It has been a long school holiday period and a short week to start the school year. You will be forgiven for not being organised on the lunchbox front. It’s not just school kids that need a balanced lunch. It is just as important for those managing a busy work, study or sporting schedule to […]
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Love coffee? Me too. Anyone who knows me knows I absolutely love coffee. I am a coffee snob, loud and proud. It is a shared love that my partner Ryan and I have developed, a long with meeting café dogs and food, but I digress. I was initially late to the coffee party. It wasn’t
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I use my social media platforms and blog to share my wisdom, knowledge and personal experiences to help others. In an effort to be as relatable as I can I believe it’s important to not only share the incredible highs in my life but also some of the lower moments. For females low body positivity
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Change your focus During my many attempts at low carb diets, clean eating and everything in between I found one main focus which took over my life- weight. These diets put so much emphasis on weight and how I look that it became an obsession. I began weighing myself weekly, checking the mirror to see
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Understand your bodies triggers and manage these to be the best version of yourself each day The next step and one that really helped me to begin to develop my healthy relationship with food is recognising when we crave foods and what triggers us to binge. In my previous post I touched on different scenarios
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Recognising your bodies cravings and eating habits The next chapter for developing a healthy relationship with food is to understand your bodies needs, cravings and your eating habits. It’s not as simple as knowing what you crave but truly knowing when, where and how you eat. By recognising times when you do and do not
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When I started this blog I wanted to share my experiences with food and my knowledge of nutrition. One of my key interests is helping other develop a positive food relationship. In my teenage years I had terrible body image and relationship with food which resulted in continual FAD diets and binge eating. It wasn’t
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Rest and recovery is an essential part of any training/life schedule, and something I will admit I struggle to do. This year I have spent 28 weeks on placement, and in between that have completed assignments etc and trained 7 days a week. I can often feel the effects of my hectic life but instead
With Christmas Day just one month away the silly season has well an truly started, with Christmas parties and end of year dos popping up every weekend. These times of year the abundance of food, alcohol, late nights and long days at work finishing up your years work, can take a toll on the body.
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When talking to friends/family/anyone, once they discover I am a dietitian they always ask me what I am eating, and somehow the conversation flows to what they eat, and 95% of those conversations end in ‘healthy eating is just so hard!’. That I can agree with, but only in a sense. Healthy eating is hard