05/02/2024
Hello Monday 😃
Hope you all had a great weekend 👌🏼… It was ‘ Wellness weekend’ at Breeze, lots of taster sessions and finished it off on an endorphin high 😁 🚴♀️ seeing some of my breezy familia.
Great start to the morning 💻 and week 💯 it was a sweaty 🥵 strong session 👌🏼 with the wide awake crew ⏰ - well done ladies for showing up 👏
My message 🗣️ in teaching nowadays is from an understanding of ‘ wellness’ health preservation and optimisation, often I finish class with
‘ don’t let anyone get on your nerves ‘ which brings a smile 😃 but there is a reason behind it. 👇
Cortisol is a stress hormone 👿 which stores body fat and makes us hungry has negative health consequences as it causes fat to be stored in the wrong places 🙅🏻♀️- it also turns your immune system down thumbs 👎
Wrong places? - Let’s talk Belly fat or ‘ visceral fat’ and not from an aesthetic point of view 😏 👙 🙅🏻♀️
Visceral belly fat is hormonal sensitive that has lots of 🩸 blood vessels, it’s a great energy ⚡️supply when we are physically active 🏃♂️ … the problem with those stores when ‘excess’ is they’re also really inflammatory😏 ❌
When fat cells get too large and swell they can become dysfunctional causing inflammation ❌ sometimes, chronic systemic inflammation which ruins and challenges health.
It’s been linked to the increase ⬆️of many ‘modern lifestyle diseases’ such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, cancer to name just a few.
Bottom line is - Excess fat causes ‘inflammation’ ❌🙅🏻♀️ and produces hormones like ‘leptin’ which increases ⬆️ appetite.
If we want to live longer, happier and be around healthily for loved ones ❤️ it’s important to understand why we need to reduce body fat by improving diet 🍎 and activity levels 🏋🏻♂️
Its not just to feel more confident, feel better, be more flexible 🤸♀️ or for a holiday 🏖️ or wedding 👰the key in all this is that knowledge is powerful 👌🏼
So, how can we help ourselves to avoid being another growing statistic?
✅ Drink half your body weight in ounces of water a day 💧
✅ Increase your fibre 🌰🥜 ( processed foods remove fibre and add fats and sugars to make it more palatable )
✅ Get regular quality sleep 😴
✅ Improve your metabolism by exercising 🏃♂️ 🏊 🚴♀️🏋🏻♂️weight loading and moving more
✅ Eat a wholesome diet 🥦 avoiding and limiting ultra processed foods 🧁
✅ Reduce sugar 🍰 🥐 🍺 🍷 - having High levels of insulin increases fat storage ( just mentioned inflammation)
✅ Reduce stress 🧘♀️- learn to relax more.
Hope you found this helpful … it’s not all doom and gloom as we have power to change it 💯
Have a great day and week all 😊
If you need any support with taking a step up and forwards do drop me a message 📝 always happy to help 🤗
Let’s get it 💪🏼
Love Rachel 💋 ###
