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Happy New Year
31/12/2011 by admin.
Wishing all my clients and friends a very Healthy and Happy New Year. May you reach all your weight and fitness goals.
Mike’s Food Intolerance including Yeast Intolerance
30/12/2011 by admin.
Well, as I reported earlier, Mike was struggling to adjust to a new diet. He was frustrated by lack of variety, getting bored of rice, missing dairy, bread and such likes. He has decided to continue with a ‘normal’ diet ignoring his food intolerances.
I doubt he will take another food intolerance test but it would be interesting, if he did, to see in 3 or 4 years time whether his intolerances have go worse or are impacting how he feels more than they are now. Yeast is a top score for him at 4 and, from my own experience, is a difficult one to get down. Despite my best efforts, the score of yeast for me which was 3, did not budge in a year. I am however, hanging on in there and still avoiding yeast products and the likes of mushrooms and sugar. Sugar is an ‘evil’ in any event for that’s for another time.
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
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.
Update
21/11/2011 by admin.
It’s been a very busy month following an ante/post natal for exercise course, hypnotherapy training and a sport nutrition course. A group of us also had a fantastic few days in London watching Loose Women and seeing the show Priscilla. All training has been top notch and well worth it.
Hypnotherapy is quickly becoming my new passion. I look on it as a way of empowering people to make the changes they wish. It is such a positive tool to use.
Hypnotherapy can help with so many issues, including (but not limited to):-
- Weight loss/management
- Phobias
- Insomnia
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Pain management
- Building confidence and other state changes
- Stopping smoking
- Eating Disorders
- Anxiety/Panic Attacks
Hypnotherapy is a very relaxing and pleasant experience and totally safe.
If you would like to know more about hypnotherapy please contact me.
Update and Gut Health Test
14/11/2011 by admin.
It’s been a rather hectic month with trips away, CPD courses and two weeks in the Lake District learning hypnotherapy.
On Friday/Saturday I went with some ladies from my Tuesday session to London to watch Loose Women and Priscilla. Both were brilliantly entertaining and we had a fantastic time which included some time for shopping and plenty of coffee time ‘a la Mackay’.
I am now getting back into my cycling training feeling the benefit of yoga 3-4 times per week over the past 4 months, however, I still have some issues to sort out. I arranged for a Gut Health Test through York Test recently and received my results last week. As I expected, there is plenty of room for improvement. I am already taking some of the supplements they suggest, namely probiotics Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria.
York Test have recommended that I additionally supplement with Enterococcus, which is part of the normal flora in humans. This supplement has been reported to treat conditions including IBS, infectious diahorrea amongst other conditions. I am also supplementing with 5-10g of glutamine daily which, in combination with the probiotics has improved my gut health over the past 12 months. I will now be hoping for future progress prior to another test.
Poem
11/10/2011 by admin.
Another one sent by one of my clients.
“Forgiveness
Is the mightiest sword
Forgiveness of those you fear
Is the highest reward
When they bruise you with words
When they make you feel small
When it’s hardest to take
You must do nothing at all…”"
- “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte
Barefoot Running…..Update
10/10/2011 by admin.
I haven’t updated lately as I haven’t run in my barefeet shoes for over a week now. Last week I only did one run in the barefeet shoes mainly due to being away and the fact that I did two longer runs, one of the road and one at the Reservoir.
Only problem is that in the Reservoir run, which was 7.6 miles, I developed a niggle in my right achilles, right on my heel. I’ve had to take some time off running and it’s not healing particularly quickly - achilles don’t tend to heal quickly which has a lot to do with the fact that as a tendon it has a limited blood supply. A tiny bit of running will aggravate it and it seems to tighten up a bit overnight - quite common in achilles injuries.
I am not sure if the injury has anything to do with the barefeet shoes mainly because when I did that run I hadn’t run in the barefeet shoes for about 4 days. However, I might have subconsciously changed my style when running in my ‘normal’ trainers enough to start the niggle. It’s only a slight injury but I believe if I were to run I would aggravate it and make it worse. You have to be very careful with achilles injuries as they can linger for months. I am using the cross trainer as an alternative at the moment. I hope that I will be able to run again later this week but will wait until it it clear.
This time away from the barefeet shoes means that when I start up again I will have to build gradually.
