Fun Fitness. Yummy Health Food. Spoil-Yourself Spas. Barely Any Kale.
It’s that time of the year when thousands of Brits head to the US – and, as I did a few weeks ago, come back heavier than when they left. Between the portion sizes, the fact that outside of big cities it’s tricky to walk that far to burn things…
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Another stop I had to make on my recent holiday was to the Farmer’s Fridge vending machines in Chicago. These are vending machines that deliver not sugary, sweet, fatty treats in packets, but yummy fresh salads, crudites, yogurt and fruit in (BPA free) jars – I was intrigued. There’s three…
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My holidays are not always normal. I’m always on the lookout for exciting health things and as such they tend to involve massages with things like hammers, eating anything strange that might have some kind of health benefit (black chicken anyone), trips to odd spas (there’s one of those coming…
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In the list of things I should be worried about while running round the UK, I didn’t really count being bitten by nasties as one of them. In Australia yes – let’s put it this way, I wouldn’t go gamboling about the fields like shampoo ad girl down there in…
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I can’t believe I forgot to blog this while I was on holiday. I only remembered when I was reading the papers today and saw the company Pay As U Gym mentioned in a piece on ways to save cash. Back at the beginning of December The Boyfriend and I…
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The beardy guy in red has pretty much been and gone now. Gifts have been bestowed and some of you will have been lucky enough to have been visited by the version I refer to as Spa Santa. Forget knickers, jewellery or stuff with Apples on, this Santa brings exciting…
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I have spent this morning researching intriguing words in foreign languages- and there’s a lot of food related ones. So, for no other reason than the fact that it has amused me greatly, check out the following. Next time you’re trying to explain why it’s all gone wrong on your…
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I need to go back to California; not just because they have sunshine, mega burritos and Disneyland, but because I want to go to a place called Cafe Gratitude. I love the sound of it! It’s a chain of organic vegetarian restaurants which names its dishes things like ‘I am happy’…
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A few weeks ago I told you that I had entered the London Zoo Stampede which was a 10km run around London Zoo and Regents Park. This morning I completed said race. This in itself is exciting news as until I actually got to the bag drop I had no…
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‘Oh god, I don’t feel great – please don’t let my leg cramp.’…’I feel dizzy, why am I dizzy’……’crap, am I actually going to finish this thing.’…..this was the dialogue going through my head during my first few steps of the Disneyland Half last week. I’ve had some rubbish runs…
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