I often hear people saying they can eat healthy no problem except it all goes out the window when entertaining or having a few drinks. I mean what do you put on the platter when you stop eating from packets and processed foods?
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Don’t worry thirty is the new twenty.
Don’t worry life actually only begins at thirty. Don’t worry, your still young.
At thirty I heard all the goodies. I even remember buying into some of these thought patterns, anxious about turning the page on a decade, and reassuring myself that thirty was not downhill so to speak. The thing is - none of these things ring true to me and none of them allow us to own the pasts role in our present identity.
Today marks another revolution around the sun for me, and I cannot help but reflect on the last few years which led me to thinking about the last time I reflected on the decade that was. But before I share my current thoughts I life I thought I would repost the letter I wrote on my thirtieth to my 20 year old self.
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There is constant bombardment on what to eat, why to eat it and when to eat it - and let's be honest there is so much conflicting information out there, what you find will depend on what you search for. Eat only meat, eat no meat, eat paleo, eat ancestral, eat keto, eat bananas only, eat nothing drink it all...seriously whatever you are looking for you will find.
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For me when I removed all grains, I found issues with many of the healthy snack foods I used to buy with grain based flours or additives usually present. I put off making my own crackers for ages as I thought it was too hard and they wouldn't taste any good. Then I made these. They are delicious, and could not be easier if you tried.
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This is one of those perfect set it and forget it meals that became a go to in my house, even when it was just me eating it as the leftover chicken was perfect for lunches for the coming days.
The best part of using a whole bird is you have all the left over bones to pop back in the slow cooker add some leftover veggies and water and make your own stock - all from nothing. Talk about no waste living.
In an attempt to get healthier with my food in my mid twenties I focused on eating regularly and always eating breakfast, usually overnight oats - no commercial cereals this time but still what was probably my least nutrient dense meal of the day. Now the word breakfast merely defines the time that I choose to break my fast from yesterdays last meal, there is no limits to what can be eaten. My ultimate breaky bowl is a great nutrient dense choice for breakfast.
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I am 31.
I am single.
I am childless.
Enter your best cliches or stereotype here.
While my closest friends have had children for practically a decade now, I have remained just me. Sure there have been relationships, some better left behind in my twenties and a few that were real love and who remain in my heart.
I remember the first time leaky gut was suggested to me, I’d heard of it in passing several times but never understood it or realised just how common and easy it is to actually have. A Leaky gut can cause digestive upset, is linked to creating allergies, and I believe is a likely contributor to auto-immune diseases (which makes some sense when you realise that 80% of your immune system lives in your gut).
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