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Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional

London, United Kingdom
I'm Jeff Archer and I started the Instant Feelgood blog to help people achieve their fitness and... Full Bio
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Losing weight when you have a thyroid problem by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Losing weight when you suffer from hypothyroidism can be very difficult. With a slowed down metabolism, the strictest of diets can still fail to make the weight loss happen s ... Read on »
Losing weight with a thyroid problem by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Thyroid disease is fairly widespread today with approximately 10 million sufferers in the US and 4 million in the UK. With numerous symptoms like: feelings of exhaustion, hai ... Read on »
How to burn calories without really trying by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Getting to the gym 3 times a week requires you to give up a minimum of 3 hours of your time. In a whole week, that is only tiny amount but the reality is that even this can se ... Read on »
Ghost Spotted in the gym? by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise I don't believe in ghosts but when I saw this video, it did make me pause and think...what if? Judge for yourself? And more importantly, does this mean that even when we're ... Read on »
How to Stop your Thighs Rubbing Together by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise I recently saw a disturbing advert for a cream that you rub on your skin if you suffer from chaffing, for example, if your thighs rub together as you walk. As uncomfortable as ... Read on »
Get a body like Gwyneth Paltrow's by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise We had a sneak peek yesterday into the 6 x 2 hour fitness sessions Gwyneth Paltrow does each week to get her body into A list (read skinny and toned) shape. Okay - she can aff ... Read on »
Take your clothes off, it's dinner time by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Earlier this week, I wrote about low calorie snack ideas that you could turn to when the hunger cravings got too much but you didn't want to ruin your diet. Being a slave to ... Read on »
What to eat if you're on a diet but desperate for a snack! by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise There's something about going on a diet that makes you think about nothing but food all day long. You obsess about it, you long for pizza and you even dream about Chinese foo ... Read on »
Do you exercise enough for your age? by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise I'm regularly asked about how much exercise and how often to do it if you want to achieve weight loss. Or more specifically, 'I want a flat stomach, how long will it take'. W ... Read on »
Is your coffee habit making you fat? by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise While I was making my morning coffee today I was remembered something my nutritionist friend told me recently. Caffeine has a half life of around 4 hours which means that if y ... Read on »
Re-Thinking that Friday feeling by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise 'We cannot feel good about an imaginary future when we are busy feeling bad about an actual present. But rather than recognising this...we mistakenly assume that the future e ... Read on »
Sometimes, you've just got to get on with it! by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise I'm a big believer that you don't have to have a gym membership to have a serious fitness regime going. There's the great outdoors for starters not to mention equipment you co ... Read on »
Is It Just Me Or Are Sit-Ups A Waste Of Time? by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise I’ve just been sent a new book to review and its title really brought a smile to my face, so much so that I’ve borrowed it for todays blog entry. I’m sure the author Graeme H ... Read on »
Getting High on Fitness by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Chatting this week with a guy who had recently been persuaded to return to exercise I was reminded how fragile the foundations of a regular fitness routine can be. This perso ... Read on »
How to get rid of that side stitch when you run by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Weekend is here and so is the final tip of the week. If you're going running on Sunday, you may be one of those people who is prone to getting painful side stitches that leav ... Read on »
Is there such a thing as too cool? by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Just got back from the gym and there was a guy in there wearing sunglasses. Why? Its not only indoors but it's 8.30 PM here in the UK??! Read more on this article... Read on »
Boozy Nights by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise The UK loves a drink. Alcohol is in our culture and it’s in our blood. Literally. It has benefits and it has drawbacks. Most people know that alcohol has a big impact on t ... Read on »
I Should Go to the Gym, but I Just Can't by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Do you ever think that you'd like to do something but for whatever reason, just can't get going? ‘I’d like to eat better but my schedule is just too busy’. ‘I’d like to be f ... Read on »
If You Drink Too Much Water You'll Drown...Apparently by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Here's a funny - but true - story. One of my clients is a new convert to drinking lots of water and is loving the benefits he's feeling already. As all good healthy living ... Read on »
So Simple...But This Works by Jeff A. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise I've been training with Ellie for 2 years now and she never cancels or skips a session. She's very diligent about exercising on her own in between our runs. Ellie is the siz ... Read on »