Healthy Eating – Viki Thondley | Mind Body Food | Depression, Stress, Eating Disorders

Stop Dieting and Trust Your Body Wisdom Instead

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 8, 2018 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health

Stop Dieting and Trust Your Body Wisdom Instead Balanced Healthy Eating Have you had a moment of panic about your weight since Christmas? Have you denied yourself food in an effort to reduce your weight? Many people rinse and repeat their health goals every January (to get healthy and lose weight) and force themselves back onto a new or old diet because they’re still stuck in the dieting mindset. Instead of healthy balanced eating, they choose the all or nothing approach and begin down a path of following a ‘way’ of eating that may not actually work for their unique

Set Health, Fitness & Weight Goals That Work With Your Brain & Body

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 8, 2018 / Body Image, dieting, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mindset, Personal Growth, Wellness Coaching

Set Health, Fitness & Weight Goals That Work With Your Brain & Body Keep you brain in mind when you set health and weight related goals – otherwise they’ll end up as empty promises! Forget resolutions and set meaningful health and fitness goals instead! It will make a world of difference to how you approach change, and take action towards your goals. The KEY is in using the principles of neuroscience so you can create change in a way that your brain will become familiar with by conscious, consistent and intentional action! Get a pen and paper and commit

How Memories Can Affect Your Digestion

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 12, 2017 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Personal Growth, Positive change, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

How Memories Can Affect Your Digestion Is stress impacting your digestion? Find out how eating either in a stressed or relaxed state affects your ability to digest your food properly in this brief introduction that will make total sense in illuminating your eating behaviours! In this powerful 6 minute video, I share a brief explanation of why we get stressed and relive past emotions when eating. It’s got a lot to do with our nervous system, how our brain processes information, and the individual meaning we attach to past experiences. These short 6 minutes could change your life! (I hope so) Viki Thondley

{Podcast} How Dieting Works Against Your Body & What You Can Do to Work With it

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 24, 2017 / Body Image, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset, Nutrition, PODCAST, Wellness Coaching

How Dieting Works Against Your Body and What You Can Do to Work With it Have you been doing EVERYTHING “right” but your body doesn’t seem like it’s doing what you want? Don’t lose faith in it, learn to trust it again so your body can learn to trust YOU again! It’s an interesting concept that most people don’t even consider – that your body might lose trust with you after all your efforts to make it weigh less and feel healthier. The thing is most of these efforts are done without consulting the body. Instead of turning inward, asking

{Podcast} The Cost of Staying Stuck

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 10, 2017 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, PODCAST, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Wellness Coaching

The Cost of Staying Stuck If you’ve ever tried to reach out for help but at the last minute retreated back into the safety and comfort of what you know – even though it might be painful or uncomfortable – have you ever thought about how much it costs you to stay there? The nature of human behaviour is that we want change, but often are unwilling to do the changing! When I receive an enquiry from someone, they usually send it at a time when they can’t take it anymore. When the pain is too intense, when the discomfort

Dieting Danger – Food Can’t Fix Feelings

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 13, 2017 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition, Personal Growth, Wellness Coaching

DIETING DANGER – Food Can’t Fix Feelings Have you ever been on a diet? If you’re here at MindBodyFood, you most probably have! In fact, there’s bound to be many of you who have never got OFF the diet wagon because you’re still struggling to feel comfortable in your body (instead of ashamed). Have you recently committed yourself to a ‘new’ diet for the New Year? We so often fall into the trap of believing that if we can control our food and change the way we look, we just might be able to control how we feel. NEWS FLASH –

Healthy Chocolate Panforte Recipe

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 23, 2016 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making

Healthy Chocolate Panforte Recipe Perfect for Christmas! Panforte is traditionally an Italian cake containing fruit and nuts. So more or less, it’s kind of like a fruitcake – dense, moist, fruity. It originated in the Tuscan city of Siena somewhere around the thirteenth century. Here I’ve made a healthy version that doesn’t miss out on any of the traditional flavours, certainly has the dense quality but with a lighter feel in the tummy. My healthy christmas panforte recipe is also gluten free, dairy free and refined sugar free. It’s the perfect healthy recipe for christmas! There’s minimal liquid sweetener

3 Keys to Cultivate Self-Love {Podcast}

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 19, 2016 / dieting, Gratitude, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, PODCAST, Positive change

3 Keys to Cultivate Self-Love PODCAST EPISODE We all need a little help in how to cultivate self-love, gratitude and a positive mindset. So earlier this week I shared an inspiring talk with Nicole Coggiola, Health & Lifestyle Coach over at the Nourished Goddess. I’ve discovered I really enjoy connecting with like-minded souls around the world and sharing interesting conversations and stories that speak my language. This one dives a little deeper into the importance of the mind and gratitude when making healthy lifestyle changes. Aspects that can’t be ignored when creating inner transformation for outer change. It’s all about being a

5 Limiting Beliefs Holding Your Mind Hostage

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 27, 2016 / Body Image, dieting, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition, Personal Growth, Wellness Coaching

5 Limiting Beliefs Holding Your Mind Hostage When I started MindBodyFood my main driver was to make a difference in the lives of women who struggled with liking themselves, accepting their bodies and were using food as a means of control, punishment or comfort in managing stressful thoughts and emotions. Think BINGE EATING, EMOTIONAL EATING, STRESS EATING. What I’ve realised over the years is that nearly EVERYONE in their lifetime struggles with five core underlying and limiting beliefs that they’re either: Not good enough Not smart enough Not worthy enough Don’t deserve it Can’t do it UNDERNEATH their body and

Bloating, Pain and Parasites – Become your own best health advocate

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on June 20, 2016 / Eating Disorders, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Medicinal Nutrition, Mental-Health, Nutrition

Bloating, Pain, Hospitals and Parasites Become Your Own Best Health Advocate If you follow me on my Facebook page you’ll know that last Wednesday I was woken in the early hours with EXCRUCIATING lower right, abdominal pain followed by vomiting bile. I was taken to hospital and drugged up on morphine, asked to pee in a jar, fill up with fluid for a couple of ultrasounds, then drink a litre of dye and be injected with contrast for a CT scan. The suspects – kidneys, ovaries and appendix – were all clear, but not before they offered to call a surgeon to cut me

Almond Toffee Chocolate Bark Recipe

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 20, 2016 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making

Almond Toffee Chocolate Bark Recipe This clean eating recipe needs little introduction. I love almonds, I love raw honey and I love dark chocolate. Why not put them all together?! So what it’s made with natural raw honey, and I boil it first. It’s still a natural food that is made with love. It’s a super easy recipe that’s simple, yet certainly not plain! The children loved it so I started teaching them how to make this simple toffee and how it reminded me of toffee apples – of which the children have never tried. So you never know, we may make them

Best Ever Deluxe Cashew Brownie Recipe

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 16, 2016 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition

Best Ever Brownie! This my friends, was a conscious effort in creating a decadent, soft and absolutely melt in your mouth, soft and gooey brownie to serve with cream and loved ones. Cooking with real whole foods has been a wonderful way for me to indulge when I feel like it and without the guilt. It’s also been a wonderful introduction for the children to learn how much better making and eating real whole foods can be over the packaged, processed and white sugar-laden options. They love this brownie and they know when they’ve had enough, without feeling deprived or feeding a sugar

{Podcast} How to Increase Nutrition in the Modern Day Diet

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 13, 2016 / dieting, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition, PODCAST

MINDBODYFOOD PODCAST This week Daniel Biernoff joins me on the Mind-Body-Food Podcast talking about REAL food nutrition in our busy modern lifestyles. Daniel is a fully qualified naturopath, nutritionist and herbalist with over 15 years of clinical experience working with people from all walks of life. He is a firm believer that our modern diet – full of nutritionally depleted foods and chemical additives – is making us sick and that our bodies can heal themselves from almost any health problem with the right nutrition and supplement support. An open and highly educational look into food and the modern diet,

Apple Chia Seed Chocolate Crumble

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 28, 2016 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition

APPLE CHIA SEED CHOCOLATE CRUMBLE What to do with apples when you’ve got plenty? Make apple pie or crumble of course! We had two full bags of apples that we picked fresh from the orchard on our day trip to Stanthorpe over the easter long weekend. What else would I do with them but create something absolutely, delightfully scrumptious with them, and make sure that the recipe is made with healthy whole food and nutrient dense ingredients. It’s also dairy free, gluten free and naturally sweetened with medjool dates and a touch of raw honey. Aside from the coconut milk, which

Sweet Chai Cheesecake with Hidden Blueberries GF, DF

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 10, 2016 / Food, Healthy Eating, Nutrition

Sweet Chai Cheesecake with Hidden Blueberries Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Refined Sugar Free I’ve been teasing you all with this one for quite some time and now I’m just GIVING it to you! Raw (vegan) cheesecakes are one of the best ways to enjoy a nutrient dense dessert for people who are dairy free, gluten free and prefer to be refined sugar free. I’ve perfected this recipe with a little trial and error and it sure is a crowd pleaser – it’s my favourite nut cheesecake recipe! Plus it’s packed with nutrients and truly satisfying on so many levels. Please make and

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