As this glorious early Summer weather looks like it will never end, I have been busy walking myself fit for my beach holiday. No, I’m not being lazy and it’s not a cop out, honest! Walking has been proved to lift your spirits, improve circulation and burn up to 300 calories an hour – plus it’s completely free. (more…)
Walking
Walk into the Summer
Monday, July 4th, 2011Best foot forward
Saturday, February 26th, 2011Writing this blog is supposed to be an opportunity for me to share my efforts of getting into shape post baby number 2. We know there will be ups and downs but ultimately we all expect a happy ending (that is, a body like Cameron Diaz). Reader, I am shamefaced. And that’s the least of my problems: I’m round stomached and thunder thighed as well. (more…)
Walk the walk
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010If you look around you when you’re out and about more often than not you see people running. Bedecked in their Lycra® and expensive running shoes, they run. They seem never to puff or pant, they’re rarely red in the face and they never appear to sweat.
Of course in my reality, I puff and gasp for breath, I get pains in my legs, the scrape on my ankle where I have successfully managed to kick myself five times now in exactly the same spot hurts like mad and, once in a while, I just have to walk. (more…)
What sandal will last all Summer? Birkenstocks
Monday, July 5th, 2010Mid Summer and already I have worn all my Sandals too much, a dilemma that us British rarely experience.
When choosing summer footwear it’s a given that there are certain factors to consider that don’t even enter the equation for choosing winter footwear. For example, one needs not worry about the ankle-strap/no ankle-strap dilemma when shopping for a pair of boots (and we all know what a conundrum that one is). Nor does winter shoe shopping send us into a ponder over (dare I say it) Thongs! And we all know I’m not talking about underwear here, but instead the ever dreaded yet surprisingly popular style of flip-flop (or FitFlops even) who’s chosen method of attaching sole to foot is via a painfully positioned strap of fabric between your large toe and its closest neighbour. Ouch! (more…)
