, to them it might still feel like a failure! In my eyes, that improvement in strength is the real achievement to be proud of and celebrated. I believe in actually tracking what matters: the physical, tangible progress AND the overall happiness, confidence and wellbeing of each individual."
My 3 'weight-neutral' ways of tracking progress
1. Log your workouts, not your weight
"I choose to log all my PT clients’ workouts in a book, where we write down the exercise completed, the weight used and how many reps. It’s pretty simple, but week-on-week we aim to progress the programmed exercises by increasing weight or rep count. This means we can track progress in strength and each new PB (of any exercise) is celebrated with a high five and a star in the book! The logbooks belong to my clients, so they can update them when they’re not with me too, and look back to see how far they’ve come."
2. Take fitness assessments that focus on your PB
This can include a series of exercises that get tested every four to eight weeks depending on the programming. For example, a generic test may include number of press-ups 'to failure', timed full plank to failure, timed wall-sit until failure and how long it takes to row 500 metres. In the workout guide included in my book, I include a personal best test at weeks five and ten, where you perform the same chosen exercise and aim to improve or match your PB. My hope is that by the end, you'll realise how far you have come and celebrate your improvement, no matter how big or small."
3. Keep a mood diary
"As you start your training, note how you feel in your body, in your mind and in spirit. Perhaps that may be noting how you feel before and after an individual workout. Or maybe it’s journaling about how increases in fitness and strength over time have positively impacted your confidence and self-esteem. It’s just as important to be aware of improvements in happiness and wellbeing, as that is what this is truly all about."
Alternative 'weight-inclusive' fitness goals
Strength: This could be increasing bodyweight strength, for example, completing full press-ups, holding a plank or completing a full pull-up etc. It could also be increasing the amount of weight lifted and/or the number of repetitions for any resistance-based exercise.
Endurance: Within your chosen discipline such as running, rowing, swimming, cycling or hiking etc. see how far you can cover in distance. You could also take into account how long you can maintain a certain pace for over a set distance.
Speed: How quickly can you do something within your chosen discipline – sprint 200 metres? Or row 400 metres? You can also combine speed with strength to focus on power as a fitness goal, and you could think of this in the context of plyometrics, for example, measuring how high or far can you jump?
Balance: You can focus on improving balance in practices such as yoga, with a focus on how long you can hold challenging poses for.
Flexibility: Working on lengthening muscles and improving mobility will increase your flexibility. You may notice improvements in everyday functional movements, or with exercises such as overhead squats, deadlifts or the ability to reach new levels in disciplines such as yoga or Pilates.
Mobility. Increased range of motion is most noticeable in areas such as the ankles, hips, back and shoulders. You can aim for things like increased depth of squats and ease of movement in shoulder press exercises, for example.
Coordination: This is often sport-specific. Think about improving agility and reflexes to become better at your chosen sport, for example, tennis or netball.
Joy: This one doesn’t have a specific target to reach or an event to prepare for, but is an ongoing thing you can feel.
But, plot twist! - you don’t have to have a specific goal if you don’t want one.
I’m well aware that some people thrive off of working towards specific goals and tracking progress and others just enjoy moving their body because it makes them feel good. At different points in our lives, we might have specific goals for personal reasons, such as raising money for a charity or cause close to your heart by training for and running a marathon. But by practising intuitive movement, we can work with our bodies and decide what’s best for ourselves as each new year comes and goes.
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Park your racing bike and ditch the hockey stick: swimming is officially the UK’s most popular sport. According to Swim England , 11 million of us use our local pool at least once a month, while research conducted by Mintel reveals that 31 per cent of us swim regularly, compared to 17 per cent in 2014. Perhaps it’s the Rio Olympics effect, maybe it’s the low-impact nature of swimming or it could be calming sensation of gliding through water - whatever the cause, splashing around has never been more popular.
The thing is, said splashing around, or bumbling along doing breaststroke, can get a bit, well, boring, especially if you’re ploughing the lanes for hours. If want to reinvigorate your swimming style and maximise results, you need to HIIT the pool in a whole new way. And if you’re more likely to choose boxing over backstroke? We’ve got some watery facts and hacks that will convince you to mix it up and slip into your swimsuit. On your blocks.
HIIT swimming can halve your workout time
According to researchers at Speedo , swimming for 30 minutes is as effective in terms of cardiovascular output, muscular development and calorie burn as an hour’s land-based workout. Being a swimwear brand, you may think that of course they would say that, but water resistance combined with an increased demand on heart and lungs gives effective swimming the edge, particularly from a cardio point of view. Swimming Nature swimming instructor Eri Coles explains why speed swimming can be a good option if you’re tight for time:
“You'll benefit from a reduction in training time due utilising all muscle groups throughout the workout, so 20-30 minutes is more than enough.”
Obviously, there’s the hair-drying faff to fit in around that, but holding a hairdryer contributes to the full-body workout right?
It’s more than just paddling
Get ready to up the ante - it’s not called HIIT for nothing. Eri underlines how HIIT swimming differs to more leisurely laps (nothing wrong with these of course):
“When most people think of swimming they think continuous cardio, but swimming can be effective in different ways. HIIT swimming allows you to have a different kind of workout in the pool- it allows you to work at a higher intensity, in shorter blasts for maximum cardio effect.”
“HIIT swimming will get you out of breath. A lot of people swim and it’s almost seen as the easy option or the recovery workout, when in fact it can be as tough as any other form of exercise. And of course, it’s a full body workout, whereas if you go to a spinning class, for example, you’re focusing on just your lower body.”
You can HIIT the pool by yourself. Eri recommends “measuring your own rate of perceived exertion, or you could performing intervals whereby you time your drills. If you have a heart rate monitor or fitness wearable you could use this to track how quickly you’re able to recover after each interval over time.” Want a structured programme for ideas? Try the below HIIT swimming workouts, devised by Virgin Active 's swimming experts:
HIIT #1
• Warm up for 5-10mins, starting slowly and picking up the pace every 2 lengths.
• INTERVAL 1 – REPEAT 6 TIMES
Sprint 1 length, active recovery 1 length
• INTERVAL 2 – REPEAT 4 TIMES
Sprint 2 lengths, active recovery 1 length
• INTERVAL 3 – REPEAT 2 TIMES
Sprint 4 lengths, active recovery 2 lengths
• Recovery 3 minutes very slow pace
• Repeat all intervals an additional 1 to 2 times
• Cool down – 5 minutes slow, reducing the pace every 2 lengths
HIIT #2
• Warm up 5-10mins starting slowly and increasing pace every length
• INTERVAL 1 – REPEAT 6 TIMES
Sprint 2 lengths, active recovery 1 lengths
• INTERVAL 2 – REPEAT 4 TIMES
Sprint 1 length kick only, recover 1 length
Sprint 1 length arms only, recover 1 length
• INTERVAL 3 – REPEAT 6 TIMES
Sprint 2 lengths, active recovery 1 length
• Recovery 3 mins very slow pace
• Repeat all intervals an additional 1 to 2 times
• Cool down – 5 mins slow, reducing pace every 2 lengths
Feeling like a fish out of water? Virgin Active’s Hydro class will take you through high-intensity sprints, distance challenges and resistance training to build stamina, strength and muscle tone, while Swimsanity classes are as energetic as they sound - think aqua-drills to a pumping soundtrack. At boutique London gym Third Space the aqua offering is aimed at long-term hardcore swimmers and HIIT fans alike- Tri Swim is ideal for prepping for a Triathlon, while Aqua Fit takes the bootcamp concept to the water, with a focus on using resistance to strengthen muscles.
It’s low impact
In fact, the weightlessness of water means that it’s essentially zero impact, and Eri highlights that this means you’ll reap all the rewards of a high-intensity workout, without the risk of strain to joints or other common HIIT related injuries. In theory, this means that you can slot in more HIIT swimming sessions per week than more high impact styles of training:
“Doing a HIIT swimming session just once a week to give your body a break from high impact workouts can be really kind to your joints. Having said that, due to its low impact nature you can do this type of exercise three to four times a week or more for optimum results.”
“People often don’t think of going for a swim if they’re seeking a rigorous workout, but it can be just as effective as any other form of cardio. On top of that, it can allow you to train more often or for longer. It’s a great way to complement other training too. If you’re injured, rather than missing a workout you can get in the pool. Adding swimming to your weekly workouts will ensure you have a well-rounded and holistic workout programme.”
It’s ‘full body’ training
As mentioned above, swimming is quite the all-rounder:
“When you swim you’re working your entire body from top to toe. There are drills which can be built into a swimming session that will focus specifically on your upper or lower body, but you don’t really need to target different areas, because in the pool you’re working your full body.”
While it is primarily cardio focused, the fitness benefits are also wide-ranging, especially if you add training tools and equipment such as aqua dumbbells (really, they’re a thing), resistance paddles or other water weights, but even without them you’ll be building muscle:
“HIIT swimming can certainly improve your strength. The added resistance of the water means that you will see a noticeable increase in your muscle strength over time, particularly if you’ve got a good technique. It can also be great for shoulder flexibility in particular.”
Speaking of technique…
Different strokes for different folks
The strokes you use in a HIIT swimming session can depend on your level of skill- although some do tend to be speedier than others:
“Technical proficiency plays a big part in terms of the strokes you choose. You need to be able to perform the stroke quickly, and so traditionally the stroke of choice would be front crawl. However, if you’re technically proficient in other strokes there’s no reason you couldn’t use these too. Getting a one to one session can really help to hone your technique and thus improve your efficiency and performance in the water.”
Tempted to dive in at the deep end and thrash it out? Unfortunately, this doesn’t quite count as accomplished HIIT:
“If you’re starting from scratch or have little swimming experience, a private lesson will ensure that you swim more efficiently and that you’re using the energy in the right way, not wasting it. Swimming with poor technique is ineffective and can lead to injuries, particularly in the neck area.”
“A one-to-one will also boost confidence, so that you can give HIIT classes your all both mentally and physically.”
Just as you’d make adjustments modifications in any other HIIT class, you can use floats when and where you need to support you (although a full on armband/ rubber ring combo is probably cheating).
Baby steps/ strokes
If you are training for the likes of a triathlon , or want to take HIIT swimming to the extreme, outdoor swimming sessions will speed your progress along no end, but Eri cautions against leaping into a lake before you’re good and ready:
“The benefit of the pool is that you can train all year round in a controlled environment, where you can focus on your technique without worrying about currents and tides. When you do then swim outdoors, your fitness levels and technique will help you enormously.”
As long as your workouts and goals increase in scope as your improve, with increased speed, distance and interval challenges, your fitness gains will soar too. Sure, you won’t get a badge, but you will streamline and strengthen arms, glutes, calves and pecs, not to mention burn fat and feel mentally refreshed once you emerge from the pool (swimming has been shown to be one of the most beneficial sports for mental health ). See you in the fast lane.
Book a swimming lesson or bespoke programme with Swimming Nature here
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What makes you feel good? A massage? Is getting naked in front of a stranger, lying on a very uncomfortable bed with your face rammed down a hole whilst having your buttocks pummeled really your idea of fun? Or for those of you with a gym membership - how inspired do you feel running on a treadmill for an hour watching Emmerdale? I would hazard a guess that your answer could be “Not very.’
This week as I ran on my gym treadmill, staring at a poster of a greased up muscle man in a tight vest holding some large weights (it was raining outside), I questioned whether traditional companies who are supposed to promote ‘health’ have got it all wrong. It’s outdated to think that being healthy is all about how you look. I don’t spend hours a week exercising (normally outside) because I want to be thinner – I do it because it makes me feel amazing and it helps me de-stress and cope with my mental life (the firmer thighs and tighter stomach are an added bonus). There is not much in my gym to make me feel exhilarated or good about myself: the spin class has the same playlist it did six months ago; they serve stale ham sandwiches and I can make a better coffee in my kitchen at home. No wonder there is a reported 60% drop out rate a year after joining a gym.
So what makes us really feel good? Obviously I can’t speak for everyone but for me it’s about spending time with friends and family, being in contact with nature, laughing, singing to amazing music, running at dawn as the sun comes up, feeling strong in my body, getting out of my comfort zone, dancing (and anything that gets my blood racing for that matter), and eating incredible nutritious food. Thankfully, for all the stale gyms out there with blue office carpet, yellow strip lighting and cheese and pickle baguettes, there is a new wave of other health companies that don’t see looking good and feeling good as mutually exclusive.
Take Psycle , the recently opened spin class in London that’s inspired by the phenomenon that is Soul Cycle in the States. The idea of this adrenalin pumping class is that it not only tones your thighs but blows your mind too. The sound system is so good it belongs in Ibiza, and your average protein-munching, heart-monitoring PT has been replaced by actors, actresses and backing singers who often share a stage with Rihanna.
At its launch, Tim Weeks, the personal trainer behind Psycle explained to me that it's important people forget themselves for an hour and that exercise doesn’t have to be a chore. “We want people to leave on cloud nine," he said. Other brands meanwhile are recognising that being pushed well out of your comfort zone is key to the ultimate endorphin buzz. This will explain the boom in Hot Yoga classes springing up all over the world as well as classes such as naked yoga (big in the States) which has just made it over to the UK. It’s a case of people literally baring their bodies as well as their souls in the name of release.
For me, outdoor exercise is key – I wouldn’t have stuck with exercise over the last few years if it hadn’t been for Steve Mellor at Freedom2Train whose sessions are based outside. There is literally no comparison to a session outdoors in nature, compared to the dreariness of a gym. In a world where we permanently have our heads in our computers and iPhones, it’s a welcome reconnection to the real world.
I’m clearly not the only one who thinks so – according to the National Cycling Charity, cycling has increased 20% in the last 15 years in the UK and triathlons have become the UK’s fastest growing participation sport, at a sprint of 10% a year. Meanwhile endurance events such as Tough Mudder, a whacky outdoor assault course where you run through liquid mud, climb over two dozen obstacles and get electrocuted over a course of 10 miles has grown from a $2million company in 2010 to a $115 million dollar company last year. Wild swimming (swimming in outdoor lidos, lakes, rivers and the sea) has also become the latest fitness buzz; when I went into my local bookshop recently there was an entire stand dedicated to it.
The ultimate proof that wild wellbeing is on the rise is the appearance of wellness areas and even fitness sessions at festivals. A few weeks ago I went to the Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire, an incredible weekend of revelry, amazing food and, yes, wellness. Between the Hix tent, the talk from Angela Hartnett, the feel good music and the wild valley disco, you could also book in at an area called The Sanctuary which was solely dedicated to wellness. It wasn’t so much about you leaving a treatment with great skin but more but about leaving the Sancturary with a skip in your step. You could book in for a REN massage in a yurt, the sounds of the mainstage replacing the usual whales that go with spa treatments, book in for sunrise meditation at 7am or surrender yourself to many teams of highly qualified yoga teachers, massage therapists and healers on hand. If you hadn’t drunk too many cocktails the night before, you could even go on wild runs at dawn or do as I did, and have a trapeze session 60 feet in the air.
I don’t believe that good health should be about restriction, starvation or press-ups in a gym, and it’s outdated to think wellbeing is just for hippies or that healthy food has to be tasteless and bland. Times are changing rapidly; the big gyms and spas need to walk on the wild side a bit more, or fear being left behind.
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It may be one the most expensive, painful and risky surgeries to undergo, but that doesn’t seem to be putting us off: a full abdominoplasty (or tummy tuck) was one the most popular surgical procedures last year, seeing an increase in enquiries of 351% in 2015 alone according to health care search engine WhatClinic.com. Given that we’re becoming far less squeamish when it comes to both stomaching surgery and forking out for it across the board (a record 51,000 opted for cosmetic surgery in 2015), it’s not surprising that the tally for tummy tucks would increase, but it’s the sharp increase over other procedures such as breast augmentation that have proven so striking, as WhatClinic.com director Emily Ross acknowledges:
“The cosmetic surgery and medical aesthetic industries continue to thrive and 2015 saw a massive increase in enquiries for procedures in the UK. On the surgical side of the market, abdominoplasty is the stand out treatment of 2015.”
“This is an industry that moves quickly. Demand is high, but in some cases, so is the risk. That’s why it’s so important for patients to have realistic expectations, and to not be swayed by offers or deals.”
Embarking on surgery under the influence of seductive marketing or societal pressure is clearly a bad idea, but as consultant plastic surgeon and President of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) Michael Cadier highlights, the increase in cosmetic surgical procedures in general could also be indicative of improving standards in the industry:
“There’s no doubt that we are seeing an increase in demand for cosmetic surgery from both men and women. Whether this is inspired by celebrity culture and a recognition that the results of modern aesthetic procedures in the right hands can be subtle, natural-looking and attractive, what is most important is for patients to remember that surgery is on the whole life-changing and irreversible – far from a trivial ‘status symbol’ beauty treatment. The decision to undergo surgery must be well thought-out, with managed expectations, understanding the risks through fully informed consent and; most importantly; choosing the right specialist provider who is properly trained and accredited.”
Knowledge is power
Consultant plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon Mr Ian Whitworth thinks that the the term ‘informed consent’ in particular is key when considering any kind of elective surgery, but especially in the case of abdominoplasty, as it’s a very serious operation, and as such the degree of risk is greater than with other cosmetic procedures:
“It’s important to fully understand that this is a ‘proper’ operation. I always see any prospective abdominoplasty patients at least twice before I operate, to ensure that they can give risk-informed consent and have all the information that they need and want about the procedure. It’s always a good sign when a patient asks me lots of questions, for example about the number of procedures I’ve carried out, about the hospital itself and about any potential outcome of the operation.”
“If you’re looking into abdominoplasty, I would first encourage you to seek advice from your GP. Your GP will know which hospitals in your area are reputable and may even be able to advise as to good surgeons. This will hopefully mean that you’re able to avoid any questionable clinics offering abdominoplasty. In addition always do a thorough background check on surgeons and their qualifications. It might also be worth asking if the hospital at which you’re seeking treatment has any patients on record who’ve undergone the procedure that you’re considering and are willing to be contacted to chat through it. This is something that some of my patients ask for, and we have a list of former patients who are happy to talk about their experience.”
Not a weight-loss wonder
According to BAAPS figures, abdominoplasties were more popular amongst women than men in 2015 (incidentally, women had 91% of all cosmetic procedures in 2015 which is quite a shocker). Possible motivations for seeking out the surgery range from stretched, loose skin post-pregnancy or post-weight loss and addressing the ‘pouch’ of fat and skin that can be left behind after a caesarean section. Mr Whitworth notes that the majority of his patients have achieved their weight loss goals by way of healthy eating and exercise, but the skin left behind does not respond to dietary changes or physical activity. One of his patients lost more than eight stone in weight, and having an abdominoplasty made all the difference in terms of making them feel comfortable and achieving their ultimate goal. With this in mind, Mr Whitworth emphasises that abdominoplasty is not a ‘weight-loss’ surgery; you need to have achieved your target weight by the time of having the operation. There are a number of other health and lifestyle factors to consider if you’re contemplating a tummy tuck:
“Firstly a patient needs to be medically fit enough to undergo a general anesthetic, although general anaesthetics are considered to be very safe these days for the most part. Patients who are morbidly obese or have a complicated history, such as having experienced strokes in the past, will not be able to have the procedure. You’ll need to give up smoking if you’re a smoker (smoking increases infection risk and delays healing), be at peak fitness and have a healthy weight. For the operation to be worth it long term, you’ll also need to have finished your family if you have one and stay more or less at the weight you are when you are operated on, otherwise in both cases you’ll be back to square one in terms of slack skin.”
If you’ve decided that an abdominoplasty is for you, first bear in mind that on average you’re looking at a bill of £5,491, according to WhatClinic.com. Next, as Mr Whitworth stresses, it’s vital to mull over the risks, possible side effects and post-op scarring:
“The treatment is normally straightforward, but infection is a worry, especially if you’re diabetic or taking steroids (this should be thoroughly discussed with your surgeon beforehand). Bleeding and bruising could occur, and in the case of abdominoplasty there’s a specific risk of seroma, a build-up of fluid between your skin and muscle.”
“As for scarring, you’ll be left with a large, long scar on the bottom of your tummy, although it shouldn’t show when you’re wearing underwear or swimwear.”
Time is a healer
Abdominoplasty recovery is also fairly prolonged compared to other cosmetic surgery procedures; Mr Whitworth outlines the rough recovery schedule for an average abdominoplasty operation:
“It can take up to six week to recover fully from a full abdominoplasty. For the first two weeks, you’ll need to rest a lot. That doesn’t mean bedrest- you should do some gentle walking, but if you overdo it, you’ll be wiped out the next day. You definitely shouldn’t do any lifting within the first two weeks of the operation. During weeks three to four you’ll be able to get about more, do some shopping and go for lunches without feeling so tired. Weeks five to six you’ll be feeling fitter and more energetic, but do be aware that, as if you’ve had a caesarean, you’ll likely not be able to drive for six weeks, and if you do a job that’s physical or involves heavy lifting, you’ll need to take the full six weeks off work.”
A ‘full’ abdominoplasty isn’t the only option of course if you’re seeking to remove a small amount of skin and fat- a mini tummy tuck will take care of a smaller area, resulting in a smaller scar and, ideally, a shorter recovery time, although this isn’t a given. During recovery you may be prescribed or recommended certain painkillers, and you may also need to sleep with knees bent to prevent stretching any stitches.
Filter out the flak
There’s no doubt that an abdominoplasty isn’t a cosmetic procedure to be taken lightly (then again, no surgical or cosmetic procedures should be undergone without serious consideration), however, as Dr Whitworth highlights, its effects can be life changing in the most positive of ways if excess skin and fat previously had a detrimental impact on your quality of life:
“As long as your body weight doesn’t fluctuate, you continue to eat healthily and exercise and you don’t have any more children, the effects of the operation should last a very long time, and can make a huge difference to your wellbeing. You’ve got to weigh up the pros and cons and assess whether it’s worth it for you, but the benefits can be very rewarding. I received a Christmas card last year from a patient with a picture of her in a bikini, smiling. She hadn’t worn a bikini for over sixteen years, so that was quite a remarkable change for her, for the better.”
High quality care, top notch treatment and reliable expertise, not to mention impressive results, could be one reason that more ‘traditional’, surgically skilled treatments such as abdominoplasty (first performed in 1899) and liposuction are on the rise, as BAAPS president Rajiv Grover indicates:
“The 2015 BAAPS audit has shown that demand for cosmetic surgery continues to increase following the quieter period in 2014 which mirrored the British economy. The double digit rise in surgical procedures suggests that the public are choosing to spend on treatments with a proven track record such as facelifts and liposuction which remain as the gold standard for facial rejuvenation and body contouring. The plethora of new non-invasive methods for skin tightening and cellulite that are here today and gone ‪tomorrow, often appear too good to be true and fail to make the cut.”
According to BAAPS, another trigger for increased take-up could be a new attitude towards cosmetic surgery itself, as more open minds are driving ‘increased acceptance and the de-stigmatizing of aesthetic enhancement.’ Less judgement is without doubt a constructive step forward, but as Harley Medical Group Psychologist Jo Hemmings relates, a perfectionist culture can prevail without us even necessarily being conscious of it in a world of filtered Instagram #goals:
“Whether we are aware of it or not, social media puts pressure on ourselves to be selfie-perfect. For some this is simply a case of using a filter or an image-adjusting app on their smartphones before posting it, but for others it instills a crisis of confidence and a real desire to make more substantial alterations to their face or body, often above and beyond any procedures that could be considered to help them feel better about themselves. Selfie culture has undoubtedly caused a significant rise in body and facial dysmorphia.”
Doing what’s right for you, and only you, needs to be at the heart of any decision you make, both within and without. Trite, but true.
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A glass of rose? A little nibble of bread? Dipped in aioli? An olive? A bit more bread? More aioli? More rose? Why the hell not? I’m on my holidays! Do they really deep-fry the squid here? How marvellous! Dipped in more aioli? And chips? With a little drizzle of mayo over the top? Is that the House Special? How charming! More rose? More bread? Oh! Wow the chips? Dipped in the aioli? Oh, I really shouldn’t. Well… just one.
Welcome to summer in Ibiza. Or indeed welcome to any summer anywhere across Europe. Where all those good lemon-sucking intentions hewn over the past 11 months, fall by the wayside. After 50 weeks of nothing but limp, flaccid salad and tap water for lunch, it becomes perfectly normal to drink your bodyweight in pink wine or 'lady petrol', as a charming friend of mine calls it, and trough down a triple carb lunch, swiftly followed by a snooze on a lounger, mouth open catching flies, only to wake up, yawn, fart, throw yourself into the Med and move onto a gentle cocktail to help the sun go down.
“Watch out for the summer stone,” warned the fragrant nutritional therapist, Amelia Freer last time I saw her, when I boastfully hinted I might pack a bikini for my holiday in Ibiza (fortunately for those still capable of vision on Salinas beach at 2.30pm, I haven’t. There is only so much 40 something flesh you can display in broad daylight without having to hand out free anti-emetics). “You’d be amazed how many of my clients tumble off the wagon as soon as they see the sun. The summer is in fact a much more dangerous time than Christmas. I can’t tell you how many of my clients come back from a fortnight in Italy and suddenly find they can’t fit into their jeans.”
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I suppose it must be an age thing. Once you hit 30/35, or possibly 40? Your idea of fun radically alters. When I was in my 20s I wanted to travel as far and wide and see as much as humanly possible, on as little money as humanly possible. Lunch, quite frankly, didn’t come into it. An apple, a biscuit and a bottle water with my feet floating in the shallows of the Trevi fountain was my idea of luxury. I remember sleeping rough on the beaches of Dahab, Sinai (not something I would recommend to anyone these days) and saving my coins up to share a banana pancake a day with my girlfriend in the oddly named Fighting Kangaroo beach bar, just so that we could stay and dive a little longer.
On holidays we lost weight, on holidays we starved ourselves till our hip bones poked out over the top of our bikini bottoms; on holidays you prided yourself on spending less than £2.50 on all your food for the entire day, just so you could spend a little longer seeing something or doing something else.
Now of course it is all about food. And the drink. And the food and the drink. Oh and the chat. Now I choose a beach, not because of the waves and the sand, but for the wine and the grilled fish and the view of the beach from the restaurant so that I can see my children in the surf while still holding my glass of something chilled.
And this sort of relaxation does nothing for your waistline. You kid yourself that you’re swimming every day, but a five minute float barely cracks the back of the bowl of chips at lunchtime and when you consider that a glass of wine is supposedly the calorific equivalent of a piece of bread, it is quite easy to get through a couple of loaves a night.
But then again, life really is too short to say no to the deep fried calamari rings and to deny yourself the warm fresh bread dipped in thick pungent garlic mayo. So I think for the next few weeks we should all kick back and relax, have a slurp of wine and have a nice lie down – at least we’ll look thinner that way.
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It is that time of year again, when you’re supposed to pull your lardy rear off that well-worn corner of the sofa and self-improve in some way. But the question is how? What is the chic thing we are supposed to be doing? What is down with the kids, this year? What have the cognoscenti suddenly declared to be ‘a phenomena’? What can’t you move through the guffs of detox breath and the vaping clouds without hearing mumblings, mentions or snippets of conversation about?
Last year it was the 5:2 . Anyone who was anyone, who’d met anyone, who’d shagged anyone, had done it, was on it, was about to do it, or was smugly sporting their skinny jeans from 1987 because of it. This year, apparently, it’s all about Headspace .
The brainchild of a former celibate Tibetan monk from Bristol, Andy Puddicombe , Headspace is a meditation app that helps calm the manic, mad, meanderings of the modern mind, so effectively that it has, in the last two years, developed into a global hit worth over £25m and counting. With fans ranging from our Gwyneth to the super cerebral Emma Watson, the app is now the go-to source of tranquillity and relaxation for your high-flying execs of this world.
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Including my Less Attractive Half, who is, bizarrely, one of nature’s early adopters of almost anything. He’s been all over maca, The GI, coconut water, Fatkins, Thin-kins, any-old-kins: but this – Headspace - he swears by. As do the majority of his friends, and those who don’t swear by it just haven’t used it yet.
Personally, as I am about as high flying as a hippo and am also the proud owner of a brain whose greatest recurring problem is an addiction to crisps - for which I was once successfully hypnotised against by the guru to the stars, Paul McKenna – I have yet to switch on to Headspace. But all I can say is its effects around our household have been extraordinary.
The Black Dog that used to stalk our house, every year at around this time, due to lack of sunshine, fun and/or that charming post-festive tax bill, no longer shows his mournful howling face. That detached bloke who used to sit on the beach and read the whole of summer long, while his children badgered and begged him to play with them in the sea, has ceased to exist. And that man who couldn’t be bothered to go to the gym, who’d rather eat a bag of children’s sweets than a proper supper, now has something of a six pack and an early morning spin class habit that would put Victoria Pendleton to shame.
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It wasn’t an overnight transformation; after all sitting in the lav for 10 minutes every morning while listening to a self help tape is not going to change things at the flick of a switch. But change they did. Slowly but surely, over the past 18 months the mood in the house has modified. There is a little more engagement, a little more laughter and a lot more movement. The sedentary sadness that used to engulf the whole of January and often seep into February and March has been contained into a few dull Sunday afternoons.
Not that Headspace is some sort of panacea, in fact, I am pretty sure it is not. But for a lot of miserable middle-aged blokes who used to find their young children more of a challenge than a laugh, it seems to make them realise that it is the ‘present' they are missing out on, rather than wishing this whole dreary stage would pass.
So this year, forget the fives, the twos, the chia, the juicing, it is getting into your head that counts. And to get into your head: get an app.
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According to the NHS, coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide and is responsible for approximately 73,000 deaths in the UK each year. With high cholesterol levels becoming a growing problem among the population, we wondered whether there were some easy yet effective ways that we could change up our diet to help offset its negative side-effects. The good news is there are.
We asked nutritional therapist and founder of GP Nutrition Gabriela Peacock for her top picks of foods that lower cholesterol to help provide a more natural way to improve our overall health both in the short and long-term.
1. Plant stanols and sterols
“These ‘functional foods’ occur naturally in small amounts in a range of plant foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, cereals and vegetable oils,” says Gabriela. “They have a similar structure to cholesterol and therefore actively block cholesterol absorption from the gut. This can help achieve reductions in LDL (low-density lipoproteins) cholesterol levels in the blood, (LDL is the cholesterol that we don’t want),” she adds.
2. Oats
“There is plenty of evidence to show that oats help manage cholesterol levels,” says Gabriela. “They’re rich in a soluble fibre called beta-glucan, which attaches to cholesterol and inhibits its absorption. A daily intake of about 3g is considered an adequate amount to make a difference,” she recommends.
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3. Soluble fibre
“Soluble fibre can trap some of the cholesterol in our digestive system and help get rid of it (through the stool) before it’s absorbed,” explains Gabriela. “It is found in oatmeal, barley, beans, pulses, sweet potatoes, peas and lentils.”
How much should you aim for a day? “20g daily,” Gabriela recommends.
4. Healthy fats
Another way to reduce ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol and increase ‘good’ HDL (high-density lipoproteins) cholesterol is to swap trans and saturated fats for more heart-friendly versions. “Choose healthier fats such as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats in olive oil, rapeseed oil, avocado, nuts and seeds,” says Gabriela.
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5. Oily fish
“Eat oily fish regularly,” recommends Gabriela. “Omega-3 fats found in oily fish can help lower blood triglyceride levels. Include herring, mackerel, pilchards, sardines, salmon, trout and fresh tuna and aim for 2-3 portions a week.”
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Aries
On Thursday 23rd June, Uranus conjuncts Ceres in Aries, your own birth sign. In April, your world turned upside down for a week or two, and you woke up to find yourself in a completely different universe, where your image, name, profile or identity was concerned. It may have been about the way you physically appear. It may have been about your reputation. Now, as June draws to a close, you hit the second stage of this long process of change. What has brought about this change? Sometimes you need a person from your past to appear, to remind you of who you once were, and how you were once regarded. Maybe it takes two people from your past to do that, or more. The new you becomes a version of the old you – the you that had been buried. Other reasons for the revolution may be professional. You have a new gig, you need a new look. Or – some people regard your old style or presentation as out of step with the demands of some new project or task. Aries, I won’t go on, because you have your own personal story here. Just remember that with Uranus, the revolution is never complete. Ceres is the other key player this week. She always raises questions about how power should be shared, and whor what should be in control, at what time. This may be about your teeth. It may be about the labels you stick on yourself. If you can find some way to meet others halfway, share or compromise (even with the universe) your life will be happier.
Taurus
If you are typical of your sign, then over the last five years, you have been tempted to go behind other people’s backs and do something remarkably sneaky, surreptitious – and satisfyingly successful. Snake in the grass? Well, why ever not? Of course most Taureans have resisted the temptation, as they are good and honest creatures who would never stoop to such subterfuge. Nevertheless, you would not be human if you had not been tempted. If you were born in April or May, you may have succumbed of course, and probably paid the price. In all cases, though, the focus this week is once again on what you do behind the scenes, under wraps or far away from other people’s eyes and ears. This is where the thrills are. It’s where the excitement is. The Shock of the New, to quote Robert Hughes. What is different, though, to that sense of awakening and great change that you saw in April? The answer rests with the new need for compromise. For sharing. You may be carving up this inner world, or this great secret, with the universe – or other people.
Gemini
In April you experienced the full thrust of Uranus in Aries, in your Eleventh House of friends and groups. Nothing will ever be the same again. A friendship or group situation which had confined and restricted you more than you may have ever realised, is over. You have seen an old group or circle of friends, perhaps dating from your very distant past, reconstructed in a new way. Your standard view of an old friend, or the way friends relate to each other, has altered forever. Maybe a new circle sprung up in your life, featuring familiar faces, but joined together in new patterns. All of this has been confronting and exhilarating, and it is also two months behind you. What next? Well, the presence of Ceres in Aries this week suggests that friendship and group thinking are on your agenda again. This time there must be agreement about the best way to share control or power in a very highly charged situation. It is rather like being in Blur a few years ago and trying to figure out the dynamics, the time, the energy, the roles, rights and responsibilities. Another example might be John Cleese’s experiences in Monty Python in the Sixties. He had the same cycle then, that you are having now. Monty Python became far more powerful once individual power bases had been figured out. Can a group of friends change a corner of the world? That one did. The satire movement of the Sixties in Britain changed comedy and it also altered politics. Peter Cook, who also had the same cycle you are experiencing now, was involved in the ensemble cast of Beyond The Fringe and with his good friend Dudley Moore, under the same Uranus patterns you are experiencing today. One clue about this cycle? Forget normal or ordinary. Go for new, different and radical. And – never forget what unity can achieve. (Once you’ve figured out how to share the microphone).
Cancer
Uranus and Ceres (often ignored in astrology, but a planet the equivalent of Pluto) now dominate your horoscope. These two players are change merchants. Prepare to be changed, and also embrace change. This isn’t the first time. What you experienced in April has permanently altered the way you see your role, goal, industry, project, plan, title, business or subject. Despite the disruption that month, you were also liberated from places, people, situations or organisations which were far more restrictive than you may have realised. In fact, the difference in the last two months is so substantial that you may now be wondering how on earth you got by, for so long, with such extreme limitations. What happens this week is another big step in the process. The process itself might be called a revolution for your curriculum vitae. It is a slow revolution, but it is also enabling you to make new discoveries – and also make it up as you go along. How many times have you thrown your job description on the floor in the last few years? How many times have you rejected the stale, traditional, stuck, conservative or just plain dull interpretation of your own role? I am sure you have done it in your imagination countless times. What happens this week is a reshuffle and it may be literal. Promotion or demotion in your world is not unheard of when Ceres comes to town. Sideways moves and mergers are also common enough. The reshuffle may also be less formal and dramatic, though. It’s rather like being dealt a different hand at the table, while others are also given new cards. The trick is, playing fair and square.
Leo
In April your horizons expanded and your world became bigger. This liberated you to travel, read, study, write, teach, publish or use the internet in a new way. What got you there was nothing short of a revolution in your world, although at the time you may have been so deeply involved in it, that you did not quite understand what was taking place. That was then, this is now. In 2015 you had limitations and restrictions placed upon you, which kept you pretty tightly laced, when it came to the world of the web, journeys, academia, workshops, books, other regions or other countries. What happened in April turned everything upside down, and spun you around. It has also dumped you, happily enough, in the position you find yourself in now. The next phase of change is upon you. It will involve (by this weekend) a tremendous need for tolerance, understanding, sympathy and mind-reading. I know that you identify with the role of leader, guide or mentor, but you are now going to have to put that side and play ball in a different way. Others want power. Others have power. Others want control. Others have control. You are not exactly short of this yourself, but you are both (or all) going to have to construct a radically new game together. If you all play, you all win, on some level. If nobody plays, then forget it. Whatever it takes to make this work, try to make it work, Leo.
Virgo
They say that the cycle of Uranus through your zone of money, possessions, business and property liberates you from situations you did not know were confining you, so much. This happened in April. For most of January-March you were stuck in the same loop which presented itself in 2015, restricting you more than you may have admitted to yourself. Those circumstances are now gone – and you have had two months to find out what life feels like when you have tons of space and new room to move. Uranus has not finished with you yet, though. This week he conjuncts Ceres, an ancient symbol of seasonal changes and also the art of sharing. There is a pie which will be cut very differently once this week is over. It needs to be a pie which everyone can accept or the recipe will not work and you will miss your chance of real progress. I don’t think anyone is going to find this process comfortable, smooth or easy! Ceres is not like that. Uranus is not like that. Whatever you must do, though, with the house, apartment, company, buying/selling, bank, special objects and the rest – must be accepted as a pie whose time has come. Long-term this will work out and the compromise has its own value and beauty if you are prepared to look past the usual definitions of ‘the best’ and interpret what is there, in a more thoughtful way. You make what’s best, by deciding what’s valuable.
Libra
The dwarf planet Ceres was promoted in 2006 in the same year that Pluto (her son-in-law in mythology) was demoted. The playing field was levelled. This is now happening to you in your marriage, or common-law marriage. It may also be taking place with your former or potential partner. This cycle, Ceres in your Seventh House, is also linked to the lopsided scales that occur when someone is heavily weighed against you. A rival, enemy or opponent – for example. Ceres will conjunct Uranus, that ancient symbol of extreme change, this week. It is the latest episode in a long running story which began in April. The idea is to submit to what comes, but with two principles in mind. The first is your own precious freedom and independence. The second is a level playing field, in every sense of the word. The new arrangement to come may be formal or quite informal, but it has to honour the need both of you have to stay in control and to feel empowered – or perhaps become empowered. What you experienced in April radically altered the known world but it also opened up all the doors and windows to something (or perhaps) someone new. You were given more space and more oxygen – more room to move psychologically, emotionally or sexually. Now, you are at another crossroads when you must do all you can to co-create everything with the other person. This applies no matter if the issue is love or war.
Scorpio
Uranus will conjunct Ceres this week in Aries, the sign which rules your lifestyle, workload and body. Aries describes your daily routine in every detail, and covers your sleep, food, drugs, drink, healer, doctor, gym, pool, dentist and the rest. It is also a symbol for your work ethic and your sense of service and duty to others, from waking to sleeping. What you experienced in April was confronting but also liberating. You may have been quite unaware of the limitations and restrictions you had been operating under in 2015 and 2016 really began for you, that month – at least in terms of your body, working day and lifestyle. I include housework in ‘work’ by the way as it is a key part of this cycle. Now, you meet the next challenge and also the next big chance for a more independent existence. The Ceres-Uranus conjunction is likely to squeeze out sparks, but it is also a potent way for you to embrace the new. The art critic Robert Hughes called modern art ‘The Shock of the New’ and there is something rather confronting, unprecedented, revolutionary and innovative about what is to come. It is about invention, not the repetition of the past. Be the artist and architect of your own daily life and also, importantly, your own body. That way lies the exhilaration of freedom even though you are a fixed sign, and traditionally do not embrace change.
Sagittarius
Everyone you know will be affected by this week’s rare Uranus-Ceres conjunction in Aries, just as they were affected by the April stelliums in the same sign. Back in April, you saw radical changes all over the place and perhaps a genuine case of the world turning upside down. This has altered the landscape and people are free, when they were not free before. They have room to move, when they were cramped or restricted last year. For you, the shift occurred in relation to the way you see pregnancy, babies, children or young adults. The way you see youth or younger people. The way you regard the lovers who might bring this generation into your life. This week, Sagittarius, we have another pattern in this area of your horoscope. Freedom – the kind we associate with uncompromising autonomy and the right to invent one’s own life – comes any way it will. Sometimes the events which set you free are not what you would have ordered (not in a million years). You cannot turn back the clock, though, and you can only keep surfing this new tide of change. This is a good time to accept that new really does mean new. There is something untried about what lies ahead. This means making it up as you go along – no bad thing – and the chance to start again. Independence is a magic word that will mean a lot this week. If you honour independence on this cycle you won’t go far wrong. Just remember that sometimes the ancient myth of Ceres can come alive, in a literal way. The Romans tell us that Ceres had to share her daughter with her son-in-law, dividing the year into Autumn and Winter (when her daughter Proserpina was away) and Spring and Summer (when she was welcomed home). Child custody is sometimes a very real outcome of this cycle. If you are affected it may be cathartic to read the old story of Pluto, Proserpina and Ceres. To everything there is a season – turn, turn, turn.
Capricorn
For an earth sign like yourself, grounded and settled, it can be quite confronting to deal with Uranus in the Fourth House of your horoscope. The Fourth House rules your roots, sanctuary, belonging, home, kinfolk and homeland. It describes what holds you and grounds you, no matter if it is a high-rise apartment or a sense of patriotism and nationhood. Back in April you experienced the first real signs of tremendous change. I am sure it must have been confronting for you or others, because Uranus (which led the stellium in your Fourth House) does nothing by halves. Now that everything is in a new place, you should be able to appreciate that it was time for ‘home’ and ‘family’ and perhaps ‘household’ to mean something quite different. Accepting the difference in this new world also means embracing freedom and you should be pretty pleased about that. In fact, you may have had no concept of how restricted, tied or bound you were last year. Now, we come to another key turning point in the story of your greater independence. It will necessarily involve sharing and compromise. The territory must be divided, no matter if we are talking property, rooms, the garden, or the more subtle question of emotional or psychological territory. Families and shared households are often stories about control and power – the sharing of the reins – and it is clear that those reins must now be distributed in a new way. I mentioned at the start of your forecast that you were an earth sign. True, but you are also ruled by Saturn, an ancient symbol of tremendous caution, method and micro-management. This is all well and good but sometimes you have to embrace the times, and the times are encouraging you to experiment with your house, apartment, family, household, town or country. To be free. To savour genuine independence. If that means innovative compromise, so be it.
Aquarius
Your planetary ruler is Uranus in astrology, a symbol we associate with electricity. In the year he was discovered, an Italian scientist was experimenting with what would ultimately become the battery. Batteries power torches –they bring light in the darkness. In the same year, the Enlightenment woke up the Western world. I mention this, because your ruling planet is about to make a rare conjunction to Ceres this week. In modern astrology we live in enlightened times too, and ever since 2008, when Ceres became the astronomical equal of Pluto, the horoscope has looked different. If Uranus is about the lights going on (especially with your approach towards the internet, ideas, books, concepts, language, multimedia and communication) then Ceres is about something no less important. We link her to the four seasons and the need to adjust and adapt, no matter if you prefer winter or summer. You are now about to see not only more change with your life online – and perhaps offline – but also, a seasonal adjustment. You cannot have your favourite season all the time. You have to release and let go. Other people, other organisations or life itself must have the upper hand from time to time, and you must accept that. This is now the case with your project, your computer, your course, your great plan, your big idea or your microphone. You live in enlightened times. Allow certain truths to be exposed and illuminated this week, and feel the electricity charge the atmosphere. This should also be an exciting time, by rights. Why? Because you are free. You are independent. If that also means compromising or sharing, then so be it.
Pisces
You have taken an unorthodox approach to your money, possessions, house, business interests, charity or apartment in recent years and it has worked well. At the same time, any situation which trapped you, confined you and restricted you has been well and truly overturned. If you think back to the years that Uranus has been in Aries, since 2011, I am sure you will find at least one example of a situation where you were kept small, or kept dancing to the tune of another. It may have been a family member who paid your bills. It may have been shopping itself, or the world of banks, who keep us on a very tight leash, even while they are advertising images of beaches and ski slopes where we might be free. It is important to think back on these episodes where you were forced to change course and alter your thinking. I am sure you did not welcome one or two of them at all, but they loosened things up. Now, you are at a point in your year where things will once again be unlocked and untied. You may be such an enlightened being by now, that you are the person who is insisting on snapping open the locks or cutting off the cords. Ceres is conjunct Uranus, so there will be a crucial compromise or a process of sharing – maybe division. You could say this is about the cash, the objects or the home – or the company. Actually, it is about power and control. This new arrangement must honour your core need for independence, though. You are being given it on this cycle and you must take it. That is the whole point of Uranus in Aries, nothing more and nothing less.
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Ever joined a concierge service? No. Me neither. I’ve always figured if I live in a city then I should know it better than any concierge service. Pah. Concierge Services. They should make ME a concierge service. Or at least that’s always been the line until I had something called a moxibustion massage from an outfit that calls itself Ellidore Lifestyle , a wellness concierge for rich people who are poor on time, which means at least I’m half eligible to join.
Christa D'Souza has found the answer to all her wellness prayers...
Co-founder Of Ellidore Lifestyle, Simon Blackford.
I came home half dead as usual and dreading have to interact with anyone other than my bed when Yuki, one of their top therapists plucked from the Como Shambhala spa, arrived with massage table in tow. I’ve had a few massages in my time and I didn’t particularly want one anyway, to be honest, but goodness this woman was something else. And goodness was moxibustion, which involved burning a herb called mugwort and placing it on various points of the body to suck out all the cold and damp, something else too.
Just as you can tell a restaurant by its lavatories and a man by his shoes, I think you can tell a concierge company by its massage. And massage is by no means their USP. Wanna drop 10lbs to fit into your Vera Wang wedding dress for example? They’ll not only get you the personal trainer (they have Dalton Wong, Jennifer Lawrence’s guy, on their books) they’ll get him or her to go with you to the FITTING so they know exactly where it is you have to lose it! Want the perfect music to jog to? They’ve teamed up with Playlister, a group of top DJs whose clients have included Madonna, Tinie Tempah and Stevie Wonder. Sign up as a member and you get a complimentary playlist and a piece of Lucas Hugh (another partner of theirs) to boot.
MORE GLOSS: Christa D'Souza on how to survive party season, stylishly
Oh, it gets better. They’ve got gluten free bakery Pear & Groove on their books and, if you don’t give a f*** about health and fitness, they can get you a table at Chiltern Firehouse, no problem. Not a table for ten, though, because there ISN’T a table for ten. They can’t do Peruvian bears wearing spectacles either, in case you were wondering. (A Russian client asked them to provide two for a party but they had to politely tell him no).
The icing on that gluten-free cake? Google their super friendly, super hands on co-founder Simon Blackford; 28, an ex-model and the former face of Yves Saint Laurent. Deary me. Ice. Eskimos. Coals. Newcastle. I’ll say no more.
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The menopause is officially the moment after your last ever period and commonly happens between the ages of 49 and 53. But there’s nothing unusual about it happening five years either side, at 46 or 56 and for changes around the menopause to go on for years.
Predicting the age at which it happens is extremely difficult and symptoms (including headaches, hot flushes , sweats, anxiety, irregular periods) can often be attributed to other things. So how do you know when what you are experiencing is the menopause?
GP Dr Rosemary Leonard, one of the country's leading GPs and author of Menopause: The Answers says her own "here we go" moment happened around the age of 52, "when I suddenly found myself needing to shed my warm cardigan in the middle of a practice meeting on a cold winter’s night.” In her practice, she is often asked by women confused about their symptoms.
Here, six women in their 30s and 40s, put their questions to Dr Leonard.
1. What's with my erratic moods?
Kate, 49: “For the last few months my periods have been really erratic and completely unpredictable. One month I had two, then I had a six-week gap before I had a horrendously heavy one. And I’ve noticed I’m getting a bit more moody. I presume this means I’m perimenopausal, but how long is this going to carry on? Is there a test you can do which can show you when my periods are going to stop?”
Dr Rosemary Leonard: “The pattern of erratic periods at her age suggests that she was approaching the menopause. Unfortunately, there isn’t a test that can show when periods are going to stop. Checking the level of FSH – Follicle Stimulating Hormone, which ‘drives’ the ovaries – is hopelessly unreliable, it might suggest her ovaries were working normally one day, and then the next if checked again it could suggest she was menopausal. It’s impossible to know how long this completely erratic pattern of bleeding will continue, but in my experience, it’s unusual for ‘menstrual chaos’ to last more than a year. But if the bleeding really became a nuisance, I advised her that there are treatments that can help.”
2. How do I know when my periods will stop?
Melinda, 48: “My periods were regular until a couple of months ago, but now I’ve just missed one – there was a gap of eight weeks between my last one and the one that’s just started now. Does this mean I’m menopausal? If so, when are the flushes going to start? And what exactly is happening in my body? Is there a test you can do that will tell me for sure when my periods are going to stop?”
Dr Rosemary Leonard: “The change in her periods suggested that she was approaching the menopause. However, I had to tell her that there wasn’t a test she could do that would say when her periods were going to stop. Checking her FSH levels wouldn’t help – even if the level was very high today, it could be lower the next day and it wouldn’t tell her if she was going to have another period. Similarly, there is no way of knowing if she was going to have hot flushes or not – she will just have to wait and see what happens!”
3. I get anxious about silly things...
Angie, 46: “My periods have always been a bit erratic. My last one was four months ago, but this has happened before. I’m not having flushes or sweats, but I’m aware I’m quite moody, and I often get really anxious about silly little things, which isn’t like me at all. I am under stress at work, but I wondered if it’s the menopause? Is there any way of finding out?"
Dr Rosemary Leonard: “It would have been possible to do a check of her FSH levels, but it was unlikely to be very helpful, unless it was sky-high, indicating that her ovaries had stopped working completely. Not only that, but it wouldn’t be very helpful in managing her symptoms. It was the mood swings and anxiety that were bothering her, and although if she was menopausal HRT might help a bit, there are better, non-hormonal treatments for this type of problem, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, or antidepressants.”
MORE GLOSS: "I started having panic attacks in my mid-40s. It was the start of the menopause"
4. My periods are more frequent
Flo, 43: "My cycle has changed. I always used to have periods every 29 days, counting between the first day of one and the first day of the next. But for the last five months they are coming more frequently, every 25 days, though they are still regular. I haven’t got any other symptoms, like hot flushes, but does this change in my cycle mean I’m perimenopausal? And if so, how long before my periods stop altogether?"
Dr Rosemary Leonard: “It was very unlikely that Flo was in the perimenopause. She still had a regular cycle, indicating that her ovaries were working normally. Her shortened cycle was normal for a woman in her early forties, and was not in any way a sign that her periods were about to stop altogether. When that will happen is impossible to predict, but as with most women, it’s likely that her periods will stop somewhere around the age of 51.”
MORE GLOSS: perimenopause, the hormonal hell that could be affecting the 40+
5. I'm getting bleeding between periods
Janey 48: I’m not sure what is happening with my periods. I still seem to get what I’d call a ‘normal’ period every month, but I’m getting some bleeding in between them as well. It’s generally a bit lighter than a period, sometimes just a bit of spotting. This tends to happen especially after sex. Does this mean I’m perimenopausal? I do feel a bit anxious sometimes, but haven’t had any flushes or sweats.
Dr Rosemary Leonard: “Though erratic bleeding can be a sign of the perimenopause, it is very unusual for hormone changes alone to cause spotting between periods, or after sex. This type of bleeding is much more likely to be due to another cause, unrelated to hormones, such as a small polyp (or outgrowth) from the lining of the womb or cervix, or an infection. When I examined her I could see nothing unusual, but an ultrasound scan showed she had a small polyp extending from the lining of her womb into her cervix, which was the cause of her bleeding. It was removed during a small operation, and after that, her unusual bleeding stopped.”
6. I'm only 34 but I'm having hot flushes and sweats
Rose, 34: “I came off the Pill a year ago, because my partner and I wanted to start a family. Since then I haven’t had a period. I’ve done loads of pregnancy tests and they have all been negative. But what’s worrying me now is I’m having hot flushes and sweats. A friend suggested it could be the menopause, but I’m far too young for that, surely?”
Dr Rosemary Leonard: “The combination of no periods, flushes and sweats does suggest the possibility of the menopause, which occasionally does happen in young women. I suggested we do a blood test for her FSH level, and also for ovarian antibodies. Her FSH was 34, suggesting that her ovaries were not working properly, which was due to her high level of ovarian antibodies. She was understandably devastated, especially as she wanted a baby. After I had given her some time for the news to sink in, I suggested she have HRT, to help stop her flushes and sweats, to protect her bones, and also to help maintain her skin and hair. I told her that the dose of oestrogen was low, and that it would not stop her ovulating if her ovaries did start working again. She gradually seemed to come to terms with her fate and started thinking about adoption. However, two years later, she came to see me because she had not had her usual monthly HRT withdrawal bleed and, rather miraculously, she was pregnant. She went on to have a healthy baby boy. After her pregnancy, she immediately became menopausal again, and only had the one child.”
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PHILADELPHIA, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, ClinChoice announced the successful completion of its $150 mm Series E round financing. The investment was led by Legend Capital, and co-invested by Taikang Life Insurance, Sherpa Healthcare Partners and existing shareholders, including Lilly Asia Ventures and Apricot Capital. Proceeds of the financing will be used to fund the Company's continued business expansion and innovative service offering worldwide.
As a full service clinical-stage CRO, ClinChoice serves the global market by providing integrated one-stop clinical development services to emerging biopharmaceutical, medical device and consumer health clients around the world. ClinChoice has over 3000 employees worldwide covering most of drug development hotbeds in US, China, multiple countries in Europe and Southeast Asia. With over 25 years of high-quality services, ClinChoice has completed more than 1,000 Phase I-IV full-service clinical projects and supported over 100 innovative drug registrations, clinical design and development. ClinChoice strictly adheres to GCP and ICH standards and has developed robust SOPs recognized by more than 50 large multinational companies, all of which have passed multiple inspections and audits by major regulatory agencies around the world.
According to the Global Chairman and CEO of ClinChoice, Mr. Ling ZHEN, "We thank the investors for their trust in ClinChoice. This round of capital investment fully validates ClinChoice's rapid growth and future potential in the field of clinical CRO. With the new round of financing, we will further enhance our innovative service offering and continue business expansion by organic growth and M&A, in order to better serve our clients worldwide."
Dr. Hongbin ZHOU, Co-Chief Investment Officer of Legend Capital, said, "We would like to express our gratitude for trusting in Legend Capital and we are excited to be part of ClinChoice, together with the Management Team and the existing shareholders, including Lilly Asia Ventures, Goldman Sachs. We are very positive on the growth outlook of the CRO industry. As a rapidly growing CRO, ClinChoice has built an excellent platform combining global expertise with deep knowhow across key local markets, to support innovation. Going forward, we will work closely with the management team to improve its existing business, attract industry talent and launch new strategic initiatives."
About ClinChoice
ClinChoice is a global clinical CRO, providing high-quality Integrated One-stop Service Offerings for new bio-pharmaceutical and medical device clients worldwide. Our Service Offerings cover Clinical Operation, Project Management, Biostatistics, Data Management, Biostatistical Programming, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, Feasibility Research, HGRAC Submission, Clinical Safety Management, Site Management Organization, Nature Medicine/Traditional Chinese Medicine and Phase I Clinical Research, etc. Now, ClinChoice has over 3,000 employees worldwide covering most of drug development hotbeds in US, China, multiple countries in Europe and Southeast Asia. Since its inception, ClinChoice has completed multiple rounds of financing, with investments from renowned institutional investors including Goldman Sachs, Lilly Asia Ventures, and DFJ Dragon Fund.
About Legend Capital
In April 2001, Legend Capital was established as a fund manager under Legend Holdings, focusing on the early-stage VC and growth-stage PE investment. Since its establishment, Legend Capital has been adhereing to internationally accepted standards to create best practices in fund management and operation. With a proven track record of more than 20 years, it now has full experience in fund management and operation and has built an extensive partner ecosystem across the entire investment chain.
Legend Capital goes the extra mile in delivering proactive value-added services to help portfolio companies drive innovations. We are committed to promoting industrial progress and social development, while securing high returns across various fields.
Our vision is to become an investment firm with global influence. We live and breathe our core value of Pursuing Fortune with Integrity to fulfill our corporate social responsibility. In 2019, Legend Capital signed the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), intended to take responsible investing as a long-term strategy to practice sustainable development and green finance philosophy.
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With work, family and social life seeming like a constant juggle, it’s hardly surprising that the act falls flat every once in a while. Of course, we’ve all got it in us to be funny, smart and - let’s be honest - pretty darn spectacular, but there are times when we all feel like we haven’t quite reached our full potential.
However, if you feel constantly held back by a sense of self-doubt, it could be more than just the occasional ‘off day’ we all suffer with from time to time. Preventing you from ever achieving your full potential, low self-esteem can be both a debilitating and miserable process of thought. Thankfully, for those who do suffer from self-esteem issues, there are a wealth of tips and tricks you can try to help break the cycle and build your confidence back. To find out more about low self-esteem and how to overcome it, we caught up with life coach and clinical hypnotherapist Jacqueline Hurst , to see if her expert advice can take us from self-doubt to serious starlet…
GTG: What is low self-esteem?
“The term self-esteem refers to how we view ourselves. Self-esteem is the overall opinion we have and hold about ourselves and the value we place on ourselves as people. Low self-esteem is all about how we view ourselves internally - what we believe about ourselves - and is based on negativity: for example, 'I'm unlovable' or 'I'm useless' or ‘I’m worthless’. Of course most of us have mixed opinions of ourselves, but if your overall opinion is that you are inadequate or inferior, if you feel that you have no true worth and are not entitled to the good things in life - that you are ‘undeserving’ - then this means your self-esteem is low.”
GTG: What can contribute to low self-esteem?
“Low self-esteem can be due to the beliefs you have about yourself which you think are fact, but in reality are only really thoughts. These beliefs and thoughts are based on the experiences you've had in life, and the messages that these experiences have given you about the person that you are.
“Crucial experiences that form our beliefs about ourselves often, but not always, occur from very early in life, usually formed from the ages of 0 to 6 years old. What you saw, heard, picked up on and experienced in childhood - in your family, in your community, society and at school - will have influenced the way you see yourself. If your experiences have been negative, your beliefs about yourself are likely to be negative too. In other words, if you are brought up with parents who you thought never had time for you, or if you thought you couldn’t meet certain standards or were on the receiving end of another person’s negative belief system, then you too will most likely suffer from low self-esteem.”
MORE GLOSS: 6 ways to put your body confidence gremlins to bed
GTG: How can low self-esteem be overcome?
“As low self-esteem is based on thought process rather than fact, it is really important to gather all the thoughts you hold about yourself that are negative and then start to look for evidence to prove that the opposite is true. For example, if you believe that you are not ‘lovable’, instead of finding evidence to prove this thought true, you need to start looking for evidence to prove this is not true. You could ask yourself instead ‘Who does love me?’ – you will be able to say ‘my mum, my dad, my friends, my family, my boyfriend’ etc. It becomes hard to believe a thought when you have evidence to prove the opposite is actually true!”
GTG: What are your top tips to overcome low self-esteem?
1. Question your thoughts. A lot!
2. Thoughts create feelings, so starting to think carefully about your thoughts is key.
3. Be kind to yourself. Tell yourself kind, loving statements that you would say to someone you love.
4. Remember, comparison is the thief of joy - you are unique and perfect just as you are!
5. Imagine your best friend next to you talking about you as a person - they would say lovely things like ‘She’s funny, kind, thoughtful’ etc. When you start looking at yourself from a friend’s point of view you will be amazed at how good you really are.
6. When you feel down, think about all the wonderful things in your life and the things you have achieved - you’ll soon realise you are pretty special!
7. If you are still suffering from low self-esteem, then talk to somebody - a friend or expert - who might be able to help.
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Whether it's work, the kids or if your LBD will make you stand out like a sore thumb at the office party, the majority of us end up worrying, well, worryingly often. This week, we've roped in the experts for advice on how to break the cycle and deal with excessive worrying. Here's what we found out...
Worry and thought processes
As expert psychologist Elaine Slater explains: "Worry is a cycle of negative and relatively uncontrollable self-perpetuating thoughts and images, brought about in response to a perceived stressful situation that is fuelled by analysis, imagination and often exaggeration. Chronic worrying is at the core of life-altering problems such as anxiety, depression and addiction."
For this reason, she advises you never attempt to manage your worry with pills, alcohol, substance abuse or emotional eating or avoidance.
"Talk about your worries with a counsellor, friends or family," advises Elaine, "talking about it can often lead to finding a solution. As people who naturally try to supress their unwanted thoughts end up being more distressed by them, trying a different strategy - such as acceptance - can often help you overcome and even thrive during times of uncertainty."
"Meditation lowers anxiety levels and has a positive affect on the parts of the brain responsible for emotions, thinking and worrying, while writing your worries down on paper is a good way of emptying your mind of your fears. Physical activities keep your body busy and mind distracted, and occupying your mind by recalling vivid and pleasant memories often helps keep it away from worry."
In times of excessive worry, Elaine recommends you stop, recognise and accept that you are feeling worried. Slow and deep 'belly' breathing activates the vagus nerve which helps counter the stress response triggered by worry and slows down the tirade of reactions in the body. Focusing on the external world rather than your internal feelings of discomfort for ten minutes can also help, and repeating positive affirmations such as 'All is well' or 'I am safe and calm' help to bring the body back to a relaxed state.
In order to prevent excessive worrying, Elaine suggests you try retraining your brain by following these four simple steps:
1) Identify the object of worry
2) Come up with a time and place to think about that worry
3) If you catch yourself worrying at a time other than your designated worry time, make a point of thinking about something else
4) Use your worry time productively by thinking of solutions to your worries
Hypnotherapy and NLP
Hypnotherapy
As bidding your worries farewell is all about bypassing the so called ‘noise’ of everyday living to focus on the subconscious, techniques like hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) can often prove very effective. Our go-to-guy is Terrence the Teacher , a clinical hypnotherapist who combines hypnosis and NLP in sessions tailor-made to suit each and every client he helps.
The first thing to do when trying to stop yourself worrying, says Terrence, is to relax. Just telling a person to relax is never enough as, struggling to reach this state already, your brain will be unsure of what to aim for. For this reason, an initial hypnotherapy session will always involve the hypnotherapist getting you to a stage where you feel completely at ease.
Asking you to lay down, speaking slowly and repeating the word ‘Relax’ are all techniques used during a session, the aim of which is to get the worried client to a certain ‘state’. This state changes the brain waves, taking you to a place very similar to that which is experienced during sleep, where the mind and body can relax. After you have entered into this state, Terrence explains, the hypnotherapist will then ask you to focus on certain areas of your body, such as your feet, moving your awareness and letting go of all tension.
Positive suggestions made during the session, such as ‘When you wake up you will remain relaxed’, allow the brain in its awakened state to make different connections between potential stressors and how to react to them. As you learn faster and remember more while in a hypnotic state, suggestions made during the session are far more likely to be effective once you wake up and return to reality.
“Hypnotherapy fundamentally aims to quieten the mind”, Terrence explains, “As thoughts are basically neurons firing away in a part of the brain which then reacts by effecting the body, you need to quieten these neurons in order to quieten your mind.”
“After the initial session, people are usually surprised by the fact they actually managed to relax fully. This ‘proof of success’ makes it much easier to then go to the client and say ‘You can achieve this yourself’. One tool they can use to do this is self hypnosis.”
Self hypnosis is a quick and simple technique you can employ at home to relax the body and stop the mind from worrying. Terrence explains that exact techniques can vary depending on the client, but that the general idea is to close your eyes and think of things that will cause you to relax, allowing your subconscious to take you there.
If you are artistic or creatively minded, Terrence recommends thinking of a beautiful painting or image, allowing the colours, tone and texture to transport you to a place of subconscious relaxation. If you respond better in academic situations, he recommends counting down from ten to one, allowing yourself to sink further into the relaxed state with every number you pass until you reach the bottom and all tension has been released.
NLP and Anchoring
The idea behind anchoring, Terrence explains, is to take the worried person back to a point of success. It works by taking an anchor from a calm situation (e.g. a specific scent) and allowing it to take you back to that place during a stressful one. By replicating a scent or action you associate with being calm, the body and mind will subconsciously try to get you back to the same state - a change which can happen very quickly.
Anchoring is a quick and easy way of calming yourself down during a worry cycle, as long as the anchor and the connected feeling remain strong. To give it a go at home, Terrence recommends trying out the following three steps:
1) Start by doing what relaxes you the most - go for a walk, listen to a song or put on your favourite film
2) While you do this, find an area on your body to tap, press or stroke - whatever feels most natural to you
3) Practice the technique over time until the anchor becomes strong. When you start to worry, repeat your trigger and allow your subconscious to take your body back to a more relaxed state
Breathing exercises
Another thing you can do to ease excessive worrying is to look internally at how you breathe. Breathing expert and founder of Just Breathe Caroline Kremer , says the most important thing to do during times of worry is to focus your energy on something you can control, such as your breathing.
“Where focus goes energy flows,” Caroline explains, “So the most beneficial thing is to change the focus. This can be done by bringing yourself back to the present moment - to be in the now. One way of doing this is to focus on your breathing.”
“It is good to get a sense of how the body and breathing feel when you are in a sense of worry. You can ask yourself a series of simple questions, such as Where do I feel worry in my body? Does my breathing feel fast? Slow? Deep? Which areas move when I breathe? Do I like this feeling of breathing? This in itself will immediately take you to the present moment.”
To regain this necessary sense of being in the now, Caroline recommends a simple breathing exercise you can try in the comfort of your own home.
“What the following breath pattern exercise is designed to do,” Caroline explains, “is to lengthen and slow the breathing pattern. This will stimulate the rest and digestive aspect of the nervous system and the opposite of the stress mode where the body often goes when worrying. It lowers the heart rate and blood pressure and allows a sense of calm.”
“Lie down on the bed or floor with your arms comfortably by your sides and your palms facing upwards. If your head is tipping too far back, place a folded towel or thin cushion under it to bring it level. Then follow these simple steps…
1) Take a normal breath in through the nose
2) When you exhale, make an ‘S’ sound that is slow, strong and consistent
3) When you get to what feels like the bottom of the breath, try going on a little longer - this begins to tighten the throat and draw in the abdominal muscles and pelvis
4) Pause for a second
5) Let go and breathe. Give the body permission to let the breath come in naturally and fully, starting at the abdomen and filling the lungs all the way up so you feel the movement in your throat. Exhale.
6) Allowing the body to breathe for itself, rest in between breath patterns for a couple of minutes until the breath has settled
7) Consider the questions above - does it still feel the same?
8) Repeat 5 more times - this should take you about 10 minutes
9) Finish the exercise with a glass of water to replenish the moisture lost through respiration”
So, the next time you go into a flap over a job interview or that flight you're terrified to take, why not stop, take five minutes and try one of the above techniques to see if you can wave your worries a not-so-fond farewell. You know what they say glossies, it doesn't hurt to try.
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Exceptionally hot weather is in store for the rest of the week as a high-pressure ridge strengthens overhead.
High temperatures over 100 degrees are expected each day with heat index values over 105 likely.
Remember to practice good heat safety tactics like staying hydrated, taking frequent breaks in the shade or even better, an air-conditioned building. Also, make sure pets are indoors and have plenty water, and do not walk them on hot pavements!
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/local/weather/fourth-of-july-forecast-with-meteorologist-haley-fitzpatrick/
| 2022-07-05T02:03:11
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Seriously, you don’t know what’s about to hit you. One Part Plant, by Jessica Murnane is joyful, playful, delicious and guess what? It will also change your life.
Let me start by saying I’m no saint in the food department. When doctors act impressed that I don’t smoke or drink, I always say “but you haven’t asked about cheese yet.” Like so many people, so many women, my life has been a struggle between what tastes right to me and what IS right FOR me. Even during a decade-long dalliance with veganism, my regimen consisted of French fries, Sprite and veggie dogs on massive fluffy buns. My boyfriend describes my dietary preferences as “three-year-old with a credit card.”
When endometriosis entered my life full throttle, I knew I had to make some adjustments as I dealt with a chronic disease, but it was hard to admit those changes might be dietary. When you’re already exhausted, stressed and pissed at Lady God, you don’t also want your Bolognese and biscuits taken away from you. I was a ravenous beast clinging to quesadillas for dear life.
Jessica readily admitted that she hadn’t started out as a domestic goddess and that change is a bitch
But after I decided to go public with my struggle, a little angel reached out her hand in the form of one Ms Jessica Murnane. Without preaching, without judgment, she sent me a list of some of the food changes that had worked for her in her own journey with the illness. I’m pretty public with my challenges, so I get a lot of random emails from people making suggestions (their acupuncturist, their pet psychic, the Wiccan crystal shop that got them pregnant) but something about Jessica’s tone drew me to her. She wasn’t making a big list of don’ts, but rather introducing a whole new world of mysterious ingredients and exciting kitchen adventures. A plant-based Hogwarts, if you will. She also readily admitted that she hadn’t started out as a domestic goddess and that change is a bitch.
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Armed with a Jessica-approved shopping list, I started making some changes of my own. Instead of Greek yoghurt with half a squeeze bottle of honey, I was enjoying coconut yoghurt with a mess of berries and seeds. Instead of toast with peanut butter, there was sprouted Ezekiel bread with black sesame and preserves. I sent her photos of every silly experiment and she cheered me on like a kindergarten art teacher. I loved that her philosophy made room for slip ups, and furthermore, she didn’t even label them as such. She didn’t label AT all. Her natural approach also encouraged me to start asking questions about what was going on my face and body. As someone who spends more time in a makeup chair than I ever dreamed possible, it had never occurred to me that the pounds of foundations, mascara and Aqua Net hairspray that are applied to me on the regular might be just as shitty for my system as gas station beef jerky.
But Jessica is that friend who always has the better way (while totally acknowledging how shitty the new way can feel). She said, in no uncertain terms, that I was allowed to miss birthday cake ice cream and Lady Speed Stick . I was even allowed to f**k with them sometimes. But small changes are still changes and you will feel them in ways that surprise and excite you.
So I invite you to follow Jessica into the vast green wilderness - the secret is it’s not so scary, just healthy. And fun. All our journeys with our bodies will have a million twists and turns, but knowledge arms us to handle them with aplomb. And there’s a lot of knowledge in here, from a lady who earned it the hard way while still making it look easy.
Thank you, Jess. Viva la plant!
Extracted from One Part Plant by Jessica Murnane, published by Bluebird, £16.99. Click here t o buy. Next Sunday: author Jessica Murnane on how to do One Part Plant.
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https://www.getthegloss.com/health/lena-dunham-my-life-s-been-a-struggle-between-what-tastes-right-to-me-and-what-is-right-for-me
| 2022-07-05T02:03:16
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Mexico's Roman Catholic Council of Bishops is calling on parishes throughout the country to put photos of dead nuns and priests in their churches this Sunday and to hold Masses for all those killed in gang-fueled violence.
Monday's call for special celebrations throughout July came after two Jesuit priests and a tour guide were murdered June 20. Another priest says he was beaten over the weekend in the violence-plagued western state of Michoacan. On June 24, the Council of Bishops issued an open letter telling the government that "it is time to revise the security policies that are failing."
Rev. Mateo Calvillo wrote in an open letter that men traveling in another vehicle cut off his car, forcing him to stop and that one of them came around to his window and beat him savagely. The priest said he knew of no motive for the June 29 attack in the town of Querendaro, saying the man appeared irrational.
As the Associated Press reported, the two murdered priests — Rev. Javier Campos, 79, and Rev. Joaquín Mora, 80 — had spent much of their lives serving Indigenous peoples of the Sierra Tarahumara mountains. The Jesuits were shot to death in the small church in the town of Cerocahui.
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https://www.fox13now.com/news/national/mexican-bishops-to-put-photos-of-dead-priests-in-churches
| 2022-07-05T02:03:24
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