to start doing a particular job or activity.	Take (sth) up [phrasal verb]
the job or process of listening to someone and giving that person advice about their problems	Counselling
to do something in order to achieve something or in order to solve a problem	To deal with [phrasal verb]
a period of time when you eat no food	Fasting
work that is done by the aid of volunteers	Voluntary work
you use this word as a polite way of saying that someone is old	Elderly
a form of exercise involving slow movements of body, originally done in China	T'ai chi
a treatment for pain or illness in which thin needles are positioned just under the surface of the skin at special points around the body	Acupuncture
any of various medical and surgical techniques using lasers, such as the removal of small growths	Laser treatment
a type of physical training that consists of many different types of exercise, related to military	Boot-camp style training
activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk	High-risk sport
to stop trying to do something before you have finished, usually because it is too difficult	Give up [phrasal verb]
a period of time used to pray and study quietly, or to think carefully, away from normal activities and duties	religious retreat
the ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a long time	Endurance
the quality that involves deep feelings and beliefs of a religious nature, rather than the physical parts of life	Spirituality
to become heavier	Put on [phrasal verb]
activities that makes you feel better with yourself	to improve your self-esteem
to increase the range of things that someone knows about or has experienced	Broaden your horizons
something that would be a positive influence on your life	To see a way forward [idiom]
to be damaging and not helpful	Do more harm than good [idiom]
the absence of disease that includes lifestyle behavior choices to ensure health	Physical well-being
a state in which an individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life and can work productively	Mental well-being
slight; not much	Superficial
the ability to make yourself do things you know you should do even when you do not want to	Self-discipline
used to encourage someone to continue doing something	Keep it up [phrasal verb]
to cause someone to feel sudden strong emotion-overpowered	Overwhelmed
slightly worried or uncomfortable about a particular situation	Uneasy
the ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a long time	Endurance
someone whose job is to help you become stronger and healthier by deciding which exercises you should do and showing you how to do them	Personal trainer
in a gradual, regular way over a period of time	Steadily
to make or become more vigorous, healthy, etc	Tone up [phrasal verb]
the rate at which living organisms expend energy or convert energy into food	Metabolic rate
the nutritional content of food is all the substances that are in it which help you to remain healthy.	Nutritional information
an increase, especially one that is gradual	Build up [phrasal verb]
feeling less interested in and enthusiastic about sth	Demotivated
completely bored	Bored to death [idiom]
thin in an attractive and healthy way	Trim
to become interested in an activity or subject	Get into sth [phrasal verb]
a unique series of parallel lines printed on a product's packaging, which is scanned to register its price at the checkout	Barcode
one of several substances, such as sugar or starch, that provide the body with energy, or foods containing these substances such as bread, potatoes, pasta, and rice	Carbohydrate
to take someone to a particular place, usually by car, as you tavel to a different place	Drop sb off [phrasal verb]
you do it regularly	Religiously
extremely tiring and difficult, and demanding great effort and determination	Gruelling
done regularly, regardless of the weather or other problems	Come rain or shine [idiom]
to accept a contract officially agreeing to do a job or course of study.	Sign up [phrasal verb]
think about things that happened in the past	Look back on sth [phrasal verb]
someone that listen sympathetically as you talk about your troubles	A shoulder to cry on [idiom]
to manage to look serious, even though you really want to laugh or smile	Keep a straight face [idiom]
inspiring horror; terrifying	Hair-raising [idiom]
to deliberately ignore something because you do not want to take any action over it/ pretend not to notice	Turn a blind eye to something [idiom]
to reject something because you think that it is not good enough for you	Turn your nose up at something [idiom]
when food looks or smells extremely nice	Mouth-watering [idiom]
to be very busy	Up to your neck in sth [idiom]
to manage to understand something difficult	Get your head round/around sth [idiom]
causing great sympathy or sadness	Heart-rending [idiom]
a feeling of being very nervous or frightened about something	Have butterflies in your stomach [idiom]
to win very easily	Win hands down [idiom]
to do something with your hands in a clumsy way and keep making mistakes while you are doing it	All fingers and thumbs [idiom]
to make fun of or fool by playing on a person's credulity	Pull someone's leg [idiom]
when someone accidentally do or say something which embarrasses or offends people	Put your foot in it [idiom]
to cause something to change completely and in a bad way	Turn sth upside down [idiom]
to trust someone because you think that they can do something well or that they are a good person	Believe in sb [phrasal verb]
to use or enjoy something as much as possible	Make the most of something [idiom]
used to describe a place where people can go, usually to get help or advice, at any time without making an appointment	Drop-in
a system that sends television signals to a limited number of screens, and is often used in shops and public places to prevent crime:	CCTV
a place where a railway and a road cross each other, usually with gates that stop the traffic while a train goes past	Level crossing
a wheel in a vehicle that the driver turns in order to make the vehicle go in a particular direction	Steering wheel
a bad electrical connection that causes the current to flow in the wrong direction, often having the effect of stopping the power supply	Short circuit
when a train comes off the railway tracks	Derailing
medical techniques and treatments intended to prevent disease before it happens, rather than curing it	Preventative medicine
a place filled quickly and in a large number	Overrun

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