1st September 2024

A question that I get asked a lot is ‘will I have to give up ‘X’ if I start personal training to lose body fat?’ Some of the specific things that X has been include… Chocolate Alcohol Rice Pick and mix Ice cream Biscuits And by far the most random one…..chopped tomatoes! Let me be VERY […]

26th August 2024

It’s my wedding anniversary today, four years married and at least 10 years together I was thinking about how we’ve got to this point relatively unscathed through the pandemic, through a major car accident, through having a baby and all of the sleepless night that followed 😴 The main thing that I keep coming back […]

My 8 month old is experiencing frustration at the moment because she’s very close to learning how to crawl   At the moment she can pivot, roll, twist, shuffle and shimmy backwards   She just can’t crawl forward yet   The thing is, we know that she’ll eventually figure out how to do it and […]

16th August 2024

Feeling highly stressed? Busy Anxious Worked up Over stimulated These are oh so common these days And can dramatically impact your results when you are trying to get healthier and perhaps lose some weight After all, the way that we feel dictates how we act And how we act (ie the choices that we make) dictates […]

18th July 2024

I find myself coming back to the topic of consistency a lot because I know that most of my clients struggle with this as an idea and I want to try and help them understand the nuances that we can apply within what consistency actually means But when I was a newbie personal trainer and […]

28th June 2024

One of the biggest reasons that we ‘fall of the diet wagon’ is the perpetuated idea that you are not allowed to eat bad food That you automatically go on santa’s naughty list when you eat a cookie or a doughnut That eating out is bad for you, and that you absolutely must not ever have dessert […]

21st June 2024

I will avoid turning this into a gushing love story for my puppy Although, I do adore the little ball of fluff Before I had a dog, I was afraid of them I had been bitten by them and chased by them in the past but it was more than that I didn’t know how […]

9th June 2024

We’ve just started weaning our baby and I’ve found the process of it all quite overwhelming! There are a lot of new things to do Planning what to make Buying the food Prepping the food Wrestling Zoe into her full body apron Heating the food to the perfect temperature Getting her to swallow any of […]

6th June 2024

For a couple of decades, I would say food controlled me. I didn’t think about it all the time, but I had a pretty messed up relationship with food and I definitely use it as a crutch to ignore my emotions.   After a period of particularly stressful emotional eating and mismanagement of my health […]

9th July 2023

…………without gaining a tonne of weight   When you are going on holiday, the excitement and joy can be overtaken by the dread of gaining weight from the dramatic change in lifestyle choices   We just got back from an all inclusive break and i wanted to share my ideas with you to help you […]