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Running for Beginners: Everything You Need to Start Running
What to Eat Before and After Running: A Beginner’s Guide to Fuelling Your Runs
The Best UK Parkruns: From A to Z
Running vs Walking: Which is Right For You?
Master the Treadmill: Top Tips for Beginners to Get the Best Results
Running Shoes vs Trail Running Shoes Explained
How Running Makes Me My Own Best Friend – A Guest Post
Your Guide to Starting Couch to 5k Successfully
High weight capacity treadmills & running machines – 2026 edition
Ways to Boost Energy for Running
5 Treadmill Mistakes May Be the Reason You’re Not Losing Weight
Five reasons to try Parkrun this week
Exercise calorie calculator – How many calories did I burn?
Are you working out and gaining weight instead of losing? This is why!
The best running workouts for weight loss
Running…10 tips for starting to run
How to Prepare for a Marathon in just 6 months
Five Top Tips for Beginner Runners

Hi, I’m Jen, and welcome to my little space on the internet. After losing 10 stone and learning that health is about much more than the number on the scales, I created Just Average Jen to share healthy recipes, honest advice and real-life experiences without judgment. My goal is simple: to help you become your own cheerleader and build healthy habits that work in real life. Read my story

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Just Average Jen is an independent Healthy Recipes, Weight Loss and Wellbeing blog and the Slimming Recipes shared are in no way connected with any weight loss plan and no contributors have been trained by them or worked for them. It is the reader's responsibility to check Slimming World syn or Swip values, WW points and any other allowances themselves as those given are approximate. All recipes are unofficial Slimming World recipes, suitable for Weight Watchers, Noom and other diets. SWIPS is a registered trademark of Slimming World. This site is not affiliated with Slimming World.

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