Articles for Wellbeing as we age
Find out how you can lead a life full of energy, positivity, clarity, vitality and great health – regardless of your age!
Do you want to know the secret to never having a “senior moment”?
It’s very simple actually, a good healthy wholefood diet and some supplementation if you are not getting it from food, also supports a healthy brain. Or the other way round, if you are feeding your body junk food, it is going to affect your brain as well.
Don’t blame “age” if you forget things, blame the food you are eating, or the foods that you are NOT eating.
Would you write a letter to your future self?
Could writing a letter to your future self actually “manifest” your goal or your dream?
Let’s say you are contemplating joining a gym, and in your letter, you write down why you are thinking about it, what is holding you back, or why you are having doubts about it. Or you could describe how unfit you feel. Or maybe your GP told you to strengthen your bones with weight-bearing exercises. You are writing all this down, and you KNOW in a year you will be reading it.
How will you feel if you didn’t start going to the gym? Will you feel regret? Will you feel more unfit? Would you wish you had started?
And how will you feel if you did start going to the gym and you could already notice an improvement in your strength and flexibility, and muscle tone? Would that not feel amazing? And you possibly also feel “what was all that worry about that I could make a fool of myself in the class?”
Do you often ask yourself “WHY am I doing this at all?”
By coincidence, I met someone who was training in Nutritional Therapy and she needed a guinea pig. She quickly identified what I was doing that drained my energy. I would never have thought of looking at food as I was not eating junk food at all and thought I was eating reasonably healthy. But a few changes changed my life – for the better! And they were easy to implement once I understand the “why”, and she also helped with the “how”.
These changes were so profound that I felt I need to share this information with my friends who were going through similar symptoms. (BTW, I know now that I was in peri-menopause, but nobody spoke about this back then!) I studied Health Coach, and went on to Nutritional Therapy (4 year course).
I wanted to become that one person that can change the whole live of someone else for the better!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Are you in LOVE with sugar?
When we sugar, it activates similar parts in our brain and releases similar brain chemicals as when we experience emotions such as love, affection, sympathy, empathy, being cared for, being hugged, being appreciated, being rewarded, being acknowledged.
Often, when we crave these emotions, we experience cravings for sugar – but this happens at a very sub-conscious level, so we don’t really know it’s going on. We simply crave sugar and don’t know why.
In this article, I explain more about where sugar cravings come from, but more importantly, what we can do to reduce sugar cravings. I will also explain where sugars are hidden (so that we might be eating it without realising), why eating sugar is not “giving love” to our bodies and why sugar promotes faster ageing and all the symptoms that go with ageing.
Would you consider taking Ozempic?
Ozempic makes you feel so full that you can’t eat anymore. But there are other ways that help you get that signal of feeling full that are natural and without side effects. Ozempic doesn’t address the root cause of why we tend to eat when not hungry.
The Power of Journaling
Positive feelings reduce our cortisol (stress) hormones. Cortisol has been linked to weakened immune system which can result in colds & flus, but also in more serious health issues where the immune systems are overburdened. Cortisol can also be the reason why weight-loss isn’t happening even with extreme restrictive diets. It disturbs sleep which leads to lack of energy and motivation. And constantly high cortisol makes you age quicker!
ONE thing that you need to do to age well
As long as you believe and trust that age is just a number and refuse to “blame” age – you will be looking for solutions and you will find them!
On the other hand, as long as you simple blame it on “age” and believe you just have to put up with it from now on, you are not going to do anything.
Choose to feel uncomfortable before you are being forced to
Choose to feel uncomfortable – Don’t wait until you are forced to feel uncomfortable as you age! You might have heard the saying “Feeling uncomfortable leads to growth”, or something along those lines. But it feels very abstract. Why would you voluntarily choose to...
6 Super easy tips to reverse symptoms of feeling old
Are those people who get old and stay fit and mentally alert just lucky or have good genes? Or can we influence how we feel, how fit we are and how mentally sharp we stay as we get older? Many people blame symptoms such as lack of energy, weight gain, becoming...
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