Marcy Garden Massage & Bodywork

22/05/2026

24/04/2026

Dinner's over. The dishes are stacked. The couch is right there.

You tell yourself you'll get up in a few minutes. Then the next episode starts. Then the next. An hour later you're horizontal and your blood sugar peaked without you noticing.

That ten-minute window after dinner is the most wasted opportunity in metabolic health.

Here's what your muscles can do that most people never learn. When they contract, even gently, they open channels that pull glucose directly out of your bloodstream and use it for fuel. They don't need insulin to do it. They just need movement.

A 10-minute walk after eating can lower post-meal blood sugar spikes by 20 to 30 percent. And here's the part that surprised me. Three 10-minute walks after meals improve blood sugar control more than one 30-minute walk at another time of day. Same total time. Completely different result. Because timing is the variable.

The sweet spot is within 15 to 30 minutes after eating. Wait an hour and the glucose management window has mostly closed.

And it does more than manage blood sugar. A post-meal walk lowers cortisol, activates the vagus nerve, supports digestion, and improves sleep quality by balancing glucose before bed. You come back calmer, clearer, and less likely to reach for a snack out of habit.

The fix is one walk after one meal. Start with dinner. Ask someone to come with you. Ten minutes. No gym clothes. Just the door and whoever says yes.

This is the 23rd article in my A to Z of Diabetes series. W is for Walking After Meals.

Read it below 👇️

Share this with someone you'd actually like to walk with after dinner tonight.

16/03/2026

31/12/2025

Wishing everyone a happy healthy 2026 . I love these words…

On the stroke of midnight tonight, you can resolve to be better, if you like…
to be fitter,
to eat cleaner,
to work harder.

On the stroke of midnight tonight,
you can resolve to become a whole new you,
if you so choose.

Or, you can take a moment to acknowledge what you already are.
Because it’s a lot.
You are a lot.

And you deserve to be truly seen.

On the stroke of midnight tonight, perhaps you could congratulate yourself, for coping.
For breaking, again,
for rebuilding, again.

For catching the stones life has thrown at you,
and using them to build your castle that little bit more beautifully.

And if you have used those stones to block yourself in for the ‘heal’, perhaps you can realign them this year. Make a grander gate, not a higher wall.

You have endured, my friend.
Through times you thought unendurable. You did.

And I don’t see the need to resolve to become a whole new you,
when you are already so very much indeed.

Happy new year.

You made it.

Now let us face another 365 day-turn, arms wide…
accepting, embracing and ‘seeing’ one other,
for all we truly are…

breaks and all.

Donna Ashworth

18/12/2025

08/12/2025

Just back from an amazing experience in Costa Rica, learning fantastic Erik Dalton Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques with the Dalton gang and a fabby group of therapists from all over the world. A wonderful life changing and enriching experience in so many ways. This bodywork course has been one of the top two I’ve ever been on…and being in Costa Rica tips it into 1st place!!
Dalton Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques

03/12/2025

One of the many amazingly effective techniques I’m learning in Costa Rica!

30/11/2025

Awesome view for learning ❤️

30/11/2025

Off to a great start on my working holiday!

27/11/2025

Parasympathetic nervous system kicking in ☺️😎