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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

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

5 Foods to Uplift A Depressed Mind

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 25, 2013 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition, Personal Growth, Positive change, Self-Care, Stress Management

Feeling Low? Try these uplifting foods! Many of you have heard me talk or write about the importance of nutrients and cell nourishment in creating the neuro-nutrients (brain food), neurotransmitters and hormones to fuel the communication channels between the brain and body. Every bit of food we eat – our nutrition quality – can create direct and immediate chemical changes within the body and brain to improve mood, energy, concentration, digestion, metabolism and general wellbeing. We literally rely on the foods we eat to create the nutrients we need for every function within the body. Combine our daily life stressors on top of our

Organic Food and Farming | Benefits and Tips

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 11, 2013 / Fat Loss, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Personal Growth, Wellness Coaching

Interview with Homegrown Health Recently I visited Cabarlah, on the edge of the Great Dividing Range, to meet with Darrin Pateman from Homegrown Health organic farm. www.fcjbunclody.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/04/ We sat down on his back veranda, overlooking the farm, and spoke about the benefits of organic food, seasonal produce, getting certified, farmers markets, family, and future plans for the farm. We also answered some Facebook questions about growing organic at home and dealing with pests, like fruit flies and aphids, the natural organic way without harming your produce. As mentioned in our interview, the Clean Fifteen and Dirty Dozen poster is below in three variations, or

Specialty Raw Chocolate Workshops in Toowoomba

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 6, 2013 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Raw Chocolate Making, Workshops

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS Hey, hey! I’ve been honing my raw chocolate making skills to provide more professional, glossy and smooth specialty chocolates for all my chocolate loving wellness warriors out there! personal payday loans I’ll be conducting these specialty workshops in the MindBodyFood Kitchen to teach the health conscious homemaker how to make delicious, nutritious and guilt-free raw chocolates on their quest for better health. These workshops will help you to make beautiful, smooth raw chocolate that won’t test your blood sugar or waistline as all recipes include natural sweeteners and nutrient dense foods to satisfy your tastebuds and melt in your mouth!

The Benefits of Chia Seeds + Blueberry Chia Seed Jam

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 4, 2013 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Raw Chocolate Making, Wellness Coaching

Omega My! The Benefits of Chia Seeds Chia seeds are packed full of omega 3 goodness for your heart and brain. They’re gluten free, high in dietary fibre and protein, and supply our 8 essential amino acids plus a heavy dose of antioxidants! They contain more calcium than milk, more vitamin C than oranges, and are higher in iron and potassium than the usual foods that come to mind (spinach and banana!). You can even use chia seeds as an egg replacement when mixed with water! Cool! Chia seeds are really a fantastic source of so much goodness. I love to use them in all

Upcoming Workshop with Essential Oils and Chocolate!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 2, 2013 / Body Image, Confidence, Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Personal Growth, Raw Chocolate Making, Self-Care, Sparkle & Shine, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching, Workshops

Do you use essential oils? Do you love healthy chocolate? Recently I was approached by the lovely Berit Munro from The Health and Wellness Company! this issue payday loans She’s on a similar mission to spread the message of healing and hope through self-love and holistic nourishment. Berit has asked me to present at her next Toowoomba workshop and share my love of wellness and raw chocolate. Here’s the official invite flyer. It’s only $10 and it’s coming soon! YOU ARE INVITED TO AN “EDIBLE ESSENTIAL OIL” CLASS Would you like to learn how to take control of you and your family’s health, whilst creating quick

Gluten Free Pizza Base [Recipe]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on August 30, 2013 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Wellness Coaching

Gluten Free Pizza REAL FOODIE FRIDAY! Pizza on a Friday or Saturday night may be the perfect movie or footy companion (especially if you’re gearing up for the AFL grand final this weekend!), but for those of us who struggle with heavy grains, wheat, dairy, bloating and poor digestion, enjoying a pizza is far from pleasurable. It’s surprisingly easy to make a gluten free pizza base recipe at home to decorate with your preferred toppings. You can actually create a tasty meal that’s enjoyable all the way through your digestive tract! This recipe is only four ingredients, easy to combine, and won’t leave you

Heal Your Digestive Issues – Viki Thondley Interviews Scott Mathias

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on June 16, 2013 / Holistic Health, Medicinal Nutrition

Do YOU suffer from reflux, hypothyroidism, eating disorders, heartburn, bloating, low energy, emotional and/or depressive issues? Watch my interview with Scott Mathias, Digestive Health Specialist, Raw Food Chef, and author of “Understanding the Devine Gut”. We delve into the CAUSE of a wide variety of upset, illness and disease within the body when digestion is poor and not working properly. FASCINATING and HIGHLY INFORMATIVE interview! credit repair company WATCH IT NOW!

Is Your Food Really Food?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 26, 2013 / Food, Healthy Eating

Don’t Eat Anything Your Great-Grandmother Wouldn’t Recognise As Food! I saw this pic recently and thought, That’s so right! My own great-grandmother lived to a beautiful and delicate age of 100 years old! The bulk of what she ate came from nature: out of the garden, off a tree, grown on the farm and made at home. She ate good food, took good care of herself and lived a long, often hard, but satisfying life. I can’t help but notice the difference in food quality between our grandparents time and now. They ate fresh fruit and vegetables as standard. Much of our

Easy Chocolate Delights Workshop in Toowoomba was AWESOME!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 12, 2013 / Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition

Well, the very first Raw Cacao “Easy Chocolate Delights” workshop was held at Sauce, The Sauce Kitchen in Toowoomba yesterday – Saturday 11th May 2013 – and it was an absolute success! Take a look at all the photos on the FB page here! 16 people (plus one very generous friend as my kitchen helper, and my amazing media manager and partner) all gathered at Sauce, The Sauce Kitchen to learn about, create and EAT real and easy chocolate delights, all made from the raw cacao bean!

Raw Chocolate Making Workshop with Super Foods in Toowoomba

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 24, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition

Easy Chocolate Delights Workshop! Come join me in learning how to make 5 easy and yummy chocolate treat recipes, made with REAL and RAW Cacao – the number ONE antioxidant food in the world! I will demonstrate with your help and everyone will sample! The recipes will be compiled into a small booklet for you to take home and create for yourself, complete with nutritional information on all ingredients used, AND along with your own personal goodies bag of Easy Chocolate Delights! YUM! Learn how easily you can make and incorporate delicious, healthy and nutritious chocolate delights into your eating plan with the help of one of the

Top 5 Natural Sweeteners

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 13, 2013 / Fat Loss, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Wellness Coaching

My Top 5 Natural Sweeteners We all know that sugar is bad for you and contributes to various health issues. So here are my top 5 natural sweeteners that are full of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and amino acids that will contribute to your nutritional health without compromising on taste. Simply pick one according to your preference! 1. Coconut sugar — As the coconut tree is a palm, this means that coconut sugar is a type of palm sugar. It is made from the sap of cut flower buds off the coconut palm, and is a traditional sweetener that’s been used for

Digestion, Bloating, Gas and Gut Health – New Interview!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 1, 2013 / Medicinal Nutrition, Stress Management

MindBodyFood TV! Digestion, Bloating, Gas and Gut Health: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment Why is our gut health so important to health, vitality and wellbeing? In this episode of MindBodyFood TV, I talk with Linda from Zest Natural Therapies about: What can go wrong with our gut? What symptoms or problems can we experience? Which treatments or remedies can assist us in rebalancing our gut health? online payday loans ontario To find out CLICK HERE!! And look out for further interviews with a variety of professionals in the health and wellbeing fields who will

Number One Cause of Fat and Diabetes

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 4, 2013 / Fat Loss

I’ve just finished reading a remarkable article published in the New York Times last Wednesday February 27th that reviewed the details of an astounding study. This study – for the first time ever – conclusively pinpointed the #1 cause of type 2 diabetes and by extension, excess, stubborn weight. They did, however, miss one incredibly important detail, which I’ll explain in a moment but here’s what they did get right. The study showed that the link between this #1 cause of type 2 diabetes and by extension, extra, stubborn flab, was just as strong as the link between cigarettes and lung cancer.

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