Svenja Ostwald Inspires Women with her Healthy Recipes
CHEERS to a healthy a lifestyle with amazing recipes for you to share with your family. Here are some of my favorite recipes at the moment: PEACHY SALADserves 22 peaches sliced 2 ripe tomatoes sliced 1 cucumber sliced 1 handful fresh basil 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice / some lemon zest 1/4 cup olive oil Freshly ground black pepper and some salt. ENJOY. Add some fresh fruit, mint and ice cubes to your water.
Svenja Ostwald @moai.newyork Feeling Good starts with Healthy Food you Eat.
WELCOME. There are five places in the world where people lead the longest and healthiest lives. One of them is in Japan. In small neighborhoods across Okinawa, friends gather for a common purpose – to exchange gossip, experience life, and give and receive advice. They call these groups MOAI. Since reading about it, I’ve had the vision: founding a virtual MO • AI . A community that makes a healthier life easy and straightforward. A community that supports one another and makes one proud to be part of it. I was working for almost 10 years as a fashion designer for one of the biggest companies in Germany. I loved my job. Creativity at high speed with a lot of traveling. My absolute passion. Getting up early. Working long hours and days.But the downside: I had trouble getting pregnant and when I was finally pregnant I sadly had two miscarriages. When we moved to NYC in 2015 I was forced to slow it down.I practiced Yoga every day.It’s not a big surprise that I got pregnant after two months – of not even trying to be pregnant.I discovered meditation as a way to help with my anxiety of another miscarriage. For the first time I did some research on how to nourish my body that was growing this tiny human. What was the best way to eat?I was craving more and did the yoga teacher training. I truly loved it!!! Learning more about the connection of breath and movement was so helpful for me. Being pregnant 8 months I decided to do the prenatal yoga teacher training as well.Finally having a work permission I truly enjoyed teaching moms to be. Making them mentally and physically stronger for motherhood was such a joy while seeing the bellies growing. As soon as I had my second baby I wanted to dive deeper.I wanted to learn more about nutrition. I loved reading labels and was always on the hunt for the best snacks for kids. Organic. No added sugar. Short ingredient lists. So I enrolled at the Integrative Institute for Nutrition and became a Health Coach. Here am I today. I want to inspire you and show you that it’s fun to live a healthy life. SESAME NOODLES PINEAPPLE STIR-FRIED QUINOA
Neda Varbanova Health Nutrition Coach @healthywithnedi Leading Women to reach a Healthier Lifestyle
Meet Neda Varbanova, a recipe developer, holistic nutritionist, certified life coach, and founder of Healthy Nedi, a healthy lifestyle brand that educates the masses on creating a healthier lifestyle. Strongly believing that healthy eating, fitness, and a positive outlook are the keys to realizing true health, Neda has dedicated her life to helping and educating others on how to lead a healthy balanced lifestyle. A Bulgarian native, Neda grew up eating home-cooked meals prepared by her mother using simple, wholesome ingredients each day. There is where she learned to appreciate healthy eating and nutrition. However, when her family moved to the States, she experienced a huge culture shock with the quality of food accessible in the country especially processed foods, and the rising rates of type-2 diabetes and obesity. Deciding to take initiative in high school, Neda was determined to improve what her classmates were eating. Pioneering the first health club in her school, Neda pushed to include healthier options in her school cafeteria. Thus began her journey towards health and nutrition.In 2015, she created the blog Healthy with Nedi to share her healthy recipes with the public. Soon enough the health blog had developed into a full-on lifestyle brand where you can easily find healthy recipes, nutritional, fitness, and beauty tips, restaurant and travel guidelines, and wellness books. With a Master’s Degree in Food Studies and a certificate in Culinary Nutrition, under her belt, Neda is her knowledge and skills to help her clients create individualized health programs to meet their particular health goals.
Jessica Suchan Health Coach Advising Women how to live a Balance Healthy Life.
Jessica Suchan is a Board Certified Holistic Health Coach and the brainchild behind Body Bliss by Jess, an online platform determined to help women everywhere live a balanced healthy life free from food restrictions, over-exercising, and burnout. Jess like most individuals has had a hectic love-hate relationship with food. While she grew up in a healthy home, with her mom being a hormone health educator that strongly believed in the power of food as medicine, Jess was a healthy child. However, like a typical teenager, she rebelled in her senior year of high school opting to veer away from her normal food choices and began making poor ones. She was also quit her school’s swim and volleyball teams. Her lack of exercises coupled up with her poor food choices, Jess began gaining weight fast. Determined to lose this weight fast, Jess went down an unhealthy cycle of restrictive eating, obsessively counting calories and trying every crazy diet she heard off or she famously calls them ‘yo-yo’ dieting. Years later, Jess was unsatisfied with her life with a stressful job and debilitating migraines that no drugs could seem to cure, Jess decided to take a more holistic approach. She joined the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, she finally found her calling as a health coach. Finally living a life free of restrictions, guilt, and migraines, Jess wanted to help other women gain the same bliss. Thus the genius of Body Bliss by Jess was born www. bodyblissbyjess.com and IG @bodyblissbyjess. Partnering up with her mum, Candace Burch, Jess is determined to help women everywhere create a health plan of action that would help them get to their 2.0 version and live a healthy balanced life free from restrictions.
Health Coach Jordan Younger Revolutionizing our Approach to Food Through Intuitive Eating
Meet the extraordinary health coach Jordan Younger famously known @thebalancedblonde to the health and wellness world. Younger started blogging full-time in 2013. Her hard work and dedication led her blog to turn into a book, podcast, and brand that has gained her a cult following with people interested in intuitive eating. Younger has dedicated her time and effort to educating her clients into eating the best food for their bodies. A couple of years ago, Younger was eating the healthiest diet you could imagine. Her diet was gluten-free, sugar-free, oil-free, grain-free, legume-free, plant-based raw vegan. You cannot get any healthier than that, and yet her body was feeling sick. Her obsession with only eating pure, perfect foods was doing her more harm than good. Her body was weak, and she was feeling limited and helpless, not allowing herself to eat as she thought that anything out of her diet would make her feel like crap and throw off her system. We have all been there. So obsessed with our diets that instead of helping us, they cause us harm. Her obsession affected her mental health, and she had to consult a psychologist who diagnosed her with orthorexia (an obsession with eating pure and perfect foods).At this moment, Jordan decided to reevaluate her eating habits, which is when she got into a holistic living, wellness, and spirituality. She wanted to break free from her rigid and limiting beliefs and begin listening to her body. To start eating intuitively and stop feeling guilty about listening to what her body wants. It is what she intends to instill in her clients. She aims to change their approaches to food that is NOT dogmatic, rigid, stressful, judgy, or based on rules. That ditches labels and offers a way to feed their bodies in the best way possible. Younger believes that our bodies are our most significant possessions. Thus we need to listen to them and offer them only the best.
Taryn Shank Completely Redefines Food Rules
Meet Taryn Shank, the holistic health coach and owner of thoughtfully thriving living helping women live a healthy lifestyle. The woman who turned her post-college hobby of studying nutrition and fitness into a full-fledged passion. Her struggles with her body image and food led this health nerd into redefining and changing the negative relationship many people have with food. After dropping out of college after three years, Taryn Shank was looking for what she wanted to do with her life. Nevertheless, like most twenty-year-olds, she was clueless. As she jumped from job to job, she began to apply some of the things she was learning while studying fitness and nutrition and her life began to feel better. With a newfound love for cooking, Shank was intrigued by the idea of opening a café and took a job at a local organic café while interning with a naturopathic doctor. Soon enough, Shank realized she had no interest in opening a café. But she was bought by the idea of holistic. Voila! A holistic health coach was born determined to help women of all ages overcome emotional and binge eating. On her Instagram and blog, Shank seeks to encourage people to connect with their internal hunger cues. To develop an intuitive approach and find what works for you. What makes you feel your best. Her passion and creative recipes encourage her clients to find a balance with their food and enjoy it without any restrictions or guilt. By encouraging women to take their power back when it comes to food, she is redefining their life-consuming obsession with the food rules. No more obsessing about calories or feeling guilt or shame. Just freedom!
Bang Bang Shrimp Recipe by Health Coach Emily Borgeest (@CleanEatswithCleo)
BANG BANG SHRIMP INGREDIENTS 1 lb peeled and deveined shrimp 3-4 tbsp avocado oil (or any high heat oil for pan frying the shrimp) 1/2 cup mayonnaise (I used @followyourheart reduced fat vegenaise) 1/2 – 3/4 cup arrowroot flour/starch (I use @bobsredmill, cornstarch would work too 2-3 tbsp Huy Fong (@huyfongfoods) Chili Garlic Sauce (amount depends on how spicy you want it). Most grocery stores carry this sauce but if you can’t find it, sriracha with some red pepper flakes and garlic powder would probably work well too. 2 tsp coconut aminos or soy sauce 1-2 tsp coconut sugar (optional – adds a bit of sweetness, could sub any sugar) 1-2 tsp sesame seeds (optional) A few sliced scallions (optional) INSTRUCTIONS Mix together the mayonnaise, chili garlic sauce, coconut aminos and sugar. Set aside. Coat the shrimp in arrowroot or cornstarch. Heat a skillet with the oil and pan fry the shrimp. They cook very quickly and you can tell they’re cooked when they’re white and pink and no longer have the translucence to them. Remove shrimp from skillet and toss in the sauce. Serve over cauliflower rice or any rice you prefer (romaine would be good too to keep the dish light). Top with sesame seeds and scallions. For more recipes by Emily, visit her Instagram: www.instagram.com/cleaneatswithcleo