Sometimes I don’t feel like working. At all. So much so that I rather clean all the toilets of my company’s offices here in Switzerland than working. I’m aware that asking my boss to clean the toilets will only get me so far and this is why I devised another long-term strategy to fight against lazy days at work.

After the binge of the Christmas holidays, January has always been the month dedicated to detox and to establish healthier habits. Among the initiatives that I discovered as being considered cool by wannabe Instagram celebrities that I follow, there are “Veganuary” and “Dry January”.

I have been working in an international corporation for a year now and I noticed something strange pervading the corporate world in general. I’m talking about the fact that my workplace has serious intentions to become my boyfriend. And a perfect one!

Wearing sexy lingerie has always been my secret New Year’s resolution since I can remember. Reading more books, doing more sports, going to bed earlier, drinking more water… all these are legitimate and virtuous New Year’s resolutions.

All my girlfriends studying Mathematics with me at the university have officially got married… with an engineer. The combo “math girl + engineer guy” seems to work pretty well, even beyond my restricted group of friends. The girl knows the theory, the guy brings the practice.

It has been more than 18 months since I published my last blog post and many things and many things have happened in between. Surviving the pandemic was no joke and being stuck in a city where I knew nobody did not help either. How does a young woman full of vitality fill her lonely evenings with some purpose?

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.