The Don's Meddle

  I keep banging on about metabolic eating but it really is just so the way to eat.    After years of yo-yo dieting and dropping bodyweight quickly and then creating binging habits and anxiety over food and eating the wrong foods, I remembered my studies in Nutrition (four certificates), and amended some of my eating to how I believe food works for our body at a cellular level, not against our bodies. I managed to keep food as something I enjoy and didn't restrict myself too much.  It made more sense to eat for fuel than to restrict, but I suppose the damage had been done. It used to frustrate me as a PT when clients would want to focus on "just dropping 5kgs but I don't want to change my lifestyle".   When I found Kitty Bloomfield, Craig McDonald and Kate Deering, who have adapted Ray Peats research into metabolism and eating to fuel the body it was like "yes, this is what my beliefs were, before the fitness industry told us all not to eat f...

2011..... Now 2021 S o how did I end up here? What on earth has my body been through all these years? 98kgs and 47 years young.  Finally understanding my body and metabolism, after damaging it for so long...... The sad thing is I have pretty much been on a diet since I was 15 - when I was tall and about 55kgs (think Nicole Kidman, without the crazy red hair). I was tall and lanky and sporty, I had the metabolism of an elite athlete. So why did I start dieting and begin over 30 years of unhappiness to weighing myself and worrying about what I looked like, how much I weighed?  Because I wanted to be perfect. I wanted to be the fittest and everywhere you looked in magazines (no internet that early) were pictures of thin women in bikini's, the diets and fads that you must do to look thin. I thought thin was fit back then. Oh man if I could go back and slap myself. I never really started putting weight on until I moved to London - I would always put on a few kgs here and there afte...

  FMSPAD - October I have created a new Instagram account @snapsbydons to capture my photo-a-day challenge run by @fatmumslim.  Such a fun and creative challenge which I enjoy. Makes me stop and capture daily events and prompts.  A Fence Daily walks during isolation saw us looking at all the amazing flowers in the gardens in the streets around the block from our place.  We would always have a walk and spot the prettiest flower or brightest flower we could see.  This is now something we do anytime we walk around the block, or going to the nearest park.  This fence is one of our favourite as it has lillies in the front garden, which i love and with the green painted fence, puts a smile on my face when we walk past. A Funny Shape Not sure what these statues are meant to be, they are our morning routine as Maddison likes to run ahead and "hide" in them and I always have to play the "where is Maddison game", quite a fun way to start the morning.  She al...

  With all the chaos of the world at the moment, my dreams have been a little all over the shop. I try not to watch too much media on COVID-19 and I have been watching a lot of Netflix, so the imagination doesn't need any more content!  But they have been very vivid and meaningful the last week or so.  I have always been a date person, I remember dates. Mainly birthdays (some I forget, some I remember like friends from high school)! Whatever is retained in my brain I will remember the dates and this includes the dates of my angels.   Sometimes it is like I do forget a little and for some reason the dates make me think for a second until I remember that is right, I know what that date is coming up. I do get a little teary and think about what we went through, but I know I am a stronger person and my spirituality lets me cope with our angels and I know they are somewhere and happy.  Not destined for us but we were able to have the happiness and love that came...

Seems I added my snack blurb to my last post.... the picture is in this one! Haha publishing joys. Missed a few prompts this week and realise that May is nearly over! Ah well, June will give it another crack and maybe add a theme! See what FatMumSlim   proposes! Snack Into the city today, second time this week after a doctors appt. going to get a breast ultrasound and needed a little snack for comfort. Getting off the train at Town Hall, I grabbed a little Bread Top goodness. Coconut for comfort as I sat waiting to get my breasts checked after a lump and rash appeared on my right boob. All clear, results came back good. Grateful.  Two Things Many battles have happened in our rental property as the owners live in the US and don’t really seem to care too much about the property.  The side fence has been falling down for many years and finally got approval for a cheap quote (well the neighbours did, they own their house) to get the fence fixed.  There were way more than...

Gosh I love this challenge, I used to be so good at remembeirng the daily prompts and taking a photo everyday to the prompt and posting it.  Loved doing some write ups also  (will add a few links below to posts from years ago, my favourites). May was "An ISO Photo Challenge" given we are all in Isolation still. Most of us since March.  April was a free photo a day challenge and I was a little lost with being at home, working from home, entertaining a three year old and trying to NOT get this virus thing. Was quite a stressful time and I just kept home, kept away from the shops and kept my daughter at home also. May was still lockdown, still in isolation #iso but decided to complete a few challenges that excite me. This is one of them.  I may not of done ALL the prompts. I used to love writing about the photos, like keeping a diary or journal, digitally. Here are the first nine I completed:- A drink GIN..... since having Maddie I havent been a BIG drinker like I used...

It is hard to put a positive spin on the stigma that surrounds mental health – but we all have mental health. If you have a brain, you have mental health and some of us suffer ill mental health. That doesn’t mean some are entirely broken or damaged, but need help, guidance, love, support and assistance. An open mind and lots of understanding.  Sometimes being honest and saying you are not sure how to deal with things, is the perfect place to start. We all should look after our mental health. I feel that sometimes the stigma around mental health and mental illness is the because of the wording used so freely by the media and on social media that those dealing with ill mental health all fit under one umbrella. This is not the case. We all have mental health issues, we feel happy, sad and can have emotional days and mood swings.   Some are caused by hormones and some can eventuate from experiences in life, or a trauma, leaving us with emotions that we don’t understand...