The long held belief for many, and what we have been told to believe is true for weight loss, is that to lose weight it is all about energy in versus energy out. I remember being taught this in my Personal Training course and even being shown how to get my clients to use software like Calorie King to help people track how many calories they have eaten. It is one of the biggest weight loss myths ever created and the source of frustration for so many people trying to lose weight, and unfortunately many so called weight loss experts, personal trainers and health practitioners still teach this ridiculous method. Which only adds to the confusion. 

Since 2000 I have suffered with Psoriasis on my skin and tried almost every type of ointment, cream or remedy to get rid of it permanently and have normal looking skin. I have seen several Naturopaths, Homeopaths, GP's, Skin Specialists, Chinese Medicine practitioners, you name it, I have seen them all. And no matter what I did nothing seemed to work. Then in 2011 I decided enough was enough and I wanted to really find out what I can do myself to find the answers to my problem. I had devoted my career and my life to helping people become healthy, lose weight and improve fitness but I was really struggling to find the answer to my own health problem. One of the things that has really built my business and my reputation as a great trainer is my ability to try and test everything on myself. My own body and the results from my sporting activities was living proof that my programs with weight loss, running, cycling, weight training, tennis, basketball all worked. I was calling myself a Holistic Lifestyle Coach yet I could not find the answer to this one thing I had had for so long. So I started researching endlessly with books and different experts in the fields of skin problems. And I came across some interesting facts with regards to digestion, toxicity from modern foods and how stress can significantly affect the skin. So I put together a plan to rid myself of this problem by the end of the year.

This is quite a controversial subject for many people, especially people in the body building scene. And I would like to start off by saying I have nothing against body building if that is your passion and that is what you like to do. I just have a problem with people adopting body building techniques who are not body builders and want to become fit and healthy. And especially people who go to someone for a rehabilitation or injury prevention training program  and think they are doing "functional training" or "core training" but are really using a muscle based approach no different to body building. This type of training has taken over almost all of the gyms you go into these days, and even in the rehab world itself with physiotherapists, specialists, Pilates even, there is still a real emphasis on muscle based training. I myself used this approach early in my career as a personal trainer 11 years ago. And although some people recovered well from some injury or pain, there were many people that never really improved or seemed to be continually re-injuring themselves, myself included.