Episode 42: How to Improve Your Diet Dramatically (during isolation or any time)

If you’ve ever wondered whether following a macro diet was the best way to lose weight and improve your health, you might find the info in this episode very surprising.  In this episode I explore the Fire Element from my course inside The Green Body Circle membership. Fire is all about food, energy and digestion … Continue reading Episode 42: How to Improve Your Diet Dramatically (during isolation or any time)

Hormone Series: Menstruation

Why does having a regular period matter? Well you might think that unless you're looking to fall pregnant it doesn't. However a lot happens in that monthly cycle that influences our health. For example, did you know that period health affects the health of our hair and even our bone density? There are 3 things … Continue reading Hormone Series: Menstruation

Hormone Series: Insulin

Insulin is the hormone that keeps your blood sugar from going too high. When you think about blood sugar you may think blood tests, doctor's visits, pregnancy or perhaps that blood sugar is not really a problem for you. However there are 1 million Australians currently battling type 2 diabetes and perhaps even scarier, a … Continue reading Hormone Series: Insulin

3 Secrets To Nailing Your Diet When You’re Busy

Professional Women & Working Mums: Grab my FREE Burnout Recovery Guide. Oh the B word. I'm not a fan. Busy to me implies that there is too much going on for anything to receive quality attention. And I would hazard a guess that if you're putting your hand up and admitting that you are too … Continue reading 3 Secrets To Nailing Your Diet When You’re Busy

Hyper-palatablity

Sorry... what?! ... Hyper means elevated or more than usual. Palatable is how agreeable a food is to our palates, basically how tasty we find it. Put them together and you've got what the food industry might call a recipe for (financial) success. The more palatable a food is, the more we're likely to eat … Continue reading Hyper-palatablity

Enter Relax Mode

Professional Women & Working Mums: Grab my FREE Burnout Recovery Guide. The parasympathetic nervous system "Feed and breed", "rest and digest", call it what you want but this nervous system is responsible for most of the good things in life! Under the influence of the parasympathetic nervous system our heart rates are slow and our … Continue reading Enter Relax Mode

The Real Reason You’re Not Losing Weight

If you haven't heard someone go on a rant about sugar yet - buckle up. It's time we flipped our diet ideas upside down because the only thing low-fat is good for is low-mood. Here's what you need to know about sugar: Ever since the low-fat guidelines were introduced, people have become FATTER. Why? Because … Continue reading The Real Reason You’re Not Losing Weight

Kelly Eats – Post Natal Diet

What started as a simple "what I eat" blog post a while back has turned into 3 posts and a few changes in my diet. For a couple of years I followed a pescetarian diet for a few reasons that I won't go into anymore than this: I have never been a big meat eater … Continue reading Kelly Eats – Post Natal Diet

Prepping For Competition

Here's what I did in the immediate lead up to the Octane Games CrossFit competition (6 workouts in one day)   TRAINING   I did my last bigger training session (where I would end up sore) on the Tuesday (5 days before) I did some light training Wednesday and Thursday practicing some of the movements … Continue reading Prepping For Competition