So many clothes, yet nothing to wear. You throw another ill-fitting garment to the ground and gaze around you at your bedroom floor, littered with clothes that are either:

• Impossible to pair with anything else in your wardrobe;

• Ill-fitting, making you think: “Ugh” instead of “Yeah!”

• Dated!

Sound familiar?

“You have one new email from the Huff Post Blog Team” — my phone read. I’d been refreshing my emails, over and over again, waiting on a reply to come through about my newly ordered wedding shoes.

Not the email I was waiting for but, intrigued, I immediately clicked to open it.

Marked “Important” at the top of the email was a subheading:

“The Huff Post contributor platform is closing.”

What the actual f*ck??

Surely this is not how my loyal two years of writing for them [for free] would end?

I dabble in astrology. I’m a dabbler. Part of me rolls my eyes at tarot readings on YouTube — This can’t possibly apply to everyone watching. But another part of me thinks: Well, that does kind of ring true for me right now… weird. Daily horoscopes are not something I look at, ever. But, generalised star sign descriptions? I won’t lie — they’re usually eerily accurate. The Scorpio traits, for example? Yep, I feel seen.

I gazed up in disapproval at the colourful array of frumpy maternity dresses that had infiltrated my wardrobe since becoming pregnant. I still remember the day I’d gone rifling through my things with gleeful abandon, plucking out all my sensible, slim-fitting workwear — useless to a rapidly expanding pregnant woman. Now, I mourned their loss as I stood in front of my impractical wardrobe, mentally calculating the cost of new workwear…

I still hadn’t heard a word back from the casting agency about the movie role I’d gone for, months prior, and I was convinced it was because I was fat. In fact, it had to be that. Otherwise, I was perfect for the role. That was the very reason I was now here, cold, crying and running laps around an athletics track, at a ‘fat farm’.

Know who this woman is?

It’s Oprah Winfrey. She gave numerous television interviews with journalists, following the news that she’d been offered to play the part of ‘Sofia’ in the movie “The Color Purple” — Her dream role. Oprah credits, not only scoring the movie role, but also the success of her entire career to something we all have – a brain….

Eating takes up a big part of our day, does it not?? There are so many options available to us; do we buy a few simple things from the supermarket each day and make a meal for ourselves at work? A can of tuna, microwavable rice pouch, salad bowl..

Should you opt for the fast-food option, which always leaves you feeling bloated, moody and hungry for more

Or, should you choose something ‘healthy’ from the local cafe? 

What about a ready-made meal? Will it be tasteless and boring? Is it REALLY all that healthy?

Decisions, decisions eh?