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Continued Learning is Always Essential

Getting your body to optimal health is not always an easy path to follow. There are so many differing opinions by so many different experts, that it can make you want to bang your head against the wall and then devour multiple blocks of chocolate. If educated experts can't agree on what is required to gain and maintain a healthy body, how is the average person like you and me supposed to know who to believe and which path to take. My life is like one of those "choose your own adventure" … Read More

Implementing Balance in my Life

I've reached a point of such extreme and utter frustration at my inability to lose weight. I'm tired of setting a plan of good, compliant eating and then falling off the wagon by late afternoon or after dinner almost every single day. What I have been doing up until now I read books, articles, blog posts, listen to podcasts and audiobooks, all in the vain attempt to find an answer and finally get the results I'm after. My coach says I'm too smart for my own good (paraphrasing what she has said … Read More

Get These Items Out of Your House – NOW!

Disclaimer: I am human and therefore not perfect, I slip up with my eating most days (I'm improving slowly). I am also NOT a doctor, I just read ALOT - books, journal articles, blogs. I have studied at both ends of the spectrum - Science at a prestigious university and Homeopathy. I find it an interesting quirk of human nature that if something you eat, drink or inject into yourself today, doesn't cause an allergic reaction or make you keel over and die tomorrow (or perhaps the next … Read More

Health Benefits of Basil

One way I find that encourages me to include different ingredients into my diet on a regular basis is to do a little bit of research into the health benefits of the individual ingredients. Once I know that something is not only tasty, easy to cook with or include in recipes and it's got excellent health benefits, it makes my life a whole lot easier. Today's super ingredient which I have growing in little pot in my courtyard is Basil. It's very easy to grow - I'm not a green thumb at all so if … Read More

Are you an Incredible Woman?

I love reading and learning. I am an avid reader of all things health and wellbeing - books, blogs, audiobooks (for when I'm driving) and always looking to enhance my understanding of how my body works (& why it doesn't sometimes). I now have a new blog to add to my reading repertoire Woman Incredible - it's the new "baby" of my beautiful (and super trim) trainer Kat. The launch post went up yesterday and it features 29 amazing women and their opening words of wisdom. I'm really looking … Read More

Exercising Just for Fun (Finally)

I'm embarrassed to say that it's been over a year since I first wrote the post "Exercising Just for Fun", espousing the benefits of doing an activity you enjoy in the hope it will motivate you to keep up the regular exercise. I didn't take my own advice and despite a few attempts at getting started with dancing lessons (I even went so far as to sprain both ankles in June last year) I just never seemed to get around to it. Why, why, why did it take me so long to get started dancing again? … Read More

Unexpected Success

It's been just over 6 weeks now since we moved to our new beachside home. I think it was 4 or 5 days into living at our new place before I even ventured down to the beach for a walk (busy unpacking boxes), even though our house is only 3 doors away from the beach. Crazy isn't it, considering I've wanted to live near the beach for such a long time now. In the first few weeks (after that dismal effort in the first week), I averaged maybe 5 days per week of walking on the beach. Now it's become … Read More

Easing Your Way into Low Carb Living

Have you decided to change your diet but find it hard to go "cold turkey" on the foods you're trying to eliminate? I have a confession to make - ME TOO!!!! My way of eating is so ingrained (no pun intended about 'grain') in my lifestyle that I've been re-visiting my NLP training manuals and audiobooks to find some answers to implement on myself to change the way I look at food and release the hold it has over me. In the meantime, the best suggestion I can make to get started is to see … Read More

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@jonnybowden Kefir - I've read it is better for recolonizing the gut than yoghurt. about 439 days ago
Just added raw cacao to organic double cream to make chocolatey cream to go with berries & the cream has thickened incredibly-any ideas why? about 579 days ago
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Continued Learning is Always Essential

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Get These Items Out of Your House – NOW!

Health Benefits of Basil

Are you an Incredible Woman?

Exercising Just for Fun (Finally)

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