Happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend and managed to get some form of movement into your day. Today we bring you four for Monday;
1 – Indoor Plants
We have started collecting indoor plants for our home, one to look good, but two, to help purify the air. Although we try our best to use natural cleaners, buy organic, and limit toxins into our home, there are always going to be toxins making there way in (chemical flame retardants on furniture, kids pjs, mattresses; formaldehyde found in gas stoves, rubbish bags, paper towels and tissues, carpet backing, and some fabrics; electromagnetic frequencies from computers, wifi, and other electronics. Many house plants are ideal for reducing this toxic load. The Philodendron Hope was one of our first purchases – hardy, great air purifier and looks lovely.
2 – 80/20 Nutrition
The salted caramel creme brulee I ate this weekend aka my 20%
I have had a few conversations this week surrounding nutrition rules. Personally I find that my nutrition life is made up of jogs and sprints. That is – most of the year I am all about jogging or 80 percent of the time being good and 20 percent being a little more relaxed. When I feel the 80 percent starts to drop to say 60 percent I will put a sprint in (30 days 100%)
Being too strict all the time can make you crazy if you let it. I have known people who have literally stopped hanging out with their friends and have become estranged from their families out of FEAR that certain social situations would push their ship off course.
No one is immune to breaking their diet. I sure do! It’s called being human
Don’t be the weird one that can’t go to certain restaurants because the food isn’t organic. A healthy living still needs to have living
80:20 means you spend 80% of time eating well and 20% letting loose. Showing your family and friends that you can still be healthy and still have a good time.
3. The Kamahi Loop Track
There’s a Bear in the woods !!
On Saturday afternoon we headed out for a lovely bush walk. The Kamahi loop track is part of Boundary Stream Reserve and is a 2 hour loop track. Described as the ‘’ghost’’ forest full of Podocarp and Broadleaf. The track was pretty diverse with dense forest, waterfalls and beautiful views from the bluffs.
4 – Vivobarefoot for kids
Don’t forget we sell Vivobarefoot shoes for kids too. I am super passionate about foot health and I truly believe foot health starts with kids.
We humans didn’t evolve with hard, rigid shoes… it is only in the last hundred years that we have been sticking these foot coffins on our feet.
Yes we have built concrete jungles and do need some protection but not at the cost of feedback. Kids feet are super-sensitive and require as much stimulation as they can get.
Their little feet need to be able to grow naturally. When kids first learn how to stand and start to walk they have no bones in their feet. It’s all just cartilage. The bones, ligaments and tendons develop through use. Feeling the ground is what strengthens the bones, muscles and joints. Being able to splay their toes allows for a natural foot position.
It is reported that around 70% of kids brain information on how to walk, run and jump comes from the nerves on the sole of the feet.
Better input to the feet better output to the body.
That’s it for today. Have a great Monday.
Paul ‘King creme brulee’ and Krystie ‘plant tastic’ Miller
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