I’ve been ordering Marley Spoon boxes for about a year now, so I thought I give it a review. One of the main reasons I signed up for this service was to be able to budget the weekly grocery shopping and add variety to our family menu. A family can eat spag bol or roasted chicken only so many times a month, don’t you think? I hate cooking, so I wasn’t impress when I had
Self-care to raise your vibration Does this sound familiar? You’re feling stressed, mercury is in retrograde, the full moon is doing it’s thing and making you feel a little troppo. Nothing seems to be working well. Life is overwhelming. It’s not just one thing. It’s everything!!! I know this oh too well. It’s time to practice my self-care tip to raise your vibration. Spirituality speaking, your vibration refers to your energetic state. Holistically including your
On the 1st January 2019, Inc.com published a survey showing that the top three most common New Year Resolutions were Diet or eat healthier (71%), Exercise more (65%), Lose weight (54%) That doesn’t seem long ago at all. I don’t want to scare you all but we are almost at the end of the first quarter of 2019 (how did this happen?) and if you are like most people you are nowhere near accomplishing your
Emotional eating is a common denominator of most of us, the serial dieters, the ones who had tried almost every diet under the sun, successfully losing weight but haven’t been able to keep it off. Addressing it with these simple strategies will help you not turn into food to cope with negative emotions and achieve your healthy eating and weight loss goals. Most of you know that I recently changed career paths and I
stress, cortisol and why sometimes it is so hard to lose weight HAVE you realised that the world around us is not the same one in which our parents or grandparents grew up in, without going very far, it is not the same world in which we were born? I am 40 years old, I am an 80’s child and a 90’s teenager, media says I belong to the Generation X. We are a generation
Jumping rope is a great workout routine to do at home: it is easy to do and don’t require much investment on equipment. It will also help you burn those extra calories. A 10-minute skipping rope session can help you burn up to 200 calories!!!; this means that skipping rope can help you on your weight loss journey. We can’t ignore the fact that exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Exercise prevents health
Starting a diet is not the only part that is difficult, staying on the right path is too. First of all, I come up with every excuse under the sun to postpone the start date, and when I finally start it, it all goes well at breakfast, continues well at lunch but later in the afternoon, and I SIN (LOL!) and eat something that is not part of the diet! I remain calm saying “tomorrow
JOIN the biggest craze and achieve your WEIGHT LOSS goals. Kiss your muffin top goodbye, forever! “The Hunger Games?” Group was a private group created by a bunch of friends to share recipes, exercise ideas and keep checking on each other on their weight loss journey. They knew their metabolisms and understood what exercises and meal plan worked with their bodies; they just needed to challenge each other, keep themselves accountable and share some inspo for
*Updated on 14th October 2020* You are at work and your boss emails you asking for something urgently. “I need this by yesterday” sort of email! Oh, gosh no! You feel your energy levels dropping, your heart racing, and stress taking over. “Quick,” your body says, “give me something with sugar! I need quick energy for my fight or flight response!”. Or maybe there’s no trigger but the habit of having the cheeky chocolate in