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Do you know what makes me feel good? Supporting people. Telling them they look great, commenting on photos, giving praise where praise is due.
There’s too much sadness and nastiness in the world to not celebrate when people deserve a big clap ❤️
In light of Love Island, I genuinely believe learning how to say sorry should be a fundamental life skill. We’re all going to monumentally fuck up in life, but being able to hold your hands up and apologise (and mean it) is so necessary.
Feeling incredibly sad and worried for Boris Johnson. It doesn’t matter which way your political interests lie, nobody should have to suffer like this with this awful virus 💔
Stop feeling like you need to be best friends with everyone.
Just stop.
Nourish and nurture those relationships that mean most to you.
Life isn’t one big popularity contest.
We need to talk about how female athletes are treated in sport. Simone Biles, arguably the best gymnast of all time pulling out of an event because she recognised she wasn’t able to compete. If she’d hurt herself physically you KNOW the narrative would be different.
For the record, no credible trainer would agree to their client eating only 1000kcals a day
No credible trainer would suggest green juices to be the elixir of good health
No credible trainer would/should share this confidential info for their own gain
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you weren’t put on this earth to be liked by everyone.
It’s freeing to just let it go and channel your energies in to the people who raise you up 💛
Man: are you using that?
Me: yes. But you can jump in!
Man: it’s ok... I’m going to be using a lot more weight than that.
Me: ok sure.
Man: *laughing* this is why women shouldn’t lift weights.
Me: 🤯
*as heard in a London gym, July 2019*
The amount of men asking when International Men’s Day is... I mean.
The outrage, the audacity at something being potentially unequal...
It’s November the 19th friends, now off you trot back to the 1900’s and save your sass for your special day❤️
Am I the only person who thinks it is the height of rudeness to speak on your phone on the bus on loudspeaker?
I can’t decide whether I’m just being a prude or not...
Sitting in A&E and unlike the majority of people here who are bemoaning the long wait, I am simply in awe of how incredibly lucky we are to have access to the healthcare we do. Amazing doctors, nurses, paramedics and other staff - I salute you ❤️
Things that make me irate: hearing a group of men on the tube berate their friend saying that his girlfriend has put on weight and that he needs to tell her to lose it.
My blood is BOILING 🤬
I find it hard to grasp the fact that so many people still don’t understand the concept of letting people off the tube first then they can get on. The mind boggles.
There are many advantages to being 5ft nothing. But one of the disadvantages is bar stools. Please don’t mind me as I gradually slide to the floor because my feet don’t reach the foot rest.
This is why I dislike social media sometimes. I can be having a bloody fabulous day and then BAM I get smacked in the face with a wave of anxiety on seeing something that is, in the wider context of life, stupidly minor.
Anyone else?
I am also legit born in the wrong era. I couldn’t care less for Kendall or Kylie but give me Julie Walters, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Victoria Wood ANY DAY!
Once all this is over I’m getting dressed up for everything.
Brunch will be as if it were drinks.
Drinks will be as if it were a party.
A party will be as it it were my own damn wedding.
Sequins, high heels. THE WORKS
I am continued to be blown away by how many people I saw today still in coffee shops, still having picnics in the park, still crowding in shops.
SOCIAL DISTANCING = STAY HOME UNLESS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL AND THEN STAY 2 METRES APART 🤯
I have a question. I hate confrontation, not because I find challenging things difficult but because without fail I end up crying even though I really don’t want or need to cry... Does anyone else have this problem? 🤣
Blogging is such a strange world. I see ‘friendships’ form out of nowhere because someone is doing well. And then people dropped when they move on to the next best thing. It’s a social climbing world of fakeness and it makes me feel so uncomfortable.
We need to stop putting ‘exercise’ into a box. Movement is exercise. Shimmying on a dance floor on a Saturday night is exercise. Nipping to the shops to get some milk because you’ve run out is exercise.
Shimmy on my friends 💃🏻
I did it! My first ever half marathon for the incredible
@womensaid
who I am SO so lucky to support. I managed a 1 hour, 52 minute which I’m also really proud of! What a day! 💕
I'm really pleased that the Domestic Abuse Bill has been passed by Parliament. This bill will protect approximately 2.4 million victims each year from domestic abuse.
This shows the power of our democracy to make real change for people across the country.
Anyone else just finding it incredibly difficult to like themselves right now? I feel like lockdown has exacerbated everything I was distracted from thinking before..
I had a panic attack earlier and it was f’ing miserable and terrifying, but I had the kindest, most caring taxi driver home and he kept me chatting the whole way home to keep me distracted and I am just so grateful for him right now ❤️
It’s the small things that make me most happy:
Smiling at a stranger and they smile back.
Seeing elderly people in love.
Hot coffee in the morning.
Fresh sheets.
What little things make you happy?
#InternationalDayOfHappiness
I am a woman who has worked out in the weights section of the gym for approx 4 years and I STILL have men make me feel as though I don’t know what I’m doing and that I don’t deserve my space there just as much as they do 🤯
I’m not known for my own sartorial elegance but why would anyone like Naga Munchetty feel the need to wear high-heeled shoes like these on a BBC TV breakfast news programme? Discuss...
I’m a bit sick of seeing people criticising those who are overwhelmed with anxiety right now. It’s not just the staying at home that’s tricky, it’s worrying about relatives, money, job security, mental health and a myriad of other things that mean 1/2
I’ve had to keep this quiet for so long, but I am so incredibly proud to be
@womensaid
new ambassador. As a survivor of domestic abuse aged 17 I want to share my story in the hope that it will help others 💕
We are absolutely thrilled that
@Aliceliveing_
has become our Ambassador. Alice is an inspiration to all survivors that you can rebuild your life and self-esteem after experiencing abuse. Read Alice's exclusive interview with
@CosmopolitanUK
#OnceIsTooMuch
It’s a shame that this acceptance of everyone to relax and do nothing doesn’t last year round. I think people would be a lot healthier and happier if they knew it was okay to take a day off, stop and do nothing 🙌🏻
Today has been a good day, despite a large amount of male PT’s finding it abhorrent that I don’t weight my clients and insist on them getting shredded.
The fitness world needs a shake up, and I’m happy to do just that.
I think the depressing thing right now is that there is no ‘good option’.
Locking down affects so many.
Not locking down affects so many.
This state of limbo also affects so many.
We are a sinking ship with an incompetent captain and no legitimate crew to steer us out.
I fully support a law where we should be able to find out full real names of social media users somehow. I hate that trolls can hide behind fake profiles and names and have zero consequences for their hate.
It is actually frightening that the President of the United States has retweeted Katie Hopkins.
I am part terrified, part open mouthed at the events unfolding across the world at the moment.
My opinion: there needed to be definite clarification that meeting with people from other households is still banned.
Not addressing this, IMO allows for nuance and misinterpretation for people to then mix with other people.
This is appalling. What do
@thetimes
have to say for mocking male mental health at a time when rates of male suicide are at a worrying level?
A public apology and one day spent in the shoes of someone with depression to realise how dark these places can be.
It’s sad that I am now so cynical of friendship. I wonder if people are true friends or if one of them is just trying to climb a little further up the ladder. Anyone else?