Posts in “Diet”
Scrambled Eggs, Grilled Vegetables And Kale
This Sunday I tucked into a quick and easy breakfast. What you eat in a morning can really set up your day I have eggs most mornings. Here is a delicious recipe of scrambled eggs, grilled vegetables and kale. Ingredients – per person Eggs x 3 Milk Any veg you fancy grilling (I used what is […]
Read articleSweet Potato Brownies & Cashew Nut Ice Cream
A couple of weekends ago we held one of our residential boot camps at Lineham Farm in Leeds. Our boot camps are based around three values: 1. Education – empowering people to understand how to make healthy choices. 2. Enjoyable exercise – Yes! you heard rightly, exercise can be enjoyable! 3. Healthy, tasty food – […]
Read articleOats Egg Omelette Recipe….My Day On A Plate
Oats are a marvellous food, and most people love them, but have you ever had them in an omelette. It sounds weird doesn’t it, but recently a personal training client made me a spiced oat and veg meal to try, it was amazing! This got me thinking what else can you do? I came across […]
Read articleBad Nutrition Advice People Believe Part 4- Everything in Moderation
Bad Nutrition Advice People Believe Part 4 – Everything Is Ok In Moderation One of the most popular pieces of nutritional advice is ‘everything is okay in moderation’ however with such a high rate of obesity in the UK it is clear it isn’t okay. For some, the idea is that unhealthy foods are only […]
Read articleHealthy Raspberry Recipes
We have been eating raspberries for the last two weeks in my house – and yet more and more fruit is ripening. I’ve eaten them raw and I’ve added them to my porridge – but what else can you do with them? Obviously I could freeze them, but then I’m still going to have to […]
Read articleReasons or Excuses?
I had an interesting conversation with one of my personal training clients recently. She said she had started relabelling why she hadn’t fit in her training or followed her healthy eating as reasons rather than excuses. I liked this approach, it meant that you could genuinely justify why you hadn’t taken postive action and highlight when you […]
Read articleHow Do Stimulants Affect Your Body?
Before you start thinking hard core drugs here – that’s not the kind of stimulants I’m talking about! Secondly, this blog has been brought about because this week I gave up coffee on the advice of my osteopath. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not an addict – I only ever have two coffees a […]
Read articleBad Nutrition Advice People Believe Part 3 – Avoid Salt
Avoid Salt Like its the Plague It’s a big thing in the nutrition world that salt is bad for your health. Most people have accepted that good fats won’t make you fat and higher protein diets won’t damage your bones, but salting your food is definitely still taboo. Don’t get me wrong it is true […]
Read articleVitamin B12 – Are you having enough?
True story…..”The blood tests you had have come back as normal, apart from your B12 level”. This is the first line of a letter I received this week. I’m not alarmed or worried, vitamin B12 deficiency is common in vegetarians and vegans – although, that said, back in 2013 40% of people were deficient in […]
Read articleHealthy Burger Recipes – Vegi vs Meat!
As I Personal Trainer, I understand the importance of a healthy, balanced diet BUT I also like to enjoy my food too! This means I like to make healthy versions of what some people would call a ‘bad food’. I’m a vegi and my husband is a carnivore so it often means I make two […]
Read articleHow to Keep Your Metabolism High At Work
A large percentage of the population have sedentary jobs. That’s not to say those people don’t work hard, it’s just that they are stationary for a large proportion of their working day. Whilst we know that our metabolism doesn’t ever stop and that we still burn calories whilst we are sat down, is there any […]
Read articleBad Nutrition Advice People Believe Part 1- Pre Workout = Simple Carbohydrates
For Quick Energy Before A Workout Eat Simple Carboyhdrates The world of nutrition is certainly is confusing and maintaining a healthy diet is difficult – it shouldn’t be but with so many contradicting ideas floating around it is! A lot of what I call bad nutrition advice is a massive contribution to poor health, increased […]
Read article‘On The Move’ Nut Bar Recipe
Having a healthy snack good to go can over a period of time, be a decisive factor in you achieving your goals, or your goals falling to the side of the road. We all have periods in our life, where meetings run over, you run out of time, or you simply have forgotten your lunch. […]
Read articleDo You Follow Recipes?
I was so impressed when google returned 126 Vegan Jamie Oliver Recipes – that I’ve made a list of 15 dishes I want to try! They range from cauliflower daal to fancy sprouts, are rated from easy to “show off”, and tell you all the nutritional information you would be interested in (fats, carbs, protein […]
Read articleHow To Reduce The Amount of Coffee You Drink
We often blog about caffeine – the pros and cons for drinking and eating it, the potential affects it has on your workouts and so on, but we’ve never really talked about how to give it up if you think you have too much! If you’re looking for ways to reduce the amount of coffee […]
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