Carrie Twining

01/05/2025

Amazing offer on at Purdy & Fig this week! 🧼

Purdy & Figg make natural cleaning products scented with pure essential oils, to change how you feel about cleaning forever.

20/04/2025

Funny but also a great way to raise awareness and open discussion about a time in a woman’s life that we should all be talking about.

To protect your wife, daughter, sister, mother.

Su***de rates in women aged 45-54 have risen by 6% in the last 20 years.

Peak divorce rates are between the ages of 45-55.

The average age for menopause is 51.

Depression, anxiety, weight gain, suicidal thoughts are just some of symptoms women can experience.

If you notice changes in the women you love and care about. Don’t fight them, don’t criticise, be patient, educate yourself, take more care, love them more, give them a bloody hug!

They need time to rewire, be patient ❤️‍🩹

17/03/2025

Just one of the many tricks used to get you to spend more money! Certified organic is certified, that you CAN trust.

19/02/2025

Living in a house with 3 boys, one of the biggest challenges is getting them to understand that I need less food than they do! Portion sizes out of control and it can make it really difficult to manage my weight.

My top tip for dealing with this is to set yourself a smaller plate, it will half your portion size!

27/01/2025

Salads don’t have to be boring, in fact, it’s a great way to increase the diversity of plants in your diet each week.

I love a leafy salad but sometimes when I’ve run out I just chop and avocado and mix it in with some other things. Today I have pomegranate, pumpkin seeds & feta, with olive oil and a squeeze of lemon.

Delicious! 😋

26/01/2025

Morning!

Alongside my Health Coaching Practice, I wanted to be able to offer clients a range of non-toxic, organic beauty products so I decided to back my favourite skincare brand, Tropics!

Being able to advise on diet, fitness and lifestyle as a complete package is really important to me to support clients holistically in every area of their life affecting health.

If you are new to try this brand it is absolutely beautiful! With skincare, body care and make-up choices, it is the perfect range to reduce the toxic burden on your body.

For more information on the product ranges, click here to see the brochure: https://issuu.com/tropicskincare/docs/2024_p_glowissue7_full-pages

Or get in touch to arrange a pamper & try the products for yourself 💆🏻‍♀️❤️

Check out this months special offer 👇🏼🌱

20/01/2025

Getting your family on board with a healthy lifestyle can be a real challenge. It can hinder your own progress and test your will power to its limits!

It’s been a real journey, over the last 5 years in particular, for my own family, and to be honest, it’s one we’ve not completely cracked yet but we are most definitely on our way there!

Once a month we have started leaving a Saturday completely clear and choosing a theme night for dinner. We create a menu together in the morning, shop for it and spend time during the day preparing a different part of the meal each.

The kids love it and it’s been a really nice way to spend time together doing something we all enjoy, EATING! 😆

This week it was Indian night, we learned some new recipes, had fun together and the food was amazing!

Including everyone in the process of choosing recipes, shopping for healthy ingredients, and preparing the food has a huge impact on the kids willingness to try things and start to understand the basics of living a healthy lifestyle.

What tricks do you use to encourage your family to lead a healthier lifestyle?

19/01/2025

How can you introduce mushrooms into your meals?

I have always really disliked the texture of mushrooms so we finely chop them and add to things like stew and bolognese.

Would love to know if you have any sneaky mushroom recipes!

11/01/2025

Living gluten free for the last twenty years we have seen huge changes in the industry and availability of food has most definitely increased, but how much of that gluten free food is actually healthy???

The sad fact is that most of it is even more unhealthy than the wheat alternatives. Full of additives, preservatives and sugar. It is the one food I have not managed to cut out for my kids and I wanted a healthy alternative.

I always thought making my own bread would be an absolute ball ache so, I have avoided it. I recently found a local bread maker who offers training so I booked a private class at home for my family to learn together.

It was so much fun! Paul taught us 6 recipes and they are all really simple and absolutely delicious! 🤤

It’s another small change we can make to improve our families health whilst doing something really fun together!

Thank you Paul for a fun afternoon, we had the most amazing tea and are now all needing a nap! 😴

08/01/2025

Is going Organic expensive????

So I have seen this argument from both sides because I used to think it was ‘too expensive’ too!

If comparing apples for apples, yes items are higher in price however, you’re not comparing apples for apples.

We used to buy so much food, spent a fortune on things we a) didn’t need b) aren’t even real food and c) gave us zero nutritional value.

When you look at how much money you are spending on alcohol, chocolate, crisps, bread, frozen chicken nuggets & fish fingers, protein bars, snack bars, cereal etc etc, it adds up to a lot, it’s mainly UPF and not even real food.

When you decide to embark on a healthier lifestyle, you start to reduce the amount of food you eat and save money on your shopping.

We started to eat a lot more meat, fish & vegetables and since learning all about pesticides, herbicides, preservatives, additives etc, I felt as though we were increasing our health issues by eating non organic because of the levels of toxic products used to grow, pack and feed the food we eat.

So we started to try to find more organic sources of our food to reduce our toxic load.

But not only that, going organic means you increase the nutrient density of your food which has more satiety so you are full up when you eat, meaning you eat less and provide your body with what it needs without increasing toxicity.

Making changes can seem daunting, but when you do it step by step you will see how positive, and simple it can be. Or work with a Health coach who will help you make a plan that works for you over time!

An exercise for those who want to change: Write a 3 day good diary. At the end, split it into 3 columns, 1) UPF’s 2) Whole food 3) Organic. And see for yourself how much of your diet is real food, how much is wasting money and what small change could you make to improve the quality of the food you are eating and feeding your family.

Wishing you all a happy & healthy day!

Carrie

P.S. shout out to M&S for the amount of organic options! We are very limited to sources of organic food where we live, we use farm shops where we can but it’s not always possible. Aldi & Tesco have very limited options but M&S is amazing! 🤩

06/01/2025

Green juice 🤢 or 😋?????

It was always a big fat NOPE ❌ from me until recently. One of my lecturers recommended green juices for anti-ageing and disease prevention.

Green fruits and Vegetables contain the phytonutrient Chlorophyll, this is what gives them their lovely green colour.

Green fruits and veg provide nutrients, support liver detoxification and bind with toxins in the gut preventing absorption into the body.

They are also really high in antioxidants which help pot bodies to prevent disease and premature ageing.

When it comes to juices and smoothies it’s about playing around with ingredients to find what you like or don’t like.

Here’s a recipe I use and you might like too, anti-inflammatory, high in antioxidants and anti-ageing.

(Try to use organic ingredients where you can. When you can’t ensure you wash your fruits and veg really well to remove surface pesticides etc)

1 stick celery
1/2 green apple*
1/2 juice of a lemon
1 inch piece of ginger root grated
1 handful of spinach
1 handful frozen pineapple
1tsp Turmeric powder or 1/2 inch piece fresh turmeric
200ml filtered water

Throw it all in a blender until smooth and drink immediately to maximise the nutrient density 💚