We have to educate our children about the value of money. We taught the kids to lodge pocket money into a post office account so they can understand the importance of saving. Like any decade, it brought with it a series of ups and downs but for me it's all about focusing on the good times. These are the songs that paved the way for many a dance-off with my kids on a Sunday morning!
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In , a Marketing Manager was appointed. Although the office-holder was not a nurse and previously worked in private enterprise, all his staff were drawn from a spectra of specialist nursing roles. In the same year, a Human Resource Manager was also employed.
Following business practices, the brief was to implement and refine the Federal ANF's newly formulated 'benchmarks' which specified performance indicators for each role within the union's organisation. The Victorian Nurses Health Program was set up in , largely as a result of the lobbying of Fitzpatrick, to treat nurses and nursing students experiencing substance abuse and mental health issues. In , the ANF Vic retained an active role in the administration of the program.
Fitzpatrick began her career in the ANF Vic in The strike brought about gains for nurses but there were divisions within the profession as some nurses were reluctant to withdraw their labour. In , however, under the leadership of Fitzpatrick, as well as forcing bed closures and cancellations of surgery, members withdrew their labour in rolling stoppages.
Nurses voted to ignore Fair Work Australia's order to suspend their action, risking individual fines. This action was effective and popular with nurses. He said, 'You need to do this. I can't do this, I don't like it. He really got me on track and on this journey of fitness. After about eight months, it was noticeable that Lisa was starting to lose weight.
People began to comment on how well she looked. This could have been a downward turning point, she says now. If someone says I'm nice, I think it's fabulous," she laughs self-deprecatingly.
Give them a hug. I really love all the attention, I really do. I'd be lying if I said I didn't. So, when people began to tell her how well she looked, Lisa was, naturally, delighted with herself, and began to believe her work was done. So, at that point, I didn't have a desire to keep going. I thought, 'Well, I've done it now. She had lost about a stone at this stage. Luckily, her trainer didn't let her quit.
To get to 10, 11 stone. I'm five nine, I'm happy at and-a-half stone. If I'm really honest, I feel my best at three.
It is hard work, and it is discipline. Nobody is ready to do this until they decide. It's a total switch in your mindset. She has a point. Losing weight isn't just a matter of healthy eating. You need to think yourself into the conviction that you can be a slim person, someone who doesn't worry about what to wear every morning.
Was there a mental jump involved, in allowing herself to believe she could be someone else, not always the larger-than-life, bubbly-but-overweight one? Because the other side of that is, I think, 'I could go back there tomorrow. I never realised how miserable I was, until I wrote the book.
How hard it was, for example, to feel so hot when you're out. My tops didn't cover my belly, which was sticking out over my trousers. I couldn't zip up my trousers. I was always covering myself. I was always layering. So I was always hot, and always uncomfortable.
And I spent the whole time getting a rash on my neck. Or feeling restricted. To this day, I can't wear a white shirt unless it's really loose, because it makes me feel how I used to feel; really restricted.
I'm conscious that I could go back there, so I suppose I'm disciplined for that. These days, Lisa sticks to a strict weekday diet, never eating after seven, always preparing her food in advance so she doesn't fall into the trap of eating badly when she's tired, and having healthy snacks — fruit and nuts — to hand.
From Friday evening, she consumes whatever she wants: bread, pizza, alcohol. I am absolutely prepared. It was at the age of around 33 or 34 that Lisa really got into her comfort zone, which she puts down to "losing the weight, age, and becoming a mother.
And feeling confident in my own skin. Looking in the mirror and actually liking myself looking back. Not in appearance, but liking who I am.
And also, I suppose, I don't surround myself with negative people. I surround myself with like-minded people. I've a very small group of people in my life. And the people I have are people I love and people I'd trust with my life. People who don't drain me. Who energise me. Because I could not believe that I was voted winner. And I took it really seriously.
Now I only care about the people I care about, and what they think of me. If somebody I love had a problem with me, I would be really upset. If somebody I didn't know very well — an acquaintance or somebody in the industry — had an issue now, I have a great ability to phone them up and ask to meet them.
And I will do a head-on. I've done it with two women in the industry. Where I've questioned the space they're in, and I've met them and I've said, 'I believe you were saying X and Y; look, I question where you are in your life that you're so negative towards me,'" Lisa says, at her most Oprah-esque. Happiness in her domestic life is the biggest cause of personal happiness, Lisa believes.
She describes her husband as her hero. And I still fancy him, so it works. We're 14 years married this year; nearly 17 years together. And still mad about each other. We often slag each other, cause we're lying in bed, holding hands. We do look like two knobs sometimes. We go out with friends, go out to dinner parties, but we watch our box sets. We love those nights; we have our little dinners together, catch up on the day.
There's definitely moments where I completely lose it, and then I'll say, 'Will you have a cup of tea? They moved in together three weeks after spotting each other in the Chocolate Bar. Lisa heard Paul laughing and saw him looking across the room, and it started from there. I knew when I met Paul that I would be with Paul forever. And he knew the same about me. We just clicked, and it worked. It was instant.
Their relationship was only improved when, eight months after the birth of their first-born, they attended a weekend course of the internationally-famed, self-help guru, Tony Robbins — a man who has coached Bill Clinton, Serena Williams and Quincy Jones, among others. I'd bought them when I was about The Tony Robbins' course changed the way I even thought about Paul. I just thought, 'You're my life partner, and I love you and I respect you, and I'll mind you.
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