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Remember the summer holidays? No, me neither. Those long, lazy days have faded from view and the year is now in full swing. Hands up if you’d promised yourself, ‘I’m not going to get so stressed this year’. Well given that staying relaxed is a lot harder than it looks, we’ve packed this issue with proven techniques for taking a walk on the calm side. Our writer Sara Bunny is reporting from the frontline of mindfulness, where she’s been taking a course to quell the worrywart inside; intrepid traveller Emma Clifton has been stretching her way to inner peace at the Wanderlust festival; and Australian TV personality and health coach Rachael Finch tells us how she is literally dancing her cares away. Our cover star is New Zealand’s own yoga…
TOTAL WELLBEING Thank you Good Health Choices for continuing to write an amazing magazine with articles that focus on loving, accepting and taking care of our bodies. After suffering with an eating disorder for seven years, I thought all was lost but your magazine helped me to change my thinking and learn to nourish my body. Changing my life has helped me give back to others, and I have just published a self-help autobiography about my journey, to inspire people not to give up. We should all be thinking healthy over skinny! Rhianna Boyd RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS I’ve never been the most inventive cook, but the recipes in the February weight loss guide have really inspired me. Coming home tired and hungry after work, I would usually turn to one…
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MOVING MOTIVATION Struggling to motivate yourself to move? Tell yourself you’ll enjoy your workout. In a study by the University of Colorado, participants were asked to run on a treadmill for 30 minutes, near the pace that puts them out of breath. A third of the participants were told finishing a jog like the one they were doing would leave them feeling refreshed. All participants were then asked to follow the same programme for a week. Those who were told the run would make them feel better not only remembered the initial run more positively, they also tended to run more than the other participants throughout the week. And if you’re trying to push yourself? Reframe those negative feelings. Instead of thinking ‘My legs are burning’ or ‘I’m sweating like…
1 TAILOR YOUR WATER INTAKE Sports dietitian Ali Patterson says the amount of water you need to drink post-workout should reflect the amount of sweat lost. So if you weigh yourself before a run and return 2kg lighter, you should drink two litres of water. 2 TOP UP YOUR ELECTROLYTES Patterson says the main electrolyte lost in sweat is sodium, and when you have a long, sweaty workout, it’s just as important to replace the minerals lost as it is to rehydrate. How do you know if you need to replace your electrolytes? Look at your most-used workout shirt – if there are white rings of salt around the collar, you’re a prime candidate to replace what you’ve lost. 3 KEEP YOUR CORE COOL If you’re not one to wait…
LIVING THE HEALTHY LIFE BY JESSICA SEPEL, $39.99 Australian nutritionist and health blogger Jessica Sepel has journeyed from disordered eating to focusing on nourishment and wellbeing, and is now on a mission to help others. She identifies the underlying issues she faced and guides readers to examine the different parts of their lives that may need more care and attention. The book culminates in an 8-week action plan that gives readers a holistic guide to the most important principles for healing their relationship with food, their body and their life. (Macmillan) THE HAPPINESS EQUATION BY NEIL PASRICHA, $30.95 After a pretty horrible year dealing with divorce and the death of a close friend, Neil Pasricha fell in love again and remarried. On the flight home from their honeymoon, his new…
