Eat Well – Love you: Health and Well-being with Lorraine

Love You: The Ebb and Flow and The Start-Over Surge 💖

The ebb and flow of life call for reinvention. After months of focus, it’s time to let yourself move on. Dust yourself down, pick yourself up, and start over today. #Growth #NewBeginnings

Love You: 🎃 Trick or Treat? A Halloween Reflection on Lifestyle Choices

As Halloween approaches, I’ve been thinking about the idea of trick or treat-not just in costumes and candy, but in how we cope, consume, and conform. 🧠💭 How often do our “treats” turn out to be tricks? Something we indulge in for comfort, celebration, or escape… only to regret it later. Maybe not immediately, butContinue reading “Love You: 🎃 Trick or Treat? A Halloween Reflection on Lifestyle Choices”

Love You: Harvest Well-being

Embracing the Seasonal Shift 🍁 Well hello again!After a long summer break from writing, I’ve returned with renewed focus—largely thanks to diving deeper into the core accreditation in lifestyle medicine. This course is still a work in progress, but the key word is progress, and I’m embracing that. Here in this beautiful corner of Scotland,Continue reading “Love You: Harvest Well-being”

Love You: Love What you Eat and New food experiences

To begin today, we need to meander back to my primary school in the 70s and school meals. I have a memory of steamed puddings and blue custard (but this may be wrong). What is definitely clear in my memory is over cooked, green beans 🤮. I still get upset thinking about them. I canContinue reading “Love You: Love What you Eat and New food experiences”

Love You: The Active Process of Resting

The Yin and Yang of Well-being We all know that movement is medicine! Or as the physiotherapist at my practice says, “motion is lotion”. If physical activity was a tablet we would all be on it! But what of rest? Where does that fit into the mix? Often when patients have viral respiratory infections (commonContinue reading “Love You: The Active Process of Resting”

Love You: Are you a stress eater?

At almost 52, the penny finally dropped that I am a stress eater. I tend to cope pretty well in the moment and calm in a crisis and all that ….but! After the challenges, when the stress has abated I can run into difficulties. I guess previously I would have had a “rewarding” glass ofContinue reading “Love You: Are you a stress eater?”

Love You: When things go wrong

This week has been challenging due to premenstrual symptoms, perimenopause, and sore joints, affecting my well-being and yoga practice. However, maintaining my daily rituals—consistent sleep, a cozy home environment, yoga practice, staying busy to avoid overthinking, and improving nutrition—has provided stability and strength during this turbulent time.