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Month: February 2018

Healing my digestive system!

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Healing my digestive system…

Healthy digestive system
Healthy digestive system

Many years ago I was diagnosed with IBS, gluten intolerance and in 2016 I had my gallbladder removed. As you can see, my digestive system and I were not very good buddies for a long time.

Removing my gallbladder was a sign that I needed to nurture and heal my relationship with my digestive system. Not a very sexy topic to speak about but if you have IBS, suffer from bloating and digestive discomfort you know how uncomfortable the pain can become.

Here are the steps I followed to healing my digestive system with food (Please take note that you need to see a specialist and dietician to support your road to recovery if medical treatment is required, these are foods that help me sustain a healthy digestive system after I seeked medical help).

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No bake simple vegan cookies

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5 Ingredient No Bake Simple Vegan Cookies (One pot, refined sugar free, gluten   free)

This simple recipe is a one pot easy to make vegan cookies for breakfast or a snack. No baking required and took me 30 minutes to make in total including the cleaning up.

Simple no bake vegan cookies
Simple no bake vegan cookies

The ingredients are easy to find and compliments each other in this recipe.

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How I cope with being an emotional eater?

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I am an emotional eater
I am an emotional eater

My emotions drive my eating, I eat when  stressed, sad or overwhelmed. It took me many years to admit that I have a not so desired habit of reaching for “comfort food” when I am feeling down.

Through my journey of discovering I am an emotional eater, I realised that I have an emotional relationship with food. It’s part of my culture and how I was raised. Every life event, food was involved. If it’s a birthday, we celebrate with cake.If someone is sick, we nurse them with food, if someone passes away, we take food to their home. If we are celebrating a promotion, we go out to a restaurant, if anyone is having a bad day at work, we give them a chocolate and it goes on and on!

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