2019-12-12 08:12
So next year I turn the big three O! And although 30 is far from old it does feel like a big milestone! I also think that becoming a mother and the chronic lack of sleep that came alongside… Read More
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A health and fitness blog about my journey to getting fit and healthy after having my baby. I'm on a mission to make my post baby body better than my pre baby body, this blog is all about the things I am doing to make that happen!
2019-03-17 15:23
I have actually now completed all three programmes included in Focus T25 (Alpha, Beta and Gamma) and I currently do a different combination of workouts from all three programmes each week as… Read More
2019-03-05 13:43
It’s been a long while since I last logged into WordPress and did any blogging. To be completely honest life has just got busy, and I don’t really have much in the way of spare t… Read More
2018-08-26 10:21
If you don’t want to pay for a personal trainer or don’t have access to a gym YouTube can be a fantastic resource to get fit in the comfort of your own home. There are so many ch… Read More
2018-08-06 06:50
Recently I purchased Rafe a Klean Kanteen. If you haven’t heard of them they are a company that produces stainless steel water bottles and sippy cups among other products. The main rea… Read More
2018-08-04 19:41
If you have read some of my previous blog posts then you will know that the biggest obstacle that stands in the way of me having the abs of my dreams is my diet. I love food. All food. But I… Read More
2018-07-31 14:01
Having just come to the end of week 5 of the Focus T25 Alpha programme, I thought now might be a good time to do a little review and an update on how I am finding the Focus T25 programme as… Read More
2018-06-19 11:26
From Friday evening my 18 month old has been suffering with hand, foot and mouth disease…and it’s been worse than the newborn days, the fourth trimester and the four month sleep… Read More
2018-06-14 20:23
I’ve been stuck in a fitness rut recently. I gave up BBG a little while ago after I lost my enthusiasm for the programme and I have been doing my own workouts using weights and kettleb… Read More
2018-06-11 02:13
I am writing this blog post to instil some hope into parents (especially breastfeeding mums) of babies/toddlers who are ‘bad’ sleepers, that you will eventually get some much nee… Read More
2018-05-25 21:29
I exercise entirely at home, I am not a member of a gym and I haven’t been for about ten years. I love my home workouts! No worrying about what you look like or what you are wearing, a… Read More
2018-05-21 20:35
That’s right I’m officially taking a break from BBG. I still think that the programme, especially BBG 1.0 is very good, but I’ve lost my enthusiasm for the workouts and the… Read More
2018-05-16 10:28
Proper hydration is so important for our overall health. Water flushes out toxins from our bodies, prevents fatigue and headaches caused by dehydration, keeps the joints lubricated and can s… Read More
2018-05-14 10:58
I started the week feeling really motivated to stick to my healthy eating…and I’ve been reasonably successful.
I’ve been tracking my food on the app Lifesum all week (apar… Read More
2018-05-10 10:08
I LOVE pasta and although I usually swap it for something like a baked sweet potato or spiralized courgette, (zucchini) I do feel slightly envious of my other half with his massive plate of… Read More
2018-05-07 17:43
So with project ‘get lean for summer’ in full swing I was on the lookout for some healthy, nutritious snacks that would also satisfy my sweet tooth! I decided to make some energy… Read More
2018-05-05 10:05
Okay so in the UK ‘summer’ tends to just be a brief interlude in the cloud, and this year in particular it has taken a long time to even arrive. Never the less we have hit May an… Read More
2018-05-03 11:06
Firstly if you haven’t read my first post on getting lean for summer maybe check it out or this one probably won’t make a lot of sense. My previous post gave you an idea of my bo… Read More
2018-05-02 11:04
Meal prepping my lunches has played a key part in me successfully losing my baby weight. I find that having a baby or a toddler makes it very difficult to find the time to do barely anything… Read More
2018-04-24 17:50
Hello! I am back in the land of blogging! I wrote a post a little while back on Rafe and some concerns we had on his health after finding some swollen lymph nodes on the back of his head. I… Read More
2018-04-09 18:14
Well of course I am getting old. We are all getting old, but recently I have really been noticing some signs of old age creeping up on me…or maybe it’s just because I turn 28 ne… Read More
2018-04-01 07:10
I’ve found myself struggling recently. Not in terms of fitness, in fact my workouts seem to be the only thing going to plan at the moment. More in terms of motherhood. I generally keep… Read More
2018-03-26 10:48
So if you have read my blog for a while you will know I am an incredibly inconsistent person (when it comes to most things in my life to be honest…) but mainly my eating habits. I fli… Read More
2018-03-15 11:52
One of my guilty pleasures is reality TV and following celebrities (in the magazine/Instagram sense not in the weird stalker sense). It’s not something that I am overly proud of but ne… Read More
2018-03-04 11:15
It’s been an eventful week. All three of us have been struck down with illness, Rafe and I quite mildly…poor Richard has been suffering! I genuinely don’t think it’s… Read More
2018-02-28 12:38
Recently one of my friends put a post on Instagram that caught my eye. It was a little poem she had made up about the follow/unfollow game a lot of people seem to play on Instagram in order… Read More
2018-02-26 09:44
So it’s Monday morning, the start of week 23 of bbg 2.0 and I thought a progress update was long overdue. As I have mentioned (moaned about) in previous posts I have found bbg 2.0 a re… Read More
2018-02-24 16:11
I thought I would do something a bit different with this post and document this past weeks workouts, the split I use with my training aswell as a bit about my diet. I figure doing this regul… Read More
2018-02-14 11:29
I generally like to keep my blog super upbeat and positive about all areas of fitness and healthy eating. It was like my ‘happy place’ to document my little fitness journey, and… Read More
2018-02-01 08:35
My favourite time to workout is first thing in the morning. It leaves you feeling refreshed and clear-headed and in my opinion it’s the best way to set you up for a productive day. Get… Read More
2018-01-29 08:57
We are almost at the end of January now and 2018 is well underway. So what has become of our New Years resolutions and goals that we enthusiastically set ourselves at the beginning of the mo… Read More
2018-01-16 20:05
Now when I say ‘cravings’ I mean the unhealthy, refined sugar, processed, ‘junk’ food cravings that we all experience sometimes. I mean if you are that lucky person w… Read More
2018-01-13 10:29
So recently I found myself in the middle of a bit of a vaccination debate…okay I am exaggerating slightly when I say ‘debate’. Basically I put a post on my Instagram accou… Read More
2018-01-06 15:23
So this morning I decided to weigh myself for the first time since long before Christmas…Okay little disclosure I have been rather…er relaxed…about my eating recently an… Read More
2018-01-02 12:36
Okay sightly embarrassing confession coming up..I can’t swim. Well I can probably doggy paddle a width whilst resembling a drowning Spaniel, but that’s the extent of my abilities… Read More
2018-01-01 11:18
‘New year, new me’ a statement we hear over and over again in January. This year I’m not about creating a ‘new me’, I’m pretty happy with the old me, alth… Read More
2017-12-29 19:49
So a couple of weeks ago I completed Kayla Itsines Bbg 1.0 for the second time through. For those of you that don’t know what Bbg is, it stands for ‘Bikini body guide’ and… Read More
2017-12-19 08:02
I use the term ‘detox’ lightly. This isn’t a pre-Christmas crash diet or crazily restrictive juice plan or anything like that. It’s just some of the things I like to… Read More
2017-12-12 20:20
After reading online today about a new trial that is being carried out in Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire that involves new mothers being given £200 worth of vouchers if they… Read More
2017-12-09 11:14
So Rafe recently turned a year old which means he is officially now considered a toddler!!! Which is crazy to me. Now he isn’t actually ‘toddling’ yet, he’s still cur… Read More
2017-12-08 17:13
Attachment parenting was never something that I intended to do. In fact if somebody had asked me about it when I was pregnant I wouldn’t have had a clue what it involved, and if I had… Read More
2017-11-25 07:58
As mentioned in part 1 at around two weeks post partum I began doing some of my own upper body workouts, using fairly light hand weights. I also used YouTube to source some great post baby s… Read More
2017-11-22 04:50
On the 7th December Rafe turns one!! One! Where has my baby gone?! And more importantly, why doesn’t he sleep through the night yet?!! Alongside all the predictable thoughts that start… Read More
2017-11-20 13:48
Okay so I might just be the worlds worst Paleo…I ate a mince pie on the very first day of my paleo journey! And last night we had homemade pizza for dinner…possibly the most an… Read More
2017-11-05 23:14
I have a rather keen interest in leading a healthy lifestyle and a big part of that is have a diet full of nutritious and ‘clean’ foods. I was so excited to wean Rafe and get him… Read More
2017-11-04 15:26
So after being stuck in an unhealthy eating rut for some time now I have made the decision to start following a Paleo diet in an attempt to get back on track, and in the hope that it will al… Read More
2017-10-30 16:19
In my very early twenties exercise was a little bit of an unhealthy obsession for me. I felt like I needed to workout every single day in order to allow myself to eat normally. If I was taki… Read More
2017-10-27 13:33
My baby isn’t actually ‘nocturnal’ in fact his sleep habits are actually pretty consistent with those of many, many babies, especially breastfed babies. Basically he wakes… Read More
2017-10-05 08:48
So this week is international baby wearing week! What better time to write a blog post about my personal favourite baby carrier, my baby Bjorn baby carrier one and express my fondness of bab… Read More
2017-09-21 10:40
Recently Rafe turned nine months old and this also marked nine whole months of breastfeeding! My initial goal was to do six months, then when six months came and everything was going so well… Read More
2017-09-03 06:33
Recently I was contacted by Green Goddess nutrition and asked whether I would be happy to try and review one of their products, the ‘Mum on the Run’ powder. After confirming that… Read More
2017-07-24 11:05
Recently Green Goddess health and wellness contacted me asking if I would like to try one of their products ‘Mum on the Run’ superfood, energy boosting powder. They sent the powd… Read More
2017-07-23 16:32
So I have just completed week 6 of the Kayla Itsines BBG guide and week 6 was tough! I feel like this week the guide took things up a notch in terms of difficulty and some of the exercised f… Read More
2017-07-17 10:26
So it’s Monday 17th July and today I will be starting day 1, week 6 of Kayla Itsines Bikini body guide. I feel like I should really insert a picture of my progress/current shape six we… Read More
2017-07-12 18:59
I have always struggled with my confidence. Not just body confidence but overall confidence in myself and my abilities (sometimes for good reason… ie driving). “You need to be m… Read More
2017-07-07 13:29
…mainly Instagram, I love Instagram. I wanted to write a post about my take/experience of social media. I think the topic gets quite a negative reputation in terms of people spending… Read More
2017-06-24 10:40
So if you read my last post you will know that I recently started doing the Kayla Itsines BBG. I am still doing it, I haven’t missed a workout and I still love it (despite cursing Kayl… Read More
2017-06-14 09:35
Every so often I like to give my workouts a shake up! If I do the same workout routine over and over again I inevitably get bored and then I find myself completely de-motivated and less like… Read More
2017-06-09 06:57
On Wednesday Rafe was a whole six months old! A lot of people say the time flies by when they have a baby…I wouldn’t exactly say that myself! It’s been the best, but most… Read More
2017-06-05 06:26
My stomach immediately after having my son had changed a lot from how is was pre-baby. It stuck out a lot, I had zero muscle definition and my waist measured a good few inches larger. All of… Read More
2017-06-03 06:09
I have recently started doing The Bodycoach HIIT workouts from YouTube and I love them! HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training and is a form of exercise that allows you to burn max… Read More
2017-06-02 16:35
I am a self confessed snacker and if I am not careful about what types of snack foods I have prepared in the house my passion for snacking can result in the demise of my diet. For this… Read More
2017-05-31 10:16
A dietary supplement describes anything that you take that has a dietary ingredient which is intended to add some sort of addition nutritional value to your diet. This doesn’t just mea… Read More
2017-05-31 06:04
Something that I have found very helpful in the process of losing my baby weight and getting back in shape is tracking what I eat using an app names ‘Lifesum’. I first heard abou… Read More
2017-05-28 14:05
This post is about when the healthy eating goes wrong. When you intend to have just one chocolate digestive with your cuppa, and you accidentally end up devouring the entire contents of the… Read More
2017-05-28 13:59
Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day. I know a lot of people cannot eat breakfast as soon as they get up, but for me it’s the first thing on my mind when I step out of bed (after… Read More
2017-05-28 13:56
This morning my son woke up at 5am, this is not unusual he usually wakes up between five and half six every morning. I tried half an hour of quiet ‘shushing’ in the hope that he… Read More
2017-05-28 13:45
I’ll be the first to admit that I wasn’t prepared for becoming a mother. I mean I thought that I was, my pregnancy was planned, we had decorated the nursery and purchased all the… Read More
2017-05-28 07:28
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When I became a mother I finally realised what it felt like to be truly exhausted. The quote “I wish I felt as tired as I thought I was before I had kids… Read More
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