Category Archives: Strickers Blog
What ‘The Voice’ taught me
In case you didn’t know I watched the quarter finals of ‘The Voice’ on Friday night at Pinewood Studios. I’ve only ever seen trailers for the programme and really had little idea what to expect, but Sophie had been sent … Continue reading
Are you addicted to diet foods?
Are you still eating ‘diet foods’, ‘low fat foods’ or ‘healthy options’? If you are you are almost certainly setting yourself up for cravings, weight gain, mood swings and bad skin. So you can eat fewer calories for sure, but … Continue reading
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. ”
Have you ever thought back over a series of events and seen how they all join together because of one decision you made earlier on? This time last week I was rocking and shouting and whooping alongside 5000 others at … Continue reading
Why I’ll never be a bikini model…
After 20 years of putting up with incredibly itchy patches on my left buttock and, in the last 18 months, my elbows too, I’ve discovered this week what it is all about. Coeliac disease. Really? Shouldn’t I be suffering with diarrhoea, … Continue reading
100 days in…how is it going for you?
Today marks 100 days into 2013. What have you done with it? Or did it pass you by in a blur of days like they always do? If your New Years Resolution seems a long way off and the thought … Continue reading
The processed meat debate.
You may have heard the news about processed meat being linked to premature death today? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21682779 With this is the news I think people always do a quick mental check of their own eating habits to see whether they fit … Continue reading
The Beauty of Watercress
I love watercress. The proper buy-in-a-bunch sort of watercress you can get from the market, not that frilly edged leaves all washed and pretty from the supermarkets. So yesterday I managed to chuck a whole bunch of watercress into an … Continue reading
National Chip Week ( 18-24 February 2013)
Oh yeah! It’s chip week!! One thing we Brits can do well is a chip. The problem is we have to endure them fried in vegetable oils that have been heated and cooled over and over and over again and … Continue reading
Are you still using margarine?
This month, February, is Heart Health month. An awareness campaign to get people to make lifestyle changes to lower their risk of heart disease. I am all in favour of this, we need to make sure people aren’t ill unneccessarily … Continue reading
100 days to May.
Today is February 7th and it’s 100 days until my birthday. Yes I did count them, but it’s a nice manageable number of days for a challenge. I proved that already with my 100 Days of Fitness last year so … Continue reading