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A Nutritionist Tips to Beat the Winter Blues

20.2.2019
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Lifestyle, Nutrition, weight loss, Women's Health

Years ago, when I didn’t understand about the connection between my mood and the foods I ate, I would struggle with the winter blues. By this time of the year, I would start to feel rather low energy. This affected my motivation to do things such as get out there, get fresh air, and socialize. As a result, I would spend my days going to work and then going home and crashing. With low energy and feeling unmotivated, I would put together a high-carb dinner and munch on chocolate almonds while watching TV (glad to report this was before the Netflix days :D). This was also the time when I struggled a lot with my weight. I wanted to lose weight but my habits were hindering my...

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Re-thinking New Years Resolutions and Our Health Goals

24.1.2019
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Habits, Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Uncategorized, weight loss

I love the feeling of a new year and the possibilities it brings! And while I don’t set New Years resolutions anymore, I have a natural inclination to go inwards and think of aspects of my life around which I want to reflect upon and make some changes throughout the year.   As human beings, we naturally want to reach higher and sometimes a challenge is exactly what we need to discover just how much we’re actually capable of. While I’m all for supporting people in setting goals for themselves, I find many of us simply set goals that are unrealistic. This eventually takes us back to square one, yet with a greater sense of frustration, disappointment and failure. This is particularly common among those of us...

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Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?

25.1.2017
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Habits, Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Absolutely! A healthy diet includes eating breakfast each morning, preferably within 1 hour of waking! People who eat a healthy breakfast are more likely to: Consume more vitamins and minerals, and less fat and cholesterol in their diet (1) Have better concentration and productivity throughout the morning Have better control of their weight Lower their risk of coronary heart disease (2) Don’t currently eat breakfast? I encourage you to start.  Here are a few tips that may help: No appetite? Try a cup of warm lemon water first thing upon rising.  This will prepare your digestive system for your next meal.  When your body is primed, your appetite will follow. Start small. Once your body grows accustomed to eating breakfast again, your appetite will return. No time? Prepare food the night...

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Healthy Habits: Ensuring Your Success

16.1.2017
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Habits, Health, Lifestyle, Motivation

HAPPY NEW YEAR! It’s my first post of the year, website like this and honestly, help I’m not sure where January has gone.  As such we are long past setting New Year’s resolutions and long past failing them.  Myself included!  What I want to talk about today is successfully changing our behaviors and how making new healthy habits can be fun.  To do this we first need to understand the what, this why and how of habits.  Keeping this in mind I will outline some simple steps to take to help make 2017 a year of positive change.  Finally, I will leave you with some closing thoughts on empathy and how this can be the motivation you may have been missing. What Are Habits? Habits...

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