December 23, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Inspiration & Lifestyle

#LeaveYourLegacy Autumn Fitness Goals

Todays post all started with an email back in September from sportswear brand Legacy, suggesting I get involved in their campaign for Autumn to set 4 goals to keep motivated and maintain a healthy body and mind. They’ve even sent me some of their range to help me get motivated. I went for the leggings,

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

On Giving Up

Giving up. It’s a bad thing, right? I mean, unless it’s smoking, drinking or junk food giving up is for the weak. Strong willed people persevere, they keep pushing, through all odds, and just keep on going. Sod that. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, partly inspired by this post on Bunn the

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Life Begins at 30 40 50 Today

I don’t remember being given my rule book. Maybe that’s an oversight that left us all bumbling through the world blind, making up our own rules as we go. Never fear, because apparently a diet supplement company has conducted a survey and is saving us from ever making those ridiculous mistakes like wearing high heels

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Food & Drink Inspiration & Lifestyle

Getting Your 5 A Day

So we all know now that even 5 portions of fruit and veg a day is a pathetically small amount for our health, and actually we should be grazing constantly on carrot sticks and celery until we’re so full we can’t even fit in a wafer thin mint at the end of the day, right?

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body……

……Would you put it in a calendar? I’m really excited about a project I’ve just backed on Indiegogo, so I decided I would witter on about it to you guys too 😀 I am all about being body positive, and by body positive I mean being positive about ALL bodies. From teeny tiny alleged size

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

The Rules of Being Glamorous

Do you think you live a glamorous life? What do you think glamour is? Is it designer clothes and the latest IT bag? Is it sleeping on satin sheets and eating smoked salmon for breakfast? Is it wearing diamonds and heels to the supermarket? I’m quite devoted to bringing a bit of glamour into my

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

4 Fitness Habits You’ll Never Catch Me Doing (and 3 I Plan to Try)

Yeah I know, never say never, I mean just 2 years ago I’d have laughed in your face if you’d told me I’d be running a Half Marathon at all, let alone gearing up to start training for my second, and if you’d told me in April last year that I’d be spending a large

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Retro Chick Reads: 5 Books You've Probably Already Read

It’s that time of year that people read a lot of books. Or it is if  I believe the lifestyle sections of newspapers and magazines. It seems the whole world is booking in for 2 weeks in the sun, stacking up their suitcase with paperbacks or topping up their Kindle with new reads and heading

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Inspiration & Lifestyle Roller Derby

A Year in Roller Derby

I hope you’re ready for a long post, because there’s a lot I need to get out of my head! On the 3rd June 2013, a year ago today, a friend persuaded a group of us to go along to our local Roller Derby league, The Norfolk Brawds, Fresh Meat training night. I was 34

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