the skinny bitch blog

  • Skin in the game

    by Shiwon Green
    Money is a powerful motivating factor. Do you know what is even more powerful than money? Losing money. There is a published study that shows that ...

  • Willpower is limited. Don’t waste it.

    by Shiwon Green
    Every day we are faced with a multitude of choices. Every choice we make takes energy to consider, even fleetingly, the consequences of our decisio...

  • We’re all different and we’re all the same.

    by Shiwon Green
    When the galloping housewife decided to train as a nurse, her cousin rang her and asked her why the hell she wasn’t going to med school. She had th...

  • how to love yourself

    by Shiwon Green
    If there was one thing you could do to improve your life, it would be to learn to love yourself. To actively practice self-love. Self-love and self...

  • Diet is a four letter word.

    by Shiwon Green
    The galloping housewife is well known for her potty mouth. 10 years of working in A&E will do that to you, along with raising two brilliant, bu...

  • 4 lessons I’ve learned from my horses about staying in shape

    by Shiwon Green
    Eat little and often.  There has been much study done about the necessity for a horse to always have access to forage and the dangers of an empty s...

  • Easy does it

    by Shiwon Green
    If anyone has been in the galloping housewife’s space for a while and especially if you’ve signed on to the Skinny Bitch Code, you’ll know that she...

  • What you should give up eating

    by Shiwon Green
    After a couple of years of cruising along, two years of a global pandemic, some additional stress caused by *waves hands in general direction of th...

  • Fat? It's not your fault.

    by Shiwon Green
    As the galloping housewife sat watching the news recently, she was distracted from the socio-political commentary by the appearance of the people b...

  • She can't do it for you

    by Shiwon Green
    The most popular request the galloping housewife has, by numbers of email received,  is writing a diet and exercise programme for a galloping house...

  • Get in the shape FOR your life

    by Shiwon Green
    Get in the shape for your life.   No, the galloping housewife hasn’t lost the plot and her ability to structure a sentence with it. She means exact...

  • A very, very, bad idea

    by Shiwon Green
    Something has the galloping housewife riled, skinny bitch, and as usual she’s going to rant about it.   If you live in the UK and you’ve been out f...