The UNTRAPPED Retreat

Happy New Year! I have had a wonderful break from work for almost an entire month, and I’m really feeling refreshed and ready to take on 2019! I hope that you were able to rest, relax and restore as well. I have all sorts of plans for this year, centred around themes...

Season’s Shriekings

(TW - more swear words, plus an overuse of shouty capital letters. I need a holiday). It’s at the point now where I actually need to write a list of all of the diet culture bullshit that is annoying me. I’m so swamped with things to be outraged about that my short...

WW is Fake News

(*Swear warning again - sorry, I really couldn’t hold it in) They’re at it again! The bullshit artists formerly known as Weight Watchers are disguising their advertorials as ‘news!’ I‘m not exactly surprised, but CRIKEY this grinds my gears. I don’t click on articles...

The Bachelor Body Transformation Invasion

**TW - I get sweary in this post, I just couldn’t help it! Ever since The Biggest Loser’s Michelle Bridges made squillions from selling her 12 week online starvation program, reality tv shows have become a launching pad for young, plastic surgeried sexbots aiming to...

Weight Loss “Shaming”

Radio host Mel Greig recently wrote about feeling ‘’shamed’ for posting about her weight loss on Instagram, after she came across this viral meme: The woman who posted the meme is Jameela Jamil, a British television and radio presenter, model and actress. She’s...