If you’re over 40 and suddenly gaining weight, waking at night, or feeling like your body isn’t responding to exercise the way it used to – you’re not imagining it. During perimenopause, hormonal changes affect metabolism, muscle mass, sleep and fat storage. The strategies that worked in your 30s often stop working during perimenopause. In
I like to go to bed no later than 7.30pm but last night my son, Gus had an 8.40pm basketball game.
This throws my entire routine into chaos, not only for that night but also the day following.
I’m sleep-deprived, I can’t focus on my work, my training suffers and I’m just generally irritable….
My kids first school Father’s Day will go down as one of the best days of my life!
They were 5 years old at this stage and life was pretty hectic – not for them, they were living the dream, but for both Ben and I.
We were exhausted, as any parents are with young kids, and in desperate need of some time off…
A funny story comparing an Australian mum to her famous Olympic rowing doppelganger.
I love that my ASD super-powered teenager doesn’t give a crap about what people think of her. A lot of people SAY they don’t care … but deep down we really do. However she honestly does not! For instance, she rarely looks at herself in the mirror because in her words: “I know I look
“Hooray she can do a burpee but what kind of person ties their hair in pigtails with ribbons in it? I’d rather have a brain”  This was a comment I found in an online magazine article relating to this photo. Now usually I don’t care what people have written because: I don’t want to waste
One day when my daughter Abby was about 8 I asked her to come into my office as I had something very important to tell her. This was a big secret and it was up to her if she decided to tell anyone else. Not even her triplet siblings knew this secret. I sat her
Every International Women’s Day I feel it is my duty to impart wisdom on my daughters… or lecture them, as they call it. So if you’d like to join the audience, please pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable. “…Girls listen in as what I am about to tell you is important and you