Intermittent fasting (also said IF by the busy people) is gaining more and more traction as an approach to eating and dieting. You can clearly see this on YouTube, where doctors, practitioners, trainers, body builders and people trying to have a healthy lifestyle document and discuss its benefits.

Sometimes people ask me how I make time to write blog posts for Breaking Thirty. What works for me when I’m in writing mode is to carve out one hour upon waking up. Doing this requires some discipline as I have to get up at around 6:00am and to skip my favourite meal: breakfast.

I love personality tests because I like labelling things, including myself. Recently I took the Gallup’s “Strengths Finder 2.0” test, which is supposed to identify what you’re inherently good at.

I admit it, I follow dating coaches on YouTube. To be clear: this is not something I just picked up because I’ve recently happened to be single. I’m proud to say that I first subscribed to a dating coach channel on YouTube waaaay back in time.

I broke up with my boyfriend a couple of months ago. I’m slowly recovering and probably I’m writing this article as part of the journey. Friends and family have been key in this period. Some of them suggested I should get Tinder now.

My mum just substituted her 26-year-old vacuum-cleaner with a new one. How come can a vacuum-cleaner last longer than many marriages? Well, she made and investment back then and bought the Kobold vacuum-cleaner by Vorwerk.

On August 11th I moved to Lausanne, in Switzerland. I’m joining a cybersecurity startup only in September, but I wanted to move way earlier to have the time to settle down with no rush. This planned didn’t work… as planned.

I defended my PhD on April 24th. It’s August now. Four months have passed and I’m still here talking about it. Or, better, I’m still recovering and talking about my recovery.