Fat Loss, Food & Healthy Living

Worrying Signs Your Mental Health Is Spiralling

Mental health is talked about now more than ever. Wherever you go online, you read hashtags of #bekind and #itsokaytonotbeokay and all those cheesy quotes. The thing is, it’s really not okay that you’re not okay - you deserve to feel contentment and security and happiness. You may be afraid to speak out about your mental health, but you need....{Click Here to Read More!}

How to Cook Perfect Fish and Chips

A lot of us Brits enjoy tucking into a hearty dish of fish and chips, particularly on a Friday night. Sure, it’s tempting to pop down to your local chippy – and there are some brilliant ones around offering sustainably sourced fish and super-crispy chips. But it’s just as simple to make your own fish and chips. Craving this incredible....{Click Here to Read More!}

The Lisa Diet AKA I’m Actually Not On A Diet

Let's start this post with a quote. "This time I'm doing it. This time I'm actually going to lose the weight." - me, every three weeks for the last ten years. You only have to search back through my blog to see the, quite frankly embarrassing amounts of posts I've written on weight loss over the years. Slimming World, Weight....{Click Here to Read More!}

BOOSTme, Fun & Fitness At Home – Review

**I received a month's subscription to BOOSTme in exchange for this review. As always all opinions are honest and my own** Confession time - I love exercise but hate it. Confused? Me too... Over the years I've joined numerous gyms, classes, bootcamps - I've tried running, walking, hooping - and aside from walking which I've always loved I can't find....{Click Here to Read More!}

A really big tummy like yours, mummy

As a fat chick I knew the day would come when my little dude would say something weight-related to me. I've expected it for a while, and I told myself I'd laugh it off when it happens. And so this week, age four and a half, it happened - we were having a random conversation at home, he was colouring....{Click Here to Read More!}

I want to chop my head off: living with migraines

I talk about Ankylosing Spondylitis and anxiety on a regular basis; they are two things that make my life quite difficult sometimes and affect me most days but this last week I've struggled with something else I've suffered from since I was a child - and that is migraines. (more…)

Coping with a chronic illness flare

I've written about my chronic illness before and this month marks one year since I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, an inflammatory disease that affects a lot of things. It affects my back, legs and energy levels and at the moment I'm going through some sort of hellish flare-up. A 'flare' is when your chronic illness is triggered by something....{Click Here to Read More!}

Ankylosing Spondylitis & me: living with a chronic illness

This post has been a long time coming - I was diagnosed with non radiographic axial spondyloarthritis, or Ankylosing Spondylitis a year ago next month and it's been a tough year coming to terms with it. I've waited so long for a diagnosis that once I had one I didn't know what to think or how to feel - and....{Click Here to Read More!}

Dressing for the Autumn

**This is a collaborative post** I'm rubbish at fashion. There, I said it. Most mornings it's a huge effort to get out of bed and get going, let alone dress nicely and apply a face of makeup, but I do like to look nice. I've hit a sort of time in life(my mid thirties) where I like to be comfortable....{Click Here to Read More!}

PCOS: life after laparoscopy

I've written about PCOS before and it's something that has continued to cause problems for a long time. PCOS(Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) is a condition that affects the ovaries. Not to be confused with PCO(Polycystic Ovaries), which is cysts on the ovaries, PCOS doesn't actually cause cysts on the ovaries and can be hard to diagnose and manage. I'll admit this....{Click Here to Read More!}

What’s going on? Surgery nerves

I've not written in a while - life has been a little hectic, my mood a little low and I've been guilty of just shutting down and not talking about things, which isn't good. Health wise things have been up and down - I've had to stop my biologic injections for my Ankylosing Spondylitis due to constant colds and infections. ....{Click Here to Read More!}

#MySkinAndMe: Solving my skin problems

My skin(especially the skin on my face) has been problematic since my teens - I developed cystic acne aged 17 and it didn't disappear until after I had my son age 29. Until recently I'd not really looked after my skin that well - I'd fallen into bad habits of not taking my make up off and not moisturising daily. ....{Click Here to Read More!}