Monique's Delicious Balls

Well, I'm not too prudish to openly admit that I love Balls. Now keep it clean Cherubs.....

Growing up in a foodie household (my mother is a Cooking Teacher and my dream was to grow up to be Alison Holst), I have a LOVE of food. However, I'm also domestically challenged.  It's taken me 3 months to work out how to poach eggs, so anything that's easy to make wins my vote.

I'm also a fan (having lost over half my body weight in excess fat, gaining part of it again, losing it again, gaining it, losing it....well you get the idea....) of trying to find healthy alternatives that serve my health, help me maintain a healthy weight and most importantly, TASTE GREAT! There's nothing worse than having to eat something that you KNOW is going to be good for you but tastes like the bottom of a rabbit hutch. 

The Result Of Conscious Choices. The proof is in the pudding!

Hi there!

Monique from GET A LIFE here. Just wanted to share my new passport photos with you and yes - the proof really is in the pudding.  It's amazing for me to see the difference between the 2 photos and I got such a surprise today when I compared them!  I almost don't recognise the person I used to be and it's all a result of conscious choices I have made in my life!

The picture on the left was taken in 2007 when I was still going through the Depression experience and was weighing in at around the 82-84 kilo mark.  My diet consisted of Hamburgers, chips, chocolate, bread, biscuits and lots of comfort food - AND at least a couple of litres a day of Diet Coke.

Hello! Monique here. I saw an advert on TV this morning about tablets you can take to boost collagen production which helps your skin look younger and make your hair shinier. But I wondered if there are natural ways to do this? Here's what I found:

Collagen is a protein that combines with keratin and elastin to make your skin strong and elastic. As you age, the production of collagen in your body also slows down. This results to the aging of the skin, which is characterized by signs like thinning, wrinkles, lines, age spots and dullness. When this aging process begins, most women seek solutions in the form of beauty products–jars of cream, tubes of gel, bottles of lotions and the like. Even though some of these products work, most of them don’t.

If you wish to preserve your youth by buying products that claim to contain collagen, you’re better off saving your money. Collagen simply cannot enter the body throughyour skin. Instead, it needs to be produced inside the body. Here are some foods that you might want to add to your diet if you wish to boost your collagen production.