How to overcome emotional and binge eating (+ stop obsessing over food)
Do you spend all day eating well but comfort eat when you get home? Do you eat healthily during the week only to overeat on the weekend? Read this if you know what to eat, but stress and emotional eating is getting in the way.
Healthy snack ideas to keep you feeling fuller for longer
Need some new healthy snack ideas to throw into the mix? Enjoy one of these delicious and healthy snack ideas for work or when you're at school. They are easy, healthy - and tasty.
Make sure you read this before starting a new weight loss journey (and my best weight-loss advice for success...!)
After a weekend of overeating, it's easy to say; "That's it. I'm getting back on track!" Keen to have your own body transformation (in just 12-weeks), you commit to big changes like no more junk food, no more alcohol, way more salad and exercising way more.
9 Things I Wish Someone Told me About Losing Weight
At my heaviest weight- I was classified as obese. For over 10 years, I had a terrible relationship with food, yo-yo dieting and struggling with my weight. I eventually quit diets and went on to lose 20-25kg. You can guess it changed my life in many ways...
How I Manage My Anxiety...
(Scroll down to the bottom for a summary of how I currently manage my anxiety).
Today is Monday.
For some reason, on Monday's my anxiety levels always tend to be higher. Don't get me wrong. I love my job (for the most part) and I generally consider myself a very l...
Binge-eating: 5 Crucial Things You Need To Know
For more than 10 years, I suffered from Binge Eating Disorder (BED). You see, growing up I had a pretty messy relationship with food and struggled with my weight and anxiety.
Binge eating disorder controlled my life and impacted on my self-esteem, my health and happine...
The incredibly simple trick to make healthy eating enjoyable...
Do you focus on the 'what' can I eat WAY too much. If you're like most people, the answer is yes. Can I eat this for breakfast? Does this have too many carbs? Should I eat that much fat?
How often do you ask yourself why did I eat that?
Why Healthy Is the New Skinny...
This is me wearing my favourite t-shirt! I shared the photo on the left on Dec 2014 and the photo on the right was taken a couple of weeks ago.
You will notice that I've lost weight since the original photo and I wanted to share with you my story with you so you can un...
Dear me: A letter to my 16-year-old self
For a huge part of my life, food consumed me (instead of the other way round)! I started dieting when I was 11. After a decade of torturing myself to try to lose weight, fit in and be accepted for my size, I finally quit dieting at 21.
How to Stop Emotional Eating
I used to be an emotional eater. After a long day, I would turn to food for comfort (typically in private). I'd promise myself that the diet would start again tomorrow. This went on for years and years and I was too ashamed to get help. I wish I spoke out sooner....
How to combat overeating and avoid weight gain over the holidays
NOTE: Even just adopting one of these habits can help you feel healthier and happier! During the silly season, healthy eating can get challenging! But with these simple habits...
How I Combatted Low Energy
At 17, I moved out of home to go to uni. For the first time, I had to cook all of my own food, but I didn’t really know how to cook! So I stuck to the basics – scrambled eggs, salads, sandwiches, wraps, tins of tuna and beans.
As a result, I never cooked meat. I didn’t...
Organic Choice Natural Cleaning Products: Review
I spend a lot of time in the kitchen (I think we all do) but sometimes cleaning up can feel like a chore. I also don’t have a dishwasher, so I am forever washing dishes.
There are a lot of companies that use strong chemicals and detergents in their products that isn’t g...
33 Surprisingly Simple Health Habits - that are far more effective than diets!
I get it - 'Quitting sugar' is simpler than 'eat everything in moderation'.
When you decide to quit sugar, it's simple. You follow rules . You have a list of foods you are allowed to eat and a list you are not allowed to eat. It's unambiguous. There are no blurred...
5 Foods to Supercharge Your Breakfast!
Eating a healthy breakfast is a great way to fuel a busy day, keep you energised and help prevent you from the candy coated vending machine...
When you use these 5 basics, you don’t necessarily need all the super food powders, tea-toxes or alkaline water to have a...
The 6 Worst Weight Loss Tips
There are so many dodgy weight loss tips circulating the inter-web, but here are the top 6 weight loss tips that are currently frustrating me. We all know there are plenty more, so please add the worst tips you've ever heard to the comment section on my Faceb...
5 Simple Steps to Drink Less Soft Drink
You don’t need me to tell you that having too much sugar isn’t great for your health!
When you have too much of the sweet stuff, you’ll notice your mood, energy and blood sugar levels are all over the place. When I have too much sugar, I become more anxious, irrit...
Why 'what' you eat doesn't really matter... as much as you think.
Flick open a magazine or scroll through your newsfeed and you will see that we are obsessed with what we should and shouldn't be eating.
I would know because I used to be really, really, really obsessed about food and finding out what food I was allowed to eat and...
3 Simple Tips for a Healthy Brekkie Bowl
I've always been a breakfast cereal eater.
It used to be my go-to snack when I would come home from school. My bowel works slower than a sloth so I need to keep my fibre up to help keep me regular.
Cereal fibre works some serious magic to keep us regular.
But...
5 Foods a Nutritionist NEVER Eats
Curious to know what foods a nutritionist or dietitian never eats? What foods are so bad for you that they should be exiled from your life permanently?
It's very common to see an article listing the foods a nutritionist supposedly would never eat...To be honest? I think...
