My Secrets To Healthy Eating
We all aspire to be healthy eaters but life often gets in the way and we may not always make the best choices. Eating from home is an important aspect of that for me. Healthy eating starts with what you are buying! How to creating a healthy shopping list Deciding what...
Daily Wellbeing Check List – Free Poster
For those busy days when you need a little reminding to look after yourself! Print off this free poster and pop it somewhere you can see it to help you to remember. To download your own printable PDF poster, click here and save to your PC. P.S. it looks prettier if...
SMILE: 5 Easy Steps To Help Balance Your Hormones
Making some simple changes to how you live your life can have a huge benefit and positive impact on your wellbeing and PMS symptoms. We are hugely influential on our wellbeing. The key is finding solutions that easily fit into our lifestyle. Anything that you shoehorn...
Menopause? No sweat!
We have all heard horror stories of hot flushes and weight gain but is the menopause always destined to be like that? It turns out there is quite a lot you have control over to minimise symptoms. Being proactive about health care and wellbeing is high up my list of...
Basal Metabolic Rate: Harris Benedict
The Harris Benedict method calculates your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) using your age as well as weight and height. This is useful for insight as to how many calories we need to think about reducing as we get older. In the UK we are told that the ‘average’ women needs...The Menopause Diaries: Food resources
The below external links are background information to my book The Menopause Diaries. PDF: Food Standards Agency – Balance of Good Health Web link: Fruit and veggies colour list PDF link: 5 a day portion guide Web link: Glycemic Index Blog link: Carbs, Fiber and...The Menopause Diaries: Exercise resources
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Web link: Recommendations for exercise Web link: Exercise Recommendations for Menopause-Aged Women Web link: Exercise, Menopause and Osteoporosis PDF: Dehydration and Estrogen PDF: Perceived Exertion(RPE) PDF: Strength...The Menopause Diaries: Health resources
The below external links are background information to heath sections of my book The Menopause Diaries. Heart health Web link: Healthy eating for your heart Web link: Heart health and the menopause Web link: High cholesterol Web link: NHS Cholesterol Web link: High...The Menopause Diaries: Hormone resources
Web link: NHS Menopause Web link: Women’s Health Concern The Menopause Web link: NICE Menopause: diagnosis and management (2015) Web link: That time of the month? Disclaimer: The external links are background information to my book The Menopause Diaries. I do not have...The Menopause Diaries: Mind set resources
The below external links are background information to my book The Menopause Diaries. I do not have any affiliate links to the websites below and I am not recommending any of the products they may be selling. The links on this page were last checked on 13th Sept 2016...
Recommended Reading
The menopause is not about ‘fixing you’, it’s often about making sense of it and enjoying the journey as hard or odd as that sounds! Books are perhaps are greatest source of wisdom. While some of the books below are about exercise and healthy eating....
ME-Hormonal Carbohydrates
The Hormonal Carbohydrates calculation is from Metabolic Effect and is a simple way to calculate how carbohydrate dense a product is. We are aiming for as close to zero as you can get, but we all have our own ideal figure which we can only determine through trial and...
Waist to Hip ratio (WTH)
How much you weigh is usually how you measure how healthy you are. Until you are menopausal and then your waistline expands! It suddenly comes under scrutiny. The waist to hip ratio is an important guide for women’s health, as it measure where you store any...
Period Tracker
Let’s start with an overview of a ‘normal’ menstrual cycle: Your menstrual cycle averages 28 days. The 4 weeks are split in the middle by day 14 which is when you ovulate. Day 1 is when your period starts. The first two weeks are called the...
