At least once a week I get a message from someone saying: "I'm pregnant! How should I change my training programme" You don't need to change ANYTHING. In the beginning. Exercise in the first trimester doesn't increase OR decrease the risk of miscarriage or complications or birth outcomes in any way. And exercising in your FIRST trimester massively increases the chances that you will exercise in the second and third trimesters - it’s much easier to “keep going” than it is to “

There are a LOT of diets that insist that you have to cut out ALL sugar/processed foods/whatever in order to lose weight. They often work - you've probably done one of these diets yourself in the past. But the problem is - eventually, you ARE going to eat chocolate, sugar, ice-cream etc at some point. And that diet that helped you lose weight doesn't give you any instructions for how to include these foods in your normal, everyday life. So then a dichotomy gets set up in your