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Weekly Weigh-in - This has proved popular with our members and with only a couple of weeks to go the lucky winner and runner-up will share the prize money for losing the most weight.
Christmas Party - Next Friday 4 December at Rusticos - come on ladies get your glad rags on and lets paint the town. Everyone is meeting at "The Gate" at 7pm for pre-dinner drinks and then across to "Rusticos" for 8pm prompt.
Christmas Raffle - We have raised over £100 for the raffle in aid of Age Concern and the winner will receive a luxurious hamper. Come on ladies, there are some tickets left at 50p each - raffle to be drawn on 14 December 2009. |
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PARTY TIME!! Yes ladies the long awaited Christmas party is fast approaching we are meeting at Fat Cats in Hanley for 7.30pm. If you still haven’t put your name down hurry as places are limited.
Drop a Dress Size for Charity - The 10 week drop a dress size challenge in aid of the Ruby Owen Trust is in its finals weeks, come on ladies keep up the good work over half of the ladies have already dropped a dress size Whoop, Whoop!!! & well done to Lisa who has also dropped a dress size keep up the good work.
On the 1st day of Christmas Ladyzone gave to me …the chance to fit in my “LBD” and 12 days for a friend for FREE!! If you have a friend who may be interested in becoming a member at Ladyzone tell them about our new referral offer “12 DAYS OF FITNESS FOR FREE” ask a member of staff for more details, you could also get yourself some fantastic gifts.
Gift Ideas with Ladyzone – We have Christmas vouchers available to help give your friend that extra incentive to start her New Year resolutions early! Ask a member of staff for more details. |
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12 Day FREE Trial - If you have a friend who may be interested in becoming a member at Ladyzone tell them about our new referral offer “12 DAYS OF FITNESS” – during when whole of December you can bring a friend to work out with you for 12 days! Ask a member of staff for more details, you could also get yourself a £20 M&S Voucher!
  Children in Need - On Friday 20th of November people of all ages across the UK participated in a variety of events to raise money for BBC Children in Need. A massive £20,309,747 was raised on the day. At Ecclesall Rd both staff and members joined in the fun by holding a pyjama party! They ate, they drank and partied throughout the day and managed to raise a whopping £216! (a total of £420 across Sheffield) Didn’t we do well! Well done to Catherine Breen who won the large teddy bear and Leah Fleetwood who guessed correctly to win the Quality street jar. She estimated that there were 91 sweets in the jar which was closest to the actual number 90! Many thanks to everyone who contributed with cakes and dinks and helped make the day a success.
 Slimzone – At both sites in Sheffield we’re holding a weekly slimming club starting MON DEC 7TH! The weekly weigh-ins cost just £1 a week and all the money in the pot comes back in fantastic prizes for the ‘biggest losers’. Each slimming club last for 8 weeks - it’s a great opportunity to slim up over the festive period, enjoy the support of our other members and even win some great prizes in the process! Sign up in club now with any member of Staff. |
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Children in Need - we had a fantastic day raising £204.00! (a total of £420 across Sheffield). Thank you to everyone who came i n their PJ’s it was a fantastic day. Don’t forget to come and claim your prizes if you haven’t already done so, the winner of the big teddy was Beverly Mitchell, Janet Birch won the small teddy and Christine Beasley guessed correctly to win the jar of Quality Street – 88 chocolates in the jar!
Christmas Party – We’re having a Christmas Party! We’ll be letting our hair down (only a little bit) on Wednesday the 16th Dec from 7.00 till 9.00pm at the gym. There will be lots of festive fun including food, drink, games, terribly cheesy music and a raffle! Please speak to Kayleigh or any member of staff for more details!
12 Day FREE Trial - If you have a friend who may be interested in becoming a member at Ladyzone tell them about our new referral offer “12 DAYS OF FITNESS” – during when whole of December you can bring a friend to work out with you for 12 days! Ask a member of staff for more details, you could also get yourself a £20 M&S Gift Voucher!
Slimzone – At both sites in Sheffield we’re holding a weekly slimming club starting MON DEC 7TH! The weekly weigh-ins cost just £1 a week and all the money in the pot comes back in fantastic prizes for the ‘biggest losers’. Each slimming club last for 8 weeks so it’s a great opportunity to slim up over the festive period, enjoy the support of our other members and even win some great prizes in the process! Sign up in club now with any member of Staff. |
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PARTY TIME!! Hope everyone is ready for the big Christmas party next Saturday; starts at 7.30pm so don’t be late!
12 week Christmas Countdown! - Things are hotting up for the 12 week Xmas countdown weigh in, with only 3 weeks to go, who is going home with the money??!!
Marie Curie cancer appeal - Janet Jones sends a big thank you to everyone who supported the Marie Curie cancer appeal by guessing the teddy bear name. This raised £69.00 and the winning name was Nina and Gina Connor was the proud owner.
12 Days of Fitness - To keep you motivated over the Festive period we are offering the 12 days of fitness –If any family or friends would like to have a free 12 day trial at Ladyzone including an induction and a full programme- see a member of staff immediately! Be quick there are only limited places!! |
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12 Day FREE Trial - If you have a friend who may be interested in becoming a member at Ladyzone tell them about our new referral offer “12 DAYS OF FITNESS” – during when whole of December you can bring a friend to work out with you for 12 days! Ask a member of staff for more details, you could also get yourself £20 M&S Gift Voucher!
Liz sets sights for Olympia! Many women come to Ladyzone for all sorts of reason but we believe that Lesley Hildrew is possibly our only member who comes to Ladyzone in order to train for her passion which is Dog Agility Training! Lesley runs East Peckham Agility club (www.eastpeckhamagilityclub.co.uk), near Maidstone in Kent. She teaches all levels from beginners to advanced handlers. Lesley and her Border Collie ‘Wiz’ have qualified along with the top 35 dogs in the country to qualify for the Agility Stakes at the Olympia Horse Show in December!
Lesley says: “I have elderly parents who live in Orpington and I visit them three times a week, it does not leave me much time to improve my fitness levels. Everybody leads busy lives, so when I saw Ladyzone advertised I thought it would be an ideal way to get fit for Olympia as a session only takes half an hour. I go to Ladyzone three times a week after visiting my parents; it’s so easy to fit in half an hour.”
Lesley we wish you all the best for the Olympia Show this December and hope your training with us gives you that edge over the competition!
Slimzone – we’re holding a weekly slimming club starting MON DEC 7TH! The weekly weigh-ins cost just £1 a week and all the money in the pot comes back in fantastic prizes for the ‘biggest loser’. Each slimming club last for 8 weeks so it’s a great opportunity to slim up over the festive period, enjoy the support of our other members and even win some great prizes in the process! Sign up in club now with any member of Staff. |
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LEG RAISES!
"This exercise effectively targets the muscles of the bottom ‘glutes’ and the backs of the thigh ‘hamstrings’. If you do it regularly you will develop ‘buns’ of steel!"
Kneel on all fours with your back flat and tummy pulled in. Extend one leg behind you with the toes of your foot resting on the floor. Lift the extended leg to hip level squeezing the bottom. As you return the leg to the starting position touch the floor lightly and repeat 15-20 times on each leg. As you progress and improve light ankle weights can be added to this exercise to increase the intensity.
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HEALTH & LIFESTYLE COACHING
The Importance of Why – The Pleasure / Pain Principle ? |
 I’m sure I don’t need to stress the importance of setting a realistic goal when starting out to lose weight. By setting a goal, we are acknowledging to ourselves that we are not exactly where we want to be and it focuses our minds on achieving what we do want.
Human beings are biologically motivated to gain pleasure, or to avoid pain. All decisions are preceded by asking whether either pleasure will be gained, or pain will be avoided. And whether we think we will gain pleasure or pain from something is determined by what we associate the thing to. When most people think of dieting, they think of hunger and deprivation ie PAIN. Most people also rely solely on willpower to sustain a diet. As the brain is programmed to avoid pain at all costs, it will deliberately sabotage any attempts to stick with a diet. If you need willpower to stick to a diet, it goes against our survival instinct to avoid pain. If when on a diet, you are deliberately putting yourself in a painful situation – real or perceived – your brain will do anything to avoid it. The more you try and use willpower, the more you desire what you think you can’t have. It’s just not possible to hold out for-ever and when you crack, you feel
like you’ve failed and are inade-quate and weak and likely to turn to food to make you feel better. Sound familiar?
Willpower will temporarily pump you up to lose weight for a party in 2 weeks. But you can’t stay permanently pumped up. It’s just not pos-sible. So don’t beat yourself up for all those failed dieting attempts in the past.
People only become slimmer and stay slimmer when the slimming process itself gives them pleasure and being overweight gets too pain-ful. Ask anybody who has successfully lost weight long term, they’ll probably tell you that the thought of eating well and exercising regu-larly used to be painful to them – until they turned their attitudes around. Now they find the thought of endless chips and chocolate less appealing because they know how fat and overfull they are going to feel after they’ve eaten them and they know how good they feel when they look in the mirror.
Another common problem is that we tend to think short term ie focus on the short term pleasure we’ll get from that piece of chocolate cake, rather than the long term pleasure of being slim.
If this sounds like you, chances are that you have forgotten exactly WHY you wanted to achieve the goal in the first place. Or at least, the original reasons aren’t as clear in your mind as they once were.
The key to successfully achieving a goal is not to stress about HOW you’re going to achieve it – it is consistently focusing on WHY you want to achieve it. If you’ve got a big enough WHY, you’ll always manage to figure out the HOW.
Ask yourself the following questions to help clarify and intensify your desire to lose weight:
What will you be able to do when you’ve lost weight that you are un-able to do at the moment?
How will you be feeling?
What will you be saying to yourself?
How will you look?
What clothes will you be wearing?
What is your partner saying to you?
What are your friends saying to you?
Take a couple of minutes each day to remind yourself of your goal and visualise the future you – the slim and revitalised you.
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Members of the month:
Wendy Evans lost 7.7lb and 15cms
Judy Woolley lost 5lb and 11cms
Jacqui Williams lost 20.3cms
Sarah Riley lost 2lb and 24.5cms
Kate Lunn lost 11lb and 14.5cms
Sandra Batley lost 12lb and 32.5cms
Well done to all the members at Wakefield - fantastic results. Keep it up. |
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Well done to Leanne - her goal was to get in a little Black dress for Christmas ……..& she has done it!!!!! Well done from all the members & staff at Ladyzone.
Member of the month is Mellissa Burton, 12 lbs. 20 inches and 5% body fat….WOW keep up the good work!! |
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Member of the Month - Suzanne English has lost 4lbs and 10 inches from her waist line! Not only that, she has even impressed her doctor by how much her blood pressure has decreased! Well done Suzanne, we hope you enjoyed your photoshoot with Lime Photographics!
Other Big Losers!
Rita Robinson – 23cm lost 32lbs
Denise Edwards – 31cm and 5% body fat
Allison Maddox – 29 cm and 7% body fat
Elizabeth Bertini – 21 cm
Jane Bull - 3lbs and 3.5cm
Top Attendances – Suzanne English is our member of the month and also has top attendance for the month with 20 visits! Just goes to show that hard work pays off! In second place was Nana Antwi with 17 visits and in third place was Nicky Samuels with 16 visits during October. |
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Member of the month – Nicol Goddard has lost 23.3lb and 39.5cm in 11 weeks!! Great result Nicol and well done!
Other Big Losers! – Sonia Denning has lost 4.4lb and 19cm in 8 weeks. Helen Mallett has lost 6.4lb and 14cm in 8 weeks. Jenny Allen has lost 2kg and 11cm in 9 weeks. Lorraine Lichfield has lost 3.2kg and 13.5cm in 11 weeks. Well done ladies!
The highest attendances of the month are: Alison Warner – 23 days, Janet Waller – 22 days and Melissa Woodhouse, Stella Jockel, Chris Gilmour and Angela Edwards all with 21 days. |
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Member of the month for October is Jane Elliott. Well done Jane, her great results are definitely down to her hard work – she has been attending four mornings a week! She has lost 2 stone in 2 months and says she can’t wait for her next review!
Other Big Losers! - Our top review results for October both came from members who joined in June. Alison Jackson has now lost a total of 2 stone, both her blood pressure and resting heart rate has gone down and she has trimmed off 23.5 cm from all over her body. Pauline Reynolds has lost a total of 20lbs and 39.5cm since June and her blood pressure and resting heart rate has also decreased.
Top Attendances: Mary Burley and Samantha Crookes both came 20 times in October with Joanne Rodgers and Mandy Dew sharing second place with 18 visits. |
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Member of the month Doreen Williams who has lost 6lb and 20.5cms - a big well done!
Other Big Losers! Jenny Knill lost 7lb, 0.7% body fat and 15cm. Janine Skitt lost 10 ½ lb, 1.7% body fat and 13cm. Clare Rice lost 11 ¼ , 2.4% body fat and 8cm. Julie Melia lost 6 ½, 2.5% body fat and 12cm. Alison Gray lost 6 ½, 1.4% body fat and 13cm. |
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