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There is a particular frustration that many women begin to notice in midlife. You are eating reasonably well, perhaps exercising more than you did ten years ago, yet weight seems easier to gain and considerably harder to lose. Your waistline may be changing, your energy can dip after meals, and food...
You step onto the scales and the number is almost the same as it was a few years ago. Yet your favourite trousers feel tighter, the waistband of your work clothes sits differently and there seems to be more softness around your stomach than there used to be. It can be particularly confusing when you...
There is a particular kind of frustration that can arrive in your 40s and 50s. You are not eating dramatically differently, you may still be walking, exercising and making reasonably healthy choices, and your working day may look much the same as it did five years ago. Yet your clothes fit different...
There are days when something relatively small seems to hit much harder than it used to. An email arrives with the wrong tone, a meeting does not go as planned, or someone asks you for one more thing when you already have too much to do. You hold yourself together at work, but later find yourself un...
You may technically finish work at five or six o'clock, but when does your body actually finish? You close the laptop, yet your mind is still running through tomorrow's meetings. You prepare dinner while replying to a message, sit on the sofa but check your email because you suddenly remember someth...
You have been tired since lunchtime. By six o'clock, you are counting down the hours until bed and telling yourself that tonight you will finally have an early night. Yet when the house becomes quiet, something strange happens. Instead of drifting naturally towards sleep, you seem to wake up again. ...
You close your laptop, walk through the front door or finally finish the last call of the day, and almost automatically head towards the kitchen. Perhaps you pour a glass of wine while making dinner, eat a handful of crisps while deciding what to cook, break off a piece of cheese every time you open...
You have eaten dinner. You know you have eaten enough. Yet twenty minutes later you find yourself opening the cupboard looking for something else. Perhaps it is chocolate, toast, crisps, biscuits or cheese. You may even stand there thinking, Why am I doing this? I cannot possibly still be hungry. Fo...
Cortisol has become one of the most talked about hormones in midlife. Scroll through social media and you could easily come away believing that cortisol is responsible for your changing waistline, your 3am wake ups, your cravings, your tiredness, your anxiety and almost anything else that starts fee...
You are getting everything done. The meetings happen, the emails are answered, the family is organised and somehow you keep all the plates spinning. From the outside, you probably look perfectly capable. You may even tell yourself that you are coping because there has been no dramatic breakdown, no ...
When you think about ageing well, you may picture staying mentally sharp, travelling, remaining independent and continuing to enjoy the life you have worked hard to create. What you may not immediately picture is yourself doing squats with a kettlebell or pulling against a resistance band.
Yet the ...
You know strength training would probably be good for you. You may even have a pair of dumbbells tucked away somewhere, a resistance band in a drawer or a gym membership you genuinely intended to use more often. But between early meetings, commuting, deadlines, family commitments, meals and everythi...
