All posts in category Health

General updates, maca recipes

Today is my seventh day concentrating on the following goals: Looking after my endocrine system Reducing my weight back to normal after gaining 3kg Completing four weeks of C25K Creating a balcony garden I have found that focusing on particular goals is definitely helping to accomplish more. Otherwise with my scanner personality I can get [...]

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Supporting the adrenals by going to bed before 10pm

Well I must say I have not been doing too well with this one. This is from my notebook: day 1 – 10pm – woke up full of energy at 4am! day 2 – 10:30pm – woke up at 4am again, but this time I decided to have a sleep in until 7am. Was previously [...]

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Supporting the adrenals with wise food choices, avoiding sugar and caffeine

Today is my fourth day concentrating on the following goals: Looking after my endocrine system Reducing my weight back to normal after gaining 3kg Completing four weeks of C25K Creating a balcony garden Over the last week I’ve been taking notes about sugar and caffeine consumption and how that affects the endocrine system and body [...]

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Buying and eating organic and chemical-free food in order to improve health

Ah, the weekend. Finally I get a chance to relax. Today is my third day concentrating on the following goals: Looking after my endocrine system Reducing my weight back to normal after gaining 3kg Completing four weeks of C25K Creating a balcony garden I’m making good progress on my goals this week, although I am [...]

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Reducing xenoestrogens from plastic in contact with food

Today is my second day concentrating on the following goals: Looking after my endocrine system Reducing my weight back to normal after gaining 3kg Completing four weeks of C25K Creating a balcony garden So here are some thoughts from my notebook about achieving progress in these areas. Today again I’ll be focusing on the endocrine [...]

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Balancing the endocrine system including the use of maca

Today is my first day concentrating on the following goals: Looking after my endocrine system Reducing my weight back to normal after gaining 3kg Completing four weeks of C25K Creating a balcony garden I’ll be focusing on these four goals over the next 30 days and so I’ll report my progress here to keep myself [...]

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Focusing on health for the next 30 days

“There’s not enough hours in the day!!” That is the shriek my husband has been putting up with almost every day throughout July and this week as I scrambled to do all the things I’d like to do and read about all the things that I am interested in. So, as is always the case [...]

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Jogging in my Vibram FiveFingers Shoes

One of the very first things I did when I moved to Melbourne was go shoe shopping for a pair vibram fivefingers. I’ve never really been into sports (although I do occasionally go through ‘spurts’!) but I have been admiring these shoes for some time and really wanted to try them out. I bought them [...]

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Gourmet Raw Vegetarian Ingredients – Enoki Mushroom

Enoki mushrooms are available both in plentiful supply and quite cheaply at Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Markets so today I thought I would give them a try. Added to my salad I found them to be pleasantly mild and also very pretty. I think these little mushrooms will become a staple! So I looked online to [...]

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Tasty raw greens and kale chips

My new kitchen is GREAT!! I’m working right near the Queen Vic markets so today I went out for lunch and bought a huge bunch of kale. Then with excitement at my find I bought some raw cashews and nutritional yeast and decided to make some kale chips at home. Here is a recipe from [...]

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