‘tis the season – and also the weather – for a cozy fireplace. But unless your office has a fireplace (lucky you), you’ll be heading to your local coffee shop to recreate that feeling.
And what better way than drinking yourself warm with a fancy holiday latte, hot chocolate, or mug of mulled wine?
But be warned, [...]
How’s the liver-loving campaign going? Bought (and eaten) your first pack of mince pies already, washed down with brandy butter and some mulled wine?
Studies have shown that 50% of the average annual weight gain is most likely to be gained in the six weeks between mid-November and Christmas. So we’re about one week in to [...]
This week we come to the last of the seven types of hunger…. Heart hunger.
We associate certain foods with particular memories and the mood or emotion that the memory evokes. Therefore the memory of special times infuses foods eaten at that time with warmth and happiness. For example, many people long for foods that they’ve [...]
Mind hunger is based upon thoughts and is influenced by information we take in from our senses – particularly our eyes and ears. Typical mind hunger thoughts include:
‘I should eat more protein’
‘I deserve some chocolate today’
‘I should drink 1.5 litres of water a day’
Mind hunger is often based upon absolutes and opposites [...]
Having a healthy relationship with food and eating mindfully, means being able to turn our awareness inwards to listen to what our body is telling us it needs. Listening to our instinctive needs is the basis of tuning into cellular hunger.
As babies, we have an instinctive awareness about what we need to eat, but as [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, there are only 51 days till Christmas. Now, that freaks me out a little bit (and I’m not just referring to all those upcoming over-indulgent client lunches, dinners, parties, mulled wines and mince pies).
And if you are freaked out, just think about your poor digestive system and liver, which will [...]
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