It is easy to make “nutrient-dense eating” look beautiful on a Sunday afternoon. There is time to roast vegetables, cook grains, arrange berries and find the jar of seeds hiding at the back of the cupboard.

Tuesday can be different. Breakfast happens while you are checking the day ahead. Lunch depe...

At half past three, you find yourself standing in the kitchen or looking into your desk drawer for something to keep you going. Breakfast was toast eaten while checking messages. Lunch was soup, a piece of fruit or perhaps whatever you could pick up between meetings. Dinner will include chicken, fis...

Yesterday, I invited you to consider what you would like to keep, change and let go as September continues. There was one final question: what would you like the space you create to be for?

Today, I would like to begin with something you do every day, often while thinking about everybody and everyt...

What if, by the end of September, looking after yourself felt a little easier? Perhaps you would have an evening you regularly looked forward to, or a morning routine that left you feeling less hurried. You might simply notice that your own needs had begun to feature in the decisions you made about ...

At breakfast, a walk after work sounds like a lovely idea. By the time you close your laptop, the weather has changed, dinner needs thinking about and the sofa has become remarkably persuasive. You still want to feel healthier, but the enthusiasm you had this morning seems to belong to somebody else...

You hover over the booking button for the class you used to enjoy. You would like to go, yet you are already rehearsing an explanation for where you have been. Before you have even put your trainers on, you can hear yourself saying, “I've been so bad. I need to start again.”

It is a familiar little...

You open your diary to book a workout and immediately spot the problem. The space you thought you had on Thursday now contains a meeting, and Saturday is beginning to look suspiciously like another working day. You close the diary with a familiar thought: perhaps next week will be quieter.

For many...

You can be decades beyond the classroom and still feel the appeal of a new notebook in September. There is something quietly hopeful about an unused page, even if the first thing written on it will probably be a shopping list. That familiar sense of a new term can stay with us long after our schoold...

By the time you close your laptop, you may have spent the whole day being disciplined. You fitted in exercise before work and kept lunch deliberately light. Yet now you are standing in the kitchen, too tired to decide what to eat, wondering why looking after yourself seems to require so much effort....

There is a particular kind of promise you can find yourself making at the end of August. You look at the month ahead, notice how tired you have been feeling and decide that September will be the moment you finally put your health first. You begin mentally rearranging your mornings to make room fo...

There comes a point in midlife when fitness begins to mean something different. It is no longer simply about whether you can run faster, lift heavier or fit into a particular pair of jeans. Increasingly, it becomes about whether your body allows you to live the life you want without constantly ne...

Ten minutes can feel almost too insignificant to count. By the time you have finished work, answered the last email, prepared dinner and dealt with everything else waiting for you, the idea of finding an hour for yoga can feel unrealistic. So you decide you will do it properly tomorrow instead. Tomo...