how being fat makes me feel like a failure in every part of my life

Being Fat At the beginning of 2017, I turned 40 and I was fat, the fattest that I had ever been. I had spent most of 2016 on a diet of some sort - all in aim of being at my goal weight for my 40th birthday.  That goal didn't happen. I really felt the impact of being so fat when I turned 40.  First of all, I had failed at my millionth attempt at losing weight.  That I had been overweight for almost half of my life; my attempts to remember how fit and thin I was in my...

keto scrambled eggs with spinach

I've always loved scrambed eggs.  And I mean, really LOVE them. But I haven't always been good at making them.  When I first met my husband I was in my early 20s and I decided to make him breakfast one morning.  Following my usual (at the time) way of cooking, I prepared the eggs first.  Crack four eggs into a bowl, add a little salt and a small amount of skim milk. mistake number.. one...skim milk I'm just going to stop right here, right now.  Skim milk.  It is the real enemy.  It is like water.  Except it doesn't taste...

being known as the ‘fat, funny one’

I think that I'm a pretty funny person.  I mean, my friends laugh at my jokes and call me 'the funny one'.  Which is both good and bad.  I mean, usually in a movie, the funny one is the side kick friend to the 'gorgeous one'.  The funny one usually never gets the guy (or girl) and is usually ugly and / or fat. See how that's awkward now. When I first started my (current, ha!) diet at the beginning of this year I thought that I was so hilarious when I came up with the following headline in my...

25kg overweight and I feel sensational! wait, what?

Today I feel good about myself. Isn't it great (and a little strange) that losing even just a small amount of weight can have such a positive impact on the way that you feel about yourself. I have lost just over 5kg in four weeks.  And today, I reached into the drawer and pulled out my 'normal' jeans.  These are my favourite pair of jeans because they fit me really well at this weight.  A month ago, on my birthday, they were almost too tight to wear.  I remember wearing them to the kids' first day of school and feeling...
delicious summer healthy eating meal plan

delicious summer healthy eating meal plan

I don't know about you, but I have a real love / hate relationship with summer.  Like most people, I guess, I love the thought of summer when I am sick of winter.  And then, when summer is making it unbearable to go outside, I am begging for winter to return. When it is hot,  it is hard to think.  It's hard to find the desire or motivation to cook in a hot kitchen.  So for summer meals, I have tried to go really simple this year.  We use our BBQ a lot - steak with fresh corn has been...

are your thoughts making it hard to think? find out how to live in the present

I'm sick today.  I have a cold and for the first time, in a long time, I'm at home.  Alone.  Completely by myself. It's so quiet.  I'm sitting on the couch by the windows with a view outside.  It's a warm, sunny day and from my seat I can see the tops of the eucalyptus trees that stretch across the sky.  There's a breeze from the overhead fan and occasionally I can hear a car drive past or the fridge compressor switch on. There's no children chatting, playing or arguing in the background.  No call of "Mum, I'm hungry" or...