Women's Fitness

‘THERE’S NOTHING I CAN’T DO NOW’

‘It was a photo that drove me to the Body Camp. I was sitting in my underwear on a high stool clasping my knees to my chest, beaming at the camera. The photo session had been billed as an exercise in building body confidence and though the photographer had done a stellar job with the lighting, even the arty dark shadows could not disguise it was time to clamber back on the fitness wagon. The gentle folds of flesh hanging from my waist weren’t “ugly”, I’d done with body shaming myself years ago, but they weren’t healthy either. A reminder that I’d been spending far too long sitting at a desk and had let the gym slide, kidding myself that walking to work was enough exercise for

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