Tips for losing weight as a Mum
I’ve just read a really jaded piece in the daily mail by Julie Burchil saying that most of us will never be pretty and that the song in which Christina Aguillera says we are all beautiful is partly to blame. It’s the perfect thing to put a dampner on an already wet and miserable day. But […]
For years I have worried about wearing a bikini, so much so that it put me off beach holidays. Add to that the fact that hairy northern hubby and I didn’t gell so well on beach holidays; I liked lots of romantic attention and sunbathing/reading and he liked ‘doing’ stuff. So for years we did […]
Hopefully by following my 12 months worth of tips, you are now loads fitter and slimmer, but have you broken the pattern of not feeling good about yourself? Now you know that it wasn’t the weight really that made you unhappy with how you looked don’t you? It was how you felt about yourself. If not you […]
We moved into our town house when I just had a couple of months before Curly Headed Boy was born. It’s a crescent with 14 houses, and half are full of young families whose babies started to appear 6 weeks after Curly Headed Boy was born. So it was also pretty sociable, because we were […]
A detox can be a great start to a New Year or Spring when you are feeling a bit stagnant, or Start to a weight loss programme, or boost to a weight loss programme. I watched Channel 4’s Food Hospital program and they pretty much proved that Detox’s don’t do much. So whatever they do, […]
Ok, so if you haven’t added exercise into your weight loss regime yet, then now is definitely time for it. But what I suggest might not be what you expect, bearing in mind I’m aiming for HEALTHY, FIT and SLIMMER (with a dash of sexier!), without bootcamps. The thing is I’m over 40, the body […]
So last week I went through quantities of food; smaller plates and food diaries. This week it’s about what you eat. There are no complicated recipes here, it’s all very basic as most of us Mums just don’t have the time to faff around. But feel free to faff as much as you like if you […]
I think that we all lie to ourselves about our food intake; so today is about how much we eat, and next week will be about what we eat. One thing I can definitely tell you is that if you need to lose weight, then at some point you are going to need to eat […]
Sounds harsh heh, ‘stop whining and sort it out’: but you know what I mean don’t you? There comes a time when your friends need to stop listening to you, and kick you out the door telling you to do something about it all, or at least one of the things that you are whining […]
So we have covered the 4 reasons why weight loss is so difficult, and now you know them it will be easy! Hopefully you’ve done the mindset exercise (this is a must), and set sensible goals using lots of different ways of measuring your success. Now point 2 in the 4 aspects to cover for […]