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The age old question when it comes to weight loss is what’s more important: diet or exercise? After 10 years of her hugely successful 12 Week Body Transformationm (12WBT) programme Michelle Bridges says neither. Weird, right?   In the second instalment of our two-part series with the fitness trainer and author, she shares what she’s learnt along the way and what sets the long-term wins from the short-term gains.    You can find Michelle on Instagram at @mishbridges or her 12WBT programme online here.    You can join the conversation, or drop us a question, via the Healthy-ish Australia Facebook page, here.   If you’re up for funny memes and health inspo follow Body+Soul on Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au   Or, head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. Each Sunday, you can pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A lot has changed, but a lot has also stayed the same when it comes to the diet and exercise advice that get results. Michelle Bridges has seen a lot of trends come and go, but after 10 years of her 12 Week Body Transformation (12WBT) programme, she’s got it down to a fine art. And when it comes to finding something that you can stick to, she has some sage advice.   This is the first of a two-part series so be sure to tune in tomorrow when Michelle talks mindset - and how it’s more important than how you train OR what you eat…    You can find Michelle on Instagram at @mishbridges or her 12WBT programme online here.    You can join the conversation, or drop us a question, via the Healthy-ish Australia Facebook page, here.   If you’re up for funny memes and health inspo follow Body+Soul on Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au   Or, head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness.   Each Sunday, you can pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Luke McLeod is an expert in calming the ‘monkey mind’ and during the holiday period (in the lead up to Christmas until post-New year) is often when we need a hit of mental calm the most. Luke has some practical tips on how to be more present, and how to keep those end-of-year anxieties at bay.    You can find Luke on Instagram at @luke.mcleod or online here.    You can join the conversation, or drop us a question, via the Healthy-ish Australia Facebook page, here.   If you’re up for funny memes and health inspo follow Body+Soul on Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au   Or, head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness.   Each Sunday, you can pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When you think of Keratin hair treatments, the words that often come to mind are chemical-soaked, stinky, time-consuming and well, they just sound like a lot of hard work (and money). However, there’s a new breed of treatments in salons that promise the same kind of hair-smoothing effects, with less of ALL of the above. And hey, if they promise to reduce styling time so you can get out the door faster, we thought it was worth doing some digging to find out if they’re all they’re cracked up to be…    Each Thursday, Body+Soul digital editor Alison Izzo (who, by her own admission, is no beauty expert) and Body+Soul beauty editor Kelsey Ferencak (who, is a bonafide expert with years of experience speaking to experts) get together to try and crack the everyday beauty problems that plague us all.   The treatments: Goldwell Kerasilk Keratin Smoothing Treatment, $250 - $450 depending on your hair type and salon. Find more information and a salon near you here.    Cellophanes Treatment by Sebastian, price depends on salon, Find more information and your nearest salon here.    Aveda Botanical Repair professional service, find more information and your nearest salon here.    Schwarzkopf Fibre Clinix treatment, find more information here.    You can join the conversation, or drop us a question, via the Healthy-ish Australia Facebook page, here.   If you’re up for funny memes and health inspo follow Body+Soul on Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au   Or, head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness.   Each Sunday, you can pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Everyone wants to know if they’re good in bed … but how do you tell? Samantha X is an intimacy coach and ex-escort, and in her experience she definitely found that what you think men might want in bed is very different from what they actually want. She shares her knowledge about how to satisfy not only your partner’s sexual desires, but your own, too.    You can find Samantha on Instagram at @samanthaxafterdark, or online here.    Read Samantha’s article for Body+Soul online here.    You can join the conversation, or drop us a question, via the Healthy-ish Australia Facebook page, here.   If you’re up for funny memes and health inspo follow Body+Soul on Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au   Or, head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness.   Each Sunday, you can pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It sounds nasty, but did you know that our bodies actually need inflammation to function properly? Although, it needs to be the right kind of inflammation, and at the right levels. Dr Harrison Weisinger is an expert in the area of inflammation, as well as being the medical director and co-founder of Truth Origins. Here he explains what causes it, how to reduce and why we still need a little bit in our lives…    You can find Dr Harry on Instagram at @truthorigins_au, or online here.    You can join the conversation, or drop us a question, via the Healthy-ish Australia Facebook page, here.   If you’re up for funny memes and health inspo follow Body+Soul on Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au   Or, head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness.   Each Sunday, you can pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With over 2 million followers on the internet, and a handful of very A-list fans (David Grohl for one), Nat's What I Reckon was the surprise internet hit that may have saved lockdown. Australian comedian’s Nat’s dry delivery coupled with his passion for home-cooked, simple meals (his dad used to chef at the Ritz, Paris) makes his Youtube videos like 'How to Make Quarantine Sauce' or 'Carbo-rona Sauce' or 'End of Days Bolognese’ as entertaining as they are inspiring.    His debut book Un-cook Yourself shows us more of the man behind those dead-straight metalhead locks - with the Sydney-sider sharing his life lessons coupled, of course, with his favourite recipes. Onya, champion.    You can find Nat’s What I Reckon on Youtube here, or on Facebook here.    Un-cook Yourself: A Ratbag’s Rules for Life, by Nat’s What I Reckon is available online now, here, $32.99   You can join the conversation, or drop us a question, via the Healthy-ish Australia Facebook page, here.   If you’re up for funny memes and health inspo follow Body+Soul on Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au   Or, head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness.   Each Sunday, you can pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania).   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever found yourself in a situation, you swear you never could have predicted? A situation so far from the ordinary that even remembering it feels surreal? Season 2 of I Swear I Never is publishing now, you'll hear from Peter, an ex homicide detective haunted by his past, Tina, a mum who hit rock bottom after a prescription drug addiction and Amber, a pregnant woman who went out to dinner during a pandemic and got more than what she ordered. Search I Swear I Never wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alexandra Collier is one of the rising number of Australian women who have chosen to be a solo parent. At age 39 she was artificially inseminated with donor sperm and conceived her son, Quinn on her first round of IVF. Although motherhood is, by her own acknowledgement, the hardest thing she’s done - she has also battled the pre-conceptions and criticisms that still come with ‘choosing’ to get pregnant, and raise her son alone.   Her poignant essay, first published in the Good Weekend shone a light on the judgement she faced, but also the light it has brought to her life.   You can find Alexandra on Instagram at @alexandracollierwrites and online here.    You can read Alexandra’s full story originally published in the Good Weekend, and can be found via The Sydney Morning Herald here.    You can join the conversation, or drop us a question, via the Healthy-ish Australia Facebook page, here.   If you’re up for funny memes and health inspo follow Body+Soul on Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au   Or, head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness.   Each Sunday, you can pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Each Thursday, Body+Soul digital editor Alison Izzo (who, by her own admission, is no beauty expert) and Body+Soul beauty editor Kelsey Ferencak (who, is a bonafide expert with years of experience speaking to experts) get together to try and crack the everyday beauty problems that plague us all.   You can find Aleesa Hall on Instagram at @glamwah, or online here.    You can join the conversation, or drop us a question, via the Healthy-ish Australia Facebook page, here.   If you’re up for funny memes and health inspo follow Body+Soul on Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au   Or, head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness.   Each Sunday, you can pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania).   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.