The little changes!

In the last 4 years, how I look after myself has really changed. Maybe it was turning 30, having kids, heading into an algorithm wormhole of clean eating on my socials, being married to mr ‘I take 75 supplements a day and enjoy Hyrox’ - who knows.

Don’t get me wrong, I eat pizza, I drink wine (not often in all honesty, more of a Amaretto sour woman), happily will nosh a bag of Percy pigs - but I’ve been asked on a few podcasts now what I do to to keep healthy and I thought I’d share them - as typically for me they’re a bit off piste and not the usual trends.

Oh and these aren’t Ad’s - Sam is the one who gets the influencer packages!

• Electrolytes - I HATE the plastic sacaryn taste of those powders. But as a 90’s kid who is perpetually dehydrated - I needed something. I decided to go with Oshun - I started this post Zura (you know the gasp for water post partum vibe) and it’s massively changed me. It’s pure electrolyte concentrate and tastes a bit like drinking the ocean - in a good way.

• Quit the coffee - in all honesty I was a ‘social coffee drinker’ so stopping it wasn’t cold turkey. I feel surprisingly so much less tired without the caffeine. I like a Trip drink - the elderflower mint is cute.

• Sunlight before socials - I’d love to be Deborah Meaden and walk around my paddock barefoot every morning but living in a North London with two kids who take far too long to get their coat on - this isn’t quite in my season right now. But since the start of this year (after reading the Dose Effect) I get up, see daylight (usually my just letting the dog out and sitting on the step by my garden with a glass of water) before I go on socials. I struggle with the don’t go on your phone to early thing because I do work before my kids get up, but this is a good way of doing this with unhealthy screen habits.

• Lions Mane - if you’ve not tried it. Do it. The Dirtea gummies are fun. And the brain fog is less.

• Cooking with Celtic sea salt. It’s less processed and is richer in magnesium and calcium. We are in weaning mode, and whilst I don’t cook Iries food with salt, I do now make much more from scratch (you’ll see cooking with Z on my insta!). This along with other things really helped my water retention.

• Ditch the trainers. And be barefoot as much as possible. (See my Barefoot article)

  
  

• Loops - I happily pop these in and float into my slightly muted focus bubble. I got green ones. They’re cute.

  
  

• And finally I always now eat veg before anything else - 90% of the time. After reading the Glucose Revolution (thanks aunty Julie!) it really made me think. It’s easier than you think. Chuck back some cucumber that’s going in the lunchbox before breakfast, eat some raw carrots whilst peeling the others etc. My students take the Mickey but I’m often seen eating a pepper like an apple on break time.

The little things add up when it comes to health.