Losing weight is synonymous with looking backwards. We want to get something back – our confidence, our joie de vivre, our pre-baby weight.  But the irony is, at the time we were (as we now perceive it) rocking with confidence, joie de vivre and a pre-baby bod, it is unlikely

AKA not sit in the corner nursing a tonic with a face like Hurricane Sandy. The good news is if you have genuinely fallen out of love with alcohol then enjoying a party sober is pretty straightforward. Firstly, you recognise it’s only about 3 to 5 hours out of your

Tell me if you can think of anything more unpleasant than holding your weight on your wrists while your head lolls upside down and your bum points skyward, your VPL clearly on display, your baggy t shirt gaping open to reveal your greying bra? Downward dog fucking sucks. And yoga

The dieting industry isn’t evil. I’m sure they’re not deliberately trying to keep us all stuck on a dieting hamster wheel where we have to monitor and track and count and weigh and measure everything from our pasta portion to our steps to our water intake. They’re just gloriously misinformed.

Until you realise a yearning / pining / longing / craving to eat has no power over you and therefore you are resilient enough to handle it being there, without acting on it, it will have power over you. A yearning to eat will always control you until you realise

So a funny thing happens the other day. I’m lying in bed and I’m thinking to myself, “why did I eat two pieces of nasty bread yesterday when I haven’t eaten bread for weeks”. Now, please note, I’m not quizzing myself on this because it matters that I ate this

Have I got a formula for you. Eat lettuce + workout daily = one stone less on the scale GUARANTEED for your holiday (assuming you’re not zipping up your wheelie suitcase this second). I can personally guarantee you will lose a stone with this formula in, ooh, about 3 –

I could start bleating on about how gym-goers couldn’t be more THRILLED when a new person joins their club in order to put your mind at ease. I could also share a bunch of anecdotes about how I also started out in a baggy greying tshirt (surrounded by tight arses

Do you believe your urges to eat are more powerful than you? If yes, then you are never going to win this game. Because the moment an urge pops by for tea, you’ll go into full blown panic mode and will be forced to white-knuckle your way through the temptation

Your actions and reactions in the outside world depend on what you believe about yourself to be true. They depend on how you see yourself, or how you perceive yourself to be. You can get a good idea of how you perceive yourself to be, then, by watching your actions