Motivated Musings

Easy Peasy Gluten Free Granola gluten free health retreat healthy eating healthy recipes recipe Feb 15, 2023

The health & nutrition world likes to demonize certain foods.

  • You can't possibly eat this and expect to lose weight.
  • These foods are on the 'red x' list, eat only these foods from the 'green check mark' list. 
  • Cut out these 'high sugar belly fat foods'

**Cue eye roll**

I believe...

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Chia & Quinoa Breakfast Flatbread Jul 13, 2022

I hosted another Health Retreat last month and these mini breakfast flatbreads were such a hit!

At every Health Retreat I always have a wide range of participants and eating preferences or allergies. Inevitably someone has a sensitivity to gluten or even maybe has celiac disease. I am always on...

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Super seed cookies recipe - Retreat Approved! cookies food healthy recipes hiking snacks recipe May 24, 2022

These cookies are gluten free, nut-free, low in sugar, but  most of all, totally delicious!

They are quick to make and are the perfect mid-hike snack, or the perfect thing to satisfy your mid-day sweet tooth. 

You can modify the recipe for what you have in your pantry, add nuts if...

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Accessing Internal Motivation - The True Key to Change May 01, 2022

I'm personally fascinated by human behaviour, particularly as it relates to habits and personal motivation. 

What makes one person driven to workout, follow a race training plan, or hike a mountain, and another person struggles to be consistent with getting outside for a regular walk or...

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5 simple habits to bring a spring back into your health Mar 11, 2022

We're at the point in the year when we start to emerge from our winter hibernation and start to think about warmer days ahead.

Perhaps it's the slight uptick on the thermometer, the emergence of spring buds, and this year, the easing of Covid restrictions that has us thinking about brighter...

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5 Ways to Find 20 Minutes in Your Busy Schedule Feb 14, 2021

The one binding factor to each and every one of us is that time is limited and we need more of it.

No matter who you talk to you people seems to be busy…too busy. So busy we don’t have time to focus on all the things we want to do. More often than not things that are good for us fall...

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Protein Pancakes That Don't Suck Feb 14, 2021

I’ve tried countless recipes for protein pancakes over the years but they never turn out quite right. They’re often flat, chalky, fall apart miserably in the pan or stick to the bottom and make it near impossible to flip, the end result being a mix of messy chunks of half burnt...

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Essentials to Build Your Home Gym Feb 14, 2021

Whether you enjoy working out at home or do it out of a necessity of 2020 & COVID-life, so many people have been turning parts of their home into a make-shift gym since March.

A lot of people I’ve talked to have realized they actually really like the convenience of working out from...

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Fall Baked Butternut Squash Crunch Feb 14, 2021

I’m a pretty busy person, so I look for ways in which I can be more productive. Hitting 2 birds with one stone, so to speak.

I don’t have a ton of time to spend on meal prep, so when I choose a recipe it has to be easy to put together, with basic ingredients I may have on hand (or can...

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