How To Avoid Menopausal Weight Gain

How To Avoid Menopausal Weight Gain

Health, Hormones, Start Here

On average a women may gain 5 – 7 kilos per decade as they get older. There are a few theories as to why and most relate to hormonal imbalances and physiological changes that occur as we age. Waist measurement is however the best guide to health and unfortunately...
Love Your Heart!

Love Your Heart!

Health, Hormones

Some of our goals can be challenging to complete, others are challenging in the manner of tracking them. Blood pressure falls into the later. It is one of our Goldilocks goals where we don’t want it to be too high and we don’t want it to be low either. It has to be...
Fitbit Tracker Review Part 1

Fitbit Tracker Review Part 1

Exercise, Health, Tech For Health

I recently bought myself a Fitbit Charge which is an activity and sleep tracker. I have been researching for a few months and was thinking about waiting for Apple’s watch, but my technical advisor (aka my husband) advised waiting for the next generation of the Apple...
Daily Wellbeing Check List – Free Poster

Daily Wellbeing Check List – Free Poster

Self-care

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...
Basal Metabolic Rate: Harris Benedict

Basal Metabolic Rate: Harris Benedict

Health Calculator

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: Health resources

Health, The Menopause Diaries

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...