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Health Summit – A(nother) conversation with an Exercise Guru
Some of you may have seen previous posts where I enter into a (semi) imaginary dialogue with a dieting or exercising ‘guru’ … and this is another of the same. Owing mostly to inertia on my part, I receive frequent emails from personal trainers, mostl …
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If any of you had known me during my dieting years, you would have seen a rather bitter and angry person who glowered at slim women in the street, convinced that they had the secret to eternal slimness and were damned smug about it too. How was it poss …
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The Perfect Weight/Perfect Life Myth
I’d stoke up any enthusiasm flagging in the face of the deprivation to come with fantasies of arriving at the beach and being greeted by admiring stares from my female friends and appraising looks from all the guys. There was laughter and sunsets and r …
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by Gretel Hallett I recently came across a poem by the late, great Maya Angelou which, to me, sums up the idea of Body Confidence and from which I would like to share some extracts with you. The point of the poem is that being confident in ourselves is …
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by Gretel Hallett Following Gwynneth Paltrow’s announcement of her ‘conscious uncoupling’ from her husband, I wondered if we could apply the same idea to our relationship with food? But let’s consider the opposite first – unconscious coupling … bear wi …
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I am a human being. I am a woman. I am a forty-eight year old woman. I am going through the menopause. I don’t enjoy running or high intensity exercise of any kind I’m practicing and learning Pilates, slowly, gently. I love walking up the stairs. I lov …
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There is no excuse for being skinny!
by Gretel Hallett There are some rather extraordinary adverts from around the 1940′s to 1950′s being featured on the BT website – they promote weight gain for women. I’ll repeat that. They promote weight gain for women. How the times have changed! …
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by Gretel Hallett A friend was telling me about her day, which went something like this: she had agreed with colleagues to give up chocolate for Lent she’d spent almost an entire day at work wrestling with a recalcitrant computer program as soon as she …
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