16 Sep
I know what it feels like to wake up with an upset stomach! It ruins your mood for the day! Sometimes, the day before was not about a big portion indulgence but rather a late-night meal that I couldn’t digest. So, if this usually happens to you, how to start your second day to feel better? A longer digestive break I slightly delay my breakfast to ensure I reach a 14 hours digestive break. Even if my stomach starts to growl, I do skip eating, I know my digestive system needs some extra time to eliminate anything left from the night
26 Aug
How do we stay motivated about the food guidelines we set to ourselves with the hope of caring for our wellbeing? The answer is flexibility.
Enjoy a sugary lemonade, or a sweet regular brownie or even a man2oushe for breakfast followed by a knefe. This will do good for you when you enjoy this let-go in moderation and return to it when needed, versus restricting. Because leaving room for freedom is as important as eating healthy and being mindful!
To what extent should you be relaxed about your guidelines, if we don’t want to call them restrictions? The answer is 80/20 rule!
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15 Jul
How many times have you found yourself inhaling your salad at lunch time or eating while typing an email and getting things messy around you, or even getting angry about some work updates and putting all this anger inside your body.
Notice if you feel bloated and in pain few minutes later after this type of lunch. News is bloating is also related to how you eat. “When you chew your food, your mouth creates digestive enzymes called salivary amylase that help you break down your food and absorb nutrients from it. Your stomach doesn't have teeth, so when we don't chew your
19 Jun
We have all heard about the gut flora, which is this collection of bacteria that live inside the intestines. A healthy gut flora is all about more good bacteria than the bad ones.
One crucial element in supporting a healthy flora is dietary diversity: 30 plants a week!
Your bacteria need to get fed from different food compounds (I am not saying to get them all in one sitting, that would be very upsetting for the stomach).
The higher the diversity in your diet, the more diverse your nutritional profile which mean you are feeding different profiles of bacteria, each with their own
21 May
I am an entrepreneur and there are many things I sometimes feel that do not fall under the frame of “do what you love and you will never work a day in your life” I sometimes think this statement loses its spark at some dark moments in your entrepreneurial journey. Entrepreneurship is definitely a roller coaster and is not always your comfort zone. So, at some moments, you will feel like you want to go back to your old job and work employed again. I am writing here my raw thoughts and feelings to check if many of us feel that. Is
21 May
Wellbeing does not mean being perfectly healthy because I really don’t think this is attainable on this planet earth! It will be too much pressure on you if you put this goal and will definitely put you steps away from feeling good, which opposes wellbeing. So, wellbeing is these little things you can do every day, as much as you can, to feel well. Shortly, they are those you can sustain!
Protein for breakfast
First thing first, breakfast in the morning! Although I am not obsessed about calculating my protein, I definitely do the quick and easy intuitive exercise of scanning my breakfast. If