As it happens, there are a lot of things that are glaringly obvious over a year after my weight loss and fitness journey began. They were so glaring, in fact, that I was blind to them. Here are eight of the most markedly indisputable yet notably disregarded discoveries about losing weight that I am… Read More
‘You’ll never guess who I’m speaking to on Linked In?’ ‘Who?’ ‘DDP’ ‘Who’s that?’ And that was the beginning of the conversation that would change my life. It was only shortly after my brother Jimmy had been diagnosed with leukaemia. The diagnosis came just twelve days before his 34th birthday. Fit, strong, healthy, he… Read More
How ridiculously excited am I? Allow me to tell you! I have just received notification that my weight loss story is now featured over on the DDP Yoga website itself! Words cannot even begin to explain how thrilled I am. It was only fairly recently that I revealed all about our weight loss journey. I… Read More
Things are progressing as usual on this venture to shift the fat and the journey of discovery continues. I’m still doing the daily step routine on the bathroom scales – sometimes several times a day – as if half a stone will magically disappear between 7am and 11am. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if… Read More
I went into the last week with a marked determination to stick to the plan, and I did. Despite my efforts, this week provided me with the lesson that there is no such thing as ‘surely’. I ate within my limits although tracking fell to the wayside a little. However, as I was… Read More
http://bit.ly/1mMi1wn I don’t know about you but every now and then I get a day where I feel particularly bad about myself. Too fat, too ugly, too unhealthy, too useless. That’s all that goes through my head. My self-esteem plummets even further from its usual sunken precipice into a chasm of self-loathing and despair.… Read More