Hello, my name is Ashley and I am really REALLY unfit!

Hello, my name is Ashley and I am really REALLY unfit! 

I didn't used to be.

After I had my wee girl (who is 7 now!!) I got deep into the groove of being healthy and fit and I felt really vital and full of life for the first time in my life. I was working out with weights, doing a split program over 5 days during the week, getting up early for walks around the Tan and eating a really balanced and varied diet and I really felt amazing... amazing! I was putting my own well-being ahead of other things... which actually meant I had much more energy to put into those other things... everyone was a winner!

Ann Wigmore said:

“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”

...and I have to admit that I've been turning to the poison far more than I've been medicating myself with food in recent years and the most I've moved is walking from the train to my uni classes. There are a few different reasons for this which I will probably get into at some stage but don't have the energy to get in depth about now; mostly to do with being time poor, busy, medicating my emotions with sugar and carbs and putting my own needs before those of my family, work and friends.

So... in order to begin (again) the process of regaining my health and fitness I am about to embark on a 12 week "Get Moving" program through Operation Move.

The Operation Move website says this:

"We are parents, partners, domestic gods and goddesses. We work at home or out of home, we juggle ferrying kids to school with taking corporate calls on Skype, we are full time parents at home who love it and find it incredibly challenging all at once. We take care of everybody else and we do it with pride. 

We are also people who have put ourselves last for a long time, without even realising it.

Operation Move is for people who have been so busy living and being and doing that they haven’t put their physical health needs first.

We are for everyday busy people who know they SHOULD get moving, but don’t know what to do or how to fit it in to their lives."

Does this sound like you? It sure sounds like me and I've had enough of feeling shitty. It's time to MOVE!  I am the luckiest blogger on the block because I am going to be participating in this fitness program for FREE on the proviso (isn't that a great word?!) that I tell you all about it!! That is a good deal right?! Considering I can't help but talk about this stuff anyway. Win-win!

June 1st is the start date... eeeeeeeeeeeek!!!

Free Printable Fitness Planner Just for You!

I'm figuring out how to put a pdf on here for you to grab! Hang tight! 

Email me via the contact details above and I can send you the PDF if you're super keen to get one!

#healthsquee... it's a thing!

Well hello there!

I've been feeling quite unhealthy recently.

After spending my 20s on a roller-coaster of eating well, eating crap, dieting, pregnancy, binge eating, dieting etc etc etc I am quite ready to get off. It's not super fun and I've had enough of feeling like rubbish. I completed the Whole 30 recently and for the first time in a really long time I started feeling great again!

It was a timely reminder that food can be like poison but can also be the most wonderful, cheap, accessible medicine you can find. Since completing the Whole 30 I have fallen back into bad habits and have been eating way too much sugar and grabbing foods that fall into the "less healthy" category more often than not.

It has made me realise that I am someone who is really good at doing challenges but really really very NOT good at keeping the new habits going after the 30 days or 12 weeks or however long the challenge goes. So no challenges for me... no thank you..

Today I posted this to Facebook:

I have had a wonderful response from my gal-pals and a nice little network is emerging from my feeling-crapness and while I am not up for any challenges or time-limited programs I really do want to get healthy and feel better and food is where it starts for me. I need to move too of course; but for now, I need to get my eating back on track and to do that I will be documenting my eats on Instagram and hashtagging them with #healthsquee.

If this is something you think would be useful for you, please join me on my healthy adventures and hashtag away!

Do you want to get healthy with me? I'm going to make a regular feature of #healthsquee here on the blog and will be making a little Facebook support group under the same name so stay tuned folks!

#healthsquee lunchy goodness