Our Inch-Loss-Ladies are back for a quick update. They're all doing really well and have stuck with the programme. Excellent job, Well done girls!

"Still doing really well and your programme is really helping as it offers me structure and keeps me positive and motivated. I have lost 21 pounds and loads of inches. I know I have turned a corner and that I will never put this weight back on again."
Karen Benford

"I have lost 20lbs following your programme and an amazing 46 inches in total. I'm still going to the gym and also I've just started power walking for 30mins at lunchtime and hope to do that 3 times a week."
Karen Parker

"Pete's  programme is really  working for me.  I have lost 22 pounds at the moment and am still losing weight. It's  not always been easy and i do try not to be too hard on myself as we all learn from our mistakes.  I often go back and look at my journey and realise how well i am doing and feeling better in myself. With Pete's programme I will not only lose the weight but I know I'll keep it off."
Gail

Are you one of those people who's managed to avoid RSS, thinking that it's 'way too techy' and 'not for me'...? Take a look at this great video explaining RSS, you'll be converted!

Huge thanks to www.commoncraft.com for making things simple!

Turn your mobile into a Wii®

 

Ever dropped your phone down the loo and had to plunge straight in to save it...? I did - quite recently in fact - thinking that the quicker i could get it out, crack it open, dab at it frantically with swabs of loo-roll, and then perch it on top of a radiator to dry... the more likely I would be able to rescue the valuable information stored on it. It's amazing just how attached are we to our phones - as much as we are attached to some of our habits don't you think!?

So, what's got me going on this topic you ask? I did a talk on radio yesterday about 'Loves lost in the digital age' to promote the Bluebook service being launched by O2 - I'm sure you've seen the ads...

It appears that 1 in 5 Brits believe they've lost touch with “the perfect love” through losing their phone. Almost half have also lost touch with close friends, and 40% have lost memorable text messages and photographs all because of a missing phone.

And where are all these missing phones going to?  Research by O2 shows that 12% have been stolen. 5% of people lose their mobiles at home.  19% of mobiles are lost on the 'back of the bus' and 14% have one too many pints and leave the mobile down the pub.  A further 12% of Brits even admit to dropping their mobile in the toilet (that's me)!

Here's some National stats on 'phone lossage' I pinched:

33% back up data from their mobile phone

35% have lost at least one mobile phone

44% have lost contact with a number of friends through losing their mobile

40% lost memorable texts and photographs through losing their mobile

21% fear they have lost touch with their soul mate through losing their phone

38% say the contacts in their mobile phone is very important to them

22% say texts from loved ones kept on their phone are very important to them

22% say pictures kept on their phone are very important to them

What's your mobile loss story? Let us know, leave a comment below ...

So, the Vitality Show kicks of this Thursday the 27th in afternoon. It will be great to see any of you if you are able to make it there!

We'll have a stand there so you'll be able to find us and I am giving two live presentations every day. One is on Thinking Yourself Slim and the other is on Happiness and Friendship

Here's the schedule:

THURSDAY 27th
18.00  Happiness Theatre: Happiness and Friendship
19:00  Health & Nutrition Stage: Thinking Yourself Slim

FRIDAY 28th
10:00 Health & Nutrition Stage: Thinking Yourself Slim
12:00 Happiness Theatre: Happiness and Friendship

SATURDAY 29th
14:00 Happiness Theatre: Happiness and Friendship
16:00 Health & Nutrition Stage: Thinking Yourself Slim

SUNDAY 27th
14:00 Happiness Theatre: Happiness and Friendship
15:00 Health & Nutrition Stage: Thinking Yourself Slim

The Happiness Equation

In 2004, I defined a 'formula' for Happiness for the Holiday company Thomson. Our research that led to the scientific equation reveals that a person's happiness is determined by three key factors:

• Personal characteristics (including outlook on life, adaptability and resilience)
  
  
• Existence Needs (including health, financial stability and community / friendships)
  
  
• Higher Order Needs (beyond basic existence i.e. self esteem, expectations, ambitions, sense of humour):

This was hugely successful and resulted in the equally successful Happiness Campaign. I had requests to present the formula from 26 countries around the world including Brazil and Canada and Korea!

In my Happiness Presentations at the Vitality Show this week I will unlock some of the secrets to long-term happiness. If you are not able to make the event and you want to find out more about Happiness then go to my web site www.petecohen.com. You can even do the Equation on-line and find out just how happy you are.

All the background information and an explanation of the research we did is all there for you to read.

So let us know how happy you are in the comments... Ecstatic? Miserable? Nonplussed?

Hi, as people keep asking me where to find this, I thought i'd post it again, enjoy! Pete.

In this clip Edward P Nehoc gives you some great tips on gaining weight and avoiding healthy habits as the current wave of healthy eating and weight-loss has the Ministry worried for the nation's health.

[Lifted from Cranky Fitness - originally from Morgan's blog]

This spoof infomercial is tres funny, take a look:

I had a junk email the other day that had the headline: LOSE TEN POUNDS IN A WEEK. If you get one of these, before you rush to pick up the phone, stop and ask yourself, ‘ten pounds of what?’ Because we can tell you that it won’t be fat!

Most people can comfortably lose around two pounds of fat in a week. Do you really want to start shedding muscle, or dehydrating?

Over the last few millennia our amazing bodies have developed an incredible system to keep us alive through periods when food is scarce – the ability to store food in the form of fat for use during the lean times. It’s a wonderful system, but it’s also a major problem for everyone who lives with food mountains rather than famine. Although we've evolved beyond a primitive lifestyle, we still have the survival mechanisms in place, so whenever we seriously restrict our calorie intake our bodies assume there’s a food shortage and hold onto the fat we’ve got stored in case things get worse. But we need to stay alive and start burning lean muscle tissue instead!

Every time you go on a crash diet you are going to lose muscle until your body adjusts itself to getting fewer calories. But the chances are that by the time your body has made this delicate adjustment you’ll have given up on the diet, so when you start eating normally again your body is overwhelmed with the extra food and starts slapping it straight back on as fat. Your metabolism – the rate at which your body burns those calories – can remain lower than usual for weeks after you finish your diet. Your body remembers how much fat you used to have and wants to put it back quickly in case you suddenly start dieting again. Which, of course, many people usually do.

Think of your body as a fireplace; the fire is your metabolism and the logs are the food. If you disappear for the day and leave the fire unattended, the chances are that when you come back to it in the evening it will almost be out. You might stoke it up with logs to get it going again, but the embers won’t be hot enough to get them burning. When you look at the fireplace the next morning, you might find your logs from the night before are still lying there, a little charred, perhaps, but not burnt up. If you have a habit of going for long periods without food, your metabolism will slow right down. Perhaps you’re working hard so you skip lunch, finish work late and stop for pizza on the way home. By that time, of course, you’ll be feeling pretty hungry – but don’t be fooled: Your metabolism will have virtually given up by then. Eating a big meal and going straight to bed means you’ve got less chance of digesting that food quickly and burning it up. It’s much more likely to be turned into fat and stored. If you eat small amounts regularly, you will have a better chance of using it up as you go along.  

Beware the hollow promise!

It's coming to the end of the month and this is always a great time of year because the great Vitality Show at London's Olympia is on from the Thursday the 27th till Sunday the 30th.

The show is the largest health and beauty show in the UK and there are hundreds of things to do and see. One of the main attractions is me! (ha ha). We have a stand there and I am giving talks every day. 

It's a great day out with some super shopping, loads of free stuff, things to try and many experts giving presentations to motivate and inspire you.

We would love to see you, so come on down and lets have some fun.

Check out the Vitality Show web site for more details

See you there!

Many of you will have heard this before and some of you already own the CD but I wanted to remind all my new visitors of the free MP3 download available from my 'Music To...' CD. enjoy!