– Surviving Motherhood since 2012
Desk stretches and exercises are my new favorite thing to keep me mobile with my increased workload Working, writing and blogging is going great which is good for the bank balance but terrible for my health. They say that sitting is the new smoking and since most of us end up spending all day […] Read more…
In our new place, we have a lot more space than we used too (YAY!) but unfortunately, this does not include a home gym (boo!) and means I still have small workout space. With increasing house prices, the trend towards confined living space increases and when you have children it starts to get smaller and […] Read more…
A few weeks ago I talked about the benefits of swimming and it’s turning out to be a great pregnancy workout! Which is great but in all honesty, doing lengths can be incredibly boring, especially when you are doing longer distances (I am for a mile which is 64 lengths of a 25 meter pool). […] Read more…
I have spoken before about falling off the food wagon and mastering my food has been the main challenge of my weight loss journey. Because of this I am always looking for ways to ensure I don’t fall “down the rabbit hole” and so that I can work towards my goals. Recently I have found […] Read more…
Everyone deserves a break (I’ve just come back from 3 weeks hiatus/holiday!!), and during this time I definitely minimised my training/exercise regime while on vacation (I have definitely put on more than a few Lbs. but I am going to address that in a different post :p) but I didn’t get rid of working out […] Read more…
How do you enjoy running? Running has been the subject of a lot of my conversations recently (with New Year’s resolutions looming many friends want to know more about it) and a lot of people tell me they don’t run which for me is terrible because you are really missing out. Particularly parents. The two […] Read more…
When is it too late to start running? And when are you too old to run? From what I have seen, the answer is never. I am constantly overtaken at races and events by the mature runners more often than the “young and spritely” looking ones. This definitely inspires me to improve as I get older […] Read more…
I thought I would post the BMR calculation here because it was a helpful tool (for me) when I was trying to determine how much I should be eating specifically to my age, height etc. Before I do though there are a few things to say: 250 calories from a Mars bar is not the […] Read more…