12 Small Simple Steps to Healthier Eating Habits

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12 Small Simple Steps to Healthier Eating Habits

So many people think they have to make huge life-altering changes their diet to improve their health and lose weight. And sadly, the prospect of such big changes cause many people to give up before they even start. I want to shout from the rooftops: getting healthier, having more energy and maintaining a healthy weight should not require disruptive, unpleasant changes to your life!! You just need to make small, sustainable tweaks. And embed them until they become a permanent habit. And then make a few more simple tweaks. You get the picture! So here are a few simple, relatively painless, tweaks you can make to your diet today which will yield high positive benefits over time!

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Do you know the difference between a Snack and a Treat?

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Do you know the difference between a Snack and a Treat?

Why is a nutritionist posting a picture of cake?? Well, stick with me dahlinks, because this is no ordinary cake....Believe it or not, in addition to be ing one of our favourite occasional indulgences, this cake has helped my husband and I to maintain a healthy diet, and avoid unhealthy snacking, in a sea of temptations...

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Reverse Engineer You Health (and Life!) Goals *FREE WORKSHEET*

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Reverse Engineer You Health (and Life!) Goals *FREE WORKSHEET*

* FREE WORKSHEET * My husband is an electrical engineer. He's fascinated with how things work and how they have been put together. And apparently there's a term for it: Reverse Engineering. It's where you take a finished product and carefully take it apart to see all the different moving parts and how they work together.
And I think it's a great thing to do with our health and life goals! Here's how it works:

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Get Carb Smart!

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Get Carb Smart!

Carbs are one of the most contentious topics in nutrition. My position when it comes to carbs is that instead of cutting right down on carbs, we need to get smart about carbs. This means knowing how to sort the healthy from the unhealthy, and how much is the right amount for you. Read on for my top tips to help you get Carb Smart!

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Get Smart About Sugar!

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Get Smart About Sugar!

Australians are eating a frightening amount of sugar. More than half of us are consuming more than the amounts recommended by the World Health Organisation. And the scary thing is that most of us don't even realise how excessive (and potentially dangerous) our sugar intake is. We need to get smart about sugar! Here are my top tips...

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What You NEED To Know About Salt!

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What You NEED To Know About Salt!

My nutrition and health coaching clients know that I'm constantly looking for small, simple changes that will pay high dividends in terms of energy, vitality, health and longevity. And this one is a no-brainer: YOU NEED TO WATCH YOUR SALT INTAKE! This one simple (but not necessarily easy!) health tip could literally - LITERALLY! - save your life. Or save you from the trauma of experiencing a catastrophic health crisis in the best years of your life. And no, I'm not being unnecessarily melodramatic. Here's why:

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Eat and Enjoy Fruit!

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Eat and Enjoy Fruit!

I'm climbing up on my soapbox today because far too many "wellness gurus" out there are demonising fruit due to the fructose it contains, and advising people to cut it out. Or telling you which fruits are "good" and "bad" according to how much fructose they contain.
There are legitimate concerns about the prevalence of High Fructose Corn Syrup in soft drinks and processed foods, and the stress this can place on our body as it tries to metabolise it.
But cutting out fruit - or demonising certain fruits that are higher in natural fructose - is absolute madness. 

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