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A Scottish boxer has died in Thailand of suspected heatstroke.

Jordan Coe, 20, was found dead in a heavy tracksuit and is understood to have been trying to reach a certain weight for a professional fight.

Coe, of Maddiston, Falkirk was a professional Muay Thai boxer and formerly trained at a gym in Glasgow.

Craig Floan, his coach at Glasgow Thai Boxing Academy was told about his death in a phone call on Sunday.

He said: "Jordan was found this morning, he died in Thailand and the embassy there think he died from heatstroke.

"He moved to Thailand to chase his dream of becoming a professional after being with me for three and half years.

"We've set up a fundraiser for him and I'm now trying to help raise enough money to bring him home."

Coe trained at Carnage Mhay Thai Gym in Grangemouth, but moved to Ubon Ratchanthani, Thailand to pursue his Muay Thai boxing dream.

He had been scheduled to fight a Cambodian boxer in the Muang district on Sunday night and was expected to return to Scotland in summer to fight at the Glasgow Thai Boxing Academy.

A British Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We are providing assistance to the family of a British national following their death in Thailand.

"Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time."

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Gemma Collins has long struggled with her weight, but over the years spent in the public eye she's appeared to have come to terms with it.

That is, until now.

The TOWIE star has been shedding the pounds for a few weeks now and last night she revealed the true reason why she's keen to slim down.

During a conversation with a newly returned Charlie King, Gemma opened up about her struggle to conceive a child and revealed she thinks her weight is a major barrier to becoming a mum.

"Everything's good Charlie, I still haven't met the love of my life yet. Being the new found woman that I am, I've decided to take the route of freezing my eggs," she told him on camera.

"But you know, if you are overweight and you're trying to have a baby, you're at a 40 per cent chance, basically. So less than half way.

"I need to lose weight," she finished.

Personal trainer Chalie said he'd be willing to help Gemma achieve her dreams but grilled her on her current lifestyle, asking when she'd last had a takeaway.

"Yesterday, because you know what Charlie, I'd gone all day without eating," she told him, adding that she'd rather phone up for a Chinese than mess up her kitchen by cooking.

Charlie warned that she was making excuses for her poor dietary choices and told her to "sort it".

"If I had the body to match I'd be the fittest girl in Essex, I know I would," she said.

"I'd be pregnant in five minutes."

Just last week on the ITVBe show, Gemma was shown sobbing as she spoke to a fertility doctor about getting her eggs frozen.

The 36-year-old was told her time was running out as she was already at the top end of the age bracket for fertility treatment, something she wasn't aware of before speaking to her consultant.

"I'm living in this sheer panic morning, noon and night," she said while drying her tears with a tissue.

"Firstly because I'm worried I'm already going through the menopause; secondly 'why haven't I found the love of my life?'; and thirdly I'm asking, 'why me'?

"So I think if I can freeze my eggs I've got a better chance later on," she told the sympathetic doctor.

It comes as Gemma was rumoured to be back with her ex-fiance Rami Hawash earlier this month after she was spotted wearing the engagement ring he'd given her back in 2014.

"Gemma and Rami are essentially back together," a source told The Sun.

"They haven't put a label on their relationship yet but Gemma is in love with him and she's told her closest friends how happy she is."

She's yet to publicly confirm the rumours.

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Weight loss isan expensive proposition. You have to buy expensive food that nobody else in the household can eat. Dieting can make your food bill more than double. Then there is the expense of a gym membership or buying expensive home gym equipment.

Too expensive isoften a reason why somebody doesnt want to lose weight,but its possible to successfully challenge the notion. Weight loss can be economical. Here is how to lose weight while saving money.

You dont need to spend a lot of money, especially onuseless supplements you see advertised in magazines and online. More money than you realize is spent on diet books. Dont buy them. You dont need them.

I know its tempting to buy the new best-selling diet books you see advertised on the Internet, or order weight loss supplements. They over promise and under deliver. Save your money.

There is nothing new and revolutionary in weight loss. The new breakthrough, the fabulous detox diets, and the newest way to end cravings forever are clever ways to sell books but theres no new science to back up the claims. The success stories are anecdotal, not scientifically verified.

Your body has its own detox factory so dont waste money buying an expensive juicer for detoxification.

Losing weight is still a matter of eating fewer calories and ensuring that most of those calories are coming from a variety of highly nutritious sources. If you have fairly good eating habits already it may be a matter of smaller servings and fewer desserts and snacks.

If theyre not so good, you have a bigger challenge because youll need to improve your eating habits and monitor your food and physical activity. If you use food to cope with stress or manage emotions, you will need to find ways to do that without eating.Its tough to do it on your own, but not impossible.

The good news is changing your habits will save you money.

If you have trouble sustaining motivation and you need some structure with your eating and exercising, Weight Watchers is a bargain.

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For decades, people who wanted to be fit had only a few ways to track their progress.

Stand on a scale, measure their waist, and calculate their body mass index (BMI).

In the past few years, technology has expanded the number, complexity, and precision of those measurements.

The latest way to gauge the effectiveness of your fitness regimen is to stand in front of, or step inside of, a 3-D body scanner.

Two scanners with growing popularity are the mPod, housed in a secure, automated booth, and the Fit3D ProScanner, which uses a portable scanner tower with connected turntable.

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The technology is familiar to anyone who's raised their arms overhead inside an airport security scanner.

Scanners benefit from the innovations found in the motion-sensing technology of Microsoft's Kinect, part of the Xbox One introduced in 2011.

To be scanned, you stand on a raised circular platform that makes one 360-degree rotation while an infrared camera on a nearby aluminum stand records information and relays it to a connected laptop.

The mPod was designed by Dipra Ray, Melody Shiue, and Andy Wu, who met as university friends in Australia. Ray and Wu majored in business and finance, Shiue in industrial design.

The company they founded, mPort, has partnered with LA Fitness to install 670 units in its clubs in the United States. Following the initial rollout in Orange County, Calif., the company is now installing mPods in other cities.

The mPod user steps into a photo booth-sized pod and stands on a turntable. In several minutes, the scanner produces a 3-D image that shows real-time changes achieved through different diets and fitness regimens.

The mPod is 100 percent automated, Mehul Dave, mPorts chief marketing officer, told Healthline. The user does not require another person to help them. You interact only with the machine. The mPod has an audio, visual, and touch interface. It talks to you and you talk back with your hands.

The mPod uses noninvasive infrared technology, equivalent to what comes out of a television remote control, and is safe to use for everyone including pregnant women, he said.

The unit maps more than 200,000 data points to measure your individual body shape, Dave added. Then it sends the information to the mPod mobile app, creates a 3-D image, or avatar, with data on all body and health measurements, and what they mean. It also describes the levels of risk you face.

The mPod records height, weight, biceps, chest, narrow waist, hips, mid-thigh, knees, calves, shoulders, and neck. It also measures BMI, body fat percentage, fat-free mass and percentage, waist-hip ratio, waist-height ratio, basal metabolic rate, ideal weight range, and target heart rate for exercise.

Dave and his colleagues finished their prototype in May 2013, and attracted investors four months later. By June 2016, they had signed the contract with LA Fitness clubs.

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The mPort focus is direct use by the customer in a shopping center or a club.

The mPod design offers security and comfort in a public place, Dave said. The app extends the usefulness of the scan by allowing users to access and use their data anytime to pursue health and fitness goals.

While mPorts founders first conceived of their scanner as a way for users to measure themselves before buying clothing online, Greg Moore the founder and chief executive officer of Fit3D in Redwood City, Calif., and creator of the ProScanner was inspired by his mother, Lynne.

In an interview with Healthline, Moore said, After trying for several years to shed some unwanted pounds, my mother hired a trainer and a nutritionist and started on a very healthy lifestyle. She mixed healthy eating with high-intensity interval training and cardio exercises. She was building muscle while shedding fat. So when I'd see her every few months, I could see that she fit inside of her old body.

Lynne became increasingly demotivated because her weight seemed to change so minutely, he said.

With a background in fitness, he knew her body was getting more lean and dense, but she didn't have a way to evaluate her progress. She finally gave up.

A computer engineer, Moore was a member of the invention team at Sportvision, which provides data and analytics for MLB teams. He drew on that experience, beginning in 2010, to solve my moms problem with motivation.

The ProScanner captures about 1,200 depth images on a body and combines them to create a full 3-D avatar of a human body, Moore said. The unit extracts more than 350 of those measurements to produce proprietary and university research-backed wellness metrics.

The data is finally presented to users and their coaches through the cloud-based Fit3D web platform, Moore said. Users can see scans and stats, compare them to past scans, and see a crazy amount of data about their bodies.

Fit3D sells, leases, or rents ProScanners to a spectrum of businesses to enhance their customer experience, Moore said. Clients include health insurance companies, hospitals, health clubs, weight loss centers, fashion brand shops, and custom-made mens suit shops.

Moore said user feedback has helped to improve the ProScanner.

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James Shapiro, a certified personal trainer and president of New York City-based Primal Power Fitness, has watched the tech boom in fitness over the past decade.

I've seen how impactful wearable tech has been for data tracking, he told Healthline. But this turn into 3-D body scanning is incredible.

When I try to create a blueprint for someone, I want to know every possible detail, he added. This boils down to nutrition, sleep habits, hydration levels, stress levels, and more. These small variables matter because it can be the difference of a couple points of body fat, or levels of performance.

Clients benefit from the wealth of recorded scan data.

Having these small details in a physical representation offers a picture the client can believe in and understand when it comes to body composition, Shapiro said. A scan removes the margin of error that bio-electric impedance tests [which measure body fat in relation to lean body mass] have, and that has significant reliability. On a larger commercial scale, scans can be the best thing that can happen to personal training.

Although Shapiro and his colleagues have no experience yet with 3-D scanning, he has a keen interest in the technology.

When you want to deliver a quality service, you want to provide the best information to back up your statements or claims, he said.

This would be more important for his clients who wish to considerably improve body composition and would benefit from the detailed 3-D images, he added.

A scan would offer a significant physiological boost to clients, who would be able to see that their sweat and tears were showing concrete results, he said.

Shapiro said the only real drawback to 3-D scanning would be that either the trainer or the client could misinterpret the information and believe they could achieve spot reduction.

Spot reduction is the belief that you can reduce a specific area of the body through extensively training only that part, he said. This might lead to unclear expectations and loss of motivation due to a lack of results.

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Swapping cutlery for chopsticks also helps slow down eating so the brain can catch up with the stomach, a trick which can also be achieved by eating with the non-dominant hand.

Try to eat slowly and mindfully, and yes that means turning the TV off, he added.

Eating with the TV on is one of the worst things you can do in terms of increased consumption. Finding that people eat 15 per cent more food with the telly on as compared to when it is off is not unusual. The danger is we simply fail to pay attention to food-related stimulation.

The next time you find yourself eating in front of the TV or computer think carefully about what you are doing. Mindful eating and drinking is important in terms of increased enjoyment and quite possible increased satiety too.

Other tips include:

Hide food - it really is a case of out of sight out of mind. Anything you can do to make food difficult to get will help cut calories.

Split up the portions - cut a pizza or cake into six pieces rather than four

Drink more water - half a litre 30 minutes before lunch reduces meal consumption by an average of 40 calories

Eat in front of the mirror - or from a mirrored plate to consciously acknowledge how much you are eating and what types of food

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After a dinner out with her family where the staff struggled to find a seat that she would fit into, Jennifer Butters knew she needed to lose weight. At the time, the 5-foot-5-inch woman weighed 410 pounds.

After three and a half years of hard work, she dropped a total of 275 pounds.

"The most difficult part for losing the weight was in admitting to myself that I was out of control with my emotional eating and that if I didn't stop, I was likely going to die from the damage it was causing," Butters, 53, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, told TODAY via email.

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Like so many women, she put on weight during her three pregnancies and failed to lose it. That, combined with a love of baked goods and comfort food, meant Butters weight increased dramatically before she realized that if she didn't change her habits, her high cholesterol and pre-diabetes would become bigger problems.

Ive learned that whenever we live in an unbalanced way our lives cant be truly healthy or happy, she said.

For the past three years, shes maintained her weight loss thanks to a focus on mindful eating.

I hope that people know what seems impossible is possible with God and no matter what our stories have been in the past, we can write a happier ending, she said.

Butters shared her advice for losing and maintaining weight loss.

Following a simple diet and exercise regimen, Jennifer Butters lost 275 pounds in a little over three years.

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Before losing 275 pounds, Butters tried and failed to lose weight many times. People told her shed never lose weight and keep it off. But she started anyway.

Dont let any excuses get in your way, she said. "Choose a healthy, balanced weight-loss plan and surround yourself with as much support, encouragement and inspiration."

Butters keeps a food journal it helps her make smart food choices and count calories. She also walks and bikes for exercise instead of going to the gym. These changes make sense with her life, so adding them feels easy.

I focus on keeping balance, she said.

Vegetables, fruits, lean meats, low-fat dairy and whole grains make up the bulk of Butters diet. She buys them and stays away from the center of the grocery store, often where processed foods, snacks and sugary beverages are.

I basically stick to eating foods found in the perimeter of the grocery store, she said.

Jennifer Butters changed her lifestyle with a few simple tweaks.

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While Butters worked hard to lose weight, it did not feel as difficult as being overweight. Feeling exhausted from doing the smallest task or being humiliated when she couldn't fit somewhere took more energy than eating healthfully and exercising.

Being morbidly obese is harder. Choose your hard. I choose living healthy, she said. "Staying healthy and keeping the weight off 'tastes' much better than any kind of food."

For birthdays, anniversaries or holidays, Butters enjoys foods that arent part of her eating plan. But she doesnt worry about over-indulging.

It feels so much better to be at a healthy weight and to be free of all the emotional baggage I carried around that I dont completely enjoy eating off plan for very long. After a day or so off, I am ready to get back on, she said.

Butters gained a lot of weight by simply not paying attention. Shed binge on food without thinking about it. But those habits make living a healthy life almost impossible.

Continue focusing on healthy, balanced eating and living. Dont think you can go back to mindless eating and careless living again and stay at a healthy weight and lifestyle. Its not possible, she said.

Too often, we view our struggles as proof that were weak and this leads us to more and more negative thoughts and doubts, she said. But I have learned that the struggles we go through are proof that we have not given up.

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Your healthiest self is hiding inside you and if you are like most people, youve probably been trying to find it since you were a teenager.

Dieting and a strict gym routine are things youre probably familiar with but the thought of them doesnt seem that exciting.

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Plus, you may have started to think that these things dont work since youve tried them time and time again without the results you were hoping for. The truth is, it isnt impossible to reach your fittest potential.

It can be done! Here are five ideas that are actually unique and may finally get you where you want to be.

Have you read the articles going around about the adventurous older women who got their teenage bodies back by pole dancing?

Its pretty incredible to see what kind of shapethese women are capable of getting into.

Nearly every town offers some kind of pole dancing class these days. The amount of muscle that it takes to get up there, turn upside down and pull yourself around is incredible and your body is bound to change drastically after only a few months.

You read that right. Eat a lot more, but eat the right things.

Restricting calories may help you lose weight in the short term but eating small salads and tiny portions of trail mix just isnt sustainable. I mean, do you really want to be counting calories for the rest of your life?

If you stick to whole foods like fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, you can eat way more than if you just cut portions of processed meals.

While the one slice of pizza you are allowing yourself for dinner may taste better than a giant salad, you probably will be much more satisfied after the larger meal, all while dropping weight.

Oh yeah, hula hooping is back and this time, it is here to help you get in shape. Im sure you learned how to hula hoop during gym class but its probable that your teacher never taught you the physical benefits of putting in some serious hooping.

Through the motions involved with hula hooping, your abs will get a serious workout, helping you tone up without the dreaded crunch routine.

It can help build up stamina too, so if you actually do want to keep up with the crunches, you will be able to.

Plus, keeping that thing going will work up a sweat which will help you burn the calories in a way thats pretty entertaining.

Not only is it cheap to buy a hula hoop, but you are able to do it right in your living room or back yard. Hell, you can do it while watching your favorite show too.

Want to take it a bit more seriously? People actually offer group hula hoop classes for exercise. Ask your local gym or check if there are venues in your city that host the classes.

You may have heard of waist trainers through the media since people like the Kardashians and Lindsey Lohan have been known to wear them.

Essentially, they are worn in a way similar to a corset and help shape the waist into an hour-glass figure. You can wear one under your clothes so that you can work on that perfect body even when youre at work or grocery shopping.

Articles can be found all over the place with tales of fantastic waist trainer results and first person stories too.

Have you ever thought about fencing? No? Ok, I dont blame you.

Fencing (the sport, not the thing you put up to hide from the neighbors) is one of those activities that hardly anyone ever does.

However, it is pretty cool if you take the time to look into it. With special masks and a suit, you technically sword fight with your opponent until someone wins.

How cool is that? Whats even better than being a totally unique, quirky bad-ass, is that you will get quite the workout from it too.

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