H EALTH & BEAUTY
The Ultimate Lifestyle Choice A New Year. A New You.You’ve probably been here many times before. You start each year with all the best intentions in the world!
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n overindulgent festive period can leave you feeling a little sluggish and your thoughts quickly turn to how you can become a better version of yourself as Big Ben strikes on New Year’s Eve. As January begins, out go the wine bottles and in come the detox smoothies. Out go the pizza boxes and long working lunches and in come the low-calorie meals and the George Foreman Grill. You even join the local gym with the intent to lose that stubborn festive weight that won’t shift, despite you now walking to work instead of taking the car. For a month or two, you’re in that zone. You’ve hit your groove and you start to look and feel great. You have more energy and a new zest for life. Then something happens that knocks you off-kilter. We’ve all been there – you go on a long weekend break, it’s your birthday, your best friend’s stag/hen do. That one event where you lose your focus and however hard you might try, you just can’t get back to where you were beforehand. Days, weeks quickly pass and before you know it you haven’t done any proper exercise for three months and the wine bottles and pizza boxes have started to creep back in. You then realise that you’re paying for a gym membership that you’re not using, but you’re tied into for another eight
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months! You might, out of pure stubbornness, go back intermittently, but find it difficult to get back into that zone you found so easy just six months ago. The weight starts to creep back on. The cycle goes on and on. Sadly, this is a common story that we hear a lot and I’m sure it will resonate with many of you reading this article. At Stoke Park, we pride ourselves on our Health Membership being much, much more than just seeing our members grudgingly hauling themselves to the gym three times a week. It’s a lifestyle choice. A place where you can relax, reenergise, meet friends and family in a 5 AA Red Star friendly environment, but also where you can enjoy some of very best