If you are worried about your relationship with food, who do you turn to? Your mates? Your GP? Or maybe you might turn to many of the numerous blogs, instagram pages and podcasts out there #wellness? Turning to influencers to make sense, I mean afterall, they're flawless skin, pert tits, perky bum and six pack…
Continue reading ➞ Beat: The UK’s Charity Antidote to Wellness Wankery and Eating Disorders
When I tell people that I play rugby I get a number of responses again and again, "oh goodness!", a dropped jaw, or a number of questions about where, when and quite frankly, why? We even ask each other when we meet new players because for women and girls, rugby isn't the most obvious sport…
Continue reading ➞ 15 Things I Learned In My First Rugby Season
Tanya Gold has really caused a stir with her article for The Telegraph titled, 'Obese Mannequins Are Selling Women a Dangerous Lie'. Now I could go on a highly charged rant of vitriol, however I feel that this has been taken care of online. With a clear and significant backlash to this article, it's dubious…
Continue reading ➞ The Nike Mannequin, The Telegraph, and The Nonsense In-Between
At face value the body positivity movement may seem like the perfect antidote to unrealistic body goals, the continuous merry-go-round of dieting and the perpetuation of thin ideals from the fashion, media, fitness, retail, and industry that uses models and their bodies to promote products and ideologies. The incessant nature is that although these images,…
Continue reading ➞ Why Loving Your Reflection is Just Another Unrealistic Expectation
Social Media is bursting with #BodyPositivity #LoveYourself and #ICanSoYouCan to messages seemingly aimed at the average health conscious woman. At face value it seems like a pretty brilliant and groundbreaking trend that's taking over. People are going to fitness events more, we are health conscious now thanks to a decade of public health campaigning. Dig…
Continue reading ➞ Orthorexia is the New Anorexia, and It’s Not Cool
Marathon running is more of an exercise for the mind than the body. Making your body run 26.2 miles in one go without stopping is tiring work, don't get me wrong. The real task though is how much can you endure on the day? How much can you dig deep and keep going when the…
Continue reading ➞ Brighton Marathon: The Unlikely Road To The Satisfaction of Socks & Sandals
Have you ever thought is strange or inconvenient that you need to eat every single day, multiple times a day? Think about it for a moment. Every day we need to eat. What would life be like if we didn't need to eat every day, multiple times? More convenient? Time saving? Resource saving? Picture this.…
