“Remember that life is full of ups and downs. Without the downs, the ups would mean nothing.” I’m sitting here in tropical Fiji, sipping on the perfect espresso martini, bathed in the rays from the most sensational sunset, whilst my children enjoy a twilight stand up paddle board. Husband is on a work conference call but all in all, life…
“Taste your way around Australia” How often do you stress about a holiday and undoing all the good work you’ve done because you don’t know where to eat at your chosen holiday destination? I know I do, which has been exacerbated as I now have also become a food snob living in Sydney, which has such a vast array of…
“Cardio is so much better when your activewear is on point” I have a terrible confession, though those nearest and dearest to me won’t be surprised to hear, that I have been involved in a torrid love with activewear for the past 10 years, long before it became the daywear clothing of choice for many women and no doubt also…
“There is no diet that will do what eating healthy does. Skip the diet. Just eat healthy.” Atkins, Paleo, South Beach, Whole 30…the list is endless!! In my quest to find my holy grail, being a diet that would make me eternally skinny, my first flirtation with the removal of all carbs from my meals was with the Dukan diet,…
“Collect moments not things” Earlier this year, my husband and I spent a weekend at Bannisters in Mollymook to celebrate our 11 year wedding anniversary. The year before, we had celebrated our first 10 years as a married couple with forty of our nearest and dearest, dining under the swaying palm trees and dancing on the golden sands of Palm…
“Some mums lift more…than just their kids” My second most important tip (after portion size) and one that I cannot emphasise enough, is how important it is, to include weights in your fitness program. Like most women, I used to believe that if I wasn’t gasping for air or dripping with sweat, working out in a high intensity aerobics class,…
“Slow and steady wins the race…to lose weight” My tip for this week, which is vital in your digestion and ensuring you don’t feel hungry and therefore overeat, is eating slowly. One of my earliest childhood memories of my grandmother, is her admonishing me to chew each mouthful thirty six times, before swallowing! I was always eating so quickly, that…
“Burn. Breathe. Shake. Repeat” In my unending pursuit to perfect my exercise regime and keep mixing it up, I stumbled upon the newest exercise craze to hit our shores…barre classes!! For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, it is a complete body workout using ballet barre conditioning, yoga and Pilates. It is designed to tone your body creating longer,…
“Losing weight is initially a numbers game” Following on from my earlier “portion size” blog and the importance of determining the “correct” amount to eat in order to lose weight, this blog illustrates how I calculated the right quantity for me, given my goals, my metabolism and my exercise habits. The first step I took was determining what was the…
“Finally, monsieur – a wafer thin mint” The Meaning of Life So here it is…my first blog tip on how I set about losing the weight which had stubbornly hung around for over a year, notwithstanding my best endeavours to lose it. In a nutshell, what I did differently and probably, and more importantly, how I have maintained my “happy”…
