Week 3: Day 2

2021 Wellness Program “The Beauty Chef”! Goal Setting Setting goals is an important part of your wellness journey. One of the best ways to set goals is to follow the acronym SMART. SMART GOALS ARE: Specific — Eating healthier sounds like a good idea. But what does it really mean? Aim for specific goals instead, …

Week 3: Day 1

2021 Wellness Program “The Beauty Chef”! Fermented Drinks (What They Are, Why They’re Good and How to Make Them) Fermented drinks like beet kvass, kombucha, water kefir and REAL ginger ale are not just fun to drink, they’re also loaded with probiotics that keep your gut healthy and your immune system working right. Here’s the …

Week 2: Day 5

2021 Wellness Program “The Beauty Chef”! How It Works We all now have not only knowledge, but tools and resources. THIS is the time to take over your kitchen! Fill your home with delicious healthy organic items! Enjoy exploring new foods. Look them up – learn more. This is your time to understand something about …

Week 2: Day 4

2021 Wellness Program “The Beauty Chef”! Vegetable Fermentation Seminar! Today is our first LIVE SEMINAR. We are very excited to be teaming up with Sunshine Grindz to offer this opportunity to learn the fermentation process. It is so much easier than you think! I know that the word “Fermentation” freaks you out a little – …

Week 2: Day 3

2021 Wellness Program “The Beauty Chef”! Sugar While our bodies require some sugar to survive, too much of it and too much of the wrong kind of sugar is not good for your gut health, cellular health or skin health – in fact, pathogenic bacteria in your gut geed on refined sugar! Additionally, too much …

Week 2: Day 2

2021 Wellness Program “The Beauty Chef”! 6 suggestions for adding whole grains to your diet – Harvard Health Grain Pain? Even though wheat, rice, oats, rye and barley are staples of the modern diet, many of us are unable to digest them unless they are prepared properly (soaked or fermented). While dairy and gluten are, …

Week 2: Day 1

2021 Wellness Program “The Beauty Chef”! A Holistic Approach Creating ‘me time’ is a wonderful way to recharge your batteries and it’s also really beneficial for your skin too. The relatively new field of psychodermatology looks at the impact of emotions on our skin and, considering that the skin is our largest organ, it’s little …

Week 1: Day 7

Body Weight Workout Hi everyone! I’m Alexis and one of the AquaGym Fitness instructors…if we haven’t met yet it’s wonderful to meet you! And thank you ALL for taking this step in your health journey. I am a NASM certified personal trainer and will be dropping some workouts here. We will start with just one …

Week 1: Day 6

Happy SATURDAY! The weekends are meant for you to decide on the upcoming week and meal prep/plan. Please take the time to decide what meals you will enjoy next week from the cookbook. Don’t over complicate it. I like a simple lunch – like soup for instance. If you prepare a soup you can enjoy …

Week 1: Day 5

Welcome to the day 5 of our 2021 Wellness Program “The Beauty Chef”! Follow Your Gut Instinct Our guts are a thriving invisible ecosystem: they contain around 100 trillion organisms. Just like our fingerprints, the composition of gut microbiota is unique to each person and the fact that our bodies are comprised of 10 times …