Tag Archives: Health

New Year: New Goals?

As always, the new year is a time to think about what I achieved (or didn’t) last year, and what I want to focus on this year. Every year I make the same goals: something about fitness, something about treating myself better, and something about doing more things I love. Last year I only hadContinueContinue reading “New Year: New Goals?”

8 Week Challenge

The Project Managers at work do an ‘8 Week Challenge’ every year. This year a few of us in the Learning Design team are joining in. The 8 Week Challenge is generally supposed to be a time where you try to better yourself…whether thats mentally or physically, it doesn’t matter, you just try to beContinueContinue reading “8 Week Challenge”

Health and Wellbeing

Just recently I have been flagging a bit when it comes to my health, fitness and general wellbeing goals! Any of you who regularly read my blog will remember my post earlier in the year, A Cows Milk Allergy!? Where I discussed how I had been diagnosed as being milk allergic. Since then I’ve beenContinueContinue reading “Health and Wellbeing”

Running progress

So far I am really happy with my progress. I’m not getting faster but I think I’m enjoying it more. I think I also look a little less clunky, if that makes sense… Here is my running progress…The first photo was my very first ParkRun, reading left to right, then moving down to the bottomContinueContinue reading “Running progress”

A Cows Milk Allergy!?

For a long time now I have been struggling with feeling incredibly unwell after I eat. At first it was just feeling really groggy and slow after certain foods, and then, when I had settled down in Wellington after backpacking in 2014, I found that lots more foods were making me feel terrible. I putContinueContinue reading “A Cows Milk Allergy!?”

OPRS Appointment

Following on from my (many) appointments with the ENT, Audiologist and various other medical professionals, I was given an appointment with the ‘Older Persons and Rehabilitation Service’ Initially, my first thoughts were (in no particular order): “Older persons! Bloody cheek!”“Rehabilitation…hmmm…what am I rehabilitating from?”“That must mean things like random age related hearing loss…”“Older persons…I’m not old.”  That beingContinueContinue reading “OPRS Appointment”