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Dear Diary 14th September

Weekly Stats Weight: 11 st 4 lb Lost 3 lb total loss: 14lb Waist: 29.5″ Miles Run: 10.37 A 3 lb loss is great, and I wish I could say that it was deserved, but I suspect it’s merely the results of eating less than I did while I was moving and on holiday when

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Weight Loss Motivation

If you need a bit of extra motivation to lose some weight then Model My Diet might help you visualise the results. You put in your current and target weights and it gives you two computer generated models to compare how you look now with how you could look when you hit your goal. You

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Fitness & Health

10k Madness

For some reason, in a spate of post 5k euphoria, I had the impulse to sign up for a 10k run. I’ve never run that far before, but I looked at what was on near me and in a froth of excitement signed up to run the Marriotts Way 10k. Now I’m scared. The race

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Fitness & Health

My Fitness Pal Review

Research shows that one of the best ways to stick to a diet and lose weight is to keep track of what you are eating and how active you are. In fact, this research found that people who tracked their diet lost double the amount of weight of people who kept no records at all.

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Food & Drink

5 Realistic Tips For Healthy Eating On The Go

Whenever you read articles on how to eat out and lose weight they give you certain pieces of advice. Clear soup to start, pasta in tomato sauce, skip the bread, order a salad with dressing on the side, ask the server how the food is prepared, swap the chips for side salad, ask them to

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Fashion & Beauty

Beret Dreams – Lena Hoschek Autumn Winter 2012

Swoon….. I’ve written about Austrian designer Lena Hoschek before, and she’s been a big inspiration on my Autumn wardrobe. Despite the sunshine there’s a definite morning and evening nip in the air, and thoughts start to turn to Autumn knits, where I’ve had my berets stored all Summer, and whether I need a new winter

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Running

A 5k “Fun” Run

Well, yesterday was run day! Considering my holiday in May was deluged with downpours you’d think I could have relied on the weather gods to provide me with some nice, nippy September weather that’s so nice to run in, but it was not to be. Yesterday was HOT, and I do not deal well with

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Dear Diary

Lipstick and Lycra

Well, yesterday was run day! Considering my holiday in May was deluged with downpours you’d think I could have relied on the weather gods to provide me with some nice, nippy September weather that’s so nice to run in, but it was not to be. Yesterday was HOT, and I do not deal well with

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Travel & Events

Whisky In The Wilds of Scotland

In the second of two immensely ill-timed pre planned breaks I spent last weekend on the remote Scottish Island of Jura. How I ended up there is a long story that can probably be reduced to “I won a competition”, there’s more to it than that, but frankly it’s not very interesting. Jura isn’t somewhere

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