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Sooner or later, everybody seems to hit the wall with their own health and fitness. It's not always a matter of going backwards, sometimes it just seems that the initial momentum and consistent success doesn't come anymore, or certainly doesn't come as easily. This is what we call a "plateau" - that part of the fitness journey where results seem to flat line and we are stuck in a certain spot, feeling like we can't progress. As things start to flatten out, it's important to take a hard look at why it might be happening, and what we can do to get our results back on track. The most important thing to remember is that it is something that almost everybody will go through, and learning to overcome it is one of the things that separates good results from the great.

Suppose you are at the specific point in your life where something needs to change. This could be the first time, second, third, fifth, it does not matter, and the urge to change is simply growing like the weeds in your front yard. Eventually you will have to face the problem and take action otherwise you may find yourself 'tangled' and held behind.

It is incredible how much information gets pumped out to the public about diet and food choices that completely contradicts what we thought we know. One expert says red wine is good, others say it is bad, one says red meat causes cancer, the other says it is essential. So the question remains amongst all this conflicting info… what on earth do you do?

Sugar often gets blamed for increasing rates of obesity and is dubbed as 'toxic' and 'poison' by the media and various groups. However, as rates of obesity are on the rise, the long-term trend in sugar intake is down, falling from about 55kg per person per year in 1938 to about 42kg in 2011.

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Many of you will have goals related to general health, weight loss and fitness. It's exciting and motivating to see improvement and progress in different areas of your life.

I first discovered what Adaptogens were when researching best practice to help reduce effects of stress on the body. I have previously mentioned the impact the stress hormone Cortisol has on preventing fat loss, (see article on Cortisol). 

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