HEALTH DOESN’T JUST HAPPEN
Bridget Thompson, our Health Expert tells you why as brutal and unflattering as it may sound, health is not instant. It does not come from a packet, and will not be
effortlessly achieved and maintained with a “few week’s” bootcamp, program, shake or pill….
THE PRE CHRISTMAS DETOX CHALLENGE – ARE YOU IN?
Gaynor Alder decides instead of hurtling towards January one canape and creamy cocktail at a time, she’s decided to put the clappers on Christmas, and take a week out to have a health kick to abate the partridge in a pear tree. Getting ahead of her game and all that, so when January does roll around, she’ll be five kilos up on her thighs. Care to join her?
INTRODUCING OUR NEW HEALTH EXPERT: BRIDGET THOMPSON
Bridget Thompson from New Leaf Nutrition has joined the MWSG team as our resident health expert – hurrah. Cue claps of hysterical excitement! She is a fully accredited and qualified dietitian who undertook her 4 year Bachelor of Nutrition & Dietetics in Melbourne. Having once been overweight, bullied and incredibly uncomfortable in her own body, Bridget sought out at [...]
DO YOU FIND LOOKING AFTER YOUR HEALTH A PLEASURE OR A CHORE?
I abstain from alcohol four to five days of the week, drink water and swallow more fish oil than a pubescent teenager with PMT. However, I’ve lost the joie de vivre I used to have for looking after my health. I do it because I know it’s good for me and if I don’t fatigue comes knocking back at my door, barging in uninvited and strapping me to me bed and holding my life to ransom.
DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU’RE ALWAYS RUNNING ON EMPTY?
Sleep has become my number one fantasy and I lust for it like a porn addict does double d cleavage. I snatch sleep in my relentless schedule whenever I can, collapsing into bed, and caressing my sheets and pillow like I’m being reunited with a long lost lover. Oh Tontine, I do love thee so. Please let me stay here in your arms a little longer.
CONFESSION TIME: HOW MUCH WINE DO YOU DRINK OF A WEEK?
During a recent review of my b-b-b-b-udget, I was horrified to realise how much I spend on liquor and cigarettes a year. It was very sobering indeed. More shocking than that was how much I actually drink on a weekly, or, ahem, daily basis.
COPING WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME – PART 2
After doing endless rounds of medical appointments, being poked, prodded and tested for every disease known to mankind, and forking out money you simply don’t have to swallow more tablets than Amy Winehouse on a bender, it’s inevitable that you may start to give up hope.
THE HEALTH KICK AND OTHER MISADVENTURES
After too many nights on the vino, way too many cigarettes and a hideous bout of self recrimination, I inevitably vow to go on a health kick. Right, that’s it. No liquor for a week. I’m quitting smoking. Eating healthy. Going to start exercising.
THIS WON’T HURT A BIT. PROMISE.
I hate going to the dentist so much, that I put off having a filling even when I fear it has become a root canal situation. Do they really think I believe that the pictures of “calming” beach scenes are anything but a pathetic attempt to delude me out of the pain they’re about to [...]
DOWN THERE: YES, I’M TALKING ABOUT, AHEM, DOWN THERE
Medical emergencies involving the lower regions require prompt action, but the mere mention of the words ”pap smear” will have most women cross their legs so tight they get a varicose vein. Women will procrastinate on this gross violation of their private parts potentially risking cancer, with every two years, being every two years too [...]
I FEEL SICK AND I WANT MY MUM
I am currently busted up with the flu, post an episode of exhaustion. Our bodies do seem to have a way of slowing us down when we need to rest – even if it means having to use a whole box of tissues in one sitting. I’m lucky I have a lovely man in my [...]
GOLDEN RULES OF HEALTH – ONE WEEK CHALLENGE
Kate Traeger, our Health Expert has designed a one week challenge for readers of The Modern Woman’s Survival Guide – the ideal plan to clean up and kick start a healthy lifestyle – Ed.
THE GOLDEN RULES OF HEALTH: PART 2
Our new Health Expert, Kate from Trae Health continues her series, with a guide to eating and moving to create a healthy lifestyle.
THE GOLDEN RULES OF HEALTH – PART 1
In her first article for The Modern Woman’s Survival Guide (a 3 part series including a one week health challenge), Kate Traeger (our new resident Health Expert), discusses reflecting on your 2010, in order to create successful goals for 2011.
COPING WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE: PART 1
The cause of this mystery illness is still largely unknown and not adequately treated by most medical professionals. Treatment also varies from patient to patient – but one thing is common to all. Hope.
