Extend Your Love

The season we are in from January to March is called Burran. Typically hot and dry where we see the Weetjellan (broad leaf wattle) blooming, male kangaroos being aggressive, and eating meat is forbidden in traditional first nations culture.

It is a time to practise love, caring for the land and resources, ensuring there is plenty of food to nurture all in the coming months in the circle of life, knowing that we are a part of nature and the eco-system.

With Valentine's Day coming up, how about we extend our love for the natural world around us. Create habitat for wildlife, get rid of that lawn and plant some natives, care for your native visitors with a large bowl of water on hot days or start a food garden of your own.

Soak up those loving vibes by connecting with nature and top up your cup of self love. Tell us how you connect with nature and feel the love in our Facebook group Bright Bods!

What's New

Valentine's Vouchers

We offer nutrition consultation and Zumba Gold vouchers for any amount of sessions you desire.

Our Bright Diets Couples Voucher makes the perfect Valentine's Day gift if you feel you and your other half need to get serious and personal about making some healthy lifestyle changes. Get some guidance on nutrition, meal planning and making better food choices to live a happy, healthy and vibrant life together!

Our Couple's Voucher includes a 2 hour initial consult or 2 x 1 hour initial consult costing $300. Add on's for review consults are also available. Consultations can be together or separate and the usual rebates from Medicare or your private health fund apply if eligible.

Our Zumba Gold gift vouchers are only for our 11am Friday Narara Class: $15 per class or $150 for 11 classes.

Simply email us at dietitians@brightdiets.com.au, and we will get in touch shortly.

Bright Bods Challenge!

Now the craziness of the holiday period is over, February can be a great time to do our Bright Bods Challenge!

Our Bright Bod's Challenge helps you take the first most important step to getting back in control of your health and life: Awareness! For most it is pretty easy, just a bit of data collection, building self awareness about what you currently do. It will help you become crystal clear about the types of lifestyle changes you need to make for overall good health and well-being so you do not need to turn your whole life upside down and just focus on what you need to..

How We Can Help You

Our Dietitians practice what is known as medical nutrition therapy for a range of health conditions :

- Cardiovascular health, including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, reducing the risk of stroke, heart attack

- Diabetes, including gestational diabetes, insulin resistance and impaired glucose tolerance

- Weight Management, under or over-eating, comfort eating, sugar cravings

- Malnutrition, weight loss, reduced food intake, poor appetite, nutrition deficiencies

- Gut health conditions: constipation, diarrhoea, reflux, diverticular disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

- Food allergies and Food intolerances

- Coeliac Disease

- Liver health

- Cancer, including assisting with side effects of treatment such as nausea, poor appetite, taste changes

- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

- Osteoporosis

- Fussy eating and restricted diets

- Texture-modified diets

- Nutrition through pregnancy and lactation

- Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrition

If you or someone you know feels they need some help in these areas, please call us by phone or book online. We would be more than happy to help!

Workshops

Our upcoming workshop is:

- Food Issues: Allergy or Intolerance? at 5.30pm on Thursday 27th February 2024 at Central Coast Family Psychology, Wyoming or via Zoom.

For all the details and to book your place visit our Events Page or book via Humanitix and share with your family and friends who you think might benefit.

If you would like us to host a nutrition workshop at your workplace or community group on the Central Coast, please get in touch with Carin on 0413 77 44 11 or dietitians@brightdiets.com.au

Be Bold With Zumba Gold

We are excited to announce that Carin has 3 Zumba Gold classes a week:

-10.45am Tuesdays at Erina at Conveniently Active. Exercise Screening by the Conveniently Active Team is required so please get in touch 0424 270 016.

- 9am Wednesdays at Anytime Fitness, Wyoming - Must be a member of this fabulous gym!

-11am Fridays at Narara Eco-Village. Stay afterwards and catch up with a coffee or lunch at Cafe Neville- NEV's coffee cart.

Leave all self-judgement at home, come along to boogie, and have a blast with some great friends! Check out further class details here with a complementary 2 dances available online.

Zumba Gold is an easy, low impact, super fun dance class for those new to dance, getting back to dance or fitness, including post pregnancy, older active adults, people with an injury or those with disability or neurodiversity. With a mix of salsa, meringue, swing, cha cha, cumbia, belly dancing, tango and flamenco you will sure to become a Zumba addict before you know it!

Zumba Gold can improve your:

cardiovascular capacity, overall muscular strength and endurance
bone density, preventing osteoporosis
flexibility, range of motion
posture
balance and coordination , reducing risk of falls
brain function
motor control and performance/agility
ability to perform activities of daily living with less pain
and of course your mood!

See you on the dancefloor!

Bright Blogs

Love Your Bod this month with Carin's Bright Blog. Check it out here.

Recipe of the Month

Roasted Pumpkin Dip

This is a deliciously simple protein containing pumpkin dip. Make sure you have a good quality blender for a smooth result.

Ingredients

1/2 pumpkin
1 clove garlic or more if you like garlic
1 x 2cm sprig of fresh rosemary
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Salt and pepper to taste
2 x 1/4 cups water

Method

Set oven for 180 degrees Celcius.
Chop up the pumpkin in large pieces.
Place the pumpkin, pumpkin seeds and garlic cloves in a baking dish.
Drizzle with oil and mix.
Add 1/4 cup of water to the dish and bake for 1 hour or until the pumpkin is soft.
When cooked, if you do not want the skin on the pumpkin you can slice it off.
Squeeze the garlic out of its skin and add all ingredients: pumpkin and seeds, rosemary, salt and pepper to the blender. Add 1/4 cup of water to the blender and blend. Add more water if you need to achieve a good blend.
Serve warm or cold with crackers or vegetable sticks or top on toast for breakfast.

For more healthy food ideas, check out Bright Diets Facebook Albums.