LMP member spotlight: Pamela Thwaite
I am lucky enough to call Pamela a dear friend and we met through LMP. From zoom classes to events in London and one in New York, I’ve got to know Pamela over the years and her warmth and kindness feels like a big cuddle even when we are just chatting over email. Thank you for being our final member spotlight of 2025 Pamela and for sharing your beautiful and heartfelt self. I have downloaded Miranda Hart’s book on Audible to listen to on my Lenny walks and am loving it so much.
“Life can change at any moment so, don’t take things for granted, take time to sit in the park with your coffee and enjoy life before it passes you by.”
— Pamela
Where are you based?
I’m from England but currently live in New Jersey, we originally came out to retake America for the Queen, but as that has obviously not worked we’ll be returning to live in England soon.
How did you discover Pilates?
About 16 years ago, I went along to a local Pilates class and fell in love with it. I was taking a class twice a week until the lockdowns, and it was then that I found the LMP platform. Whilst searching online for Pilates classes I came across Lottie’s YouTube channel. I loved her teaching style, she has such a lovely calming voice and explains all the exercises in such detail that, after taking a few classes, I was hooked, signed up, and I haven’t looked back.
What’s your favourite class on the LMP platform?
Gosh, I have so many favourites, its hard to pick just one. I really like the Essential Classes, the Reformer to Mat, the Summer Challenges and I have to mention the 24 days of Pilates that happen each year as they are just brilliant. But I think my current favourite would be Reformer Style Pilates Workout With Small Ball #263
Do you have a daily non negotiable or self care habit?
My daily non negotiable would be Pilates, an hour on my mat each morning, just for me. I also walk each morning—getting outside in nature each day is so important—and along with Pilates sets me up for the day ahead. My favourite place to walk is the Valley Gardens in Harrogate, England.
And for the important stuff - what is your favourite food or do you have a favourite recipe you’d like to share with us?
I have recently got into making porridge each morning, it’s so warming on these colder mornings as winter approaches. My husband likes his with raisins and maple syrup. I have mine with a berry compote (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, cherries) seeds and nuts.
Spicy Porridge Recipe:
50g Oats
400ml Milk, I use Almond Milk, (plus more if needed)
1 Banana - mashed
2 tbsp Peanut Butter
2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1 tsp Ground Ginger
1 tsp Ground Turmeric
Put the mashed banana, oats, milk, peanut butter, cinnamon, ginger and turmeric into a saucepan and cook stirring often until thick and creamy, usually about 10 - 15 minutes.
Delicious!
Are you working on anything personally or professionally at the moment?
Personally - I am a work in progress and I’m working on being happy in my body, it’s a slow process.
Professionally - my husband and I run on our own company. Two years ago we quit our day jobs to work on, what had been, a strictly after school project that had been bubbling along in the background for nearly 20 years. Our company, FoodDays, is an online lunch ordering platform for Schools, PTO’s, Vendors and Caterers. We decided to make a go of it and see where we ended up. We put time and effort into it and it slowly grew. But then life happened this year (I won’t go into details here), but it made us take a look at our lives and what we really wanted to do. We’ve decided that work isn’t everything and growing the company and having to take on staff is not who we are. We’ve made the decision to stop running at 100 miles an hour, and instead focus on making the best ordering platform out there for our customers. We know our customers by name, and hopefully it creates that small company feel. We’ll see how it goes but for now it feels right.
Are you reading anything at the moment?
I always have a bedtime book on the go, something fun, something that takes me away to someone else’s life, nothing too heavy. I have just started on the Christmas books.
A book I’d recommend to everyone as a must read is Miranda Hart’s “I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You.” This is her story of how she lived with an illness that no one could diagnose and how after collapsing she found ways to help herself, coming up with her ten treasures.
This book has helped me a lot this year and I have been listening to it on repeat on my morning walks, it’s just brilliant!
Do you have any advice that has impacted you and wish to share?
Not so much advice as a realisation. If this year has taught me anything, it’s that life can change at any moment so, don’t take things for granted, take time to sit in the park with your coffee / matcha latte and, enjoy life before it passes you by. Take in every moment, from the squirrels chasing each other around to the birds flying overhead. I have come to realise that being too rigid can be a burden; for example, as I eat healthy the majority of the time, it’s okay to enjoy a croissant once in a while, guilt free - life is for living! I really like this quote:
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
—Bernard M Baruch
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