What’s Your Excuse?

Remember seeing this image recently splashed across social media and the global news?   Critics claimed that this fitness mum allegedly “fat shamed” other women for not having 6 pack abs.   Whether you agree – or in fact found these photos motivating – I believe that most of us limit ourselves in our belief … Continued

Prep for Success

  What’s your weekend routine? Do you do anything special to re-charge yourself? Everyone has a ‘busy’ life, right? Sometimes we get so busy ‘doing’ life, that we forget to ‘live’ it. Hopefully, at least one day a week you can slow down. For me, I love Sunday’s. One of the reasons is that I … Continued

World Peace – Just a dream?

From Lisa Bullock I want to share some of my thoughts with you and they’re not particularly health and fitness related so feel free to switch off if you’d prefer.  Laughing Lisa will be back tomorrow. The English poet and preacher John Donne once wrote: No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man … Continued

Sorry about my language!

From Lisa Bullock We had a great weekend away with old friends to a local hiking area known as The Prom (Wilsons Promontory to those of you who thought the Prom was a school dance!).   There’s loads of history in this group and I came to know them all through my husband.  He grew … Continued

Whoops! I’m in the Dog House

From Lisa Bullock In 2004 I got twitchy feet.  We’d been in our home for about 11 years and loved our house but like many growing families it just didn’t meet our needs anymore and it was probably time to move on. The thought of moving house was scary but exciting.  I knew EXACTLY what … Continued

The one where Shawna and Lisa chat….

From Lisa Bullock Shawna and I chat regularly by Skype – we’re in different hemispheres but living parallel lives.  Our kids are similar ages and our attitudes to training are like peas in a pod! So what do Fat Loss Experts chat about when they Skype? Um, like fat loss, duh! (and workout gear, colourful … Continued

Food rewards and “robust buttocks”

From Lisa Bullock What have cats, dogs, rain, love and fat loss to do with each other? And no, it’s not raining cats and dogs – that was just a sample of my female rambling thought processes this morning.  As a woman you’ll understand that one of our major strengths is multi-tasking and being able … Continued

The Devil on your Shoulder

Guest Post by Lisa Bullock “God, I’m fat and I feel disgusting!”   Hmm, ever had words to that effect come out of your mouth? Most of us have heard the saying “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right”.  Words are a self-fulfilling prophecy, so be careful of what you … Continued

“Selfish” or “Sensible”?

Excuse me for one moment, I’m just colour coding my underwear drawer – be right with you!  Oh, sorry about that – just checking that my world is organised, controlled, the T’s are crossed and I’s are dotted.    Um, just diverting to sort the cutlery drawer.  All good!  Not that I have control issues … Continued

Can I have the “Rocky” theme song please!

  I LOVE my boxing!   It’s probably about 14 years since I first put on my boxing gloves.  Not Taibo.  Not Boxercise.  Not girls in a room wearing pretty pink gloves doing circuits.  Boxing.  Punching people and being punched.   To many people, and especially women, it’s a “not quite nice sport” – something that … Continued