For years, the holiday season used to fill me with dread. With mountains of food everywhere, I worried about what it would do to my waistline. I was convinced my fitness would suffer and stressed about how I couldn’t stop myself from gorging on chocolate. Here are four tips to relax and enjoy food this holiday season…
(Guest post on Brainz Magazine)
Read MoreIs it possible to be too healthy or eat too clean? A few years back, I didn’t think so. In fact, it was my life’s mission to be as healthy as possible, to look after my own and my family’s wellness. After all, I thought, food is medicine. Nothing wrong with that, right? My orthorexia started with good intentions…
(Guest Post on Elephant Journal)
Read MoreBurn it to earn it! As the holiday season approaches, it’s worth considering how helpful (or true) this message is… Should exercise feel like punishment for eating a bar of chocolate?
Read MoreDo you skip through meals and rush through your food? Maybe you eat lunch at your desk, mindlessly munching on a sandwich whilst you catch up on emails? The problem with mindless eating is that it’s easy to disconnect from the experience making it harder to tune into your hunger and fullness signals…
(Guest Post on Complete Wellbeing)
Read MoreThis article was an interview between Maria Angelova and me. It was initially published on Medium and it’s my take on the 5 things that should be done to improve and reform the health and wellness industry.
Read MoreWhy can’t I stick to my healthy eating plan? I hear this often in my coaching practice.
It’s easy to blame willpower, or the fact that we "didn’t work hard enough." But the truth is there are many biological and psychological factors at play.
Read MoreAfter my youngest was born I wanted to “get back on track” and this slowly morphed into a rigid eating pattern where I’d given up many foods for the sake of “health”. Only it wasn’t healthy – I was constantly tired and it impacted my mental health.
(Guest Post on She Owns It)
Read MoreAs it turns out, the pregnancies I had in my 30s triggered a new eating disorder. Only this time it was more insidious because I had no idea that what I was doing could be disordered…
(Guest Post on Your Tango)
Read MoreA few years back I wanted to “get healthy” and lose my baby weight. I knew I didn’t want to fad-diet-my-way to a slimmer body because that had previously been unsustainable for me, so I was looking for something different. This was when I discovered “wellness” and I jumped on the “clean eating” bandwagon…
Read MoreWords are powerful. Perhaps more powerful than you’d imagine. Whilst you are healing your relationship with food and your body image, these food freedom affirmations can help you.
Read MoreFor five years, sweets never passed my lips. I avoided all processed sugar for the sake of my health and was determined to never ever eat sugar. I’d bought into the whole “sugar is poison” concept but never took the time to look beneath the alarming headlines about how sugar is slowly killing us all.
(Guest Post on Elephant Journal)
Read MoreIf you’re anything like the vast majority of the population, you started this year with one of these goals as a top priority: “get in shape”, “lose weight”, “get fit” or “get healthy”. I get it. For the longest time my Januarys started with a rigid healthy eating plan to get back in shape and lose the holiday bulge.
(Guest Post on Pick the Brain)
Read MoreAround this time of year, I used to start becoming really conscious of “bikini season.” Whether I had a summer holiday booked or just the fleeting thought of getting out the summery tops, either way, I’d cringe. I knew that it was time to jump on one of my detoxes so that I could feel happier about exposing my skin.
(Guest Post on Elephant Journal)
Read MoreHave you ever felt guilty when you ate dessert? If you said yes, it’s no surprise – just think about the way we speak about desserts. They can be a guilty pleasure, a cheat or a treat, they are sinful. We learn how to satisfy a sweet tooth with no regret, or we learn how many minutes at the gym we need to “burn off” the calories. If you’re someone who’s felt guilty, here’s three tips to help you take the guilt – and stress – out of eating…
(Guest Post on Zig Verve)
Read MoreWhen I was a child, I watched my mum dieting—a lot. It wasn’t just my mum. This was the 90s and everyone seemed to be dieting those days. Food and diets were a topic of conversation whenever my family got together, bemoaning those “last few kilos,” my aunts trying to “be good” … It was constant chatter.
(Guest Post on Elephant Journal)
Read MoreDo you feel like you’re addicted to sugar? It’s like you’ve got persistent sugar cravings and each time you start a box of chocolate you Just. Can’t. Stop. Maybe the cravings got so bad that one day you decided to banish all sugary foods from your house, or tried one of those “30 days to kick the sugar habit” diets.
(Guest Post on Complete Wellbeing)
Read MoreDo emotions drive your eating? Sadness, boredom, exhaustion finds you at the bottom of a tub of ice cream, wondering how you got there. Maybe you’re so accustomed to using food to drown your feelings, that each time you’re stressed you gravitate towards food. The urge is so strong that it seems uncontrollable.
(Guest Post on Pick the Brain)
Read MoreI started dieting when I was just 16 years old. A combination of being bullied at my previous school, along with some unsolicited comments about my body, sent me into a negative downward tailspin of hating my body. It was back in the days before social media, so I grabbed all the magazines I could to learn how to change my body.
(Guest Post on A Lust for Life)
Read MoreI used to obsess over healthy eating, and I mean OB-SESSSSS. I spent virtually every waking moment thinking about food. What should I eat today? Is there too much sugar in that? What will I eat when we go out next week? Should I claim that I’m allergic to gluten?
(Guest Post on Tiny Buddha)
Read MoreWhen you go out for a meal, are you constantly worrying about the calories, amount of carbs, or the impact of dessert on your waistline? Or are you more likely to enjoy the company and conversation over a meal, whilst hardly giving the food a second thought (except maybe to savour the taste)?
(Guest Post on The Purpose Fairy)
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