I'm going to give this blog another go. Back in January I started exercise and evils as a means to document losing weight and my fitness journey, because of all means out there, writing is what I do best. It's what I'm passionate about, and I thought if I'm at least writing it all down, maybe, just maybe, I'll get somewhere. And then I broke my foot. Some...

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Fourth being the crucial word here. The force has been strong this week! I'm very happy to report I've been really good with myself and even did a bit of Kayla Itsines pretraining yesterday- although physio is stopping me from fully committing. Because I worked today, I have been pretty dreadful as work rotas rarely (ever) allow for scheduled meal times. But tomorrow I'm back on the horse!...

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On January 7th, I fell down the stairs and broke my foot. Badly. Bad enough for me to be on crutches or in a supportive boot for nearly 4 months.  And it was hard. Obviously it meant all of my positive mental energy to start the new year, went drastically downhill. I didn't put on too much weight, considering for 10 days I wasn't allowed to move for...

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Things have been a little quiet on the western front, and that's not due to me slipping up particularly, but largely due to the huge downer on life I've felt whilst being on crutches. Having worked in the Paralympic Village, I am 100% aware a) I am actually not that unlucky, broken bones heal b) the achievements of people missing legs let alone just having broken a couple...

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The mug says it all. Today, I was put a massive swing in the works of my life. Considering I play football, work on my feet all the time and am constantly out and about, today I tripped over the stair gate and broke my foot. Badly. All breaks are bad, but my break was all along the left side of my foot, shifting the bones and meaning...

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Today I attempted my first real life recipe, as inspired by Deliciously Ella, and it failed miserably. I created a brown rice, sweet potato, spinach and feta risotto which logged in at 403 calories per portion, pretty good for an evening meal. However it was pretty unsuccessful! I eat brown alternatives quite a lot, and due to having tickets to the cinema I quickly did some boil in...

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One of the things I always find hard when trying to lose weight, is that I tend to throw myself into it and then steadily slip and eventually after the holiday/birthday party/wedding is over, I stop the dieting and stop the fitness regime I've got going. To prevent this, I thought this year I would start to have 'monthly motivators'. Rather than going all out and buying brand...

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Today I was put to the test, and I didn't fail too dramatically, but probably could've done better. I met up with two of my best friends for lunch and to go over the year. All three of us are on a health kick this year and it's really handy having two comrades pull each other through. Each year we meet up to have a reminisce on the...

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I've always been a skinny latte girl. It's more an internal justification for buying a muffin too. Or a panini. Or both. But today I spent all day in a coffee shop, from writing an essay to catching up with friends. And whilst I did have my initial skinny latte, I went through the rest of the day on a steady stream of green tea. I know for...

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