This breakfast only requires two main ingredients.

Eggs and bananas

Directions for one person

Heat a frying pan.

Turn on your grill on full heat

Blend 2 eggs and one (not green) banana.

Add a small amount of butter or coconut oil to the pan.
Pour  the pancake mixture into the pan from the blender.

Leave for approx 2 mins.

Then remove the pan from the heat and place it under the grill, in order to cook the upper part.

Leave under grill until golden brown, or approx 2-3mins on full blast.

Caution not to melt the pan handle if plastic – (leave sticking out of grill with door open).

Remove from grill and slide onto a plate.

Add some peanut butter in a strip along the centre of the pancake. Then roll it up and slice to eat.

Note – other additions, could be Greek yogurt, Almond butter, honey etc.

Enjoy the taste and simplicity of it.

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Hi Folks.

One has to think twice about your food choices today.

It was so easy during Xmas just to reach for that sweet snack or that bit of xmas cake.

So thus far today – I have had two breakfasts as per usual for me.

at 8.30am after swim training it’s – Natural Greek yogurt, some chopped fruit and some nuts.

11.30 it was some eggs, beans, mushrooms, some baked ham.

Lunch will be some fish and some mushy peas.

I WANT YOU ALL TO EMAIL YOUR WEIGHT IN KG ON YOUR SCALES PLEASE AS OF TODAY.

Thanks,

Adam

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‘Often when I am trying to Inspire, Inform & Educate – I feel it’s best to say nothing at all, but instead  let my clients, do the ‘talking’ - Adam………..

‘I’m 44 and my ethos was mostly to watch my food and get a couple of walks in a week.  In my opinion I was a stone over weight.  I had my first pt the next day.  That was a shocker!’

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‘Often when a Personal Trainer like me, is trying to Inspire, Inform & Educate – its better to say nothing at all, but instead  let the clients, ‘walk the walk’ and ‘talk the talk.’

•  ’I'm 44 and my ethos was mostly to watch my food and get a couple of walks in a week.  In my opinion I was a stone over weight.  I had my first pt the next day.  That was a shocker.”
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  • ‘It ended with a possibility of throwing up on the grass, but thankfully that passed and I was amazed I got through it.’
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• ‘Each session got harder and harder for me.  Some strong days, some awful ones.’
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  • However in parallel with this my  fitness improved.  My asthma has also improved.  I have cut my preventative medication in half and rarely need my Ventolin.  My body shape has changed dramatically and my posture is improving.   So the hard work was paying off! Friends have noticed also that I look much better
    
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• ‘Adam also put me on a  4 day food detox.  It was tough going with 2 days good and  2 days dreadful!   I was told to come off my coffee fix, the week before the detox and it was then that, I really struggled as I was a heavy coffee drinker.  Since completing the detox, miraculously,  I really haven’t gone back on coffee.  Maybe 2 cups a week?  I have also fallen in love -  with juicing and have continued juicing daily since detox began.  John and my three boys love them too.’
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  • ‘ If you are anything like me, no routine, no fitness, no motivation, tired etc, Adam will sort you out super quick.  He doesn’t listen to “I can’t”
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• ‘His sessions are never the same, never boring. He completely trains you to revert back to the simple movements that you found so easy as a child but struggle with as an adult, like balance.’
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  • ‘I have spent the last two months feeling sore, stiff but I’m a changed woman.’
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• ‘I am more aware of what I eat and have found a healthy balance between food and activity.’
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  • ‘If you want to improve your lifestyle but still enjoy your dinners out and your prosecco!!  Give Adam a call, as despite his tough training methods, he is actually very approachable.
    

• Joanna
  

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THE STORY IN FULL:

If you are anything like me, no routine, no fitness, no motivation, tired etc, Adam will sort you out super quick.  He doesn’t listen to “I can’t”, he politely but firmly gets me to finish my reps, he ignores my whinging!! His sessions are never the same, never boring. He completely trains you to revert back to simple movements that you found so easy as a child but struggle with as an adult, like balance.   I can finally do men’s press ups and have  proved it publically to my friends one night during poker!!   I have spent the last two months feeling sore, stiff but I’m a changed woman.

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I am more aware of what I eat and have found a balance with food and activity.  I’m walking 5 times a week too with my girlfriend who asked me the other day after reading Adam’s newsletter  ” Are we walking tomorrow or are you training with Tarzan??!!”  Which unbeknowns to her was quite apt as his wife’s name is Jane!!

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Not exactly a professional photo image but taken at 6am this morning (after I had eaten some!)

1. One cup of Kilbeggan* Organic Porridge oat. 2.5 cups of water. (Note – no milk or creaming agent is needed as the Kilbeggan oats have their own creaminess).
2. Soak overnight.
3. Add some** raisins or any dried fruit. Add some mixed seeds and nuts.
4. Add to high heat till bubbling in a saucepan.
5. Turn down the heat to summer .
6. Break two organic eggs into the porridge and stir in gently until they disappear!
7. Add a small knob of butter and a spoon of honey.
8. … and  finally – I was lucky to top mine off with some of my wife’s stewed apple and pear.
9. Now that’s meal that will keep you satisfied. Enjoy.
10. Note – just because you make it once, does not mean to should make and eat it every day! Vary your diet, don’t be a bore!
11. Next time, I will share with you my (already famous) recipe for banana pancakes..

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Adam and Janes – Dirty Dancing Wedding Dance off

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Adam Kelly gives an account of being the first Irishman to break into the amazing world of XTerra Triathlon

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So overall the results look pretty positive. The graph below appears a little fuzzy, but it is attached also below.

Some recommendations as a follow up to the detox are as follows:

The ingredients you still have over are for continual consumption – even the Spurulina!
You can continue to make your superfood smoothies in the mornings.
However as the days get cooler, you may opt for some more warming foods:

• A hot/cooked breakfast – Eggs, Salmon, Banana Pancakes (PV recipe)
• Watch out for – Unhealthy Sausages – opt for butcher bought locally made ones. I recommend venison sausages.
• Bacon – use actual ham sliced off the joint – not processed crap stuff in packets. (that’s the posh way to do it).
• Baked beans – Get sugar free beans.  Best if a bad bunch of intensively grown crops – organic one are best.
• Egg – Organic Free Range or local where you can see the hens.
• Milky coffees – If you like foamy ones, stick to something like a Machiato – whereby the foam is just poured on top of a water based coffee. (Its much lower calories).
• Porridge – no matter what I say about porridge – there are those who will still eat it. If you do – Soak it overnight, stick it in a saucepan, and boil it. Dont microwave it as you will wreck every ingredient in it except for the sugars!
• Eat warm lunches and dinners.  Salad in the Winter – just ain’t natural.
• Eat meat based soups and cassaroles – using veg as your carb source.
• Eat stews, whereby the bones are immersed and cooked slowly – to release the good minerals (like absorbable calcium) and nutrients from the bone marrow.

ADAM

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