I’ve recently teamed with Pick n Pay and their loveliest Dietician, Leanne Tee. I cannot tell you what a relief it’s been to finally have the guidance of a qualified professional on all things food and nutrition. I’m not one for fad diets. While I had previously cut down to a strictly fruit, veg and meat diet to detox (it worked!!!) I can’t see myself maintaining that eating plan for keeps. That’s just the thing. I believe in a little bit of everything, in moderation. Leanne got it SPOT on with my eating plan, which I’ll show you just now.

I want to be healthy and feed my body with nutrients. I don’t want to give my body sugar and fat that it doesn’t need. I don’t want it to struggle to digest food,  feel sluggish – bloated, constipated, tired. I want my body to feel good, nourished, not too … Read the rest

I feel like I should be creeping through the back door here, treading and whispering as not to wake anyone – or my blog. I’ve been preoccupied. I have so many posts and thoughts written down on scraps of paper and little memos in my phone somewhere. Notes I’ve written to myself in encouragement, in weakness, in pain. The past two weeks have been messy with a few setbacks. Milestones I missed, goals I abandoned and difficult decisions I had to make. I try (really hard) to act all tough and fearless (is it working?) but sometimes things just floor me.

And oh… I’ve felt let down. By myself, my body, my training. I’ve typed so many draft emails to the marathon organizers to say I’m sorry – I can’t do this… or I need to go to the dentist that week (I probably do) or something. In some … Read the rest