Health | Body

[Guest Post] Yoga can help with negative thoughts

May 7, 2012

If you consider yoga to be an exercise geared toward physical health you may want to reconsider. Yoga can help you stay in the moment and start to release negative thinking.

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Smoking & Dieting – the same flawed approach

May 4, 2012

I’ll end up that wrinkled old woman with grey skin hooked up to an IV trolley, with only one lung, outside in the hospital carpark lighting up a cigarette.

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What it really means to be fit

March 20, 2012

Today, on Duckfish’s birthday, he and I spent two and a half hours climbing up the mountain you see in the photo: Mt Warning or Mt Wollumbin. I’ve been back in the gym less than three months and only working out a couple of times a week.

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Cake Shop

March 8, 2012

I stand in front of the glass display counter waiting to be served. In front of me are shelves of delicious mud cakes, cheese cake and hand-made chocolates. I quite like a slice of cake on occasion but my true love is chocolate.

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[Interview] The lovely Renee Stephens stops by to chat

February 27, 2012

But what if it’s not our own flawed willpower or sluggish metabolism that’s to blame? What if we’ve just been using the wrong tools for the job? The truth is that dieting actually makes us fatter because it’s focused on control and deprivation.

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The other time I had an eating disorder that you don’t know about

February 21, 2012

Restricting, bingeing and purging had happened to me in my life once before, many years ago.

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