I’ve made a few changes to my diet recently for a number of reasons. For a while I felt like I lost my passion for nutrition and the science around it all mainly due to studying it in a time pressured, competitive and stressful environment. When I stepped away from all that stress to doContinue reading “Changes I’ve made to my diet recently and why”
Tag Archives: Mental health
Dispute Your Irrational Beliefs Around Food!
Lately I’ve been reading up on Albert Ellis’s work as a psychotherapist and applying some of his therapeutic techniques to my own life and it got me thinking that many of his teachings can be applied to our relationship around food. For background, Albert Ellis was one of the most influential psychologists of the 20thContinue reading “Dispute Your Irrational Beliefs Around Food!”
Healthy Eating At A Most Basic Level
I want to start this post by saying my diet is most certainly not peak health and wellness. I have a mad love for pizza and a good white wine and stealing the biscuits and chocolates from the hotel I work at. But that being said, if we want to eat slightly healthier and startContinue reading “Healthy Eating At A Most Basic Level”
Big Fat Hello!
A big fat hello to anyone who’s arsed to read this lovely blog. My name is Mairéad Mary Cecilia Francis Keane, the most farmer name in rural Ireland. My friends call me Máidí, pronounced Mawd-ee. People may ask “God Maidi why do you spell it so awkwardly?”, and I would reply “because i thought IContinue reading “Big Fat Hello!”