November 2011

Georgie – Hot Pants – Jury’s back!

November 30, 2011

I’ve had a another couple of weeks with the Zaggora Hotpants, and I have to say, I am not sure how I ever lived without them.  Maybe it’s because it’s coming into winter here in the UK and it’s great to be toastie warm out running OR in the gym, maybe I just got really [...]

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Zar – Recipe – My new fave salad

November 27, 2011

This is the quickest dish in the world and I’m eating it every week at the moment. It’s also going to be one of the salads I serve on Christmas Day (how exciting!) Chickpeas and beans are in the legumes family which are good, slow burning carbs which will not give you an insulin spike [...]

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Zar – Exercise as a treatment

November 23, 2011

There’s a growing movement of doctors prescribing exercise instead of pills. We all know exercise is beneficial but there is a growing list of health issues for which exercise is recognized as an effective treatment. Take for example, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) which affects about 18% of childbearing women. Two and a half hours of [...]

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Georgie – Tip Top Ten – Winter Blues

November 23, 2011

I admit it. I am absolutely FLOORED by winter blues.  We’ve had such mild weather here in the Britain that the first cold and dark snap really didn’t hit until a week ago.  I had a MASSIVE week at work, a huge weekend work and social wise and on Monday morning I woke up in [...]

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Rosie – Winter Doom Part deux

November 22, 2011

Continuing on the depression of winter, I am sitting here typing with a tiny weeny glass of red wine by me. Okay, so not so tiny. And actually my second. So really that’s half a bottle of red wine I’ve polished off, and yes, it’s a Wednesday night. That really isn’t good. It set me [...]

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Rosie – Winter doom

November 15, 2011

So, winter is officially here. For me when November hits us it’s WINTER. Doom, gloom and everything else. I really do hate winter, as I think does everyone in the UK. And, I’m sure like everyone else, gone is the good will of the summer, exercising regularly, eating salads, being outside. Of course, the “bikini [...]

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Z Bingham. Triathlete.

November 6, 2011

Last Sunday I completed my first Olympic length triathlon!! Something I’ve been talking about doing for the last 2 years – I’ve finally achieved it!! I went through the last week with varying degrees of anxiety, excitement and trepidation. Lots of people congratulating me for doing it in the first place but I told them to wait [...]

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Georgie – Hot Pants – Jury’s out…

November 1, 2011

They Jury are out on my Hot Pants and I have to say, I am not sure if they are coming back in with any verdict any time soon. I purchased a pair of Hot Pants pre boot camp and worked out in them every day in Norfolk. (see my previous blogs on this weird [...]

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