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The Irish Sun
a day ago
- Health
- The Irish Sun
I shed 6st WITHOUT Mounjaro in my 40s & had no loose skin – my favourite weight loss hack is free & anyone can do it
A WOMAN has revealed how she lost weight with no loose skin without using fat jabs. Claire Spencer, 44, managed to shift 6 stone the old-fashioned way, through plenty of hard work and watching her diet. 3 Claire Spencer, 44, lost six stone without weight loss pills Credit: Supplied 3 She shared her favourite way to exercise to burn calories Credit: Instagram/clairespencer001 But now, Claire has taken to social media to share the top exercise she swears by to shift weight fast, and you won't have to sign up for the gym. In the clip, Claire was seen out in the countryside with her blonde hair pulled up to a ponytail as she revealed her favourite She said: It's not all pumping iron, doing lunges, squats for England, crunches. "Do you know what is really simple, really effective and free? Walking. READ MORE ON WEIGHT LOSS "I've been on two walks today, and walking is just amazing because it just connects you with the outside world, gets fresh air in your lungs, it's amazing for cardiovascular health, it's great for your heart, it's amazing for your lungs, it's amazing for your mental health as well." Not only can it make you feel better from within, Claire said a brisk walk can help you burn calories too. Claire isn't the only person who swears by walking for weight loss and a new workout trend has gone viral on social media. The 6-6-6 walking challenge has taken the internet by storm to encourage people to stay active. Most read in Fabulous It's unclear who started the trend on TikTok, but the 6-6-6 walking challenge involves walking for 60 minutes a day, either at 6am or 6pm, starting with a six-minute warm-up and ending with six-minute cool-down. According to Lindsey Bomgren, CPT, founder of Nourish, Move, Love: " Walking after eating a meal helps regulate blood sugar , aids in digestion , and supports long-term heart health." 3 The 6-6-6 walking challenge has gone viral on TikTok Credit: Instagram/clairespencer001 I'm a 'former fatty' who lost 12 stone WITHOUT jabs - being slim means I don't have to eat in the car to avoid judgement " The challenge is meant to encourage habit formation and having a specific time of day (ie, 6am or 6pm) that signals it's time for movement," Bomgren told "But ultimately, I don't think the time of day you work out matters – it's just about consistently showing up." She also recommended using speed intervals and incline walking (going up hills) to prevent plateaus in your workout and help you lose more weight. Claire proves that the easy exercise works and the clip went viral on her TikTok account @ One person wrote: "It is great - I've been walking 10k steps a day for a few weeks and feel great for it." Another commented: "I did too!! 6.5stone gone only from walking, built up to doing two hour walks and the calorie burn was far more than gym classes I was going to." "I used to go gym twice a day!!! Then started walking and lost more fat and weight than the gym," penned a third. The 5 best exercises to lose weight By Lucy Gornall, personal trainer and health journalist EXERCISE can be intimidating and hard to devote yourself to. So how do you find the right workout for you? As a PT and fitness journalist, I've tried everything. I've taken part in endless fitness competitions, marathons and I maintain a regime of runs, strength training and Pilates. Fitness is so entrenched in my life, I stick to it even at Christmas! The key is finding an activity you love that can become a habit. My top five forms of exercise, especially if you're trying to lose weight, are: Walking Running Pilates High-intensity interval training (HIIT) Strength training Meanwhile a fourth said: "Walking is underestimated. I love walking." "It's an 80/20 balance that's all. Sounds simple but it's not. It's the mental shift that's needed,' claimed a fifth Someone else added: "I started walking with a weighted vest it's such a great workout!"
Newsroom
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsroom
Mike McRoberts puts himself in the story
Booksellers! They are the salts of the New Zealand earth, decent and literate citizens with an eccentric, slightly crazed demeanour, owners and managers of bookstores which operate as the vital end point of the whole strange enterprise of pale individuals isolating themselves in small rooms for months or years to write a book that may, with good fortune and good promotion, end up in the households of the nation—the real heroes of New Zealand literature are its booksellers, who gathered at a gala dinner on Saturday night in downtown Auckland at the annual Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards. It was a fabulous occasion, marred only by being held in a cold atrium obscurely located in the AUT campus, pretty average buffet slop for dinner, and MC Mike McRoberts, who took the opportunity to talk at great length about the forthcoming book by Mike McRoberts, as well as taking the time to remark on the children ('my beautiful daughter') and partner ('my beautiful wife') of Mike McRoberts, never once deviating from speaking with noticeable warmth and high regard for Mike McRoberts. All around the oblivious autocue jockey were people of great distinction from the cities and provinces, the A-team of New Zealand book retail and book publishing; the night, fortunately, belonged to them. There were 15 awards. They were announced on either side of chowing down on buffet slop. I loaded up my plate with ham and bread rolls, nothing else. I attended in my all-important hat as one of the judges. It was a great honour to help celebrate bookshops and publishers and book reps and book comms people—there were even a few of those pale individuals, ie authors, in attendance. I met Chelsea Winter. She wore a gold dress and glowed like a lantern. She acknowledged that I had correctly read between the recipes of her latest book Tasty when I wrote that it was her Blue Period, a melancholic, reflective cookbook; she said her next book, Nourish, was a return to happiness. That may be so but I thought I could sense pain in her eyes. No wonder she is our most loved cookbook author; Nadia Lim is all smooth surfaces, reflects the boringness of suburban life, but Chelsea has depth, sensitivity, wisdom. The soulful Chelsea Winter, connected to a really nice vine that hung down from the ceiling The function opened at 6pm. The cash bar ran out at 7pm. I arrived at 7:01pm, after wandering around nearby streets for about 30 minutes looking for the 35 Mayoral Drive address—I ran into the legendary Deborah Coddington, variously an author slash bookseller slash publisher, who said she had been wandering around for nearly an hour. Cursed venue! Google Maps was no help. AUT is a dead zone and its atrium was cold and barren, a no-vibe zone, with a sign on a wall reading BRIDGE TO NOWHERE. It was a pretty accurate mood board for the book trade in 2025. Eight bookstores have closed their doors this year. 'It's been a difficult year for everybody in this room,' said a book trade veteran from the stage. Everyone agreed. Chelsea Winter won the first award, for Tasty, winner of the biggest selling book of the year. Best audiobook went to Return to Blood by Michael Bennett narrated by Miriama McDowell, with an honourable mention to Penguin's audio adaptation of the bone people by Keri Hulme. Middle-grade fantasy adventure novel The Grimmelings by Christchurch writer Rachael King won the children's book award. Rachael accepted the award, and said, 'Can we all agree children's books are the most important books?' I do not agree. The loudest applause of the night went to book trade legend Ross Lorimer of Archetype Book Agents, who won the sales professional of the year award, with an equally loud ovation for Jo McColl of Unity Books, who won one of four lifetime achievement awards. Four! Good grief. Each recipient (the others were Karen Ferns, Bruce McKenzie, Tony Moores) was introduced at tedious length, their many years of service exactingly noted; the night sometimes felt like a funeral service. Mandy Myles of Bookety Book Books, who thanked her Mum when she won the trailblazing award. Two awards recognised fresh talent. Mandy Myles of online retailer Bookety Book Books was judged winner of the bookseller trailblazer of the year award, and Jasmine Sargent (Ngāti Porou), editor at Te Herenga Waka University Press, won the publishing trailblazer of the year award. I wrote in my judging remarks, 'It was an insanely strong field but I think Jasmine gets the edge for her intense and concentrated editing work, and her commitment towards Maori literature.' The books she has edited include Michelle Rahurahu's debut novel Poorhara, and Whaea Blue by Talia Marshall. My fellow judge Anna Burkey remarked, 'Jasmine has carved out an important cultural role, providing a safe harbour and caring for her (potentially vulnerable) authors – all so impressive, and exhibits such tenacity – very worthy of industry recognition.' The marketing and publicity strategy of the year award went to Penguin for their campaign to launch The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth and Louise Ward. I wrote, 'The marketing was absolutely faultless, and achieved all its objectives, with great verve and originality. It didn't seem to be a natural bestseller but the marketing really got this across the line.' Becky Innes of Penguin accepted the award and said she disagreed with my view that it didn't seem like a natural bestseller. I think it would have sunk like a rock without the incredible chutzpah put into it by the Wards, the premier entrepreneurs of New Zealand literature; strange they weren't presented with the award as well. Hawkes Bay booksellers, and co-authors of Bookshop Detective series, Gareth and Louise Ward. That left the two big awards of the night. HarperCollins won publisher of the year, very narrowly over Allen & Unwin. Anna Burkey wrote, 'HarperCollins had real breadth – market growth that leveraged as opposed to depended on overseas titles, the cultural commitment with Hine Toa (and how carefully that marketing campaign was executed), the shift to a NZ-based managing editor for the NZ program.' Anna was right to single out Hine Toa, the memoir by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku. That book gave HarperCollins the edge. Much of the evening was about the books that sold well and made money and did the business, which is only right and proper, but books are not taps, books are not tinned food, books are not shampoo and conditioner; a book such as Hine Toa is profound. Martinborough Books & Post won the best bookshop of the year award. Huzzah to the store's owner manager Brenda Channer. Huzzah to everyone in the room. Jenna Todd from Time Out in Auckland was there. Ashleigh Young from Te Herenga Waka University Press in Wellington was there. So was Renee Rowland from Timaru Booksellers, Jenny Ainge from Next Chapter in Wanaka, Birgitta Strattman and Nevena Nikolic from NielsenIQ BookScan, Michelle Hurley from Allen & Unwin, comms supremos Sandra Noakes and Penny Hartill—the book trade is packed with interesting characters, hard workers, crazy about books. Authors come first in the assembly line but it's others who turn their work into something real and put in the hands of the most important people in the entire fragile enterprise: readers.
BBC News
09-07-2025
- General
- BBC News
Could taxpayer-funded public diners be revived?
Campaigners have called for the return of subsidised civic restaurants which would provide cheap, nutritious meals in a bid to improve the nation's of diners were supported by the government and operated throughout the UK until the 1960s. But with many families struggling due to the cost of living crisis funding has been granted to a trial in Dundee in a drive to revive the group Nourish said taxpayer-funded restaurants - charging £3 to £5 for a hot meal - would benefit businesses and communities. Civic restaurants operated before, during and after both world their peak there were around 2,000 state-subsidised facilities offering cheap, healthy meals to the British public, including just under 100 in Castle Restaurant in Aberdeen, which opened in December 1941, served ''shilling meals'' and was especially busy at the time the Evening Express reported that, before it opened, many workers had to make do with a sandwich for the midday at the Castle they could enjoy ''a satisfying hot dinner of three courses''.The newspaper said 4,000 customers were served in the first month of operation, from factory workers to office staff and shop assistants. Prof Bryce Evans, of Liverpool Hope University, who specialises in food history, said the concept had a massive said: "They represented the first opportunity that many working class people had to eat out."Before that eating out was really a middle and upper class thing."At the same time they were designed specifically as cross class venues attractive to all, affordably priced, nutritious, but genuinely joyous spaces. Well decorated, clean and attractive, not places associated with shame or stigma''He said the original public diners marked a change from the Victorian approach of only feeding the very poor to the notion of nutritious, affordable food for all. Nourish Scotland has been running a series of discussion suppers around Scotland, developing the idea of revived public diners which would serve quality, affordable local food in communal recent event in Aberdeen served venison lasagne and sweet potato and chickpea curry with salad on the were also offered fruit crumble and custard for Chworow, deputy director of Nourish Scotland, said the events offered "delicious good quality food".She added: "We think there's a really strong case for bringing them back in Scotland, and the wider UK.''We would like to see phase one roll out in perhaps a couple of local authorities so we can understand how the model can work in practice, and the a further roll out nationally.''Ms Chworow said the diners would "feel very much like a restaurant" and the only difference would be behind the added: "With government support, the price point in these restaurants can rival that of a ready meal or a fast food chain."It's offering people good quality, healthy nutritious food - which is what people actually want to eat - but at prices that they can also afford.'' 'Excellent opportunity' for hospitality industry UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced funding for two trials of subsidised restaurants - in Dundee and Nottingham - as part of government efforts to tackle food a community market has secured funding in were concerns previous communal kitchens posed a threat to those in the hospitality Evans said: ''In Glasgow there was a big stonking national kitchen on Argyll Street and the restaurateurs didn't like it.''But some argue it is a way to improve Scotland's relationship with food, rather than a threat to their Haigh is a chef with Edinburgh Food Social, a catering social enterprise company which supports food said: ''This is an excellent opportunity for the hospitality industry and it shouldn't be seen as something that's negative for it but instead something that really allows it to thrive.''Whether you're someone who goes to a food bank at the moment or someone that goes to high end restaurants, you will go to a place where you can access a delicious meal that is nutritious and eat it together."We are bringing people together in a way that doesn't happen so much at the moment because it's a place where, no matter what you can afford, there is good food for you to eat and a place where you belong.'' Public diners address 'food insecurity' Leon Thompson, executive director of UK Hospitality Scotland, said he looked forward to learning more about the restaurant projects funded by added: "Scottish hospitality is known for its great food and drink, and venues across the sector are proud of the healthy and nutritious dishes they have on offer for consumers to choose from, as part of a varied menu."Hospitality businesses can play a unique role in helping our communities, whether it's charities like Only A Pavement Away, which helps vulnerable people into jobs in hospitality, or initiatives like Social Bite, a social enterprise which supports homeless people across Scotland." The Scottish government said it welcomed the idea as a way of supporting people who were "experiencing food insecurity". A spokesperson added it promoted a "cash-first approach" so people have "dignity and choice" about the food they buy and fewer need to turn to food parcels. They also said it was encouraging to see a 10% drop in the number of parcels distributed by Trussell food banks in Scotland between 2024/25 and 2023-24.
What's On
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- What's On
Sharjah's Tanweer Festival is back this November for a second edition
The second edition of Sharjah's Tanweer Festival is back this November, making a home in the breathtaking beauty of Mleiha Desert from November 21 to 23. After a smash-hit success debut, the unique celebration of all things culture and collectively human is offering a carefully-curated programme of happenings to get stuck into. The conception of Tanweer comes from the mind of one woman – Her Highness Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, daughter of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah – and as such, the festival flanks the same passions for art, culture, connection and global unity that she carries. Tanweer aims to unite festival goers in a beautiful synergy of understanding and appreciating the power of art, music, culture and sustainability through cultural dialogue, spiritual enlightenment, shared experiences and a global belonging. This year's theme for the festival – What you Seek Is Seeking You – is one of the most popular quotes from 13th-century poet and mystic Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a literary, spiritual and philosophical figure of such a magnetic influence that transcends borders. Rumi's disposition reflects what Tanweer is all about. He preached a Sufi way of life and living wherein one must learn to forego their affections for the material world in order to truly reconnect with the inner self and the natural world. The bigger picture is always about the community as a whole. Here's what to expect… The festival grounds have been divided into different areas, each serving a different purpose. The Main Stage will be a multisensory arena with ambient lighting, ancestral music, and mountain-side projections. The Dome is the core of community learning and will host discussions and workshops. The Tree of Life will be a serene space for gathering and reflection. For food, Nourish, the festival's culinary hub, will offer organic, farm-to-table fare including vegan, vegetarian, and traditional Bedouin-style BBQs. If you're looking to shop or take home some souvenirs, The Marketplace will feature handcrafted items, each one uniquely made by artisans handpicked for the festival. All around, immersive installations will convert the dunes into an open-air gallery. Sustainability at Tanweer Sustainability lies at the heart of the festival and remains a pillar of its ethos. The entire festival will be a no single-use plastic event with a dedicated reuse and recycle strategy, green waste composting, and zero-waste food and beverage services. Throughout the festival, visitors will be educated about the aspect of sustainability, setting a new standard for eco-friendly events in the region and displaying respect for the land that is hosting it in a bid to show that such an arrangement is possible. While you're there Tanweer is great for all the culture crawlers and art aficionados, but there's loads more to do in this part of the cultural capital. You can take guided tours to Valley of Caves, explore Mleiha's rich and fascinating history going back thousands of years at Mleiha Archaeological Centre, go horseback riding and even paragliding. Discover more amazing things to do in Sharjah with our guide here. Tanweer Festival, Mleiha Desert, Sharjah, Nov 21 to 23, @tanweerfestival, Images: Supplied > Sign up for FREE to get exclusive updates that you are interested in
Sharjah 24
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sharjah 24
Tanweer Festival returns to Mleiha in November
Visionary leadership At the heart of Tanweer Festival is the visionary leadership of Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, whose passion for cultural dialogue, spiritual growth, and sustainability inspired the festival's creation. Driven by a belief in the transformative power of music, nature, and shared experiences, Sheikha Bodour envisioned Tanweer as a platform that transcends borders, connects communities, and nurtures a deeper understanding of our shared humanity. Ambitious second edition Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi recently commented, 'We are thrilled to bring Tanweer Festival back for its second edition, and this time, it's even more ambitious, immersive, and meaningful. Last year's debut was just the beginning of a journey that resonated deeply with so many people, and this year we are building on that foundation with a richer programme, stronger sustainability practices, and an even more powerful message of unity. I truly can't wait to welcome our growing community back to the Mleiha desert to continue this journey together.' Embracing the theme This year, Tanweer Festival, which translates to the festival of enlightenment, embraces the theme of 'What you Seek Is Seeking You,' a famous quote from Rumi, the 13th-century poet and mystic whose work transcends cultures, religions, and generations. Through music and poetry, Rumi encouraged people to explore the depths of our inner selves, reconnect with the natural world, and find unity in diversity, values that lie at the very heart of Tanweer. Curated festival grounds The festival grounds are carefully curated to reflect its holistic ethos. The Main Stage will be a multisensory arena with ambient lighting, ancestral music, and mountain-side projections. The Dome acts as the heart of community learning, hosting discussions and workshops, while the Tree of Life serves as a serene space for gathering and reflection. Nourish, the festival's culinary hub, offers organic, farm-to-table dishes including vegan, vegetarian, and traditional Bedouin-style BBQs. The Marketplace features handpicked artisans offering unique handcrafted items, while immersive art installations transform the desert into an open-air gallery. Commitment to sustainability Sustainability remains a non-negotiable pillar of Tanweer Festival. It is a no single-use plastic event with a dedicated reuse and recycle strategy, green waste composting, and zero-waste food and beverage services. Sustainability education will be woven throughout the festival, setting a new standard for eco-conscious cultural events in the region. With a 'leave no trace' approach, Tanweer ensures that its footprint is minimal, proving that large-scale gatherings can be deeply respectful of the land that hosts them. A Movement for connection Returning with a more dynamic and expressive identity, the second edition of Tanweer is a chance for individuals to step into the desert once more, giving them the opportunity to reflect, reconnect, and realign through the universal language of music. This is more than a festival; it is a movement for those who seek deeper meaning, community, and beauty in a world too often divided. Experience the magic Don't miss the Tanweer Festival 2025 and get ready to experience a mystical arena where the desert sings, the soul listens, and enlightenment awaits.
