Health & Wellness — Blog — Kelly St Claire

In a bid to take up healthy eating, you’ve most likely already conducted research to find out which foods are good for your health and which ones you should avoid.

However, even with all of this knowledge and your willingness to change, you’re still struggling to develop and maintain healthy eating habits.

The reason for this is that any healthy eating knowledge is worthless without the right mindset.

This post will discuss how you can get into the right frame of mind and start easily integrating healthy foods into your diet with five simple but effective mental habits.

What is Intuitive Eating?

Thinking about getting in shape? Well, the first thing that you need to consider would be your diet. What you are eating and how much you are eating would decide how quickly and better you get in shape.

Now, of course, the first idea you get from this is that you should start to diet. Cut off the carbs, fats, and a lot of other things from your diet.

The truth is you don’t need to do that to get in shape, with the right kind of food and by keeping yourself close to nature and your roots, you can keep your body in very good shape. It’s called intuitive eating.

Love your Skin with Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple cider vinegar has many skincare uses. It can be a potent weapon in the fight against acne, and it can help soothe sunburned skin. Ahead, learn some of the best ways to use apple cider vinegar in your skincare regimen.

5 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism with Exercise

If you want to optimize your metabolism and maximize the number of calories your body burns each day, exercise is a very important part of the process. The good news is that boosting your metabolism with exercise is a relatively simple process and in this article, I’m going to be showing you how by providing you with five top metabolism-boosting exercise tips.

Eat Dandelion Greens in the Spring

The dandelion plant is said to be a powerful healer to address numerous maladies including digestion-related problems, blood purification, preventing gallstones and piles, and others.

Dandelion greens provide a higher amount of vitamins and minerals than most cultivated greens. Some of those are the following:
* Multivitamins include vitamin C, vitamins B1, B2, B6

How to Stop Stress/Emotional Eating

Journaling is a common and beneficial practice that is often recommended for emotional, mental, spiritual, and psychological health. It is easy to do and offers an excellent opportunity to work through the emotional and stressful challenges of life. A journal does not judge you or offer advice; it is simply a sounding board for you to work through thoughts and feelings, or to just document your life.

What Makes the New Year New? (is is only another day?)

It’s almost upon us! The bright, fresh, clean slate that a new year brings.

There are so many ways to ring in the new year. I have my own traditions. Do you have traditions?

Every New Year’s Eve I deeply clean and rearrange my home. I switch out the art and change any decor themes. I don’t follow any rules for this, I intuitively make my home fresh so I wake up on New Year’s Day with a fresh, new, clean home/canvas to create the upcoming year on.

I also get new sheets and sometimes new pillows so I wake on January 1st in a fresh, new way.

How '9 Week Control Freak' Changed My Life

2020 feels like it has taken control of everything. Time to take it back with Super Trainer Autumn Calabrese’s newest program, 9 Week Control Freak!

Autumn designed this program as three, 3-week phases that will increase in intensity and exercise difficulty.

You’ll commit to five days of exercise per week with workouts ranging from just 18 to 30 minutes.

On workout days, you'll also do Controlled Stretch sessions using stretching, breathing exercises, and other restorative techniques that will help prepare you for better sleep and recovery overnight.

Weight Gain and How Your Hormones Affect It

One of the most common physical side effects of having a hormonal imbalance, especially in women, is weight gain. Why is that? Because your hormones help to regulate many systems in your body that control your weight, including your appetite and metabolism.

This article is going to explore what hormones you need to keep balanced, how they can affect your weight, and what you can do about it.