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Trust Your Inner Wisdom (and break free from Dieting)

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 20, 2014 / Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss

The Wisdom of Dieting Who’s been on a diet before – lost weight, regained weight and done the whole thing over again? The word ‘diet’ has evolved over many years of experimentation. It used to summarise your daily assortment of nutrients or food intake, but over the years ‘diet and dieting’ have become more about restriction, starvation and deprivation. When we don’t like our reflection, especially those thighs and that stomach, we tend to blame our body and put it on a diet. When we have no energy and feel bad about ourselves, we often think we’re not trying hard

How to make the most Tastiest Healthy Basil Pesto (Recipe)

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 16, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Basil Pesto Recipe I LOVE making my healthy pestos and dips! Who needs the unnecessary oils, preservatives and sugars in commercial dips when it’s so easy to whip up your own and bump up your nutrient intake. I just love being able to walk out the backyard and pick from our ever-growing herb and vegetable garden and mix them with some beautiful cold pressed macadamia, coconut or olive oils, nuts, seeds, apple cider vinegar, garlic, citrus juices and good old cracked pepper and sea salt…. YUM! Even though it takes time and devotion to keep nurturing your garden, the rewards

Do You Have to do This at Parties?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 6, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making, Self-Care

Do you BYO Gluten-free to a Party? Over the weekend we spent time in Brisbane celebrating a close friends 40th Birthday. Turns out, my gluten-free dairy-free double layer Coconut Chocolate Cake was a delicious lifesaver for a Celiac guest at the party. She had brought her own container of fruit salad and drank several mugs of tea while others drank alcohol. She politely thanked and refused every single tray of food (mostly fried pastry assortments) that came around in front of her. She smiled with patience every time, never getting annoyed or frustrated, even after the dozenth time she was offered a serving of gluten.

This One Thing Can Change Your Life

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 2, 2014 / Benefits of Meditation, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Wellness Coaching

Change Your Life With This One Thing It has always amazed me how the Sun has an ability to not just warm my skin, but blanket me in an invisible sense of positivity, joy and gratefulness for being alive. There are so many small yet significant occurrences that happen around us every day, just waiting to provide a little more happiness, purpose and ease in our lives, if only we’re paying attention. It’s in these little moments of awareness, attention and acknowledgement, that we find some of life’s precious lessons: When a loved one smiles at you and let’s the

Taking Action Creates Wonderful Opportunites

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 17, 2014 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Holistic Health, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive change

Believe In Yourself Last Friday I received a phone call telling me I’d been nominated for The Chronicle Trilby Misso Community Hero Award… and I was AWARDED it!!! I was so surprised, much humbled, and deeply grateful to have my work recognised within my own community. This surprise news was quite timely, as recently I have overcome some long-held limiting beliefs and significantly invested in myself and my business by enrolling in Entrepreneurial Business School. I had wanted to do it for the last three years but always found excuses and reasons as to why I couldn’t or shouldn’t. (Not good enough syndrome).

Do You Feel Safe in Your Body?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 14, 2014 / Body Image, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

That weighty feeling Who’s been on a “diet” before – lost weight, regained weight and done the whole thing over again? I’ve tried numerous diets over the years and a few methods I made up myself. But nothing ever truly worked until I learned to listen to my thoughts and understand what my beliefs and fears were saying to me unconsciously, continuing to trigger my fat storing hormones. What’s the difference between losing weight and regaining, and losing weight and staying there? It’s our emotional, mental and spiritual experience of whether we feel “safe” at a lower weight and comfortable

FREE ONLINE SCREENING “Lose the Stress, Lose the Weight”

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 8, 2014 / Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Stress Management

Lose the Stress, Loss the Weight It’s here! The online world premiere of Jon Gabriel’s newest documentary film, so I wanted to be sure you didn’t miss out: Watch Now! World Premiere of Tapping for Weight Loss (online for 10 days!)* “Lose the Stress, Lose the Weight,” is a powerful film created by Carol Look, Jon Gabriel and 12 remarkable (and brave) volunteers who are struggling with stress-related weight gain. In my professional and personal experience, stress is the #1 issue we all need to work on to achieve weight loss and well-being long term, so I can’t think of a more effective approach than learning stress management tools you can do at home (alongside

How to Stress Less & Love Yourself More

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 6, 2014 / Confidence, Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Mindset, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Stress & Release We are such creatures of taking everything personally and feeling the weight of hurt and pain, rejection or worth. I love Anthony Hopkins philosophy that it’s none of my business what other’s think of me. The problem is I didn’t know that as a teenager and took EVERYTHING personally. Until a few years ago, well into my thirties, my mind and body was filled with the anguish of thinking I wasn’t good enough, pretty enough, and especially not thin enough… I ended up spending the majority of my life creating my own internal stress and contributing to my

Lose the Stress and Lose the Weight

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 4, 2014 / Body Image, Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Mental-Health, Stress Management

Mind-Body Weight Loss If you’re stressed out, worried, fearful or lonely, the impact on your health is immediate and the hormonal imbalances created are the same imbalances that cause food cravings, which also lead to weight gain. This stress, tension and fear might be a demanding job, a hectic family life, an abusive spouse or any of the millions of emotional challenges we all face in life—but the biochemical result is the same. Your hormones become imbalanced, your food cravings increase, and you’ll very likely gain weight. As time goes on, your cortisol levels rise, your blood sugar sky-rockets, your

What Works When Dieting Doesn’t

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 27, 2014 / Body Image, Confidence, Eating Disorders, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Dieting Disasters It annoys and saddens me when people ask, “So what diet do you follow Viki?” Let’s be clear: I DON’T diet. I spent years dieting and it got me nowhere. I tried diet after diet. I was hungry, miserable, tired, cranky and didn’t really learn much at all about myself, my body or why I was eating the way I was, to get to that point in the first place. Following a plan was challenging because I wasn’t allowed to be in control. I had to follow what was laid out in front of me and make myself adhere

Gluten Free Grain Free Dairy Free Bread Recipe!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 24, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Wellness Coaching

Don’t Miss Out! I’m a huge believer in never feeling like you’re missing out, especially when it comes to food and food intolerances. It’s simply a matter of finding a way to enjoy similar foods in a healthful way for your individual biochemistry. Foods that your body thrives on! Let’s take bread for example. So many people are showing intolerances to wheat and gluten these days – two things found in many common foods that add bulk to your meals. Below is a fantastic recipe from Tania Hubbard of Gluten Free Grain Free Co. for a small, nutritious, dense bread

Chocolate Cashew Cheesecake with Salty Caramel & Choc Sauce

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 22, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making

Decadent AND Healthy! My parents were big on entertaining and hosting parties when I was growing up. We’d often have large groups of people in our backyard and patio indulging on the delights of 80’s finger food and flans. There would usually be a spread of colourful desserts like lemon slice, custard slice, chocolate éclairs, chocolate tarts, lemon tarts, fruit salad, jelly and ice-cream, trifle and of course, cheesecakes! Even though it would be many years until I connected the dots between dairy and the immediate phlegm, biliousness and sick feeling – like you’ve swallowed something well past its’ due

Take positive steps forward and climb mountains of fitness

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 9, 2014 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Wellness Coaching

Move it or lose it This morning we challenged our fitness climbing Tabletop Mountain, on the Toowoomba range, for the fourth time in a week. spokeconsulting.com/statistics/loans for unemployment benefits Last Saturday morning. Wednesday morning. Friday morning. And today – Sunday morning – the first time with the children. Last Saturday’s effort was the second time we’d ever climbed this local historic mountain. The first time we climbed it in 2011 was memorable, and not just because we left the water in the car! Rather because: 1. We took the children (slow & dramatic!) 2. It was before Beloveds knee surgery when his

Benefits of Blending Your Greens for Vitality, Health & Wellbeing

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 4, 2014 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Wellness Coaching

Super Greens! Ok, be honest with yourself now. How many percentage of leafy greens, vegetables and fruits do you eat in a day? A week? What percentage of your nutrient intake is processed, packaged, refined and tinned or loaded with fat, sugar and salt? Just allowing yourself some time to consider what you’re actually eating and putting into your body can be a realisation that your eating habits and choices perhaps aren’t so healthy after all. Depending on whether your diet is predominantly full of leafy greens, vegetables and fruits or packed full of chemicals, toxins, fat, sugar and salt, you

The Most Important Message You’ll Read Today

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 1, 2014 / Body Image, Confidence, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Positive Psychology, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Wellness Coaching

The Inside Job Do you ever look in the mirror and make a point of finding something positive about yourself – instead of only seeing the bits you don’t like and want to change? So many people wait for the right moment or circumstance before they allow themselves to be happy: “When I’m thin, I’ll be happy. After I’m married, I’ll be happy. When I’m driving that car, working in that job, feel like I deserve it… then I’ll be happy.” How would you like to: > look in the mirror and love your reflection? > feel positive about yourself and your life?

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