Tag: exercise
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50 Of The Best Things In Life That Are (Almost) Free
The sound of Kurt singing Pharell Williams’ song ‘Happy’, on repeat all week, has made me uncharacteristically sooky. Anxiety tells me that by writing a piece about the best things in life, I’m tempting fate and a horrible Karma will descend on me from above. Therapy tells me that anxiety goes away when you stop…
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The female body, Menstruation and Exercise
Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for shocking, educating or causing the men brave enough and ‘new’ enough to read this post, to projectile vomit – welcome to a woman’s world. The Menstruation Tent (Photo credit: GorillaSushi) I have my most interesting thoughts when I’m attempting to drag my body from one end of the local…
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The ‘Replacing Food With Wine’ Diet For Women
I’ve never really been one for diet fads or exercise. Food and wine pairing at the fine dining restaurant, The Flute, in downtown Mumbai. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s not that I’m one of those lucky skinny bitches with an irritatingly fast metabolic rate who end up slimmer than before they had babies; I’m just fundamentally too lazy…
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Public Swimming Pools – Ten New Rules
swimming pool (Photo credit: freefotouk) A polite message to my fellow swimmers, because it has come to my attention that when one swims to a near Olympian standard in a public pool, it is unfortunately necessary to share one’s water space with members of the public, who may not, necessarily, share the same rigid discipline…
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Middle-Aged Baby Belly
nice beer gut (Photo credit: HGruber) The old man has started his annual trip to ‘fitness’, citing his reason as the middle-aged baby belly which has suddenly developed from nowhere, yet protrudes a little too confidently above the over-tight waistband of his trousers. He blames me, of course, for this foreign mass that looks like a five…
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New Year, New Body
A swimmer swimming (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Now that the boxes have been unpacked, the mail has been redirected and we’ve discovered our new favourite local eateries, I’m running out of excuses for not doing any exercise. January is traditionally the month where I make another feeble attempt to retrieve my wedding day body. New year,…
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