In many ways, despite the title of my blog in which I declare that women can do the things that men do, I am also a very typical woman. In fact, one of the things I’m always interested in is what the people who I’ve met and known over the years are doing now. Yes, [...]
Regular readers may recall that I had a complete breakdown in my motivation back during the summer and early autumn. It started with an issue with my diet and rapidly moved into struggling to get myself into the gym too (which I partly put down to work issues). This wasn’t the first time that I’ve [...]
Tags:Motivation·Psychology·Training
Eric Cressey did a lovely post the other week about the new addition to his family. He and his wife have recently got themselves a puppy. The best way to train a puppy is to endlessly repeat the same action, the same cues and the same movements, praising them with love and treats when they [...]
Tags:Figure·Improvement·Mental health·Mental strength·Psychology·Training·Women
This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. In our modern society, most things are available on demand. Our television programmes can be recorded and played back when we want, often pausing, rewinding, fast-forwarding and viewing when we want. Movies can be seen on demand. The microwave plays a key role in many [...]
Tags:Patience·Psychology·Training
Last week, I wrote about the relationship I had with my figure through my late teens and early twenties. It was an uncomfortable relationship with a general sense that I didn’t really belong in my own skin. Here’s how the story (so far) finishes. My mid-twenties Suddenly things changed. I met Chris. Chris was a [...]
Tags:Figure·Motivation·Psychology
Last week I was staying away from home, working in London for a couple of days. Unfortunately (or fortunately), because it was London Fashion Week, there were no cheap hotel rooms left. Instead, I ended up in a swanky hotel room with a bed that could have slept several people, rather than just little me. [...]
I wrote a first version of this post while sat on a train, distinctly tipsy, on my way home from a hen party. It needed a bit of heavy editing, but it seems that even in my semi-drunken state there were some gems of honest thought which needed to be retrieved and shared with you [...]
Tags:Figure·Motivation·Psychology
Do you ever have one of those “aha!” moments? Those moments when you suddenly realise the reason why you are doing something. As an example, I might spend weeks working on a new exercise in the gym because it’s good for some part of your range of motion and all of a sudden I’ll [...]
Tags:Cheap·Diet·Motivation·Psychology·Pudding
I used to joke that I had a memory like a colander. The holes were so big and my ability to retain any information (other than things I needed to remember for exams, helpfully) was so bad that I couldn’t even say my memory was like a sieve. It started to become an embarrassment. If [...]
Weight loss is an important subject for a lot of women. In our attempts to build and maintain the perfect figure we will almost certainly have to go through at least one phase of weight loss in our lives. This is the start of a series of posts I’m going to write exploring a range [...]
Tags:Image·Psychology·weight loss·Women
