Nutrition & Pilates with Bonnie

10/02/2022

When you miss the weekly farmers market and find a mammoth courgette in the garden to get you through the week..

- creamy courgette pesto pasta
- courgette and dark chocolate muffins
- roasted courgette and chickpea stew
- courgette bread

🤤

21/11/2021

Super Green Rice Paper Rolls packed with plenty of fibre, protein and micronutrients 🌱 This batch has grilled tofu, avocado, red onion, fresh herbs, cucumber, greens from the garden and anything else I could find in the fridge along with a PB and Tahini Dipping Sauce ❤

28/04/2021

Barre Instructor Life 🥰 Pilates meets ballet, meets total body (especially the b***y) burn!

14/03/2021

What an amazing few weeks smashing out 50 hours of STOTT Pilates Reformer Training 💪🏼 Officially earning my title as the Sweet Assassin 😂 Feeling ready to kick some butt 😊

11/01/2021

Happy New Year!

It’s that time of year again where New Year's resolutions are being made (and start to be broken 😁). I don't know about you but my official New Year resolutions start today!

As I am very passionate about considering the environment when making food choices I thought I would kickstart this year with a post regarding the Planetary diet. In this following post, I dive into what this diet is, why considering the environment when making food choices is important, and provide general food guidelines which consider both human health and the environment.

What I hope is that we can all create a few goals or resolutions this year regarding our food choices to help reduce our impact on the environment.

Enjoy xx

The planetary diet is a way of eating that has been designed to be both good for the environment and beneficial for human health. The diet is composed of nutrient-dense plant-based foods like …

16/11/2020

NEW BLOG POST ❤️

There is an ongoing debate in the nutrition world around whether soy products like tofu are good for human health. With all the junk food available on our supermarket shelves I can’t help but wonder if this focus around whole soy products is industry-driven since they are a common staple of many vegetarian and vegan diets, but nonetheless, this controversy has caused a lot of confusion. In this post, I will discuss what soy is, why it is so controversial, and any common health concerns soy may have on human health and the environment.

There is an ongoing debate in the nutrition world around whether soy products like tofu are good for human health. With all the junk food available on our supermarket shelves I can’t help but wonde…

17/09/2020

Proud moment ❤️

13/09/2020

Due to our fast-paced lifestyles, more and more people are ending up with low energy, tiredness and fatigue. Since these symptoms are common and somewhat normalised in our society, we can spend most of their lives running on adrenaline until eventually it all comes crashing down. At this point, we head to our doctor, where a blood test should be taken to rule out any medical conditions for causing these symptoms. But in most cases, these results come back normal. This is when you may receive the informal diagnosis of “adrenal fatigue”. In this blog post, I will discuss what Adrenal Fatigue is, the common symptoms, the controversy around the condition, and finally 5 tips that may help alleviate your symptoms.

Due to our fast-paced lifestyles, more and more people are ending up with low energy, tiredness and fatigue. Since these symptoms are common and somewhat normalised in our society, we can spend mos…

08/08/2020

We have made it to what will hopefully be the better half of 2020. To continue with the Year of Sustainability Challenge, this month will be dedicated to hosting a beach clean up. Each year much plastic is left disregarded around our beaches and tonnes end up in our oceans. This is having devastating effects on marine ecosystems. This month get your friends or families or even just yourself together and head out to your local beach, or river or lake if you do not live near a beach and pick up some rubbish.

01/06/2020

Can you believe it is already June?! When 2020 started I thought this was going to be the ultimate year of change, growth and self-discovery. But within a few months, this was put to a halt. Many of us have spent almost half of this year locked safely inside stopping COVID-19 from spreading across the country. But now that things are slowly starting to return to normal, it is time to kickstart the mid-year goals!

This month is the start of Junk-Free June, a fundraiser that started in 2015, to raise money for the Cancer Society. The challenge for Junk Free June is to remove all the junk foods and drinks from our diets for the entire month of June! This challenge is a great way to recapture our health as we move into the colder winter months where we need our health and a strong immune system more than ever.

Junk-Free June is a part of my Year of Sustainability Challenge so join in and give it a go.

Can you believe it is already June?! When 2020 started I thought this was going to be the ultimate year of change, growth and self-discovery. But within a few months, this was put to a halt. Many o…

19/05/2020

One of my favourite hidden spots 💕 A lavender farm which uses the lavender they grow to make everything from oil to soap, to chocolate and candles! Nothing beats NZ businesses who are working so hard to be authentic and sustainable ❤️ Remember to buy smart and support your local businesses!

01/05/2020

This is the time where we all need to be supporting local businesses in New Zealand like family-run cafes and restaurants that have been allowed to reopen and will be struggling to get back on their feet. I know many people believed that the world would end without a Big Mac, but for some small-scaled cafes and restaurants, this could be the end without our support. Let’s make New Zealand not only the country that squashed COVID-19 but the country that supported their neighbours, their small local businesses and rebuilt their economy by giving hardworking New Zealand owned businesses a chance to regain their strength. This May challenge yourself to support local businesses ❤️

Sustainability in 2020 is no easy feat! Our modern lifestyles have been created using the earth’s natural resources and it has become almost impossible to avoid harming the earth in some way.…