Valentine's Vouchers

I offer nutrition consultation and Zumba Gold vouchers for you andy your loved ones any amount of sessions you desire.

Bright Diets Couples Vouchers 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, making changes stick and learning how to make better food choices to live a happy, healthy and vibrant life together!  

The 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.

Zumba Gold gift vouchers are for any amount of classes you desire: $15 per class or $150 for 11 classes. Simply visit our Bright Shop today to purchase.

How I 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 with Responsive Feeding Therapy

- 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 call 0213 77 44 11. I would be more than happy to help!

Workshops

If you would like me 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

Spreading the Zumba Gold Love

My new class is starting on Monday at 9am on 2nd February at the Gosford 50 Plus Leisure and Learning Center. This first class is is a free class for all who comes!

My other regular Classes are:

5.30pm Mondays and 11am Fridays at Narara Eco-Village.

First class is free.  Wear comfortable exercise clothes. First timers, come 15 minutes early to complete paperwork and introductions.  Further details here.

Zumba Gold classes are run all over the Central Coast by other instructors. Please share the Zumba love by sharing with your family, friends and health professionals.  

Monday

- 11am @ Peninsula Community Centre, Woy Woy with Zumba Fitness with Vicki 0419 958 379

- 11am Long Jetty 50 Plus Centre with Cassie. 

- 2.30pm @Terrigal 50 plus Leisure and Learning Centre with Terry T. Must be a member to join.

- 5.30pm Narara Ecovillage with Carin

Tuesday

-1pm Terrigal 50 Plus Leisure and Learning Centre with Terry T

Wednesday

- 11am Long Jetty Over 50's club with @ZumbawithCassie

Thursday

- 1.30pm Gold Toning with Maracas! Terrigal Over 50's Leisure and Learning Centre with Cassie

Friday

-9am Wyoming Adelene Village with @ZumbafitnesspartywithHaruko

-11am at Narara Eco-Village with Carin

11am @ Peninsula Community Centre, Woy Woy with Zumba Fitness with Vicki

-1pm @ Toukley50plus Leisure and Learrning Centre

Bring your friends and fam and see you on the dance floor!

Leave all self-judgement at home, come along to boogie, and have a blast with some great friends!

Call out for Volunteers

Gosford 50+ Centre is looking for some volunteers to assist with running this fantastic community organisation and needs help to increase it's membership for it to continue to thive. If you are interested in becoming more invoved in your community please visit the centre for nomination forms or contact Jan or Annette: Ph: 4324 2287. Check out their timetable of activities.

For a long time now I have wanted to inspire people to connect more with their food to improve not only their health and well-being, but also the health or our Mother Earth.  As a result have finally had the realisation to incorporate a regular Grow It Know It section in Bright Inspirations, showcasing a food each month that is super easy to grow and used in my monthly recipe. I hope you come on this journey with me to grow, connect and love your food.

Shallot

Shallotts are super easy to grow. Simply buy a bunch form the shop, chop 2cm off the root end and place into water for about 1 week or until the roots gor to at 1cm long.  Plant and remember to water regularly. 

If you are like me and find you can not eat a lot of shallots before their best by date, you can chop up some of the bunch and freeze to prevent food wastage.  This also saves time when adding more veggies to a future meal.

You can cut the green shoots off to harvest like a pick as you go crop. However, remember to allow at least one plant go to flower to collect the seeds in order to sow again in Autum to Spring for a continuous supply most of the year. 

You may be lucky like me and they start sprouting on their own in your garden.

Find Out What The Best Food To Eat Is with Carin's Bright Blog here.

Simple Potato Salad

Serves: 4-6

• 4 medium- large potatoes- peeled and chopped into 1.5cm cubes/pieces
• 8 Eggs
• 1/2 cup Greek Yoghurt
• 1 cup peas
• 2 or more sprigs of parsley
• 2 shallots

Method

1. Fill a pot with water and boil potatoes until soft.
2. Drain water and place potatoes into a bowl.
3. In another pot, place the eggs and add cold water to just cover the eggs.
4. Put the pot on stove and turn on heat to high.
5. When the water starts to boil, put a timer on for 8 minutes. You may wish to remove thelid if the lid starts to lift up with the boiling water. 
6. Chop up shallot and parsley. Place in a large bowl with the peas.
7. When the eggs are cooked, drain the hot water from the pot and fill with cold water to cool the eggs.
8. When eggs are cool to touch peel the eggs and chop up and add to the bowl.
9. When the potatoes are cooked, drain and add to the bowl.
10. Add Greek yoghurt and mix the potatoes, shallot, parsley, peas and eggs together.
11. Serve as a side dish.

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