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60+ Healthy Chocolate Delights Recipes – My NEW eBOOK!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 11, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Hormone Balancing, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making, Workshops

MY BRAND NEW EBOOK! Do you love chocolate, but always have this guilty feeling associated with it? Guilty pleasure. Guilty addiction. Equals shame. Eating chocolate for me used to be a guilty pleasure. I was addicted to the false pleasure I experienced due to the massive sugar high in my brain. It triggered my reward centre to release a hormone called Dopamine – I felt FINE when I was eating chocolate. I even felt pretty damn fine after I ate chocolate…. But then after a little while, I felt low, lethargic, irritable…. and disgusted – with myself and my lack of willpower; with my body and the excess

White Choc Macadamia Fudge [recipe]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 10, 2014 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making, Workshops

Healthy Chocolate Delights eBook! HERE’S A RECIPE TREAT FOR YOU ALL! This recipe is taken from my popular “Healthy Chocolate Delights: Nutritious, Delicious & Guilt-Free“real food sweet treats recipe eBook. This collection of whole food recipes has a combination of over 60 raw, cooked, vegan, paleo, dairy free, gluten free, grain free and refined sugar free recipes. Healthy chocolate for everyone! Also contains the history and benefits of raw cacao plus lots of nutritional information on the dangers of sugar, natural sweeteners and substitutes, with an introduction to every day super (nutrient dense) foods. Here’s a sneak peak of inside the book! Please enjoy

Do You Love or Hate Your Body?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 5, 2014 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Emotional Eating, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Mindset, Wellness Coaching

Summer Body-Love/Hate It’s certainly been warming up in the great south east. Makes me think about humid days, cool dresses and wearing a bathing suit in public… Does that thought fill your head with dread? As a child I loved summer. The adolescent me however, was struck with fear about what it represented. If you wanted to swim in the local pool or frolic on the beach, it meant baring your body beautiful and being on display – something I was definitely not comfortable with back then. It was enough to make me stop eating or take up marathon running!

Why Women are more alike than they think

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 24, 2014 / Confidence, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching, Workshops

Self-Love, a Retreat for the Soul Recently I hosted my 4 day Women’s Wellness and Meditation Retreat for a large group of beautiful and brave women. WOW! Awesome experience I’ve waited patiently for years to be able to create and host. Most of the ladies came from the Darling Downs; however a few travelled from New South Wales, ACT and the Sunshine Coast to be with us. These ladies were of course, all different. They ranged in ages from 27 to 66 years old. They each had a story – some quite a few. They had experienced all the modern

This is my Beautiful 40 year old Body

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 3, 2014 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Fat Loss, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Inner-Strength, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

My Beautiful 40 Year Old Body For those of you wondering how my knee is healing after surgery in June, it’s been slow, especially as a secondary injury was initially overlooked. Over the years my body has faced tremendous abuse; physical, emotional and self-inflicted. I’ve been hard on myself and pushed my body to breaking point many times with several broken bones, tears and surgeries. Throughout many stressful years my weight struggled to settle because of the severe restriction, starvation and binge/purge episodes I put it through for 18 years. My hormones, metabolism and digestion broke down several times. I

Coconut Cacao Banana Cake [Recipe]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 2, 2014 / Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Healthy Banana Cake! Real Foodie Friday I’m so pleased to introduce you all to Meg Kummerow, who has generously donated her Coconut Cacao Banana Cake for Real Foodie Friday! Meg has also written a little bit about her background, food philosophy (it’s pretty awesome!) and family life to share with you. Thank you for sharing your delicious recipe Meg! Now let’s get cooking and EAT REAL FOOD together! Viki 🙂 Hi, I’m Meg! I live on a farm west of Toowoomba with my husband and two daughters. Farming and agriculture is my passion and whilst we are no longer farmers

Yoga and Meditation Term in Highfields, Darling Downs

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 25, 2014 / Benefits of Meditation, Body Image, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Lifestyle, Meditation, Mental-Health, Self-Care

Yoga AND Meditation How cool is breathing in alignment with your body moving? And then sitting in stillness to allow the breath to flow through you? I love meditation and I love yoga, having practised both for over 25 years. At one stage, I was quite the yogini – practising regularly and feeling my whole outlook and body change as I bent, stretched, breathed and improved. Whatever was going on in my life often stepped onto the mat with me, but by the time I was finished it had released off my shoulders, heart or mind and allowed me room

Green Smoothies and Raw Chocolate – A Food Demonstration Gig!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 5, 2014 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Green Smoothies and Raw Chocolate This last week I presented and spoke at the Annual ‘QLD Rural, Regional & Remote Women’s Network’ Ag Show Luncheon in Toowoomba. Packing my mason jars, greens, and Omniblend I was prepared for an inspiring food demonstration educating the ladies on the benefits of blending your greens (check out my article and greens video here) for health, energy, reduced cravings and better sleep and concentration. Sharing the stage with three other panellists from different backgrounds and expertise, we engaged in a discussion on, “Eating is an Agricultural Act” and discussed how we can start to improve our health by being aware

How to Slow Down, Take Stock and Enjoy Life More

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on August 28, 2014 / Confidence, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Meditation, Mental-Health, Personal Growth, Positive change, Self-Care, Self-Esteem

Slow Down, Do More Do you feel like you’re always on the run trying to get ‘stuff’ done? Always feeling a little behind, like there’s no time to catch up? Do you regularly feel or have thoughts that you’re overwhelmed, stressed, rushed and hurried, and never have time for yourself? In our modern fast-paced world, life balance is a major problem that we all struggle to maintain. I’m certainly no exception to this. There are just so many things I want to do, experience, create and share but there never seems enough time for all of it. I know many of

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