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A goal without a deadline...works for me

Being late diagnosed with ADHD means that a lot of what are considered ADHD symptoms are, for all intent and purposes, parts of my personality. At this point in my life, I am not able to separate the two in any way. The truth is that the only thing that changed with the diagnosis, was my point of view. I did go through a few months of discarding all my learnt coping mechanisms and trying to…

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Under 1 parkrun

I feel like I am restarting a lot of things all at once with this blogpost. For 1, this morning I started my mission to training to do a parkrun in under 1 hour…again. I am writing a post on this blog for the first time in *checks other tab* 3 years…again. I am putting myself on a health mission in order to spark joy…again. You might ask why I am writing this on this long dorment blog and the…

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Working through the shame

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 end of my 6 by physio said I would definitely need more so I contacted my GP for a second script and that was sent to me…

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First Jonker "parkrun" run report

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 watch Pokemon) and The Husband was at work, so it was just Squiggle in the pram with me pushing.

The…

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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 lot of weight though, this does not happen. You get taught to do a lot of new things, new exercises,…

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I don't dread a plateau

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 falling off you by the week. You have finally found your groove and then…your weight loss stalls. For…

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Transformation isn't skin deep

Transformation isn’t skin deep

As I come to the end of my Sleekgeek coaching program and finding my feat 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 focus to be on my running without having to worry that my measurements are going the “wrong” way due to my body…

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

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 I am stuck using TheHusband’s computer at the moment, which is soooo slow.

So I took a break from blogging, what I didn’t take…

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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” posts doing the rounds now, I feel we need to be kind, even to the parts of us that no longer serve us. I never hated myself, not really,…

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Between the voives 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 do it differently, slower, modified. None of those things are bad things, even if society and the voices in our heads tell us they are bad things.

I let the negative voices creep in. I am pregnant, I can’t walk 5kms right now. I am overweight, people are not going to like me very much taking so much time to do parkrun. This is not Century City parkrun, Hila, they don’t know you here, they won’t wait.

Bullshit, all of it. I am pregnant and overweight and it takes me an hour and a bit to complete a parkrun now but you know what? No one hates me, everyone waits and eveyone is super supportive. The only person not supporting me was me.

So for all those times I said “I can’t” here is what I look like saying “I can”

What about you? What “I can’t” are you going to turn into an “I can”?

For all those times I said “I can’t” Between the voives in society and the voices in my head, it's surprising I have achieved anything at all.

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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 been learning about the same thing that you could take this information and make it work for you.

Som…

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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.

Photo by Frans Van Heerden on Pexels.com

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 key reasons it’s taking me so long to…

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Giveaway: Body positivity Watch the video below to see what I think about body positivity and stick around until the end to see the awesome give away I have waiting for you.

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Frustration, chocolate and decoding your cravings

Being in Berlin has been a whirlwind of an experience. Learning to live in a new space is always a challenge in any case but doing it in a place that you don’t know the local language is extra. This has resulted in some interesting times and a lot of frustration. For someone like me who is a stress eater, this has been an interesting situation.

In the video below I head out for a walk and have…