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We all know the feeling... we've been really good, eating well, hitting the gym, feeling like we're on track and then it happens... we get home late from work one night and can't be bothered cooking... or we go out to that old favourite restaurant with a group of friends that aren't quite on the same wavelength … Continue reading Restaurants and Takeaways – Kelly’s tips

Stop looking at skinny people and assuming they're healthy. Or happy. I know plenty of men and women who look 'pretty good' and treat their bodies like garbage. And with that tends to come an underlying obsession with what they eat (or don't eat) and how they look.      2. Take it with a grain of salt... don't believe … Continue reading 3 things you can do right now to lose weight

Type 3 diabetes? This term has been proposed by Suzanne de la Monte - a neuropathologist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island who carried out a study on rats where she disrupted the pathway of insulin to the rats' neurons (brain cells). In short, the rats developed all the changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease. We normally associate insulin … Continue reading Type 3 diabetes? Grains, brains, insulin, inflammation… an easy to read discussion

If you can start to do a little yoga at home, even if its just a couple of times per week, you will start to feel the benefits of a regular practice on your overall quality of life. Your mobility will get better as will your ability to concentrate and also to relax. Below are some resources … Continue reading Yoga at Home: Resources for practice

1. CURRY. An absolute fave in our house and we rarely cook rice to go with it. We keep a range of Indian curry pastes and powders in the pantry to make quick, easy dinners. The veg we have in the fridge helps us decide what kind of curry we make. We also keep in stock coconut … Continue reading 5 dinners we cook (when we don’t know what to cook for dinner…)

Anxiety is a response to perceived threat felt in a number of different ways, including but not limited to: a feeling of panic or constant worry, lack of self confidence, compulsive behaviours like nail biting or substance abuse, tightening in the chest, heart palpitations, and difficulty breathing, an upset stomach, constipation or diarrhoea, general fatigue, … Continue reading Yoga for anxiety: An overview of the sympathetic nervous system

These are pretty darn good! The recipes have dark chocolate chips in them but can be made without them to eliminate the fructose. I experimented with stevia and rice malt syrup and you can definitely interchange the 1tbs rice malt syrup with 1/4-1/2 teaspoon stevia as I’ve done in the second recipe. I then played with a few flavour … Continue reading Choc chip cookies – GF

Like a lot of my meals, this recipe came from things I needed to use up. In this case some roast pumpkin and a load of cooked quinoa. Quinoa is pretty awesome – it is a complete protein meaning it contains all essential amino acids. Essential amino acids are the ones your body can’t make – you have … Continue reading Quinoa bake – GF, NF