Best Health Blogs

We love reading our favourite health blogs. From weight loss to fertility, women's health is such a varied subject area it makes sense to bookmark a few blogs to get some 'real woman' opinions and practical advice and tips. Here are our bookmarked health bloggers – why not have a nose?

For body shape

Where Are My Knees?
Whether you're trying to fit back into your pre-pregnancy jeans, get fitter or just eat a bit more healthily, this blog is for you. What we love about it is that it's updated so much, thanks to the fact it's run by five bloggers all with varying goals and methods of losing weight. Some great guest posts too. Brilliant.

For fertility facts

Womb for Improvement
Written anonymously by a 35-year-old woman going though IVF, this blog is about her experiences of infertility and the process of trying to conceive. She doesn't have a self-pitying bone in her body, and her posts are as witty as they are heart-breakingly honest. A must-read, whatever your baby situation.

For reluctant runners

Lazy Girl Running
Lazy Girl is just like us. She's not an exercise freak or evangelist – she just decided to start looking after herself and getting a bit more exercise. So she bought some trainers – and the rest is history. She says the blog was started to give her friends and family a break from hearing about every detail of her running – we're glad she did, because it made us start too. Thank you, Lazy Girl.

For sane cancer chat

Chemo Chic
We defy you not to fall in love with Jessica Jones and her witty, down-to-earth perspective on surviving breast cancer with style. She started the blog as a way of coping with her diagnosis, and although it continues to offer practical advice on everything from diet and beauty to style and wigs, it's also about Jessica herself, and thoroughly inspiring to boot. We love her.

For bumps and babies

Two's Company. Three's a Family
We're saying bumps and babies because Christina, previously an infertility blogger, is now a pregnancy blogger – and is soon to be a mummy blogger (or mommy blogger, as she's in the US). We're excited, simply because through her trials and tribulations we've been rooting for her so much. We can't wait to hear the big news...

For super foodies

Welsh Girl Eats
The Welsh Girl, as she calls herself, is passionate about healthy eating – and particularly raw and animal-free food. She's found that to manage her irritable bowel syndrome, gluten-free/low-gluten and vegan works best for her, but she's refreshingly un-preachy. Instead, she just says what she likes, posts lovely recipes and shares warm, humorous chat. Your new vegan pen pal.

For real relationships

52 First Dates
If you haven't started reading this yet, it's OK, we're only just over halfway through. The author, a confirmed singleton, decided earlier in the year to get over her fear of dating by setting herself a challenge: to go on one first date a week for a year. She reckons that after 52 weeks – and 52 dates – she'll have met The One. Join her for the ride, so to speak. Compulsive reading.

For age defiers

Formerly Hot
American writer and pundit Stephanie Dolgoff's blog is a hilarious commentary on how society sees you as old – just because you're not 21. It's also a poignant reflection on ageing, and she sensitively observes everything from her body, her looks, the way she acts and the way people act towards her. Fascinating and insightful.

The full healthy monty

Keeping Healthy, Getting Stylish
If all your friends are wine-guzzling gym-phobics who think Skips are a balanced breakfast, then meet Laura. She's vegetarian, loves healthy food, keeping fit, and trying to look good. She's also budget conscious, and likes chatting about her home and fashion finds as well as sharing fab recipes and fitness tips. Your one-stop healthy lifestyle shop.

For booty banter

Girl With A One-Track Mind
Zoe Margolis began writing this blog six years ago, and it's since become a phenomenon – and rightly so, as it charts the (very) detailed ins-and-outs of Zoe's sex life. "I decided to write about sex in my blog because I felt that the feminist and female-centred perspective is missing from mainstream media", she says. The blog became a book, and Zoe's posts are now more from the perspective of a 'sexpert', but you can still read the archives – compelling stuff.