When you’re feeling low and dark Winter nights are closing in, and you’re craving not those good healthy complex carbs like vegetables and pulses, but the unhealthy white simple carbs, such as white bread, potatoes, chips, pasta, cakes, pastries and biscuits
… . Then keeping a healthy gut is super-important when you may not be feeding your gut with the best food choices. . Probiotics are live bacteria found in fermented foods. Fermented foods and probiotics are proven to help gut health which in turn create your overall healthy body and mind. . These include Kefir […]
Sunday breakfast
. Poached eggs and smashed avocado on a slice of granary toast, with chopped chillies to sprinkle on top snd some watercress snd spinach leaves. A hot water with a slice of lemon to start and an Expresso to finish. Sunday is one of the few days I have a slice of toast treat. The […]
Sun, sea and seafood
. The last day of an Indian Summer with lunch by the sea with a healthy but delicious Asian fusion mix of scallop, seabass and tempura prawn on a bed of vegetables, noodles and peanuts. . It’s so easy to eat healthily when it’s presented beautifully and tastes delcious. Its all about the flavours. . […]
This post on eating disorders ( thank you to @jayeazoff ) has many of the thoughts that I include in my UK school talks to kids ranging from age 7-17 and also their parents
. My talks include social media-the positives and negatives, body image, comparison anxieties, bullying and exclusion, mental health and all issues to do with feeling good about yourself. . I was a celebrity stylist for over 30 years and now work with private and corporate clients with lifestyle, image and life change and have seen […]
Sometimes a little of what you fancy (a slice of granary seeded toast) when your daily diet is wheat free, is better than denying yourself, craving it and then succumbing and binging
Sunday brunch starting with a hot lemon water, then scrambled organic eggs, crispy free range bacon, a slice of toast and an Expresso coffee. . . . . .
Healthy low carb and protein post workout breakfast
Scrambled eggs with organic butter, wilted spinach, and smashed avocado on seeded multigrain toast. A nutritious breakfast to keep you feeling fuller longer with less blood sugar highs and lows. 12 hours since last meal and this 1st meal of the day to help digestion. I start the day with warm lemon water and then […]
Mail On Sunday “You” magazine
From today’s You magazine, in a piece entitled “21st century problems? There’s a MENTOR for that…”
My healthy version of the ” full English” breakfast
Complex carbs take longer to digest than simple carbs helping you to feel fuller longer with less blood sugar spikes keeping your energy levels constant. Especially when you got up to work at 5.30am and feel like you’ve had a whole day by midday! 2 organic eggs (protein) fried in Waitrose bought organic butter, ( […]
Early morning beach walk time
For a healthy gut which helps you to be healthy overall, if you leave 12 hours between your last evening meal and your breakfast/brunch/first meal of the day you are giving your digestive system a chance to digest and rest. Take your exercise before this first meal of the day. 20 mins fast walking or […]
Breakfast for three on the beach- my human, her friend and me
My human’s breakfast is the healthier one of the two on the table with the poached eggs(protein) with smashed avocado(good fats) on granary toast(complex carbs-low glycaemic index that helos keep blood sugar levels more constant) and crispy bacon( protein). And an Espresso coffee The other is eggs Benedict (white muffin-simple carbs-not so good has a […]