What would you do in this situation? It’s possibly the scariest situation to be approached with…  In the dark, with no one around (everyone is asleep) and have two dogs look like they are going to attack you.

I have to admit, I was scared and after reading a few articles a fair while ago, decided the best thing to do was to stop and show no fear.

I didn’t really have anywhere to go, I was near the end of my run and near-exhausted, so I couldn’t outrun the dogs, nor could I back away, because from the time of me looking around to see where I could go, they were about a metre away from me.

So, my first thing was to stop and not to make eye contact. I allowed the dogs to stay near me, but not get too close. I slowly backed away yelling “Stay” to the more aggressive dog. This seemed to have some affect, as the dog did not come further to me and seemed to back off a little.

I started walking slowly away, ensuring I still noticed where these dogs were and yelling “Stay” a few more times, making sure the dogs remained at a distance from me.

I was able to get a little distance before a car reversed out between me and the dogs, and I started running away from them, only once they lost visible contact with me.

I’m sure many of us have experienced this before, and never know the right way to approach this type of experience. If we haven’t experienced this whilst running, it could happen at some time. With this in mind, I did a little research to find the best approach and found these articles:

• How to avoid a dog attack
• How to protect yourself during a dog attack
• How to handle a dog attack
• How to stay safe when a dog approaches you

Have you experienced something like this?  What did you do?  Have you got some great techniques? Post your comments below to share your experiences or advice!

Speaking from experience, it’s a combination of things that can cause weight gain.  Girls are shy because of issues with lack of confidence! This can be caused by body issues, but also teasing from peers and problems that are related to lack of confidence or teasing, such as bad grades or lack of friends.

There really is a multitude of reasons why girls can put on weight.  Simply put, to make a statement that “being shy” gains weight shows ignorance on the issue, a lack of understanding and a lack of research in finding the real cause of this “shyness.”

For example, I can choose to let people affect me, I can choose to lose weight, I can choose to be happy. In the end, it’s my choice, what I do, how I feel and how I behave.

This necklace would also be great to use, as it also allows you to see a mirrored version. What kind of affirmations do you use? Do you have anything similar to these two items at all?
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The last few days I’ve been a little unwell – down with a migraine that took me out the whole weekend. Therefore there was no cooking and very little of anything.

I did however decide that I’m back on the diet, and, back into cooking healthy vegetarian meals with calorie controlled foods. This does not mean I will be skimping out on ingredients or having tasteless meals, it will be the opposite.

The no pasta lasagne is on the agenda this week and also some healthy noodles. I’ll also be making a vegetarian biryani meal with chickpeas. All of these will be high in flavour but low in fat and calories!

Not only have the meals been planned out, but the exercise has been too! I’m going to have a think about how I’m going to track my progress online…whether I start up a seperate blog to ensure I don’t mix this blog up too much or keep it on here.
Quick links for recipes will be posted here as they come:

• No pasta lasagne
• Spicy Barbecue Noodles with Vegetarian Schnitzel
• Vegatarian Biryani

It’s been a pretty eventful week and I’m glad my diet wasn’t affected by this!

I will be planning on making some sweet potato gnocchi tonight and will have recipe and photos up shortly afterwards…cannot wait to try it!

My legs were frozen by the time I got home and maybe that has something to do with the fact it’s only 7 degrees celsius here at the moment. After heading home, I stretched and went in for a shower to warm myself up….

Here’s the run on mapmyrun.com if you’re interested:

I’m not sure why I stopped being so serious with my weight loss and getting fit? What made me stop? Why do I not have the same motivation as before?

I’m sicking of trying to find the answers and blame it on something! Rather than trying to find the answers, I’m going to do something about it and start back on track with the new me.

I don’t want to feel sorry for myself, neither do I want to feel guilty or feel bad…so a new positive outlook is now on the agenda with a new look Mel coming soon.

Until then, my exercise and dieting is back on with today’s weights already been completed this morning with another exercise session this afternoon. Calories are being counted – 1200 limit for me again.

Recipes here now will be very strictly calorie counted and most will be low in fat and calories…be prepared!

Can’t say I’m very happy, as I’m heading to the Gold Coast this weekend to go on rides, which I probably won’t be able to go on!

Least I can cook! I think tonight I will be making a Lentil and Mushroom Gratin. Recipe and photos will follow.

Basically, that’s what I did and struggled to get back to the office on time. The run is below and took me 50 minutes to do around 8km. This was with stops for traffic lights and also trying to find a street to get me back to the office:




Tonight I’m heading to hockey for weights work on my shoulders and chest then specialised training. Tomorrow is only spinning before Saturday for abs work!