Healthy Eating – Page 6 – Viki Thondley | Mind Body Food

How Food Can Improve Your Mood

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 30, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition, Positive change, Wellness Coaching

Improve Your Mood with Food Are you finding it hard to juggle the daily demands of life, work and family on top of balancing your eating habits? You’re not alone. Many of my busy clients struggle to get going in the morning and don’t take time to give themselves a nourishing head start. Unfortunately this regular denial creates a cascade of cravings and energy dips for the rest of their day, ruining their healthy eating intentions. When the brain is lacking nutrients, it often overrides the conscious mind by reaching for convenient, packaged and processed foods to ensure it gets

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.

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

Healthy Raw Chocolate Workshop in Toowoomba!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 3, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making, Workshops

Easter is Coming! For real. I remember walking around the local supermarkets in January seeing chocolate eggs and Easter bunnies already lining the shelves, right alongside the leftover Christmas chocolates…. Now that Easter is really coming, it’s time to get educated about what chocolate actually is, and how you can make the most of its’ naturally occurring nutritional benefits before roasting and processing destroys most of them. easy personal loan bad credit So here I am pleased to announce that the 3 hour Easy Chocolate Delights workshop has been updated and now offered in the MindBodyFood Kitchen at Highfields. This means reduced cost, smaller

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

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

Peppermint Slice Recipe Paleo Raw Vegan Unrefined

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 23, 2014 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making

My Famous Peppermint Slice Recipe! I’ve always loved peppermint slice! Just loved going by the bakery whenever I felt the yearning for a chocolate biscuit base with a dark chocolate topping, sandwiching a thick layer of sweet, creamy peppermint icing! Those were the days when I had little knowledge of what I was eating and had no interest in learning what it was doing to my blood sugar, insulin or hormones. Holistic health wasn’t something I practised back then and nutrition wasn’t something I took much notice of. These days I don’t go the bakery. Haven’t for years. But I do still enjoy

Healthy & Easy Sweet Summer Rolls

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 12, 2014 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Sugar Free Goodness Healthy and nutritious snacks for the kids using three ingredients. Yes! Only THREE! You can buy a version of these snacks at the supermarkets and fruit shops but when it’s so easy to make your own on demand and know exactly what’s in them… why buy them? These yummy Sweet Summer Rolls are naturally sweetened, full of fibre, minerals, vitamins, bit of protein and healthy fats. They’re also vegan, raw, paleo and gluten free. An easy, ready snack to make healthy eating and whole-food nourishment a cinch! You simply need a food processor and some baking paper. Quick Nutritional

How to Make a Dark Raw Chocolate Pizza

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 24, 2013 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Raw Chocolate Making, Workshops

Raw Chocolate Pizza Pizza was never my favourite food. I’ve since made peace with it by making my own gluten free and cauliflower versions that I decorate with fresh, whole, natural ingredients that are nutrient dense and pack a punch of flavour; yummy clean eating that doesn’t cause digestive (or emotional) upsets. Being the raw chocolatier and recipe creator that I am, it was only time that I came up with a raw chocolate version. And here it is, perfect for any occasion! Quick points: This recipe uses a similar base to my Raw Chocolate Brown Rice Puff Bites. Also

Healthy Sexy Slow Eating

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 6, 2013 / Body Image, Confidence, Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Mindset, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Pleasure Eating By Marc David, Institute for the Psychology of Eating In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in 2009, eating a meal quickly rather than at a slow pace, diminishes the release of hormones in the gut that help create the feeling of being full. When these hormones – specifically PYY and GLP-1 are low, the unwanted result is simply this: overeating. The implication here is that the body needs time to regulate the chemical messengers that control our food intake. According to another study, published in the British Medical Journal in October 2008

Healthy Chocolate Mousse | Dairy & Sugar Free, Vegan, Paleo

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 5, 2013 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Raw Chocolate Making

Chocolate Mousse Anyone?! I do love a chocolate mousse that’s smooth, creamy, rich and easy to eat! I don’t like the feeling of a heavy, bloated, queasy and bilious tummy afterward though! Our house has a variety of tastebuds, like most families do, which sometimes means a harder task in pleasing everyone. It becomes a challenge to create something that doesn’t contain the flavour or aroma of one particular food yet still provides the texture so that everyone will love it. Even though bananas are a wonderful source of fibre, iron, potassium, B vitamins and tryptophan, Mr 12 is NOT a fan! So chocolate mousse made with fresh

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