This is one of our weight loss retreat classic dishes which we have on every week. The chicken is a complete protein and we serve it with Kale instead of the traditional Caribbean way which is served with rice and peas. The reason for this is that kale contains a lot of fiber, antioxidants, vitamin C, Iron, and vitamin K.

FitFarms Weight loss retreat Jerk Chicken Ingredients 

12 chicken thighs with the bone on

1 whole lime halved

FitFarms Weight loss retreat Marinade ingredients 

TBSP ground all spice

3 TBSP of good quality honey

2 TBSP of Coconut or Olive oil

2 TBSP Soy sauce

1 Lime juice

1 TSP of dried thyme

3 scotch bonnet chillies. Remember to take the seeds out to decrease the hip.

1 small onion

3 garlic cloves

Roughly chopped ginger about a thumb size

Spring onions large bunch roughly chopped

1 large bag of kale

First of all Dean the FitFarms weight loss retreat chef makes the marinade by putting the spring onions, ginger, onion, chillies, thyme, lime juice, soy sauce, oil, honey and all spice in a food processor and makes a paste.

Then Dean makes a few slashes in the chicken and rubs in the marinade. This is then sealed and left at the top of the fridge overnight.

The next day they are taken out of the fridge and put into an oven at 180 degrees for 45 minutes.

When the chicken is cooking take a large bowl and put a little bit of water and butter in it and bring to the boil. Then add the kale and put a lid on the pot. Let is cook for 7 minutes then toss it so the butter mixes in with the kale.

Put a healthy serving of kale on a plate and place 2 pieces of jerk chicken on the top.

The FitFarms Derbyshire weight loss and fitness retreat was one of the most successful weeks we had leaving a real buzz among the customers that joined us at the Matlock fitness retreat. The course started on the 16th August and completed on 23rd August and as per usual we ran courses starting from 2 nights and going up to and including 7 nights.

This weight loss and fitness camp was very different towards the end of the programme. Those who have joined us before will probably remember that we usually finish the week with a walk down to a local leisure centre giving customers the opportunity to take part in Badminton and swimming. The main reason for the trip to the local leisure centre is to build confidence so when people go home they will feel comfortable in using the local facilities in their area. This week we changed the fitness schedule so the leisure centre trip was on the Wednesday and the finale to the week was a traditional retro school sports day.

The Sports Day was fantastic covering all the old style school sports day exercises like egg and spoon race, the sack race, team relays, throwing compettion and tug of war. There were four teams red, yellow, green and blue and the games were competitive with an undertone of laughter.

Earlier in the week the weight loss retreat programme had a lot more team building exercises which bonded the group together making the course in general more fun and upbeat. Hula Hooping was the highlight! Trying to pass hula hoops around a joined circle of people was great fun and enjoyed by everyone. Hula Hooping does sound just a bit of fun but with weighted hula hoops it proves to be a great aerobic exercise and is also a good core workout.  Weighted Hula hoops can be bought online amazon and type in weighted fitness hula hoops.

The FitFarms residential weight loss and fitness retreat programme has never looked so exciting with new exciting and challenging exercise like HIITSTEP to a retro sports day including old favourites like the sack race, relays  and egg and spoon race.

The FitFarms weight loss and fitness retreat promises to be challenging but always manageable. Below is the first two days schedule which is going to be fun and challenging.

It all starts off when guests arrive at 5.00 pm by car or by opting for the FitFarms fitness retreat free transfer service from the local station.

Then at 6.00pm there is a welcome talk that is taken by Louise where she puts guests at ease and goes through the schedules and general information on the programme. This is followed by an ice breaker workout which is an introduction to aerobics. We then go into Dinner which has been created by Dean the FitFarms chef. Dean served a delightful salmon with cherry tomatoes and kale dish wish was well received by the guests.

The First Day at the holistic weight loss boot camp

It’s an early start at 6.00pm for the individual health assessments which take approximately 10 minutes per person covering body fat, weight, basal metabolic rate, mass muscle density and body mass index. Then we are into breakfast followed by circuits and HIITSTEP taken by Louise.

It’s then a well deserved lunch which is Italian meat balls or falafel for the vegetarians. We choose they dishes because they are what’s called complete protein which means they both hold the 9 essential amino acids the building blocks to protein.

The afternoon is always looked forward to as we do the first walk which takes around 3 hours through the local forest. Then we have a post walk stretch followed by dinner and the last exercise session of the day being kettlebells. It’s a quick herbal tea and then a tired hop into bed as everyone looks forward to the next day.

Summer is here and along with it comes ice cream!

First of all it’s important to know it’s good to treat yourself and good quality ice cream made with full fat cream is absolutely fine. However if sunset is closing in and you find yourself walking back to the ice cream van maybe consider frozen yoghurt.

Advantages of frozen yoghurt over ice cream

The main advantages are it’s less calorific than ice cream and the calories you are consuming are healthier than ice cream. It’s higher in protein and has live bacteria and yeasts which is good for the gut. However when the yoghurt is frozen it will lower the nutrients.

Frozen yoghurt recipe 

Ingredients 

140 grams of strawberries

500 grams of greek yoghurt

2 tablespoons of honey

Method

Roughly chop half of the strawberries and whiz up the other half in a food processor

Put the yoghurt, strawberries and honey into a plastic tub and freeze.

The frozen yoghurt will last for one month in the freezer.

We will be serving this dish on all the summer weight loss and fitness retreats

This recipe is high in protein and a great alternative for the heavy chocolate deserts which you find in restaurants.

Serves 4 people

Weight loss and fitness retreat healthy ingredients 

250 ml of full fat greek yoghurt

2 tbsp good quality peanut butter

1 bar of 80% chocolate

pinch of rock salt

16 raspberries

1 teaspoon of honey

4 tbsps of ground nut seed

Method

Melt the chocolate in a glass bowl of heated water.

Put all the ingredients into a mixer bowl and blend together.

Place in small pots, add 4 raspberries per pot and sprinkle ground nut seed on the top

I’m not sure why FitFarms Norfolk weight loss and fitness retreat has become so popular but once again we seem to be fully booked on the Norfolk weight loss and lifestyle retreat. Everyone loves the four poster bed or sleigh style accommodation with views over the stunning farmland scenery. Some say it has a great advantage over our other sites because of the ball room style workout area with double doors that open up onto a pretty farm style courtyard. The grounds that surround the accommodation are also in immaculate condition with a well crafted man-made pond. We also have the added advantage being so close to the beach which enables us to carry out beach walks and workouts.

This week has started off in the usual FitFarms fitness retreat positive manner with everyone showing extreme interest in the health assessments and with an eagerness to learn with lots of great questions. We’ve recently changed the way we assess our guests health as before we used body fat callipers which seemed a tiny bit intrusive especially at 7am in the morning. Now we’ve found some accurate wellbeing scales so we can test for mass muscle, body fat percentage, visceral fat, total body water, bone mass, basic metabolic rate, metabolic age to name but a few. It’s great to see the differences between the beginning and the end of the courses and the dramatic changes are a great motivation for the FitFarms customers.

The first day is all on site so after the nutritious dense breakfast there was Resistance for an hour followed by a short break and then back into the exercise area for Aerobics. Then came lunch which was a chicken pearl barley risotto. In the afternoon we enter kettlebells, pilates, a well deserved Dinner and finally completing with a Stretch session.

Recipe for chocolate mousse which is high in protein and healthy fat and served at FitFarms holistic weight loss boot camp.

Serves 4 people

Ingredients 

500 ml of Greek full fat yoghurt.

Make sure not to go for fat free or low fat. When the fat is processed out it loses it’s nutritional value plus unhealthy additives and sugars are added!

2 Bananas (high in potassium, protein and dietary fiber) Potassium is good because it lowers blood pressure and is one of the 9 key minerals. 

1 Avocado (good healthy fat)

3 Tablespoons of Peanut Butter (high in protein) Don’t get the cheap ones because they will be high is sugar, salt and stabiliser. The good ones to go for are Whole Earth or Meridian.

100 grams of Chocolate (check the ingredients on the back and make sure it is 70% cacao)

Method

Melt the chocolate by placing it in a glass bowl over boiling water.

Then put all the ingredients into a mixing bowl blend together.

Place in a glass bowl and grate dark chocolate on the top.