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Plea to help Les Bourgs Hospice
22/12/2011 by admin.
The following plea was sent to me from one of my clients. As it is for such a good cause I have decided to post this to my blog.
This is a plea to help find Guernsey based volunteers to create and run a fun, short-term, Connie-themed Facebook page for the forthcoming Cash Cow Carton appeal for the rebuild of Les Bourgs Hospice. I know you may not be interested in helping to run a Facebook page personally, but am simply asking if you could find two minutes to have a quick read and think about forwarding it even further (in Guernsey) - including to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) teams/managers if applicable.
A team of us - including our wonderful key sponsors the GPO, the Guernsey Dairy, NatWest and G4S - are running a fundraising appeal for the rebuild of the new Les Bourgs Hospice. The Cash Cow Carton launches w/commencing Jan 30th Jan when all 25,500 households on the island will receive a Connie-themed, flat-packed 1/2 Litre milk carton with the post - along with a plea to fill it with loose change and return to any NatWest or GPO Branch within the next 6 months.
We’re putting together a Facebook team to keep Connie’s page creative, funny and lively and really encourage followers and engagement …..all with the goal of increasing filled carton return rates!
The commitment would be a couple of team meetings and up to about an hour a day for 2 separate weeks during the 6 month campaign.
If you know of anyone who is:
- a really keen Facebook user
- funny/creative/lively and a team player
- reliable - and will do what they commit to
- intelligent and discerning re appropriate content for all age groups and
- would enjoy helping the Hospice
We’d love to hear from them! Please could you forward this message onto them and ask them to contact Caleb (czunino@guernseypost.com).
If you don’t know anyone who fits the above - but are willing to forward onto other contacts or CSR teams we’d be equally grateful!
Thanks so much for reading, for forwarding - or for any help you may be able to offer.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Gluten Intolerant - You don’t have to miss out on pudding
19/12/2011 by admin.
If you are like me…gluten intolerant but rather partial to Christmas pudding, my favourite thing about Christmas (apart from presents), then you don’t have to miss out. Village Bakery do an organic gluten-free, wheat-free, vegan and dairy-free Christmas pudding.
The pudding contains a total fruit content of 39% including dates, apricots and apple juice. It does contain nuts. The nutritional statistics are not too bad either with only 2.9% saturated fat. The majority of the carbohydrates (53.1%) are from sugars (38.7%) but much of this will be from fruit sugars.
Enjoy!
Mike’s Food Intolerance & Yeast Intolerance
18/12/2011 by admin.
Mike had a food intolerance test a few months ago using the York Test home kit. He scored 4 on intolerance to yeast which is the top score you can get. He had seven foods scoring 1 including beef (which seems to be quite common on food intolerance lists), dairy, egg white and gluten. He also had 7 foods which he has a minor intolerance to and therefore should only eat once in 4 days.
Overall Mike has done well with tackling his food intolerance but lack of knowledge and some lack of focus causes him sometimes to make the wrong decision and often frustration. Yeast is not the easiest intolerance to have as it appears in so many foods and in alcohol. Some of the foods Mike has had to remove from his diet due to his yeast intolerance include:
- Bread
- Pastries
- Buns
- Crumpets
- Croissants
- Quorn
- Sauces
- Miso
- Foods that are stored for long periods such as jam
- Alcohol
- Vinegar, pickles, chutneys and other dressings
- Stock cubes
The following foods promote production of yeast and therefore also need to be avoided.
- Mushrooms and sugar
- Dried fruit
- Buttermilk
- Sour Cream
- Tofu
- Cheese
- Yoghurt
- Caffeine
- B Vitamins unless marked ‘yeast free’
As you can see, it is quite a lift of foods to avoid. Check labels carefully. You can buy yeast free options with many foods and I would suggest that a visit to your local Health Food Store would be advantageous. Feel free to ask the staff there for assistance. Once you get a grip on your yeast intolerance you will realise can still have a varied diet. Hopefully in time your yeast intolerance will improve allowing you to carefully and gradually reintroduce yeast foods into your diet.
Information source: Allergy UK
Training Today
16/12/2011 by admin.
I have a full day of more hypnotherapy training today which is going to be hugely beneficial for people wanting to lose weight. Watch this space!
Hypnotherapy - Testimonial
15/12/2011 by admin.
Thank you Mhairi for the testimonial, so pleased I was able to help:
“Having several phobias, the worst being scared of heights, I was asked by Ann if I would like to try hypnotherapy. Being a bit sceptical I sat, tongue in cheek, but also very apprehensively as you never know what might happen in these type of sessions! Ann is a true professional at everything she does and I really need not have worried. I remember thinking as she was talking to me that it was never going to work - Ann perservered talking calmly and quietly. When the session was over I felt no different to when I started.
The proof of the pudding, as they say, would be when I next ran on the cliffs or had to hold a ladder for my husband - both of which sent shivers up my spine and made me feel quite giddy. My first run on Les Tielles cliffs was amazing, without even realising it I ran to Pleinmont and back looking out to sea and to the bays below without so much as a shiver - and I didn’t have to ask my husband not to go too close to the edge! This weekend saw the Christmas lights put up around the house, me holding the ladder and not a single whinge for him not to go too high, no lightheadedness, no churning stomach - I used to have to look at the ground.
I am so impressed - I know it is early days but I feel so excited to think that I can say goodbye to this phobia - hopefully for good. I will certainly consider asking Ann to help me with my others. Watch this space. Thank you so much Ann. Another achievement you can be proud of.”
Mhairi Robilliard
Tuesday Night Group
13/12/2011 by admin.
Well done to my Tuesday night group, great to see them all improving their previous bests.
What changes glycaemic index
08/12/2011 by admin.
Did you know that the glycaemic index of food can be altered by:
- How ripe the food is
- Processing
- Cooking methods
- Which variety the food is
- What other food you eat with it
- How long the food has been stored
Glycaemic index and even more so, glycaemic load, plays an important role in weight management, blood sugar balance and energy levels. Getting it right or getting it wrong can have a huge impact on these three.
New Hypnotherapy Website
05/12/2011 by admin.
My new hypnotherapy website is now launched. Please click here to access the website.
There is information contained on there on how hypnotherapy can help with a number of issues from stopping smoking, weight management to anxiety, phobias and sports performance to name just a few.
If you are considering hypnotherapy and have any questions or concerns please contact me.
Roadworks
04/12/2011 by admin.
Just to remind clients that there are roadworks on Les Petites Capelles this week. Currently a no entry at the top by the Building Stores.
Healthy Eating Cookery Class
29/11/2011 by admin.
Tonight we have a healthy eating cookery class. Some of my clients believed that part of the difficulties with eating the right foods was down to not having enough time to cook and being able to cook. I have therefore arranged a cookery class where they will be shown how to cook quick and healthy meals.
If there is an obstacle in your way then you need to find a way to move it.
