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How to care for your newborn’s umbilical cord and when it should fall off
Belly buttons are like opinions – everyone has one! Belly buttons are the scar we are all left with after birth from the umbilical cord (the nutrient and oxygen lifeline inside the womb). As the umbilical cord is no longer needed after…
12kg lost over 6 months saw this mum teach herself to love exercise
This mama has lost an incredible 12kg through the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge since joining in July this year, four months after her third baby. Josette Campbell’s start weight was 64kg and she’s now down to 52kg. After overcoming an injury and snacking on The…
11 decadent cookies and cream smoothies to get you through three-thirtyitis
A HUGE thank you to 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge member Clare Poole who has brought us these ELEVEN fantastic smoothie recipes. All eleven are made with the delicious Cookies and Cream flavour Healthy Mummy Smoothie mix – if you’d like…
Mum makes 106 meals for $410.53 – that works out at around $3.86 PER MEAL!
The word ‘busy’ and ‘mum’ go hand in hand. Which is why it is so easy to use being busy this excuse, “I don’t have time to cook.” But before you start scouring the Uber Eats app for takeaway options,…
How much exercise is needed to burn off a Golden Gaytime
Thanks to product labelling and packaging, we can now find out how many calories are in the food we are buying and eating from supermarkets a lot easier. But what is less clear is how much energy it takes to…
These food swaps helped this mum lose 15kg and live a healthier lifestyle
This beautiful mum looks incredible! Krystel Richards, who has lost 15kg following the Healthy Mummy’s 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge, says she has become her best self. She has also completely changed her view on food and exercise. “To say…
New trend? 30 unique blended baby names
New baby name trend! Are you having a baby this year but stuck between two names? Then why not combine them both together to create a unique new name? This doesn’t work for all names but some sound really cute.…
Toasted peanut and coconut cups
If you want to try a homemade chocolate treat, these Toasted Peanut and Coconut Cups couldn’t be simpler! Using pantry cupboard staples, they’re the perfect combination of sweetness, crunch and CHOCOLATE that we all crave at times. At just 132 calories per…
Mum spent $100 to make 140 healthy snacks – that’s 70 cents per snack!
This innovative mum has found an ingenious way to make her money go further and save herself from snacking on junk food. Samara Syed has come up with a clever and healthy way to make six weeks’ worth of her…
How To Perform The Perfect Plank
Marissa Nieves, Fitness Expert for the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenges has provided her key tips to perfecting the ultimate core exercise – the Plank. Planks are one of the most popular core exercises on the planet for a variety…
How knee surgery has not deterred this mum for losing weight!
This mum hasn’t let anything set her back on her weight loss journey – not even surgery on her knee! Bridget Flint-Chapman has been following the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenges and drinking The Healthy Mummy smoothies since October 2015. She says she decided…
This mum won her battle with emotional eating and lost 22kgs
Anxiety can cause many people to emotional eat, and the weight gain can in turn cause anxiety, creating a never ending cycle. Erin managed to break the habit and lost 5kgs by drinking The Healthy Mummy smoothies after her second baby before falling pregnant…
This mum maintains her 33kg weight loss by planning her meals ahead of time!
It was six weeks after having her second baby that Shanyn knew she wanted to change and that’s when she started her 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge. “I was really really overweight (dare I say obese) and I was really unhappy with…
Mum who battled cervical cancer gets healthy after diagnosis and loses 30kg
After catching her reflection in the mirror one morning, this mum-of-two says she stopped and realised she didn’t recognise the person looking back at her. “I normally avoided the mirror as I wasn’t happy with myself and didn’t want to be confronted by…
This mum used to weigh 87kg and now runs stairs like she’s a pro
First discovering The Healthy Mummy in 2013 after the birth of her second child, Alicia is now living her best life. Within a couple of months of using the Healthy Mummy recipes in 2013, Alicia had lost 10kgs. She then joined the 28 Day…
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