Eat Your Way Back To Health

Pause …and breathe in green,  Cherry trees and magnolias, evidence of spring!

Do you look forward to warmer greener days like I do?

The aromas of new life are emerging and moods begin to lift giving inspiration to look good, feel fresh and lively. Just immersing oneself in nature strolling quietly in the spring sunshine amongst natures’ ready pharmacy often awakens past memories of carefree joy. When in a relaxed mood the body finds an inner calmness, a great antidote to stress.  Even the smell of freshly cut grass can awaken sweet past childhood memories of fun and laughter.  Ever noticed how children love space especially in Mother nature?  They run around wildly, with no worries loving everything that surrounds them, noticing the little things like a fallen branch, or stopping to pick up a bright yellow dandelion head, or pausing to hear a bird in full song on a nearby branch of a tree.  They no longer have a need for material stimulus or future expectations.  You can see how free and content they are when you look into their excited eyes. Children are good at letting go and loving each moment as though it’s their very first experience. 

So take yourself to a beautiful place in nature. Pretend to be a child again!!

Being alone and quiet is a great way to find feelings of freedom.  The hum drum of noise whether it is cars, people or television can be lost and forgotten –at least for a while..   Time out is essential for creating space in our minds. Hidden and new inspirational ideas creep into awareness more easily, sometimes answers to a difficult problem or perhaps an amazing new idea may spring to mind.

If we allow ourselves to breathe in the sweet spring scent and notice the sight of new seedlings popping out the ground it reminds us of the earth’s potential to provide boundless new growth. Beautiful plants flowers and trees flourish without effort.  The natural rhythms cycles and seasons of Nature can so easily be taken for granted.  The combination of the sun giving warmth, the light of day giving energy, the water from rainfall giving moisture for germination and hence potential for rebirth.  This combination is essential for the life of any living organism.  Including us!!

However we can survive with much less, but do we want to just survive? Or, do you want to live with high energy fantastic health, true love and happiness and thrive?

I believe we all want one thing…  to live with a smile on our face and be truly happy”!

Health and happiness go hand in hand, so let’s start with introducing more health onto our plates.  Remember the qualities of “greens” mother nature has every nutrient available to sustain abundant life you only have to look around!

For more life, try this recipe;

Karina’s Chard kick!

Lots of chard leaves chop or shred finely
Red pepper
Medium red onion
Dressing
Handful walnuts- finely chopped
1 juice of fresh lemon
Pinch cayenne pepper
Cold pressed Flaxseed oil
Chopped fresh rosemary
Clove garlic

Mix all dressing ingredients together and massage into shredded kale and chopped onion and pepper leave to marinate for a couple of hours.

Season to taste and enjoy!

Are you ready to bin the fad diets and get serious about your health?  Let me know if you want greater energy and join me on one of my food lunches/dinners and try some glorious delicious meals.  See for yourself how easy and quick food preperation and eating can be!  Subscribe for free to my monthly newsletter by going onto www.eatyourwaybacktohealth.co.uk

Check out my learning lunches for those of you that are ready to be inspired to have healthy food prep fun in the kitchen!!

Your local healthy food and nutrition coach

Karina x

“Add years to your life and life to your years”.

karina@eatyourwaybacktohealth.co.uk

01482 868094
07983819350

Messages about healthy eating start to get boring and confusing. One day this is the best food, another day the facts change  about that food so no wonder we become blase about all the information out there!
 
They say that diets don’t work! But why? Do you ever wonder what it really takes to change habits of a lifetime and become that natural slim self you once were or crave to be.
 
As I have experienced changing anything is not easy.  If it was, there would be no such thing as going on a diet.  Personally the word DIET suggests ( for a short period of time or temporary)problem being is understanding what’s going on for us when we succumb to foods that we are trying to stay away from. When we purchase that packet of chocolate biscuits or open the fridge door for more food, what makes us take that action?    Understanding our motives is the answer. If we are not aware of our motivations and our relationship with food then it is nearly impossible to achieve our health goals.
 
 The majority of dieters cannot keep their weight off because their eating habits are linked to their emotions.  The word e motion means “feelings in motion.”
Sometimes life throws up problems and a great way to make us feel better is to halt that difficult e motion with an unhealthy food. You do feel better but not for long! Feel good hormones move into the blood stream where the fight or flight response is activated.  our underlying emotional cause is covered up but instead results in yo yo blood sugar disturbance and before you know it the vicious circle of cravings take us on a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows!
 
This kind of eating can be triggered by any form of doubt, anxiety, anger, guilt even things that we don’t register as stress in our lives.  We eat for many reasons, we eat when we are happy, we eat when we are sad, we eat when we are scared, we eat at celebrations, and when we want to cheer ourselves up, the list goes on.  However rarely do we eat through real hunger.

One way to help resolve these obsticles is by unleashing our hidden concerns to somone we trust. By releasing them from our mind and body creates a powerful way to let go needs to suppress inner conflicts through poor food choices.

Many of us hold ourselves back because we dont want to become a burden but silence does not help anyone solve problems. to ask for help shows great strength and proof of the will to persist in spite of pain or difficulty.

Start the year by being honest with ourselves. letting go of hurts means you will no longer have the need to use food as an emotional crutch.

We all respect people that are open and I believe the true road to health is by knowing ourselves.

Need help with this? call me, Karina 01482 868094  mob 07983819350

Want to Get your life back!!

If eating vegetables made you feel fantastic energized and shed those extra stubborn pounds easily would you be game enough to eat vegetables for one whole week?

Vegetarian Week is from the 24^th -30^th May! That week could be the beginning of a whole new you!

All vegetables contain high amounts of vitamins minerals and fibre, proteins (amino acids) and antioxidants.

The most precious component is chlorophyll which I call the blood of the plant. It takes up pure sunshine and traps it to give life and energy for growth and it’s only when you eat it and it is broken down that this energy is released.

Nature has provided us with a pharmacy of highly nourishing food, “whole foods, Vegetables are whole. They have not been interfered with, changed added to or taken away from so they are living and keep us alive.  Dead foods don’t! Instead they rob the very life from your body.

Sunshine make you feel happy energized and gives you that feeling of being glad to be alive. But when the sun ‘don’t’ shine you feel deflated and unmotivated and for many of you especially in winter SAD is a common problem.  .

The foods that provide the most sunshine (I call it liquid gold) are the green leaves as they carry the minerals magnesium iron, amino acids and antioxidants. Cruciferous vegetables like cabbage broccoli, radishes, kale and chard are incredibly powerful healing foods known for their strong anti inflammatory properties.  Cabbage is rich in beta carotene, folic acid, vitamin c, gluthamine – an amino acid essential for great digestion.

Broccoli is a food full of calcium, selenium, potassium, and organic sodium plus the chlorophyll rich magnesium and iron.  Try this recipe for a nutrient rich raw salad.

Broccoli and cabbage salad

1 head large broccoli- make sure it is organic and as fresh as possible. And use the stalk too!

1 small spring cabbage
Sunflower seeds(that have been soaked)
Dressing
3 x Clove garlic
Chunk of ginger
Good pinch Turmeric
Good pinch Cumin
Avocado
Red Chilli
½ jar Cold pressed olive oil/flaxseed
3x tbspns or appropriate for your taste Organic apple cider vinegar
Juice 2 x lemons
Ps this dressing can be left in the fridge for a week or so.
Finely chop broccoli and cabbage

Whizz up all dressing ingredients in a blender or chop by hand and shake in a jam jar – lid on of course!

Just think of the strongest animals in the world, elephants, gorillas giraffes buffalo, and horses they eat vegetation a source of proteins and minerals abundant in plant form. They don’t get their nutrients by eating flesh from other animals!

Take a closer look at what the big food industries media and pharmaceutical companies are doing, it s up to you to really see through all the hype and find the truth. The only way to know is by experiencing and experimenting yourself…

Try it may 24^th -30^th May 2010

Bin the fad diets and get serious about your health

Change your life, take control, if you need me to help you make that shift towards a fit healthy high energy toned body.

You do deserve it.

Call me!  Karina   DNN MBRCP

01482 868094
mob 07983819350