Eat, Drink, Run.: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad

Having inhaled Gordon's previous two books, it didn't take me long to sprint through her third, and I'd recommend perhaps going back to her previous tomes, but it may not be necessary in this case. I adore her madcap (British humoured) style of writing, hence why it didn't take me too long to finish.

As kids, we do PE / Sport in school or outside of school, myself included - I used to swim for four hours a week at one point. It was definitely two hours of brain off mode at the time, I loved being in the water, had a six pack, long since gone and still mourn for a little. I stopped swimming however, around the age of 15-16, my mother putting her foot down for me to concentrate on my GCSEs, which actually didn't happen, I underperformed in almost all my subjects. I was dealing with my own teenage issues, and perhaps continuing with the swimming would have helped - in retrospect.

As we get older, life and responsibilities catch up with us and we become more sedentary, and whatever dramas we had as children or indeed teenagers seem to multiply. I know mine did. Having had a few mental health struggles, I never would have thought that doing exercise would indeed be the possible magic wand to solve them.

I'm lucky enough to work in a school where my students have one lesson of PE every day, and if there's any advice I'd give them in the future, it would be to find a form of exercise that they enjoy and ultimately works for them. In my case, it will never be football or rugby. For me, it would be getting back into the water and becoming the imaginary frog, dolphin or merman that I did when I was younger.

Gordon reminds us that in order for us to be healthy and indeed happier, the thing we need to do is get off the sofa and move.

Simply put, I loved it.