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Posted by Jettica on 22nd December 2011
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Keeping on the wagon over Christmas

You know what’s my favourite thing about Christmas? Food. I love it. It’s a wonder I’ve ever been able to lose weight with how much I love to eat. Last year I didn’t really worry about continuing the diet over Christmas. I put on a couple of pounds but promptly lost them again.

This year I want to keep losing. Weight loss is 80% diet, 20% exercise (ish) but I hope that if I keep up with my exercise regime I’ll be able to burn calories (in order to just eat them all back) and keep my metabolism ticking over nicely.

When it comes to food I don’t want to miss out because I’m worrying too much about what I eat. The trick is to exercise some control over your portions. Have a bit of everything but keep it small. Don’t eat a whole box of Quality Street. Have two chocolates and leave it at that.

DO NOT think that it’s Christmas so you can indulge and deal with it after the New Year because that’s how you stop thinking about your health completely. First it’ll be until after Christmas, then after New Year’s Day, then after than party you’ve got at the end of January. It’ll just go on and on.

DO make New Year’s resolutions. Do this now and start thinking about them. Maybe even start them now, don’t wait until 2012!

Posted by Jettica on 16th December 2011
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Half a year of fitness

I’ve just been looking back through photos from these last six months and marvelling at how much my body has changed. I’ve lost just over two stone and I feel better than I ever have done.  I can run, move and dress better than I could six months ago. I appreciate the hard work that losing weight takes and I now enjoy it! It’s still a bit of struggle to go out and run when it’s cold but once I’m out there it’s great!

I just want to say thank you to everyone who has commented on my blog, spurred me on through Twitter!

Moving forward into 2012 I’ve got new goals:

  • Be in the 10 stone range by July when I see The Darkness in Thetford
  • Run 5k in under 40 minutes
  • Run 5k in under 35 minutes
  • Wear size 14 jeans
  • Wear size 12 jeans

Bring it on!

Posted by Jettica on 14th December 2011
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Tackling signs of ageing

It’s difficult to think about how I’ll feel about my own signs of ageing in ten years or so. At the moment I’m line-free and, frankly, intend to be that way forever. I am young, I look young, nothing to worry about. But what about when I get older? What if I haven’t inherited my mum’s wrinkle-free skin?

I’m all for buying every beauty cream I can get my hands on. (Or accepting them from PRs, which is where I get most of my beauty products.) But does beauty cream get to a point where it stops working? In fact, does it work at all?

Before you start looking up botox prices I think you should try the simplest of all anti-ageing treatments… A healthy lifestyle. I think it’s probably a little harsh to spring that on you when we are coming up to the most indulgent time of the year but being a bit healthier surely has to beat £400 creams and going under the knife. (However, if it doesn’t work there is always the choices of botox and expensive creams to fall back on.)

Firstly, you MUST drink water. Eight glasses a day please. It can improve your complexion no end. You should also moisturise, if you keep your skin hydrated it won’t lose its natural elasticity. Some anti-ageing creams (and not necessarily the expensive ones) also plump skin, which reduces the appearance of wrinkles.

Food plays a huge part in how you look. Healthy fats and oils are good for you as are raw vegetables and fruit. An anti-ageing superfood is the avocado!

Knowing how your skin changes as you age is a good place to start. Exercise, certain foods, a lot of water and a small list of beauty products can help you looking youthful for as long as possible.

Posted by Jettica on 24th November 2011
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Clinic Compare

I think plastic surgery is a large part of fashion nowadays. I’m sort of torn between whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing. I’m not sure I’d ever go under the knife to make myself look better but liposuction is tempting on those days where I just can’t be bothered to go for a run or I want to eat cheesy chips.

I also think that if you’ve lost a lot of weight then something like a tummy tuck can make all that hard work more worthwhile as skin can sometimes go saggy after a large amount of weight has been lost.

To have a true hourglass figure I would need bigger boobs. However a breast enlargement has never appealed to me. Simply because it seems scary and I think I should just be happy with what I’ve got. Major surgery doesn’t seem the answer.

I think the trick to safe and high quality plastic surgery is finding the right place. Just because you can get breast implants for £1000 doesn’t mean you should, right?

Clinic Compare is like Compare The Market for plastic surgery. You can search by a particular procedure and find highly-recommended clinics in your area. Maybe you are in the first stages of thinking about undertaking some surgery, the best thing you could do would be to speak to a clinic and find out what’s really involved.

*This was a sponsored post. All opinions are my own.

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