The Power of 30

We braved it! (And yes, it made us grrrrrrrrrr!) This is a challenging topic for two people who have been standing up against diet culture for so many years but there is no escaping the science and we thought it was time to have an honest conversation about how to create a calorie deficit. Creating a calorie deficit can be done in 2 ways, and most people will immediately jump to traditional dieting (cutting calories). The other way is of course with exercise. The traditional view on this of c...

We're back on a topic which we have already explored in a 6 episode mini-series back in 2021 (links below to those episodes) but it is a topic that just keeps on giving! Whether you call them excuses or reasons, we all have them and we felt it was time to revisit this topic that already took up much of our time to see if, over the last 2 years we've changed our minds about anything we said. Turns out we did a pretty good job first but of course, we did find a bit more to say... there's 3 ke...

We've been wanting to do this one for a while! It's time to change how we talk about exercise (and weight loss), especially for women and even more especially for young girls. The association of weight with health, and weight with looking good, and the fact that if you are "slim" then you must be both healthy and fit are all falsehoods. One of the worst things about this aspect of diet culture is the fact it has led to women simply not exercising, and thus not getting all of the benefits ex...

"Self compassion is a practice of good will and not good feelings" Why are we so so hard on ourselves? It is unlikely you would say to anyone the things you say to yourself, especially when they've "messed up", but we will very quickly berate ourselves, and really, where does it get us. We have enough external influences trying to bury our self-esteem deep in the ground without doing it to ourselves. They key to being kinder to yourself is probably to get practicing, practice NOW, re...

We are big fans of goal setting, we talk about it a LOT because it's something so many people don't do, especially in our world. Or their goal is simply a number on the scale (or rather off it), something that's over simplified and doesn't reflect the actions needed, how often they should be repeated and over what time. So are we about to back track over all of that? No, but we're very glad we chose the book Atomic Habit by James Clear as our first book club book because he has brought to l...

Our first "proper" episode of our new season is a Book Club Episode about the incredible book that is Atomic Habits by James Clear. We're talking about getting started with habits the right way, as opposed to getting started and falling by the way side, or feeling like we have to rely on will power or discipline (see pages 60-64). If you want to make changes in your life, you need to be casting votes for yourself, grasping at every piece of evidence that you can do the thing, or become “the...

We've been having LOTS of conversation in the gym about why we don't wear the shorts (the sleeveless top, the dress etc etc.) We're not letting this go and have launched a "Wear the Shorts" campaign! It was enough to drive Coach Dannii and Coach Sall back to the mic's to record a special edition of the podccast. Now, don't get us wrong, you don't HAVE to wear the shorts if you don't want to, and it doesn't have to be shorts, anything where you question whether you "should" wear it, whether ...

If you’re lacking energy and enthusiasm for your goals take a look around you. Is your space dragging you down? Or even, just parts of your space? How can you make nutritious meals easily if you are overwhelmed by your kitchen? Explorer, National Geographic fellow and New York Times best-selling author Dan Buettner discovered 5 places in the world where people live longer (the longest in fact) and better, “The Blue Zones”. Some of the key factors that these zones all shared that made a differ...