Hi and welcome to this week's 50 & Beyond Health & Wellbeing blog. Each week I will provide you with knowledge, tips, advice and recommendations to inspire you to sustain good metabolic health specific to being over 50. Chris Deavin, myHealthCoach Many people have said to me over the years, “I don’t need a coach, as I am a very motivated person”. However research has shown motivation is not unlimited. Every one of us has a certain degree of motivation. Otherwise, we would have no desire to keep living. So, how do we tap into motivation when we need it, and how do we make it last so we ..read more

Hi and welcome to this week's 50 & Beyond Health & Wellbeing blog. Each week I will provide you with knowledge, tips, advice and recommendations to inspire you to sustain good metabolic health specific to being over 50. Chris Deavin, myHealthCoach Have you already given up, or are you on the brink of giving Up? Read this before you do. What is a goal? A goal is an aim or a purpose. A goal is an idea of something you want to achieve. An idea that can become an obsession and something very personal to you. An idea that you want to turn into a reality. A goal is something you want to beco ..read more

Hi and welcome to this week's 50 & Beyond Health & Wellbeing blog. Each week I will provide you with knowledge, tips, advice and recommendations to inspire you to sustain good metabolic health specific to being over 50. Chris Deavin, myHealthCoach When setting a goal. You first must believe you can achieve it. When I ask a client to try to visualise what they will feel and look like when they have achieved the health they want, most find it difficult to do so. Let’s try it. Think about what health you would like to have on this date next year. Do you want to be lighter? Have less body ..read more

Hi and welcome to this week's 50 & Beyond Health & Wellbeing blog. Each week I will provide you with knowledge, tips, advice and recommendations to inspire you to sustain good metabolic health specific to being over 50. Chris Deavin, myHealthCoach How many times have you said, “I don’t have the time”? Funny thing time. It’s not how much of it you have but what you do with it. One of the most common reasons I hear as a health coach for people not improving their health is the time they think it will take. Interesting thing time. As Gandalf said to Frodo, “It’s not about the time you ha ..read more

Hi and welcome to this week's 50 & Beyond Health & Wellbeing blog. Each week I will provide you with knowledge, tips, advice and recommendations to inspire you to sustain good metabolic health specific to being over 50. Chris Deavin, myHealthCoach I recently read an article about how people could “ride the wave” of potential financial disaster by returning to the “fundamentals” and concentrating on the really important stuff of life. That got me thinking about whether, in improving our health, we should be thinking along the same lines and what those fundamentals might be. Four come t ..read more

Hi and welcome to this week's 50 & Beyond Health & Wellbeing blog. Each week I will provide you with knowledge, tips, advice and recommendations to inspire you to sustain good metabolic health specific to being over 50. Chris Deavin, myHealthCoach “If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right. - Mary Kay Ash People who have what they want in their lives on a consistent basis tend to be people who understand what they can and cannot control. They do this by dividing things into three categories. Things that they: Can directly control e.g. their own behaviours. H ..read more

Hi and welcome to this week's 50 & Beyond Health & Wellbeing blog. Each week I will provide you with knowledge, tips, advice and recommendations to inspire you to sustain good metabolic health specific to being over 50. Chris Deavin, myHealthCoach 98% of people will fail to keep to their New Year's Resolutions. And it is not just New Year's Resolutions that don't get achieved. Think about how many times you have set out to achieve a vision you have about the health, fitness and strength you want to have. Have you ever achieved that vision? How does that make you feel? Do you become st ..read more

Hi and welcome to this week's 50 & Beyond Health & Wellbeing blog. Each week I will provide you with knowledge, tips, advice and recommendations to inspire you to sustain good metabolic health specific to being over 50. Chris Deavin, myHealthCoach As we quickly approach the start of 2024, you will undoubtedly start thinking about what health goals you want to achieve that you have been unable to achieve this year. We are told that setting goals is important so you have an idea of what you want to achieve and how you will achieve it. So, yes, set yourself goals. The question you need t ..read more

Hi and welcome to this week's 50 & Beyond Health & Wellbeing blog. Each week I will provide you with knowledge, tips, advice and recommendations to inspire you to sustain good metabolic health specific to being over 50. Chris Deavin, myHealthCoach Over the last couple of weeks, I have shared with you the first two reasons why most people don’t achieve the body, fitness, strength and health they desire. Today, I want to share the third one with you. The lack of tactics. The first reason people fail to have the body they want is not having a strong enough ‘why’. When you don’t have a st ..read more

Hi and welcome to this week's 50 & Beyond Health & Wellbeing blog. Each week I will provide you with knowledge, tips, advice and recommendations to inspire you to sustain good metabolic health specific to being over 50. Chris Deavin, myHealthCoach In my first post on the three things stopping you from the body you want, I discussed the importance of establishing your 'why'. Your 'why' is the vision of what you want to become. Your vision of your future self is the reason you want to change. You believe and see a better vision for yourself. An improvement of who you are today. You can ..read more