Do you ever wake up in the morning and just think...nope? I don't want to do today. It's like being pelted with tomatoes except the tomatoes are actually all the things you have to do to earn a living and stay alive and all of the many seemingly insurmountable tasks involved with that. A few…
Tag: wellness
The day I finally accessed my body’s fat stores (Fast 800 diet)
This morning I weed on a stick and it turned pink. To bring you up to speed (god forbid you should miss something on this riveting journey of mine) it's day 4 of the Fast 800 diet, which I've decided to follow for 6.5 weeks over Lent. It's really hard to write these blogs because…
Continue reading ➞ The day I finally accessed my body’s fat stores (Fast 800 diet)
Mindfulness: what is it and is it good, or is it a load of bollocks?
Mindfulness definitely sounds like a load of bollocks. It's the sort of word that sounds like it was made up by an American women's magazine columnist in an article about how she went to find herself at a yoga retreat up a mountain in Goa. Surprisingly, this is not the case. The word mindfulness was…
Continue reading ➞ Mindfulness: what is it and is it good, or is it a load of bollocks?
The strange, dark art of running
Running is a strange, masochistic sort of activity. I realised today that I've never blogged about it before, which is silly really because I've been running (jogging/plodding) regularly for 5 years now. I'm not fast, or competitive. I don't have a runner's body, or a particular gift for it. I don't run very long distances…