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My First BBC Radio Interview with My Daddy Cooks

  I was in total geeks heaven; my first radio interview with Nick Coffer on BBC 3 Counties.  There were dials, buttons, screens, computers, flashing things, headphones; it was amazing.  I’d been on blogtalk radio before and interviewed by phone for local independent radio, but here I was being interviewed on BBC Radio, and I […]

Top Tips For Healthy Eating In A Family

As part of my series on ‘Healthy Eating For Rubbish Cooks‘ I’m starting with a description of what on earth healthy eating might look like.  This isn’t a whole treatise on nutrition, just a set of simple rules for a family to look at and apply as many as are reasonably possible. 15 Simple Rules […]

15 Top Tips: Oh No It’s Christmas, how do I stop gaining loads of weight!

Weight Loss Tips For Mums

It’s Christmas! But don’t panic about your weight! For a start, if you gain a few pounds, you can easily shed them quickly afterwards, so it’s really not worth stressing about.  (so if that’s all you needed to hear, you are welcome to pop off and have an egg nog now!). But lets say there […]

Please Buy My Book And Tell The Whole World About It!

I’M AN AUTHOR!!! ‘The Mummy Whisperer’s Six Steps To A Sparkling You And Enjoying Being A Mum’ I’m not going to be shy about this, I’m going to say ‘PLEASE BUY MY BOOK!’ and ‘PLEASE TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW ABOUT IT!!!’ Why on earth should you? Well, because it’s a fab little book packed with […]

Get Healthy, Fit and Lose Weight Easily In time for Christmas or Summer

Weight Loss Tips For Mums

Do you fancy getting healthy, fit and maybe a bit slimmer? Without rubbish diets, fads, or boring exercise routines? It’s totally possible, it’s just that it wouldn’t make good TV or newspaper articles or expensive weight loss regimes if everyone knew how! I blogged all 2011 about losing weight.  Pre-children I struggled for years before […]

Weight Loss Tips No13: Rewards for losing weight and hitting your goals

Weight Loss Tips For Mums

  I was thinking about rewards for losing weight and hitting goals last week.  It’s important to be balanced in life: to give and to receive in equal measure.  So it would be a fair deal to give yourself or your body something in return for doing a good job.  After all, wouldn’t you be […]

Exercise Tips: Fifteen Top Tips For Running For Rubbish Runners

Weight Loss Tips For Mums

Last week I blogged about what a rubbish runner I am and how its to my advantage when I’m trying to lose or maintain my weight.  There are tonnes of tips out there from good runners, but hows about some tips from a rubbish runner?  After all, I know how tough it can be, whereas […]

Weight Loss Tips No12: Stalled in your progress?

Weight Loss Tips For Mums

It’s really normal to make great progress and then suddenly stall and stop for a while.  If this is where you are and you want a boost, then this is the post for you. I did really well following my weight loss tips, and went from 12 stone or thereabouts to 10 stone 5lbs within […]

Exercise Tips: Why It’s Great If You Are A Rubbish Runner

Weight Loss Tips For Mums

Having been tricked into a competition to see if I could lick my elbow by the cruel MADs Blog Awards organiser Sally Whittle (check it out, because you can get a ticket to the awards ceremony or a goodie bag if you pick how many people managed the challenge), she cruelly described me thus … […]

Sparkle Tips: Worrying about wearing a bikini? Four Top Tips for Losing 7lbs In 7 seconds

I know that everyone is a sucker for a ‘Lose xxx pounds in xxx ridiculous time’ so I couldn’t resist this one! I’ve just got back from holiday, where I did a lot of worrying about myself in a bikini, until I realised that there is a HUGE advantage to going on holiday to a […]