Tag: fitness

  • When Hunger Roars

    When Hunger Roars

    When Hunger Roars: Understanding ‘Stuff-Your-Face’ Hunger in Peri-menopause For the past five years, my life has been anchored in discipline. I walked my way back to health. I learned to eat consciously. I controlled portions, understood my body, lost weight, slipped, recovered, and stayed committed. Food was no longer chaos, it was managed. Until suddenly……

  • Mission Impossible – Final Countdown for the both of us

    Mission Impossible – Final Countdown for the both of us

    Back in 1996, when the first Mission Impossible movie hit the screens, I was 26, close to 90 kilos and gradually tipping the scale past 100. While Tom Cruise was leaping off buildings and outsmarting villains on screen, I was silently battling a mission of my own — the long, slow war against weight gain,…