Refine Your Design

03/08/2024

I always love it when I discover new reasons to justify my coffee obsession🤣☕️☕️☕️

There are many touted health benefits of drinking coffee, but be warned: some people are super sensitive to caffeine and find that it skyrockets their anxiety, disrupts sleep and causes gastric reflux and heart palpitations.

For others - drinking (particularly) black coffee has plenty of positive effects on health and longevity including reduced risk of cognitive decline, protective factors against cardiovascular disease, increased energy and mental performance, reduced inflammation, increased metabolism/ weight loss and even promotion of good gut baccteria!

Article here:

It'll benefit your gut health, brain function, and more.

15/02/2024

Are you drinking enough water? 💦🤔

Feeling grumpy, stressed or fatigued? 😮‍💨
Experiencing with headaches or constipation?
Is your skin lack lustre?
Struggling to lose weight? 🙋‍♀️

It may be a simple concept, but when you consider that our bodies are at least 60% water, and is essential in regulating several physiological functions, it is a no brainer.🌊

Water affects almost every physiological process- including memory and cognition, mood, gastrointestinal health, kidney health and more.

Water plays a role in aiding metabolic process and helps burn body fat (and this is independent of caloric intake).🤸‍♀️

Optimise your water intake for a cheap easy boost to your over all health 👌

Aim for 35ml/kg/day

Water, an essential nutrient, is fundamental for life and plays a vital role in regulating several physiological functions in the human body. This article explores the importance of water and hydration on your health and wellbeing.

22/12/2023

Wishing all my past, current and (future!) clients a very Merry Christmas!
😘🎄

20/12/2023

Treat your body with the respect it deserves and not like a rubbish bin this Christmas!
😉🎄

It is easy to get carried away in the festive cheer, to have eyes bigger than your belly at the buffet table, or to feel like you are missing out if you don't try every dessert on offer. 🍥🥮🍰🧁🍨🍧🍭

Try listening to what your body is telling you and don't ignore your hunger and fullness cues.

You'll feel much better for it 👌

18/12/2023

Making an effort with breakfast and getting a good nutritious start to your day can make all the difference in providing energy, focus and motivation to get you going.

Swap out the toast/muffin/cereal and choose something full of vitamins, fibre, protein and good fats.

17/12/2023

TAKE TIME BETWEEN CELEBRATIONS TO RECALIBRATE AND GET BACK TO BASICS

The week leading up to Christmas doesn't need to be one long party. Just because you completely blow out with what you eat at one Christmas party doesn't mean the entire day or entire week has to be the same. 🍡🥂🍾

There are 3 meals in a day. 8 days left until Christmas. That's 24 meals. Say you have 6 Christmas events between now and Christmas day. That still leaves 18 meals for you to make better choices. 😉👌

Try and do a mini detox between festive celebrations: avoid sugar and stick to good basic whole food nutrition: clean protein with lots of veggies and minimal whole carbohydrates like rice or oats. Try not to snack between meals. 🥦🍗

You'll feel better for it and enjoy the Christmas treats even more, without needing to do some huge overhaul to your diet in the New Year to make up for it. 🎉🎄

06/11/2023

Love this cute little poem about sugar that a friend wrote and posted on Facebook (has given permission to share)...

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Sugar

Sugar is a cruel foe
Addictive as co***ne
You may escape it’s grip for days
But then get caught again

The memory of the sweetness
May lead you to go seek
But what you put into your body
Will leave you feeling weak

Pretty golden wrappers
Or bright colours - draw you in
But they are just a decoy
For the poison that’s within

A hangover in the morning
Expect if you indulge
And your folly will be evidenced
By an ever growing bulge!

Holidays and birthdays
Are when “sugar” makes its debut
Weakening your immunity
You may end up with the flu!!!

Sugar! Sugar! Sugar!
It seems you’ve played with me for years
Innocent toffees as a child
Are now weight, grogginess and tears

May this poem clearly expose you
For the enemy you are
And again I choose to banish you
From my heart, my house, my car!

🤭

02/11/2023

Enjoyed connecting with like-minded doctors at tonight's event on Medicinal Cannabis prescribing. It is something I've prescribed to patients for a couple of years now and for many it had been truly life changing.

31/10/2023

What I ate today- 3 simple, anti-inflammatory, whole- food meals.

High in omega 3 fatty acids.
Low carb. Low sugar.
Easy, delicious, satisfying, perfect balance of macros for my body 👌

(forgot to include that I had 3 black coffees plus an apple and some mango with breakfast and lunch).

What are you fueling your body with to get through YOUR day?

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26/10/2023

What you eat forms the FOUNDATIONS for good health.

No amount of pharmaceutical medications, vitamins or nutritional supplements can make up for the damage being done to your body by eating foods that are pro-inflammatory, or those promoting insulin resistance, gut issues and allergies.

Get the food right and you have a strong foundation on which to build an amazing state of wellbeing.

Supplements, medications and other health and wellness modalities are merely adjuvants to this; food is KEY and should be your FIRST AND FOREMOST FOCUS whether you are healing from a serious chronic health condition, or simply wanting to optimise your current state of health and bodily functioning.

You MUST give your body the RIGHT fuel if you want it to function optimally.

You can't put diesel in a petrol car!

I help my clients to do all this by generating them an individualised food plan designed SPECIFICALLY for them based on their body's needs. The results have been nothing short of remarkable.

DM me to find out more, or comment "thrive" below