If weight loss is your goal, then this might just be the key for you.

Some trainers and coaches will tell you to ditch it altogether, however it’s something I’ve urged all my clients to do over the last year or so, with great results for most.

So here it is, life stripped to its basics in just a couple of short weeks.

Health (and health-care), Nutrition (production and distribution) and Commerce. Though for some, the latter may be clinging on by its fingertips.

It’s almost December, and according to the TV at least, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Festivities are about to level up and go haywire in the lead up to everyone’s favourite cheat day. We don’t want to go all ‘Bah Humbug’ on it but there's a few things you can do to negate ending it with Santa’s waistline.

I usually try to finish an article with some useful practical information, today I'll save you the suspense. The inevitable conclusion to this article is to encourage you to get more sleep…but you already knew that as soon as you saw the title.

This is not a top 50 list, and not all are necessary for fat loss to occur. Some are more important than others, hopefully, all are helpful in some way, so share it with anyone you think it may help.

Your food intake is a lot like your bank account - you always think you have more to play with than you inevitably do.

A few weeks ago Channel 4 produced a show with Joe Wicks aka The Bodycoach, in which he took a handful of people with varying timespans to help lose some weight, and one of my clients was referencing it.

Along with slow wi-fi, queuing and James Camerons' Avatar, fat loss is right up there in the boredom stakes.