• Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin
  • Pinterest

Shift Nutrition

Dietitian & Nutritionist

  • About Skye
  • Work With Me
    • Consultant Dietitian and Nutritionist
    • Recipe Development
    • Nutrition Writer
  • Recipes
    • Breakfast
    • Mains
    • Salads
    • Snacks
    • Sweet Stuff
  • Contact
Home / detox

By Skye Swaney Leave a Comment

5 Things You Don’t Need To Be Healthy

shutterstock_269511065Unless you’re replacing your morning coffee with kale juice, dragging yourself out of bed at 5am for another punishing workout and spending your entire Sunday afternoon preparing food for the week, these days it can feel like you’re just not trying hard enough. It seems that being healthy has become a full time job, with overtime.

We can mostly blame social media for this, with ‘healthy lifestyles’ now paraded all over Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and basically anywhere you look. Impressive as these displays of dedication are,  I don’t really blame people for feeling like they just can’t quite be bothered with it all. Witnessing the endless stream of health and fitness routines is exhausting enough, let alone actually trying to do any of this stuff yourself.

But rest assured, looking after yourself doesn’t have to mean a lifetime of abstinence and self flagellation. Here are just a few of the many things you don’t actually need to do to be healthy: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Nutrition Tagged With: detox, healthy

Latest Recipes

The Perfect Breakfast: Homemade Toasted Muesli

muesliMuesli is one of the best breakfasts going around. Its got plenty of low GI carbohydrates and fibre thanks to the oats and dried fruit, plus protein and healthy fats from the nuts and seeds – everything you want in a super healthy breakfast.

But while muesli tastes great, there’s something about the crunchiness of toasted muesli which is even better. Unfortunately, commercially made toasted muesli is usually full of added sugar, fat and salt – not exactly the basis of a healthy breakfast. But this doesn’t mean you have to go back to the raw stuff.

Making your own toasted muesli is not only amazingly satisfying, it also means you can add in all your favourite ingredients and you know exactly what’s in it. Plus, you can make up a big batch to last you a few weeks – an activity guaranteed to leave you feeling virtuous on a Sunday afternoon. [Read More…]

  • About Skye
  • Work With Me
  • Recipes
  • Contact

Made with in Australia