Maria’s Sweet Potato Birthday Brownies

These are such a joy to devour and I had loads of fun crafting this recipe for a super special client. I was excited to celebrate her birthday as well as the incredible health achievements she has made so far. Here’s to you Maria! And all the exciting things coming your way! Base Ingredients: Toppings: 2.Continue reading “Maria’s Sweet Potato Birthday Brownies”

Strategies When You Don’t Want to Count Calories

No one likes feeling out of control with their food choices or out of touch with what their body really needs. Having a good idea of your energy needs and the ability to self-regulate your own appetite is an incredibly helpful tool for achieving a healthy weight and body composition. We’ve all heard the caloriesContinue reading “Strategies When You Don’t Want to Count Calories”

Self Regulation and Appetite

Options abound for treating the symptoms rather than treating the system. We see this in everything from pain killer medication to diet shakes to sleeping pills. We want to fix what ever is causing our pain and we want to do so quickly. Humans are problem solvers and we like concrete, quantifiable ways to measureContinue reading “Self Regulation and Appetite”

Strong and Stable. Why You Need to Train Balance.

We often think about cardio and heart health, training lower body or training upper body. We are starting to think about the need to train our balance and stability systems. Why? Real life examples of a failure of the stability system include: non-contact ACL injuries, inability to carry an awkward load or simply, a fall.Continue reading “Strong and Stable. Why You Need to Train Balance.”

Gram’s Mexi Spice

You can turn up the feist as you wish by playing around with different cayenne pepper ratios, some will be more about the garlic, some will enjoy adding a bit more smoked paprika. Simply pop into your local Gram, bulk foods store and personalise as you like from the below foundation of flavour. Simply foldContinue reading “Gram’s Mexi Spice”

Gallbladder Dysfunction

What function does it serve? The gallbladder is a super nifty organ, endowed to us meat eating, fat using mammals by evolution. It is not the ‘unnecessary’ organ it is deemed to be by those who would remove it when it becomes blocked with gallstones before trying anything else. The gallbladder stores biles that isContinue reading “Gallbladder Dysfunction”

Crispy Skin Duck Breast Ramen

The bowl that has it all. This play on a much loved, Japanese delight went down such a warm and satisfying treat. The noodles were chewy, the duck was tender, the eggs were gooey and there was a most satisfying sharpness and freshness from that cut garlic and coriander. The bowl took 40 minutes andContinue reading “Crispy Skin Duck Breast Ramen”

7 Ingredients for a Salmon Bowl

Method: Slice zucchini into thin discs and salt. While zucchini is sweating, shred your cabbage and heat a large non stick (avoid teflon) pot* to a medium to low setting. Season Salmon and place in the pot, lid on for 5 minutes. Once 5 minutes has passed, add cabbage and zucchini, return the lid andContinue reading 7 Ingredients for a Salmon Bowl