I’ve just learnt something interesting. It comes courtesy of Lauren Laverne (in ‘Grazia’ magazine, so it must be true) and basically: your brain burns 20% of your daily calorie requirement and that learning something new burns more calories than repeating something you already know. How good is that? 

So, I’ve devised a workable programme that over the next month will help you shake off unnecessary poundage WITHOUT altering what you eat or how you exercise. Over the next four weeks I’ll be bringing you a fact each week that you’re hopefully unaware of , or encouraging you to do a task that is a break from the norm all with the intention of achieving ‘brain burn’ and a more efficient calorific  burn-rate. The Foundation Plan doesn’t guarantee weight loss but by the end of June the science would suggest we’ll all be in much better shape, plus  we’ll possibly know 4 more things than we knew before!

Week 1. Hey Presto – as you’ve read and digested the above you’ve already learnt your new fact this week and your brain is in the zone. If you wanted to up the ante (or indeed if you already knew this fact), why not learn a language such as Croatian?

Check-in next week for the second session, after which you’ll already be half way through the programme. Bring on the holidays!

Subject: General by Liz