The embarrassed, self-deprecating Brit in me does not want to write this post. The woman who's fed up with hating her own body because it doesn't subscribe in every way to the standard model of beauty, does. I recently wrote about how I'm making a real effort to accept my body after a lifetime of…
Continue reading ➞ Every time I don’t like how I look, I strike a pose and take a photo
Throughout this blog's lifetime I've tried several different diets with a mission to excavate through my belly flab and unearth a long-hidden abdominal muscle or two. Why???? Because I'm vulnerable to the images of beauty that bombard women. As free-thinking, open-minded and decently-read as I like to think I am, I tapped into those insideous…
Continue reading ➞ How I’m learning to accept my body, flabby bits and all
Everyone knows losing weight boils down to a very simple formula, which is this: Burn more calories than you consume + time = weight loss. Right? Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It turns out there is no scientific formula for weight loss. It's actually an entirely random process operated by a receptionist called Linda, who lives…
Just when you thought I couldn't possibly have anything more to say about juice cleanses, here I am again with my most click-baity blog title ever. But please bear with me...this piece of information could TOTALLY CHANGE YOUR LIFE*. *Warning: may not totally or in any way whatsoever change your life. It's been 5 days…
If you were ever a Mighty Boosh fan you'll have the soup song in your head now like I've had FOREVER. You're welcome. Cooking was never my strong point. At uni my speciality was rice, cheese and ketchup in a tortilla wrap, microwaved. I think my lowest point was when, feeling simultaneously lazy, poor and…
Continue reading ➞ Soup, soup, tasty soup, soup…pepper and sweet potato
Concerned about time moving too quickly in these strange, repetitive Covid times? Try not eating for 5 days. Without the usual anchor points of breakfast, lunch and dinner, and with a tummy constantly whining for food that never comes, seconds ooze out of the day in super slow motion. This morning, on the final day…
Continue reading ➞ It’s over! Day 5 of my juice fast – thoughts and feelings
My day started strangely. I was nearly home from my morning walk, about to head across the open expanse of the South Downs golf course, when a jogger crested the hill and came running straight at me, waving her arms in a panicked fashion. I stopped in my tracks and removed my earbuds, wondering if…
Continue reading ➞ Walk, work, juice cleanse day 4, and a man with a rifle
Here I am in bed again having completed my third day without solid food. Another really boring post coming up, just to warn you. There's only so much content you can squeeze out of juicing (ha). This morning I felt so good! Light and full of energy. According to the scales I dropped another 1kg…
Continue reading ➞ I’m not dead yet! Day 3 on my 5 day juice fast
I'm typing this on my phone in bed because I promised you daily updates on my Fuel Station juice fast, and daily updates you will get! Please note: unless you're very interested in the minutae of juicing, this will be a very boring blog for you. There are other more interesting posts on this blog…
Continue reading ➞ Juice cleanse day 2: I am 4 parts juice to 1 part human
This morning, 30 partially frozen vegetable and fruit juices were left in a polystyrene box at my front door by a DPS driver named Callum. ...And thus, unbeknownst to Callum, my 5-day juice fast began. In yesterday's post I wrote that I was apprehensive about trying (and writing about) the Fuel Station 5-day detox because…
Continue reading ➞ Fuel Station juice fast day 1 – thoughts so far
