Emotional Eating in Menopause: How not to do it in lock-down.
‘With many restaurants closed’, states the article in New York Times (April 7th, 2020), ‘shoppers are reaching for frozen pizza, cans of soup and boxes of cereal. In a moment of crisis, shoppers are turning to old stand-bys that they may not have had in years or even decades’. Comfort food for uncertain times. How […]
MyMT™ Restore your Joyful Joints in Menopause
Have you arrived in your menopause years and your knees and joints ache? Maybe you can’t bend down like you used to? Maybe your knees ache when you get out of bed (as do the soles of your feet?) Maybe your legs feel restless and heavy overnight? Maybe you can’t do the activity you used […]
Still putting on weight in menopause despite all that exercise? Then let me explain why …
For over 30 years I’ve seen the numbers of new members visiting the gym swell in the New Year. With promises of weight loss and improved fitness, Personal Trainers and Group Exercise Instructors would implore those attending to sweat hard for their weight management. When I used to be that young Personal Trainer too and […]
‘The Art of Not Falling Apart’ (a book by Christina Patterson) and why menopause makes anxiety worse.
I know a bit about stress. Not only my own ‘butterflies in my gut’ experiences from my former life as a nurse working in fast-paced life and death environments in Intensive Care, but also teaching about athlete stress to Sport and Exercise students. Until I did my PhD, I had never thought about how our […]
NEW VIDEO: Let’s all stay resilient and remember, we are stronger together.
Let’s build our resilience together … we’re better together. “When we fully embrace and try to understand the situation and embark on a gentle and considered way forward, we can come out the other side stronger for it.” [Matthew Johnstone – The Little Book of Resilience]. Without a doubt I am thinking of you all […]
The Corona Pantry: A family favourite bursting with beans.
In my childhood, beans were culinary outcasts. The only beans that my mother had in her pantry were heavy in a thick, sugary sauce but when we were rushing out the door to run for the school bus, for my mother, they were a quick and easy breakfast to feed us kids. Watties Baked Beans […]
Exercise and your ageing immune system and my 3 top exercises to boost your immunity during menopause.
Since the mid-1980s researchers have systematically examined the effects of a session of exercise on immune function. With the health chaos that the world is experiencing, I’m reminded of this research today. Never before have we become so aware of our immune function and for women in menopause, immune health is crucial to look after. […]
If you want to sleep all night, reduce hot flushes or achieve menopause weight loss, or you want to rebuild your fitness, then discover which MyMT™ programme is for you.
Imagine feeling like your old-self again. Imagine saving money on all those supplements and medications you are taking to reduce your menopause symptoms. Imagine having the energy you deserve in mid-life …. Whether you are in peri-menopause or post-menopause, knowledge is power. So when it comes to our menopause transition I want you to become […]
Menopause Supplements and Alternative Therapies for your hot flushes … what works, what doesn’t.
The emails arrive in my in-box every week – women wanting to know if I promote supplements for menopause – [no I don’t, because I’m not a Naturopath] – or asking why they are still getting hot flushes, anxiety and insomnia, even though they are taking a variety of menopause supplements. This was me as […]
