THE REALITY
After a week of feeling poorly and hibernating in my flat it's time to accept that the year has started, there's lots of scary grown up things to plan over the next few months AND it's the Eastbourne Half Marathon in exactly eight weeks. In classic Zoe style I'm tackling the half marathon training as …
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Last New Year's Eve I was in bed before midnight and up for a run before dawn. I was Ms McSmuggington Smug Face. The smuggest of all the smug joggers in their fancy high-vis leggings they got for Christmas. Not this year. This year I got drunk. Not just 'grown-up let's have a game of …
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Apparently Alicia Keys doesn't wear make-up to fancy awards ceremonies any more and it's made headlines. It's made headlines because a few people on Twitter have been mean about it, saying slightly condescending things like 'just put a bit of mascara on love', raising the hackles of other people who feel baffled by the apparent fact that wearing …
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I am fine, according to the doctor. I needn't have submitted myself to the horrors of collecting a 'faecal sample', or (worse) letting the nurse touch my arm vein. Of course it's a good thing I don't have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). But I can't help feeling slightly short changed. It took three separate appointments to establish …
I've made it. Four weeks into the 90 day 'Shift, Shape and Sustain' plan by Joe Wicks. Cycle one of three complete. I don't have rippling abs yet. Well - my stomach certainly ripples, but not in the good way. It's more of an undulation. As I type my boyfriend is taking delivery of a …
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Really. Full of it. Before I go on - please stop reading if you have a delicate sensibility. I warn you: I am about to strip my 'lady' image off and trample it into the ground with this post. It's not a talked-about thing is it, poo. Americans call it 'poop'. It sounds cuter that …
I used to review fancy hotels and Michelin star restaurants. Now I'm reviewing my porridge. It's fine. I spent my whole time as a magazine editor masquerading as someone who knew what they were talking about. With porridge I'm on home ground. If you read my last post you'll know I've started the 90 day 'shift, shape …
I just thought I'd squeeze a really quick post into my lunch-break as, what with all the food prep I'm having to do on the 90 day 'shift, shape and sustain' plan by Joe Wicks (AKA The Bodycoach), I haven't had any time to blog about it yet. The idea of the plan The idea …
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I'm eating dinner as I type. It's a recipe from Lean in 15 - but it's one of those tricky ones without pictures so I don't know if this is what it's supposed to look like. Besides I didn't make it. My very lovely boyfriend did it while I was at work. The book says to use …
I'm going to try a new way of eating. And I don't mean I'll be using chopsticks, or murmuring incantations, or inhaling my food through my nose. It'll still be going in my mouth as per usual. The difference is that, instead of just eating whatever I can be bothered to cook up on any particular …
