Women Like Us - Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs

Women Like Us - Setting The Table - Pills, Plateaus and Pina Coladas

Who doesn't love a cocktail?  Can we still have them when we're trying to be healthy?  Well Mandy and Ellen think so.  Today we also discuss what some medications do to your body and how to push past the dreaded plateau.  Also Mandy makes a pledge....can she stick to it??

Women Like Us - Setting The Table - Moving The Body

Do you like exercise?  Mandy loves being the centre of attention at the gym and Ellen walks as much as Forrest Gump.  Today we talk to Dr Caroline about ways we start exercise and stick to it....because apparently doing it once is not enough.

Women Like Us - Setting The Table - Feeding The Mind

Today we talk to Dr Caroline West about how our mind plays tricks on us when it comes to telling us who we are and what we can achieve.  Mandy and Ellen don't have that problem - they think they're a lot better than they actually are already!

Women Like Us - Setting The Table - Feeding The Body

In our second episode of Setting The Table, sponsored by the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, we talk about what to eat, when to eat it and how much.  Mandy and Ellen tell us what they eat - it's not the right stuff, how much - always too much and try to learn to be better! 

Women Like Us - Setting The Table - Thinking Differently

In our first episode of Setting The Table, sponsored by the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, we delve into the murky waters of the huge weight loss industry and how if affects women in particular.  Mandy and Ellen talk about their experiences in their own hilarious way, and call up Dr Caroline West to sort fact from fiction.

Women Like Us - Wrath

What makes you angry?  Do you sweat the small things, or save it up for big ones?  Mandy finds it hard to get angry, whilst we find out that Ellen is angry a lot of the time and loves giving people the finger.  This week - the final episode of The Seven Deadly Sins Series - Wrath.

Women Like Us - Greed

Are we inherently greedy people?  Are any other animals greedy?  Are Ellen's twins identical and how did they find out if they were?  Does Mandy have a christmas list...oh yes she sure does.  Get greedy and listen twice if you like!

Women Like Us - Envy

In this, our fifth instalment in the Seven Deadly Sins Series, Ellen states early on that she doesn't think she is an envious person.  Perhaps she changes her mind at the end though, with some gentle prodding from Mandy.  Mandy admits she's envious of people with nice cars and easy lives, Ellen tells the story of the time she was assaulted over a karaoke deal.

Women Like Us - Sloth

In this episode Mandy and Ellen talk about what it means to be a sloth, the "pooh corner" in Mandy's house, they remember a house they went to where they wouldn't let the kids drink from cups, and Ellen tells the story of her engagement to Alex and how she gets him to do stuff around the house.

Women Like Us - Pride

This week, Mandy and Ellen discuss what pride is, and the horrible things it makes you do.  Is pride always a bad thing?  Ellen is a serial banner of shops and her pride stands in her way even when she has to go to the next town, and Mandy talks about the one and only grudge she's ever held.