Women's Wellbeing Collective CIC

03/05/2026

Date-Sweetened Banana Bread
Prep time: 15 mins | Bake time: 50–60 mins | Temp: 160°C

Ingredients
• 3 large very overripe bananas
• 1/4 cup (60ml) Date syrup
• 1/3 cup (75g) Unsalted butter or Coconut oil (melted)
• 2 Large eggs (room temperature)
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups (190g) Whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp Baking soda
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Ground cinnamon

Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 160°C Grease/line a standard loaf pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine the mashed bananas, date syrup, melted butter, eggs, and vanilla.
3. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon together in a separate bowl.
4. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet. Be careful not to over-mix, as this will make the loaf tough.
5. Pour into the pan and bake for 50–60 minutes.
6. Date syrup yields a very moist, fudgy crumb. You must let this loaf cool completely before slicing, or it may crumble.

03/05/2026

Sweet Cinnamon & Date Syrup Bagels
Prep time: 10 mins (plus soaking) | Bake time: 22–26 mins

Ingredients
• 1 cup (200g) Red Split Lentils: Soaked for at least 3 hours, then drained and patted dry with a tea towel to remove all surface moisture.
• 2 Large Eggs.
• 2 tbsp Greek Yogurt
• 3 tbsp Date Syrup
• 2 tbsp Coconut Flour or Ground Psyllium Husk.
• 1 ½ tsp Ground Cinnamon & 1 tsp Vanilla Extract.
• 1 tsp Baking Powder & a pinch of Sea Salt.

Instructions
1. In your Nutribullet, blend the dried lentils, eggs, yogurt, date syrup, vanilla, and salt until completely smooth.
2. Add the cinnamon, baking powder, and the coconut flour/psyllium. Pulse just until combined.
3. Let the batter sit in the blender cup for 10 minutes. This allows the coconut flour to hydrate and the lentil fibers to settle into a thicker, scoopable paste.
4. Forming the Holes:
• Line your tray with parchment paper.
• Spoon the batter into 5 mounds.
• The Trick: Dip your finger in a little water and swirl it in the center of each mound to create a wide hole.
5. Bake: Bake at 180°C (160°C fan) for 22–26 minutes.
6. Let these cool completely on a rack. This sets the starches so they don’t collapse when you slice them.

Low-Insulin Pairing Idea
Try spreading these with a little nut butter. The healthy fats will further blunt the insulin response from the date syrup.

01/05/2026

A big part of the 🌱 lifestyle is movement.

Exercise on its own won’t do anything for the sustainable weight loss journey but is an essential part of the holistic route to long-term change.

✅ move to strengthen your muscles
✅ move to lower stress
✅ move to improve mood
✅ move to sleep better
✅ move to increase energy
✅ move to manage glucose, insulin and fat storage.

If you want to start a low-impact home practice, let me know and I’ll send you a YouTube link to get started 🙏🌱❤️

26/04/2026

Getting out of the city and into nature as often as possible is a priority for me. Today we spent some time with an old friend in - a long walk, sea air and a nice lunch was the perfect Sunday ❤️

23/04/2026

Ditch the scale, reclaim your power. ⚖️✨

As a coach and NLP practitioner, I see how a single number can become a barrier to progress. The scale is a blunt instrument that ignores hormonal shifts, muscle gain, and your true resilience.

With Nourish & Flourish, we celebrate the NSVs (Non-Scale Victories) that actually change lives:

🌿 Better Sleep: Waking up refreshed instead of “dreading bed”.
🌿 Digestive Health: Feeling less bloated through real, whole foods.
🌿 Confidence: Feeling stronger, more optimistic, and more comfortable in your clothes.

When we prioritise our nervous systems over the needle on the scale, weight loss becomes a positive side effect of a lifestyle we actually enjoy.

Check out the image for the incredible feedback from our latest cohort!

21/04/2026

Week 12 is a special session; it’s the culmination of all the learning over the last 3 months. Today one of our lovely participants demonstrated how to make lentil dahl and houmous and we shared it with brown rice and crudités.

The key message behind the philosophy is ABUNDANCE!🙏 Look at all the whole, real, nutritious foods we can eat that nourish mind and body, make us feel great AND lead to weight loss!!

A world away from traditional diets and

It’s not the end! We move into phase 2 now- the maintenance phase. This course at has been an absolute joy ❤️

16/04/2026

Another quick dinner to close my today.

🥦Plant diversity is a good way to get enough fibre and improve gut health

🥕 Eating your salad or crudités before carbs can reduce

🍅 Eating your veggies first can mean eating less overall as you fill up with high-fibre, high-nutrient but low calorie plants.

14/04/2026

14/04/2026

empowers women to feel in control of their

Week 11 is all about finding solutions to common weight loss barriers. When weight loss plateaus, your body feels different but the scale stays the same, or life throws you a curve ball and knocks you off course- how do you ensure that your healthy habits stay put?

12/04/2026

The third protocol is 🌱Prioritise protein and plants🌱

Variety and diversity matters as we want to nourish the microbiome with a range of fibres and .

🥕 Eat a wide variety of different plants
🥦 Eat 30+ different plants a week
🍅 Choose fruit and veg with darker skin colour
🌈 Eat the rainbow!

A plant isn’t just your fruit and veg- it’s all your herbs and spices (fresh and dried), legumes, beans, pulses, rice, quinoa, olive oil… it’s easy to hit 30 plants a week 🙏

07/04/2026

Week 10 already and we’re exploring why old habits die hard