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BUCKWHEAT SOURDOUGH ✨️

The wait is over 😁
This would have to be the most uncomplicated bread recipe ever!

Minimal ingredients; buckwheat, salt, and water. Or though the prep time is long, it only takes minutes to step up, and you can carry on doing other things.

It is gluten-free, high in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds, and to make a loaf with this recipe (making 12 slices) is around $2 🤯🙌✨️💚

For the recipe video, nutritional information on Buckwheat and a link to receiving the printable version of the recipe click the link below.
Give this recipe a share and pass it on to the people you know will enjoy a tasty gluten free bread option.

Buckwheat Sourdough Bread — Activated Wellbeing Only 3 ingredients, easy to do, no fancy equipment needed and you will have your own tasty gluten free bread for a loaf that costs less than $2 dollars.

Cacao goodness ✨️
Organic Cacao nibs
Organic Cacao powder
Organic Maca powder
Organic PB
Water
Unsweetened almond milk

Vegan spread tonight

Sometimes plant based alternative products are hard to find that aren't Soy and that sit right in the gut. But I've found some great options like..
Sunfed planted based diced steak (high protein and no nasties) and Wisebros Horopito and Lime dressing ✨️🍋‍🟩

THE EVOLUTION OF LEFTOVERS

Left-overs are easy, but we can get sick of the same thing very easily. So why not take the base meal and evolve it to something else. This adds more variety, doesn't take a lot of extra time, and is still cost-effective.

Remember the wholesome black bean curry from earlier in the week?

Well, it got turned into a high protein gluten-free lasagne that served two lunches 😍 see the photos for the creation and what was used, a few minutes to prep, and only 20mins to cook!

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WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT

Making meals that are wholesome, satisfying, and nourishing is important for sustainable changes to your nutrition.

If creating healthy meals and healthier habits is not enjoyable, most people are likely to stop before they have even taken flight into higher pathways of wellbeing.

Wholesome and nourishing doesn't have to be hard if you know how to navigate it in a balanced way.

With the approach I deliver with nutrition a lot of my clients will say how easy it is and how good and satisfying the meals are so much so that they don't feel like they are "on a diet".

Check out the series of photos for inspiration on a wholesome and nourishing curry (note it is vegetarian but can have meat added for the carnivores).

Want help to boost your daily nourishment? Just send me a DM ✨️

Convenient, nutritional, and budget friendly who doesn't want that right 🤷🏼‍♀️

I found the winning combo at countdown in the frozen vegetable section.

Orange sweet potato, courgettes, and capsicum have been quite pricey of late fresh. With prep, set and go frozen vegetable 500g packs at countdown at only $3.50 to $4.00, it's a no-brainer.

Perfect for stir fries (see next photo) or other cooked dishes as they are already prepped, so no chopping needed. However, if you need them to be any other way, you can simply defrost in the fridge and prep how you want 😊

Available to assist people with all their personalised nutritional needs in person (Hamilton or BOP) or online. Just get in touch via DM or email [email protected] 📧

Part 2 released!

Discover nutrition and wellbeing practices you can start today that assist with getting that bloat alleviated and in balance.

https://www.activatedwellbeing.com/wellbeingweekly/pseudo-weight-part-2-the-everyday-nurturing-processes-to-reduce-bloating

Pseudo-weight Part 2: The everyday nurturing processes to reduce bloating — Activated Wellbeing Bloating is transient, meaning it will come and go. How long it stays for, or if you must deal with it, it all comes down to how you nurture yourself. Following on from the article Releasing Pseudo-weight part 1 below are some of the ways you can focus on nurturing yourself to reduce bloating.

Part 1 of a two part series!
Understanding how your body works in various different environments is important. Many people go about their day not realising they have bloating because it has become a normal part of their everyday living.

This article will help you to gain some insight into how bloating could be showing up, helping you to understand why it could occur.
Then part 2 (which is coming) will focus on the possible solutions.

Enjoy!
https://www.activatedwellbeing.com/wellbeingweekly/pseudo-weight-part-1-how-to-release-the-bloat

Pseudo-weight Part 1: How to release the bloat — Activated Wellbeing From a flat, or ab rippled, stomach in the morning when you jump out of bed, to a food baby bump after you eat creating an inflated balloon like abdomen for the rest of the day. Ah yes, the bloating effect. You will probably find it encouraging to know that many people have trouble with bloating dai

A perspective that seems to be easily forgotten when life gets busy.

What will it take for people to remember to respect, appreciate and be grateful for our health and wellbeing?

And how can we maximise our health so we live an enriched life filled with peace, joy and love.

www.activatedwellbeing.com/wellbeingweekly/what-is-life-without-your-health

What is life without your health? — Activated Wellbeing Our brains have a habit of only focusing on something as a top priority when the issue is hitting us in the face; we must train it to focus on prevention (as much as we can). Yes, this requires what seems far more time and effort when “life gets in the way” but what quality of life do you have w...

A new article to hit the wellbeing weekly blog! Motivation has been a topic coming up a lot with clients and also in conversations I have been having recently.

Analysing motivation; how we get it and how we keep it going is an art form and science in itself!

https://www.activatedwellbeing.com/wellbeingweekly/monitoring-motivation

Monitoring Motivation — Activated Wellbeing Motivation is a dynamic energy, meaning it can change very quickly. One day you may have a lot of motivation and the next very little. You might wake up in the morning all motivated, something happens and then for the rest of the day it is very hard to get back. Why is motivation so fickle? Why doe

What we eat and how we eat is not only to do with our nourishment but also our behaviour.

Often our food related health issues are not because of the food itself; but it is how we eat and why we eat that determines whether the food becomes beneficial for our health or not.

What we crave when we are emotional can say a lot of things about the mental and emotional requirements, we are needing at the time that we substitute with food because we believe that is a quicker or easier fix than the deeper subconscious or conscious issues that are going on.

For the full article please click the link below and if you would like help with your eating habits and behaviour please feel free to get in touch for a non obligatory chat about how you can be helped in this area.

The Science of Eating Behaviour: It is how and why we eat — Activated Wellbeing Our relationship with food Food can bring people together in the most beautiful of ways, creating loving memories with friends and family. It can also hold memories of exploration and adventure, tasting new things and experiencing different cultures. However, with the way we live and our lifesty

Latest article out now with post indulgence recovery on the agenda!

www.activatedwellbeing.com/wellbeingweekly/festivity-recovery

Festivity Recovery — Activated Wellbeing Chocolates before breakfast, champagne with (or without) orange juice, a day (sometimes several) long Christmas smorgasbord buffet of all the most delicious treats and food. By the end of Christmas, food comas will be a plenty and if not that, many will be very merry! And let’s face it, the festiv

For the Southern Hemisphere, it just so happened that this post was posted on this day a few years ago and are all still very good ideas today.

As one hemisphere goes into warming liquids, the other goes into cooling liquids.

Some updated information will come soon to cater to the summer months in the homeland.

In the meantime here are a few ideas that can be revisited.

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With winter setting in over in the Northern Hemisphere, this presents an opportunity to share how Soup can be a nourishing staple for those colder months.

Roasty Toasty

With cold weather fast closing in, it is time to be indulging in the warm comfort of hearty soups.

It may sound logical that eating warm foods helps your body to warm up from the inside out. However, it is a little more involved. Let’s use soup as a fabulous example.

Soup is served hot, which means that due to thermodynamics of the food being broken down, it warms up the inside of the body as we eat it. It’s not only this but it usually also contains complex carbohydrates (slow digesting and burning) such as lentils, butterbeans, quinoa, rice, and/or starchy vegetables (pumpkin, sweet potato, and potato); as well as some forms of protein (chicken) and fat (olive oil, cream, or butter). When we eat and digest our food as part of our metabolic processes (when carbohydrates, fats and proteins are broken down in the body) they create heat when the breakdown process is slow. This is called thermogenesis.

When choosing a soup to warm you up, one based on complex carbohydrates will do the trick as they will move more slowly through the digestive track requiring more energy to assist the breakdown process, thus generating more heat.

For the full article click the link.

Roberto Authentic Italian Gelato is a fabulous example of offering nourishing soups for the English Winter, with a wonderful diversification of the summer months of their mouthwatering gelato.

Tomato, Vegetable, Potato and Leek soup are on the menu this week, check out https://www.facebook.com/robertoauthenticgelato

The Satisfying Staple of Sustenance — Activated Wellbeing Roasty Toasty With cold weather fast closing in, it is time to be indulging in the warm comfort of hearty soups. It may sound logical that eating warm foods helps your body to warm up from the inside out. However, it is a little more involved. Let’s use soup as a fabulous example. Soup is ser

Are the foods you are eating and the way you are eating bringing you satisfaction and contentment?

And what do these elements have to do with nourishment?

To find out more read this weeks weekly wellbeing article below.

https://www.activatedwellbeing.com/wellbeingweekly/nutrientsatisfaction

Does your food nourish you with satisfaction? — Activated Wellbeing Many know we need nourishment to keep our body functioning healthily, but did you know that the food we eat also needs to be satisfying for us in many ways so that our mind is happy with the food we are putting in our body, so that our body can response positively to it to optimise functions within

Energy Fluctuations, we all get them!

"Due to the complexity of individual lifestyles, as well as both internal and external environments, we can often find ourselves struggling to understand how we can create balance in everything we do. Rather, we follow patterns of extremes and inflexibility, over or under exerting ourselves in many areas of our lives.

The psychological components of this can vary from person to person depending on what they have experienced and become conditioned to believe their reality to be. These beliefs navigate their behaviour and actions.

You may think of energy fluctuations as a basic matter, and that our energy fluctuates only due to how much sleep we get, what we eat and how we move.

However, what if it was a bit more complicated, in that how we think and feel about our individual lives, and our lives as a society, has a massive impact.

Then let’s not forget the complications of health status (i.e., if your stress levels are through the roof or you have a condition you are working through or managing). And then there is also your life stage (e.g., relationship changes, becoming parents, middle age, retirement, and menopause for women to name a few). With all these variables in your life it can be frustrating when your best laid intentions don’t go according to plan.

Imagine, you finally drum up the motivation to make nutrition and fitness changes, you go to the trouble of getting help, you get a plan or your write your own one, you have your goals, and you are excited, ready to take action. You get going for a week, you are feeling fantastic, and then, you hit an energy lull. And because on that day it wasn’t in your plan to be low on energy, instead you were meant to be powering through a HIIT training on a calorie deficit; in your mind you have fallen off the wagon. Failed. Motivation drops, and the next few days become harder. A pattern starts to form, and you think ‘why should I bother anyway?’.

This can be what we call the “all or nothing” mindset. Going all in (such as giving 110% in a project) and not doing anything (such as having a restful self-loving Sunday) have their places in our lives, it is just deciding what is the best decision for the scenario at the time. This requires working on a balance and contentment mindset, which is not to be confused with failure or resignation (as in giving up). Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction, so when we are relating this to your goals it would be finding adjustments and flexibility that works in with your health plan, rather than derailing it.

In this case the wiser approach would be to be more flexible, seeing a lull in energy as a sign from the body that there needs to be some time for introspection, to assess why you might be feeling that way and what you can do to keep on your track with your goals, whilst working with the body. "

For the rest of the article with action points to consider to help you become more aware of your own energy balance click the blog link below.

https://www.activatedwellbeing.com/wellbeingweekly/energy-fluctuations

Energy Fluctuations: learning to adapt your behaviour to stay on track with your health goals — Activated Wellbeing Due to the complexity of individual lifestyles, as well as both internal and external environments, we can often find ourselves struggling to understand how we can create balance in everything we do. Rather, we follow patterns of extremes and inflexibility, over or under exerting ourselves in many a

Activated Wellbeing updated their address.

An excerpt from today's Weekly Wellbeing publication, click the link below to read the full article and guidance as to how you can become more aware of your relationship with food.

"We live in a time where many have lost touch with the wellbeing of their being. To date the global wellness industry has hit an approximate net worth of $4 trillion US, that isn’t a small amount of change going into people’s health.

And yet, I’m sure there are, at the very least a few, people you know that experience one or more of these issues; overeating, emotional eating, undereating, binge eating, constantly dieting, body images concerns, weight concerns and health challenges that have emotional and psychological contributions, such as hormonal, digestion, neurological (including mood and brain functionality), immunity, and fatigue, to name a few.

Something doesn’t add up, right? And here I'm not talking about the calories. What this is really saying is that as a collective of people we have developed a very disordered relationship with food and nourishing our being. This means no longer can our focus with nutrition just be on the food itself but also based on the relationship we have with food and our bodies, which encompasses social and psychological elements of consideration.

Or though to some people the term ‘mindful eating’ might sound fluffy, I assure you the road to becoming more conscious and self-aware of your eating habits and if they are positive for your health and wellbeing or not is certainly not a fluffy journey.

This is a very large topic however I want to help you to start to consider some questions you might like to start asking yourself in relation to, how aware you are of your eating habits? And, how are these habits having effects on you and your life?"

https://www.activatedwellbeing.com/wellbeingweekly/how-conscious-is-your-relationship-with-food-mindful-or-mindless"

How conscious is your relationship with food- mindful or mindless — Activated Wellbeing We live in a time where many have lost touch with the wellbeing of their being. To date the global wellness industry has hit an approximate net worth of $4 trillion US, that isn’t a small amount of change going into people’s health. And yet, I’m sure there are, at the very least a few, people ...

Giving greater function to wellbeing because health adds a sweet nectar to life!

https://www.activatedwellbeing.com/wellbeingweekly/functional-nutrition

Nourishment that is deliciously sustainable: Functional Nutrition — Activated Wellbeing “It seems from a generalised perspective that amongst all this chaos, we have forgotten that since our bodies are made up with specific functioning systems, it would then make sense the food we eat does too. If something is functional it means that it is designed to have special activity or purpo