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Mindfulness is a buzz word now, and I use it all the time in The Furnace when talking about nutrition - but what does it really mean?

According to Google, ‘Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding...

Often when we ask our clients why they want to lose weight, the answer is usually “to feel good”.

Yes, you can feel good about yourself when you look in the mirror and look physically smaller…

But - the majority of ‘feeling good’ is not a result of how...

Hello and happy Monday!

I've been slacking on my daily emails but I am finally looking at a week with no travel and no major social events.

Last week I travelled to Ireland for the launch of myself and Sinead's line with MyProtein, which is a brand I have worked with for 6 years!

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Hello from the other side!

I was so glad I went to Tomorrowland in the end. It was so fun!!

I left all the glitter and bum bags in the hotel room, and I am now sitting  on my couch in London in my new ugg slippers and I couldn't be happier.

I wasn't expecting to be this...

I am travelling to Brussels tomorrow to go to Tomorrowland.

If you’ve never heard of it - it’s a huge dance music festival with about 250,000 people attending.

I’ve always loved electronic music. I even wanted to be a DJ when I was a kid, and I was doing mixes on...

You know the saying ‘One hot day doesn’t make a Summer’?

I usually say that when I’m talking about having one day of eating really high calories.

Fat loss is not about what you do on a once-off. It’s about your long term behaviours.

And for that...

If there is one thing we will expect this week from clients, it is check-ins where they assign moral values to food. The good weather seems to encourage more eating and drinking, and that’s ok, but I’m already expecting some sentences like: 

“Oh god, I was so bad...

Yesterday I got my third stripe on my white belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

I was so happy to have my hard work recognised, and also to have the chance to join the intermediate class today.

The reason I love BJJ is mainly because of the life lessons in it.

It’s about...

Let me preface this email with a big *if this is feasible for you*.

If you are trying to catch 20 winks whenever your child is asleep because you’ve both been awake all night, or if you’ve been working shifts so your sleeping pattern is all over the place, or if you don’t...

Am I mad to tell you that one of the things I hear often from clients after a few weeks doing The Furnace is:

“I’m not seeing much progress”

So why am I telling you this?

Surely I want to tell you that my clients are making amazing progress after a couple of...

Happy Monday!

Today feels like the first day of the rest of my life.

I moved into my new apartment in London on Thursday. It feels like such a commitment but I am so excited to have my own home with no plans for long term travel for a while.

If you missed it, I decided that...

Ok. Let’s start unpacking this.

There are a lot of possibilities here.

Let’s start with defining “your diet”.

Many people think that dieting is hard because they’ve tried to cut out full food groups that they love (this is madness) or...