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Exercise! How to begin

Thinking of getting into exercise? Congratulations – your body will thank you in so many ways, it’s ridiculous! 

Some of the benefits of exercise are:

  • It helps to maintain healthy bones, muscles and joints
  • Increased ability to perform physical work
  • Increased range of motion or flexibility of joints;
  • Improved symptoms of anxiety and depression
  • Improved sense of well being;
  • Increased muscular strength;
  • Improved sleep patterns and levels of anxiety.
  • Reduces the risk of dying from coronary heart disease and of developing high blood pressure, colon cancer and diabetes.
  • Helps control weight, develop lean muscle and reduce body fat.

I haven’t met anyone yet that doesn’t want their body (more…)


Is sleep that important?

I’ve just had a recent run of obscure work times which has left me in a similar position to being jetlagged. It’s 2:46am…. and I’m wide awake!

After working well into the night for several days in succession, followed by a return to morning work, I’m now well and truly in a pattern of poor sleep habits. Returning to a normal routine is not an easy thing to do, and I’ve often wondered about the effects it has on my body.


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In my current situation, my lack of sleep is partly self-inflicted: I choose to work in my profession after all! The structure of hospitals and shift work is also partly to blame – how to you keep a hospital staffed 24 hours a day and be considerate to the sleep needs of staff??

Regardless… I’ve struggled with (more…)


Feel fresh in the morning!

I’ve never really been a morning person (despite a couple failed attempts!) – I love that time of the night when the kids are in bed, the house is quiet.. you can do whatever you want! Spend hours online… watch a dvd… read a book… whatever.

This has become a bit of a problem by the time the morning rolls around – I’ve actually had mornings where I’ve hit ’snooze’ 5…6….7 times because it’s been too hard to get up.


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Obviously it’s not so bad if there’s nothing I need to get up for on that particular day, but if I’m working or have some other early morning commitment, it can be a real drag! People end up coming up to me at work with such helpful comments such as “gee, you look horrible” or “are you ok? your eyes are bleeding!”.

So I started a little trend where I would tell myself “get into bed at a decent hour”… or at least around midnight instead of 1, 2, 3am (on days where I needed to get up the next day). But most times (more…)


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