Working through the shame

First, The incident: I have been having a problem, on and off, with my upper back and shoulders. Referred pain down my arms that felt like my bones were one fire. My GP heard me out and gave me a script for Physio. A script here in Berlin gives you 6 physio sessions. Near the…

First Jonker “parkrun” run report

On a sunny and cool Saturday morning the tiniest human and I put on our parkrun gear and headed out for the first ever Jonker 5km. The eldest had mysteriously fallen ill overnight and though he really really wanted to join us, he just did not feel well (Read: he wanted to stay home and…

Physical rehab

The forgotten side of weightloss. When you suffer a break, tear or go through a major operation, part of the healing process is Rehab. You get sent to a specialist that will teach you to move correctly again. Without a doubt the key to recovery from all the above is rehab. When you lose a…

I don’t dread a plateau

Anymore. If you have ever been on a weight loss journey then you will know that one of the most frustrating aspects is hitting a plateau. For the benefit of anyone new to trying to lose (or gain) weight, let me illustrate. You have found the system that works for you, kilos and centimetres are…

Transformation isn’t skin deep

As I come to the end of my Sleekgeek coaching program and finding my feet with my new running program I made a decision to stop focusing on my outside appearance and focus more on my running progress. I made this decision for 2 reasons. The first being that, for right now, I want my…

This is the beginning, it’s not the end,

It's been a while since my Dear John post, blogging has taken a back seat to all the other things happening in my life, biggest of which was having my baby. I continued to microblog on Instagram but it just took too much PT to type out a whole blog post on my phone and…

Dear Old me

Part of my PN coaching last week was to write a letter to a part of me that no longer serves me. A Dear John to Old Me. I could be harsh or kind, brief or wordy, strict or gentle but I needed to be honest. Thinking about this silly "I have hated this woman"…

For all those times I said “I can’t”

Between the voices in society and the voices in my head, it's surprising I have achieved anything at all. We are constantly bombarded with advice, opinions, statistics, etc. that let us know exactly what we can't do. What we need to start doing is to tell ourselves that we can, we might just have to…

Now or Never

When you do something for a really long time, you are expected to eventually become an expert at it. Years and years of trying the same thing means that you amass a lot of knowledge and information about the subject, at the very least. You would assume that if you have, for these many years…

Time what?

Time management has never been one of my strengths. I love planning stuff because that usually involves making pretty time tables and often using stationery, I loooove stationery. Sticking to those plans, especially when things out of my control don't work as I had imagined, is a different story. It also is one of the…