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EASY LIKE A SUNDAY MORNING - Resting, getting some exercise, worship. . . and a few chips
Katy McGuinness



LIKE everyone else, I'm on a perpetual quest for balance in my life . . . balance between work and family and between discipline and indulgence. I love my work helping people to achieve weight-loss and better health. I find it very fulfiling and feel that I am genuinely making a difference to my patients' quality of life.

On the other hand, when I am very busy with the clinic and radio interviews and the television work that I do, I sometimes wonder . . . like every working mother, I'm sure . . . if I should give up my job and concentrate on being a better mother to Evan and Christofer, who are 11 and nine. I asked them a couple of weeks ago what they thought, and thankfully they said I should stay at work.

We do try and make up for our busy working lives by taking big family holidays as often as possible. We were in South Africa, where my husband, Wyatt, is from, for a few weeks at Christmas and had a wonderful time.

Sunday is a day when I try to limit work encroaching on family time. I try to have a lie-in, usually till around 10 or 11, and I might even have a small Irish fry for breakfast. The boys love bacon and eggs and sometimes they'll bring Wyatt and I breakfast in bed. It's hard to resist so I make it my naughty day and manage to be disciplined the rest of the week.

Then we make sure that we get a decent bit of exercise. Either we go for a mountain bike ride together or Wyatt takes the boys out in our Hobie and I go for a run with Nera, our little girl.

She's a one-year-old Rottweiler and I got her so that I'd be forced to take her out for a run every day. I go for longer on Sunday to make up for the fry. We've all fallen in love with her and now she's another member of the family. We're thinking about getting another dog because she has been such a positive addition to our lives.

I am a Christian . . .Protestant like most people from Finland . . . and we try to get to church on Sunday but we don't manage it every week. If I don't go, I try to make up for it in other ways.

I do think it's important to make time to find guidance in the spiritual sense.

Every few weeks we'll go out somewhere for lunch.

We go to places like TGI Friday that are child . . . friendly. A few chips don't do any harm once in a while.

Otherwise I'll cook. I love to cook and I'm quite proud of the way that we eat at home . . . delicious healthy food, like vegetable parcels and sweet potatoes, on the brai (South African barbecue) or a stir fry. It's important that I practice what I preach.

In the afternoon we all have our chores . . . homework, school projects, house repairs . . . the usual stuff. We tend not to go out on Sunday evening as Monday is my busiest day at the clinic and I need my wits about me. We might watch a family movie, but I'm sorry to say there are very few nights out at Lillie's Bordello, more's the pity.

Shape-up Weight Management Clinic, 01 2827500;www. shapeup. ie




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