Healthy Eating – Page 7 – 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

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.

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

How Mind-Body Stress is Causing Your Weight Gain

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 20, 2014 / Body Image, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Meditation, Mindset, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Stress and YOUR Belly Many of you know how passionately I feel about educating everyone on STRESS – understanding what it is, your personal stress triggers, how your body responds to YOUR stress, and ways to induce the relaxation response regularly in COUNTERACTING your stress response. Stress affects our whole body – functions and hormones – especially our weight. And weight is something that we all have issues with at some stage in our lives. Cortisol, also known as THE stress hormone and the FAT storing hormone, is a major contributor to our excess belly fat when we’re chronically excreting stress hormones that

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

Transform your mind, body and life for wellness

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 12, 2014 / Body Image, Confidence, Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

From Medication to Freedom! How my Achieving Your Wellness coaching program has helped my client move from medication to freedom. I have an intelligent, insightful and attractive young client who came to meet and work with me late last year in 2013. At only 18 she had spent years on anti-depressants suffering low moods, unhappiness, isolation and body image concerns that bordered on disordered eating. Her dreams of travel, true happiness, connection and vibrant health were being hindered by limiting beliefs and unhealthy habits and behaviours. She came to me with a desperate need to combat the life she had created for herself and turn

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

Create your Happiest, Healthiest and most Confident self in 2014!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 30, 2013 / Confidence, Holistic Health, Mindset, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

FREE visualisation exercise and creating new habits worksheet below! Well it’s that time of year again when we start to think about the year that was and the one we hope for next. Instead of just hoping and wishing for your life to change, own it and be the catalyst for change yourself! Your life is your creation. If you’re not happy with any aspect of it, you have the power to turn it around. I lived for over 15 years with an eating disorder that consumed all of my twenties and the beginning of my thirties, until I finally

Merry Christmas + Happy Eating Tips on Xmas Day

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 24, 2013 / Confidence, Emotional Eating, Food, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Positive change, Self-Care

MERRY CHRISTMAS + happy eating tips! It’s that time of year again – when many of us freak out at the abundant supply of festive food that is often on our “forbidden/bad/diet says no” lists. http://susieandmedays.com/html/ Personally I don’t struggle with festive food like I used to in the throws of my Eating Disorder days. I simply know what I’m eating by preparing many foods myself with whole, natural and nutrient dense freshness. If I can’t really tell what’s in the food on the serving plates I don’t eat it. I always make sure that I continue to get up and

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

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