All about eating

Hello!

First I want to thank everyone for reading my recent posts :) I'm positively surprised for the popularity of my recent texts. This one is all about eating! If we eat well and fuel up the body with what it needs we'll feel physically good and that's self evidence. In addition there's also existing scientifically proven connection between nutrition and mental wellbeing so I have wanted to learn what it means to eat well and treat your body right. I'm finding that quite an inspiring and worth the effort challenge in the everyday life and I'm happy if I can give you some ideas to try. I promised to talk about it a bit more specifically what do I eat and what's good for our bodies and metabolism ...So here we go!

My every morning starts with taking a sip of aloe vera. Aloe is an excellent supplement for the wellbeing of the whole body! I drink this for my overall wellbeing and aloe has plenty of benefits to health. That you can figure out via google very quickly if your're interested in knowing more (: I warmly recommend to give it a try if you want to daily give something good to your body and start the metabolism effectively in the morning. (Ps. this bottle just won the 1st place of the listing of best natural health boosters of the year in Sweden)

People talk about protein a lot these days and it's no wonder since getting protein is quite important to our body and in the past it has been underrated a bit. Carbs haven't been particularly fashionable lately but our body NEEDS carbs as well. (And especially when and if you wish to burn fat or get leaner appearance!). The quality of the carbs important. Your body loves the good quality carbs that contain plenty of dietary fibre, are packed with nutrition and help you maintain an even blood sugar level for quite a long time. The so called bad carbs lack the nutrition completely for it's processed away in the making of the white flour, rice and pasta. The bad carbs are also called the "fast carbs." Those don't have anything your body actually needs and they bloat you up for the starch they have. The fast carbs do take the blood sugar up quickly but it comes down just as quickly since the processed carbs lack all the nutrition and dietary fibre our body desires. Thus the fast carbs are unable to maintain the blood sugar level even and it drops down fast. If you have a low blood sugar level you'll feel hungry and your body tells you that you should eat.
If you fuel your body mostly with bad quality carbs you're feeling hungry very often.

I love especially oat for it's tasty and very good quality carb containing also plenty of protein and nutrients! Those who follow me on ig have for sure spotted every now and then different kinda yoghurt bowls with rolled oats on my stories. This one in the pic I crafted on Sunday for breakfast. It was quite yummy! Making one is very simple and easy and this is packed with nutrition! (:

If you want to recreate this Pomegranate yoghurt bowl
 you'll need: 

• about half a cup of rolled oats 
• about a cup of natural youghurt (10% fat)
• half of a pomegranate
• some apple puree
• cinnamon
• pumpkin seeds & sunflower seeds
•  a few dried apricots and brazil nuts 

Just pour the rolled oats to the bottom of the bowl, add about half of the pomegranate seeds, add the yoghurt, pour some apple puree into the bowl. Add to the top rest of the pomegranate seeds a bit of cinnamon and the seeds. Mince a bit the brazil nuts and the apricots and put on the top of the bowl. Ready! 😋 (ofc you can make also a bigger bowl if you want to!)

And in addition to suitable amounts of protein and good quality fats and carbs our body is designed to eat plenty of veggies & fruits! So in the end of this post I'll share a delicious nutrition packed green smoothie blend :)

• two bananas
• two granny smith apples
• two small limes squeezed (or one big)
• about a cup of fresh spinach leaves
• half a cup of pineapple cubes
• cup of mango cubes
• one pear
• about a handful of sea buckthorn berries
• + little ice cubes & protein powder

Put everything into a powerful blender and blend the smoothie!

~Have a fantastic week!~

♥-Tiina-♥

xx

The ugly duckling

Good evening!

6-years ago

Today

I'm continuing to write about the things I've changed in my life to become happier and more balanced person. Today's post goes a little bit further into my past and to the days of beginning to transform my life into better one. The post is about nutrition and taking healthier habits. (Also along with a little bit about my personal history. If you like totally happy & joyful stories this one ain't for you since I don't have particularly happy past :)

When the left photo was taken 6-years ago I was miserable in many ways. I had gone through quite a lot some difficult shit and mentally I was totally lost. I was depressed and didn't see anything much worth living to exist in this world. I had a tendency of comforting myself with food since I've always enjoyed tasty food a lot and been good at cooking something delicious. And back then eating something that tasted good was nearly the only thing that made life worth living for. So I ate. I ate a lot and plenty of truly unhealthy stuff.

At that time I had very very little knowledge of nutrition and how should you fuel the body the "right way" nor was I even interested in that. I didn't care much at all about anything. Until one day I just got enough of being a doormat to other people and talking down myself all the time. Got enough of being called unworthy, fat, ugly, useless etc. and it wasn't just me telling myself those things. That's rather what I heard most of my life as a kid and teen from others and that eventually became what I thought about myself and thus I let people continuously treat me as I was worthless which got me more and more miserable and depressed.
I was heavily bullied during my school years and yet the worst bully I've ever had in my life was someone I had to live with under the same roof nearly to my young adulthood years. Then he died but his words echoed in my head quite a long time even after his demise and those words defined me to be unworthy, useless fat and ugly.

Eventually I just got enough of the bad legacy he and all the bullies left me to carry. I decided I want to make my life better and that I deserve that. It started with learning to value myself, quitting all the toxic relationships and beginning to take care of my body for the first time in my life. I quit the emotional eating. I also got my asthma diagnosed and medication to it so I was able to start going to gym. Along starting gym and having an aim of making my physical condition better I started to get interested in nutrition and what does human body actually need for metabolism to work properly and how to give your body all that it needs. How to physically feel energetic and take good care of yourself. At that time I also tried the first time the Forever Living products and started using the amazing dietary supplements the company offers in addition to top notch cosmetics. (I still use the products and soon I'll have my own business with those!)

I got interested in nutritional value of the food I eat and cook. How to make something delicious - and good for you. Instead of cooking with the "traditional" habits taught to restaurant chefs. (Basically what's done in the most of the restaurants is using plenty of fat, salt and sugar to make the food tasty. Restaurant dishes simply are mostly incredibly unhealthy.)
That's one of the biggest reasons I didn't want to continue my career as a chef. I don't want anymore to cook dishes that merely indulge the taste buds and sicken the body in the long run but to cook dishes that indulge the taste buds + promote health and wellbeing of the body. I left and started seeking a new career path matching better with my interests. Finally I have found one!

 I'll be writing more about what eating the right kinda stuff does to your body and metabolism...And I'll also post some easy recipes of dishes that are good for you and to your taste buds! PS. I'm definitely not someone obsessing over clean eating and going to gym! I still do love pizza, beer, wine and junk food overall and having all that occasionally definitely doesn't harm anyone in my opinion (:

What I want to say in the end of this post is that you are not defined by your past if you don't allow it to be so. You can break free and get up from there no matter what's your starting point.
It's always a long journey but the journey of pursuing your dreams and becoming the happiest version of you that you can be is worth the ride. This post was quite a long one. Thank you for reading if you read my text until this last sentence!

~Hopefully you'll have a fantastic weekend!~

♥-Tiina-♥

xx

Perfectly imperfect

Hi!

 

I wrote in my last post that I want to speak a bit about the things that have helped me becoming a happier - and probably also a better person. One of those things was to grow myself a self esteem depending on completely other things than a dolled up face with flawless make up, nice aesthetic clothing and appearing as good looking as possible all the time. 

I still do love to do a make up, to decorate my face, to dress up beautifully and to play with cosmetics. I'm an aesthetic and I love to decorate things overall. Many females love doing that and there's nothing wrong with that...But if our feeling of self worth depends on and is based on the perfect make up the clothing the fitness of our body and other completely shallow things there's something wrong. At that point we become quite unhappy about ourselves since that 'perfection' people praise is surreal, shallow and at some level even artificial for no one of us wakes up every morning all dolled up. 

When we are unhappy about ourselves we tend to get addicted to the reassurance given by others and beg for the positive attention based on the dolled up appearance and go to desperate measures to look as good as possible all the time which makes us feel even worse about ourselves since we feel like we are loved only when we appear "perfect" looking.

 We are also quick to judge the "flaws" and the appearance of others when we are unable to accept and embrace the real not at all dolled up image in the mirror. 

Eventually we must learn to love the imperfect and the real image of ourselves if we want to be happy. That's the only way to truly feel good about yourself and be able to be good to the people around you as well. 

Being real sort of also makes you much more vulnerable to possible mean comments and the hecklers internet is full of. Still being real is worth it (and also much effortless tangibly and mentally than trying to appear as good good looking and flawless as possible all the time!)

 You have to remember that people with the need to bully or criticize others based on ones face and looks are not the happy and balanced people. 

Still I do see many things I don't particularly like when I'm looking at myself and I definitely don't consider myself the prettiest girl on earth...but I've learnt to own who I'm and I want to encourage people to just be real and embrace who you really are! You are not any less you or less beautiful without all the make up and effort. I think it's time to bring back the real instead of praising and considering something utterly surreal to be how we should look like and appear all the time.

You might get surprised how good being real feels like - and also about that how much people still love you whether you appear perfect all the time or not! You are good just as you are. 

~Hopefully you'll have a wonderful week!~

xx

♥-Tiina-♥