Summer is a great time to indulge in seasonal fruits and veggies. They are the best now. Salads, soups, smoothies taste exceptional. Raw or cooked, they are just yummy.
I love cooking and normally I can create something tasty with any ingredients I can find in our fridge. I hardly ever follow recipes and most of the time my food is delicious (except from a few incidents when it was barely edible 😊). But there are days when I don’t feel inspired and no matter how hard I try I cannot come up with anything tasty to eat. For those days I have a few, tasty and easy lunch recipes, for both hot and not so hot summer days.
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Sweet, homemade treats , made of wholesome ingredients are not only sweet and delicious but also packed with the abundance of nutrients. In this post I’m sharing with you Freya’s and mine three favourite treat recipes. They are easy to make and very healthy. Perfect for the whole family.
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Hard workouts are not a solution for the majority of women, especially those after 30 and those who are looking to stabilise their hormones and reduce different symptoms of hormonal imbalances.
The truth is, that exercising, but doing less and training smarter, while we’re juggling home and work and we don’t sleep enough, will help reduce stress hormones and therefore will result in better health as well as healthy weight.
Here are some other benefits of 5 minute workouts:
· It will help you build a new lasting habit
· It will help you strengthen your core muscles and balance your body
· It will help you improve your posture, help you feel good and confident
· It will help you balance your hormones
· It will help you reduce any pains or aches
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Despite nursing being a wonderful time, it was also quite a painful time sometimes. And I don’t mean “bleeding nipple” pain (I still remember the first week of breastfeeding as well as nursing after being bitten… that wasn’t fun at all 😊) but neck pain. It bothered me the most at the very beginning, in the first 12 weeks postpartum, before I started exercising again. Afterwards it happened less and less and honestly I don’t remember anymore when was the last time.
Being a new mum is massively challenging to our body and it needs more care than before (who has time for it you ask? I totally understand however avoiding pain is priceless, especially now). In the end, being a mum is a hard physical work, without sick days or holidays. We have to stay fit and healthy to be able to take care of the little one.
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As mums we often forget that waking up several times at night increases our cortisol levels leading to a cascade of different issues including fatigue, anxiety and sleep issues. It makes it very challenging to get back to exercising when we struggle just to stay on our feet and keep up with the little one.
When I look in the mirror, as many new mums, I cannot recognise my body. It has changed so much and it isn’t easy to get used to it, no matter what. That is often another reason to push ourselves harder. We want our old body to be back as fast as possible.
For so many years we were told that the only way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more. But hold on… the truth is that it actually never works.
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Do you struggle to stick to your exercise routine and feel guilty or lazy? Don't. It means that your current training plan isn't for you. Most research that inspire all latest training trends is based on man. But the female body doesn’t work the same way. the good news is that when you start training like a woman you wont only stick to your workouts but you will also get the results you want.
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Since I became a mum there is so much to do every day that it sometimes feels impossible to find time for myself. Juggling home and work takes a lot of time and energy. It feels good to think that I will exercise every day but it isn’t easy to fit a 45 min training session into already overloaded schedule, right?
Let me share with you 4 simple tips that you can implement immediately to start exercising again after having a baby, even if it still feels impossible. As a personal trainer I thought I will be training again in no time after my c-section. I didn’t think that lack of sleep and having no one to help me, will make it impossible to do now what I did before having a baby. It took me 12 months to accept that I have to change things around to make it work for me. I finally have the energy and motivation to move again. So will you.
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There are three simple steps that were easy to implement for me and helped me shift more baby weight without that much effort. I don’t want you to be perfect, but I want you to become a pro in getting back to these three healthy habits. You will feel amazing, look younger, have more energy, strength and patience and you will lose weight (I’ve lost 7kg in three months).
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Losing weight is always a challenge. It doesn’t matter if we are in our 20s, 30s, 40s, or we are new mums, somehow it is always a struggle (it shouldn’t be but that is a story for another day). Changing what to eat and starting to exercise requires a lot of effort and self-discipline. There is a simple way to make the fat loss easy and healthy. Let me tell you more about it.
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