The motivation gap

Imperfection, momentum and the stories we tell ourselves when things slip

I eat like this alllllll the time, and also always have perfect nails 😂

I had a feature in the Telegraph at the weekend about Owning Your Menopause, the programme from fitness trainer Kate Rowe-Ham that helped ease my symptoms of crash menopause. In it, I was up at 6.30am doing strength training, eating a protein- and fibre-rich diet (even persuading my children to eat black beans, which frankly deserves a medal), and enjoying the kind of serene evenings where I do yoga with my eight-year-old and everyone is inexplicably calm.

Since it ran, I’ve had endless messages, emails, DMs - all variations on a theme.
Gah, this is exactly what I need to be doing.
I was quite good at strength training for a while but I’ve really let it slide.
I’d love to do something like that, but I could never keep it up.

So I think it’s important to be honest about the fact that, this week, I have done precisely zero strength-training sessions. Despite still having access to the programme. Despite knowing how go…