SP Nutrition & Fitness

7 Ways to keep moving forward when you don’t feel motivated…

Remember, the starting point is to understand that motivation is not something you can directly control.

Instead, focus on the factors within your control and develop a set of core ideals and practices.

Embrace the journey of growth and progress, and ultimately, you'll achieve great things.

Keep going and cherish the struggles that lead to your well-deserved happiness.

M is in his late 30’s.

He is married with two young kids and works as Head of IT at a Fintech company in London.

Family time and work together make for a hectic schedule.

Before working together, M struggled with balance…

He had always been into fitness since university days.

However, for all his hard work in the gym, he simply was not seeing the results from his efforts.

This left him feeling frustrated, and burned out from all the brutal workouts he was enduring.

He didn’t have the guidance, support or tools to achieve what he wanted.

Ultimately, he just couldn’t break this cycle…

As the years passed, he noticed his weight crept up.

His energy and confidence decreasing in line with it.

He was struggling with day-to-day activities.

He was left with the typical ‘skinny fat’ look, common amongst many South Asian men.

This worried him…

If he kept it going, how could he one day be a positive role model or inspiration for his own family?

But as you can see, we have since solved the problem.

This amazing guy is over 10kg down in weight, lost inches off his waist, and gained several pounds of lean muscle tissue.

M has gone all in on getting his body ready for the future…

He is now stronger, leaner, and feeling more energised than ever.

Most importantly, he now has the tools and knowledge to sustain this lifestyle being completely autonomous.

I couldn't be happier with the work we have done together… And I know he feels the same.

Hey, I’m Sonny & this is my story…

Before becoming a Nutrition Coach and Personal Trainer, I spent over 12 years working as an Investment Banking Consultant in London.

As you can imagine, it was a very high pressure, and high stress environment, and living according to the “work hard, play harder” mentality.

Unsurprisingly, I ended up burning out with many symptoms I had no understanding of even though I thought I was living a healthy lifestyle.

I was struggling with brain fog, anxiety, low mood, poor concentration, terrible sleep, and a terrible sense of wellbeing.

I visited traditional medical practitioners and all my tests were coming back “normal” and doctors couldn’t find a reason for my symptoms.

So, I took matters into my own hands.

Through research & self-experimentation, and working with functional health experts, I identified low testosterone was the underlying cause.

As a male in my early 30’s, I found this incredibly troubling, until I took it upon myself to reclaim my masculinity, which ironically, my masculine job had destroyed.

I then decided that I wanted to help others like me learn how to heal themselves.

So, I left the Investment Banking industry, that was no longer serving me, and went in-depth studying nutrition and health from a holistic perspective.

Since then it’s become my passion and life’s mission to educate, inspire, and motivate as many people as I can on their heath journey.

I now take great pride in helping others look, feel and perform at their best through nutritional, training, and lifestyle interventions.

I will regularly post FREE content here so that you can learn to create a long-term healthy, sustainable lifestyle.

I’m always here & will do my best to answer any questions you have.

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝘆, 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲…

Healthy eating is not complicated.

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the excuse of not having time to figure out how to eat healthy.

Or not knowing what to eat.

Again, they’re usually excuses for not wanting to change.

But healthy eating is simple.

The food you eat… should be the ingredient.

That’s how simple it is.

Let me explain a bit better.

You should avoid foods where you have to read a label containing 10+ ingredients… half of which you can’t even pronounce.

If it comes out of a package, it’s most likely processed. Which nearly always means it has sugar, preservatives, vegetable/seed oils, etc…

These things are destroying your health by causing inflammation in the body.

And inflammation is a driver of cancers and a whole host of other diseases.

So when I say your food should be the ingredient, I mean you shouldn’t have to read a label to find out what you’re putting in your mouth.

Eggs don’t have ingredients... They are the ingredient. Same with vegetables, same with seafood, same with chicken, same with sweet potatoes or yams or rice, etc…

You don’t need to read an ingredient label for these foods. Because they are the ingredient.

That’s how simple clean eating can be.

If it’s got an ingredient label, it’s not real whole food.

Even better still, eating organic foods which have cancer fighting properties rather than the regular stuff covered in pesiticides increasing toxicity in the body.

What I’ve just told you is some of the most important advice I can ever give anyone for their health.

Applying these principles of healthy eating will add years to your life. And drastically reduce your chance of developing diseases that are rampant in the western world today.

I hope you take this to heart and put it into action.

I've had a lot of people recently asking me about gaining muscle recently whilst not wanting to accumulate masses of fat.

When you think about gaining muscle you think about a “bulking” phase.

And all too often for people this calls to mind images of people stuffing their faces with all sorts of foods.

You need to eat big to get big right?!

While, yes, a calorie surplus is key to gaining muscle, too often a “bulk” often becomes the perfect excuse to pig out and way overeat.

And this often leads to a lot of unwanted fat gain as you put on muscle.

This unwanted fat gain means you will then at some point have to go into a CUT to get rid of the fat and lean back down.

And when you cut, if you don’t do it super slowly, you’re most likely going to lose some of the muscle you worked hard to gain anyway.

So the question is…can you gain muscle WITHOUT gaining fat?

Is it possible to bulk in a way you don’t really need to then do an extreme cut to lean back down after?

The answer is YES.

By being precise in how we go about gaining muscle and taking the time to do it right, we can ultimately gain muscle without packing on the fat.

That’s why I wanted to share 3 tips to help you gain muscle without gaining fat.