Running out of guilt free snack ideas? This post is for you!
It’s easy to slip into an eating rut so let’s snap out of it and get creative. Here’s my Top 5 guilt free snacks – all for 150 calories or less:
Health Tips
Recipe: Breakfast Smoothie
Happy Monday! I’m delighted to share this week’s breakfast smoothie recipe. Hands down the best one I’ve made in the last fortnight:
Top Tips: How to eat more vegies
How many serves of fruit and vegetables should we be eating?
The 2 fruit and 5 vegetables rule is a good rule of thumb in general. The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating identifies the serves for adults, adolescents and children according to their age and life stage.
The recommended daily intake for adults is at least 2 serves of fruit and 5 serves of vegetables, although pregnant and breastfeeding women need to amp this up to about 4 and 6.
Here are 5 easy ways to add more veggies to your day:
Spring has sprung: Step away from the slow cooker
Spring has sprung and for many of us that means the harrowing realization that very soon, we’re going to have to slip back into swimwear.
I love the warmer weather and being lucky enough to have a beach house, the thought of long Summer days spent beachside finished off with a glass of Champagne watching the sunset makes me giddy with anticipation. Balmy nights, night time swims, kaftans and bejeweled sandals, summer dresses, Sunday sessions, outdoor training, BBQ’s, Summer salads and seafood… I love the mental picture this paints. Until that pretty picture has me wearing a bikini in it!
Recipe: Zucchini (Spaghetti) Bolognese
I absolutely adore bolognese sauce so adapting the flavours of this Italian staple into a healthier option was a must for me.
Recipe: Breakfast Smoothie
Top 5 Tips: Getting fit & healthy
For a super busy working mother I’ve made quite a few amendments in my physical life in the last six months. Having started out my professional career post school as a personal trainer and fitness instructor, the irony was not lost on me that at 40 years young I rarely exercised or made time to eat nutritious food.
I don’t think I’ll be Fitness magazine’s cover girl anytime soon, but I have learned a lot about my body and the difference small alterations to my daily routine can make.
Here are my Top 5 tips for getting fit and healthy.
Smoothie rewards from Medibank’s #GenBetter
I was rewarded yesterday with a surprise DM in my Tweetbox.
It seems Medibank health insurance’s digital marketing and social media team loved my breakfast smoothie recipe so much they decided to reward me for it.
Recipe: Breakfast Smoothie
My Journey
In January 2014 I made a conscious decision to take back control of my health. This wasn’t some flippant New Year’s resolution, I was way more committed than that. It was time to look after me.