Health

The results are in

November 18, 2012

So here I am at the end of 12 weeks, a slightly different person both in body and soul. Here’s how the body bits panned out (in addition to the nearly 10kg gooone): Today I found a pair of jeans I’d forgotten I had, with the belt still threaded around the waist. It put them […]

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My transformation

November 13, 2012

A while ago I came across this picture, had a bit of a giggle and thought “Yep, that pretty much sums me up”. Except it had been more like 15 years than 5 since I had set foot in a gym. Funny as it was, I was starting to feel like I had the body […]

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Life Stages

May 14, 2010

Life comes in waves. First are the playdate and sleepover days. It seems to take forever for the next wave, the 18th’s and 21st’s to come along. Then the wedding invitations start to trickle in, before becoming an avalanche in a few years’ time. Babies start arriving and the playdates start all over again. By […]

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Good News Day

October 15, 2009

Last visit to my haemo in September I wasn’t able to get any results. It seems Medicare are tightening their belt and decided that they will only pay for the leukaemia marker test every three months. I’d seen a different doctor the time before and he’d ordered the test a month early, so it wasn’t […]

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10 Benefits of Yoga

April 15, 2009

Photo by tarotastic After a long time thinking about it, I was recently able to swing childcare, school and location so I could enrol in a yoga class. I knew some of the benefits of yoga and they seemed to fit well with what I wanted from a health perspective. My yoga teacher has been […]

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Childhood Immunisations

February 23, 2009

For me the decision to vaccinate our kids was a no brainer. I’m a numbers person. When I looked at the chances of suffering side effects from immunisations compared with the chances of complications arising from the various viruses we were trying to quash, the vaccine always won out. I’m not going to go into […]