Live fully in midlife and beyond
Who you hang around with has a big impact on who you are, and who you become.
In fact Jim Rohn, the motivational speaker, once said that you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
But what does that mean?
Continue reading “Fit friends = Fitter you”
Around 4:30 every day – when I get home before dinner – I have a salt craving.
And my salt of choice is chips.
Any type of chip will do, but I particularly like Miss Vickie’s Lime and Black Pepper.
I know it’s not a healthy habit.
But it’s a habit I allow, and now I’ve learned to allow it without guilt.
So why did I decide to do this?
Well, there are 4 criteria that I’ve got to meet, and as long as I do, I’m good.
And you can apply this criteria to whatever you food you want…
Continue reading “Why I eat chips almost every day”
Here’s a post I created a couple of years ago, which I decided to share again.
With so many of you changing your meat-eating habits, I thought this post would be helpful.
Happy cooking!
Being the only vegetarian member of a meat-loving family has its challenges.
But despite that, there are just so many advantages of a vegetarian diet – including making me feel lean and clean – that I’m still going strong after 7 years.
Yay!
Now maybe you, on your road to being more aware of your health, have decided to go more plant-based but aren’t sure where to begin.
I want to share with you some easy ideas that can turn traditional meals into veggie dishes with just a few key ingredients that I always keep on hand.
The top 6 ingredients I recommend are:
Continue reading “How to vegetize your favorite meals”
What are you eating for lunch these days?
If you work outside your home full time, brown bagging your lunch can be super beneficial in many more ways than one.
The key to a successful brown-bagged lunch is to keep it plain and simple.
Because you don’t want to spend a tonne time and effort planning and preparing it.
And so I’m a big cheerleader for eating the same lunch every day.
Yup.
The same lunch, every day.
Continue reading “Making lunch plain and simple”
As a kid or young adult growing up in the late seventies and eighties, you witnessed the birth of “low-fat/no-fat” foods.
It was the beginning of the fight against fatness.
It’s when we decided that fat was making us fat.
And, on the surface, that theory sounds pretty plausible.
But hundreds of studies later, it’s very clear that fat isn’t responsible for making us fat.
Continue reading “The skinny on eating fat”
Last weekend I taught a kids’ Yoga class…
To a group of adults.
This is about the fifth year that I give this one-off class at my Yoga teacher’s studio (I introduced you to my teacher Helene in my video post “What’s a Yoga Therapist?“)
Each year, as her Yoga teacher training is coming to a close, she invites me to demonstrate kids’ Yoga to her newest batch of Yoga teachers.
Because kids’ Yoga isn’t adult Yoga.
Continue reading “Why you need more silly in your life”
Every day that you wake up (which is every day that you’re alive), you can do everything just as you did it yesterday…
Or you can start something new and change the course of the rest of your life.
Daily, you have the choice.
Continue reading “No time BUT the PRESENT”
Do you raid the fridge or pantry in the evening, after supper?
Are you looking for something to munch on as you wind down for the evening, or maybe to reward yourself for another day done?
If you do and if you are, you’ve likely got yourself a nice little evening eating habit that you use to help you relax and feel good.
However, this habit isn’t without consequences.
Continue reading “How to STOP evening snacking”
Have you noticed that your perimenopause body is reacting to certain foods?
Maybe you’ve begun experiencing things like bloating, gas, or other GI issues with foods that were never a problem.
You’re not imagining things.
Continue reading “Should you try a low FODMAP diet?”
I heard a statistic this week that blew me away.
If we assume the average person lives to be 78 years old, 26 of those years are spent sleeping.
I never thought of it that way before.
26 years is an amazing amount of time to spend on one activity!
So it stands to reason that sleep is a pretty important part of your life.
Maybe even THE most important.
And no matter how old you are, you need good sleep.
But as you get older, even though you still need the same amount of sleep in general as when you were younger, chances are you’re not getting it.
And there are many possible reasons why.
Continue reading “How’s your sleep?”