It's really time to give your gut some love

If our gut microbiome is not healthy that affects so many other parts of our body systems that we can feel completely out of whack - it even affects our hormones, cravings, food choices and our weightloss. 

There are more of these microbes...

It's easy to tell me how to lose weight.

Not so easy to actually achieve it - when you have an underactive thyroid!

You know the drills right - eat less, exercise more!

Or low fat - everything!

Or low low carb - keto will do it!

Or shakes all the way!

Don't even get me started on Weight...

One day in Hawaii...

I was happily shopping in a GAP store I think it was, in Hawaii on holiday soon after we were married in 2001. I was wearing a pretty baggy dress but it was comfy!

As I flicked through the clothes rack wondering how each of the tops would look on me, an assistant came over...

If you wear makeup then you may be putting on average over 100 chemicals a day on your skin.

Makeup & skincare has so many toxic chemicals that often are not regulated. Then we apply them to our skin - the largest organ in our body - where 60% are absorbed into our system. When we have...

When I was first diagnosed with Hashimoto's in 2008 I didn't know where to start. 

I started looking online for answers and rapidly ended up down a rabbit hole. 

I decided I needed to get some real books - you know the paper kind!! 

I ended up with 5 favourites and I'll tell you...

Losing weight with hypothyroidism can be a minefield at the best of times. But what I see so many doing is making these three big mistakes when trying to lose weight.

1. Exercising like a maniac.

Going crazy with exercising only aggravates your adrenal fatigue (or could bring it on) so please...

I had Hashimoto's and I wanted to feel better than how I felt at the time when I was first diagnosed.

Once I knew I had an underactive thyroid (Hashimoto's hypothyroidism) I read all the books I could find and read all the leading health blogs I could to try and find the answers.

These are some...

I have Hashimoto's Thyroid Disease.

I found out in 2009.

Thinking back on the ten or so years before that, at least - I am sure I had it for a lot longer and didn’t realise it.

For years I suffered with extreme tiredness every morning.

Whole days with a complete lack of energy.

...

And that still didn’t happen till mid-afternoon.

If I didn’t have to get up for any reason like work you would have been hard-pressed to get me out of bed before 11 am. 

After I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's I thought the medication would help. 

I realised being tired ALL...

I was 25kg overweight and wondered why I felt “old” but I was only 42....

All the symptoms crept up on me slowly. I thought I was just getting old. Brain fog, joint pain, carpal tunnel in my arms, and I’d had cold hands and feet (even in summer) for as long as I remember.

I went...