I have never been a fan of dieting. Even in my competitive sport’s days, dieting was a real ‘challenge’ for me.
Nutrition isn’t just about how food affects your outer image. The most important thing about nutrition is that, like oil and petrol for a car, it makes the difference to how your body functions.
If you are prone to feeling tired, find it difficult to concentrate and suffer from bouts of irritability take a good look at your food. Your body require certain fuel to work optimally and when they are not given that fuel they slow down, they gain weight and start to suffer from dis-ease (otherwise known as diseases).
This doesn’t mean that eating has to be made up of salads 7 days per week and that you should never have fast foods but it does mean striking a balance between what your body needs and what your mind tells you it wants out of the habits you have formed.
How many times have you gone and bought a cappuccino on the way to work just because it’s what you’ve been doing for ages? How many times do you get through half a packet of biscuits because you decided to have a cup of tea and you’ve conditioned yourself to relate biscuits with tea?
I’m not a nutritionist so far be it for me to give you the lowdown on what you need to have but there is plenty of great information online. The bottom line is if you treat yourself well you will increase your energy levels, your focus and your drive… imagine what you could achieve with all of that extra power?
So health is very relative to achieving your dreams. That persistent and consistent flow of effort is much easier to tap into when you are in a healthy state and universally if you are taking care of your health you are saying ‘I care about me’ and you should.
Focus less on quick fix diets and instead look for a long-term sustainable healthy living. You know you’re worth it!
Nutrition
Just remember, you are what you eat so eat more of what you want to be!
YvonneB
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A catalyst for change, Yvonne Bignall is a breath of fresh air in the extraordinary way she helps women 50+ to reconnect with life & their innate power through radical self-care, guilt-free!
She supports, encourages, and inspires women to prioritise their health, one bitesize action at a time. Her work is challenging as it navigates through difficult conversations, listening & observing how women’s health issues have been:
❊ Undermined
❊ Under-resourced &
❊ Swept under the carpet
She helps women to recognise & unpack old scripts that still (sadly enough) tell them that their value derives from their level of caregiving of others, their output. The truth is it is the input, the ability to resource self, which provides women with the energy required to realise their true potential.
Along with her team, she explores the thoughts, behaviour & habits, often born out of guilt, gender expectations, and reinforced narratives, with curiosity (not judgment), discarding the unhelpful, whilst reclaiming innate power through the creation of new patterns, restoring a sense of self, outside of societal expectations. In her opinion, this allows women to:
✔ Develop an elevated level of self-awareness
✔ Build / rebuild their confidence & self-belief
✔ Value all of who they are and invest time in who they want to be at their best
A self-care warrior, an encourager & inspirer, Yvonne is today an award-winning Women’s Health Advocate, Published Author, and an International Presenter. She is also a Radio Show Host and a Podcaster.
Yvonne is focused on building a community of women, www.PermissionToThrive.online, who are ready to reclaim their right to self-care, guilt-free, and who prioritise their health without apology, role-modeling behaviour & habits that inform generations to come of their true value.
She also advocates for self-care over burnout in the workplace, delivering practical webinars in the corporate space. In her own words, “It is time for employees to prioritise their wellbeing. How will they deliver their best work without it?”
One of her favourite quotes comes from Eleanor Brown, ‘Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel’
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I have never been a fan of dieting. Even in my competitive sport’s days, dieting was a real ‘challenge’ for me.
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