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Chatting with Health Journalist Cassie White By Sophie Clark · On July 9, 2015

Cassie White is a Sydney-based personal trainer, yoga coach and health journalist. She also runs a food blog called Just Eat the Food that demonstrates her love of cooking and whipping up easy, creative, and nourishing meals. She explains how she balances her busy career and some of her go-to recipes. Can you tell me about your work life? It’s varied and lots of fun. Combining personal training, yoga, writing, and food blogging definitely keeps me on my toes. Honestly, I get bored easily so the mix is perfect for my personality. I start most days in the gym training clients and finish either at my desk or leading a yoga class. Most of my cooking and blogging happens on the weekend when I have more time. I need guinea pigs to test my recipes on, so it often turns into dinner at my place. Running my own business and creating something meaningful takes a lot of work –

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there’s always something to be done, especially because I have loads of ideas that get me excited. So I carve out times every week where I unplug and turn my brain off, or catch up with friends. What brought you to yoga and food blogging? Someone once told me that what you do when you’re procrastinating should be your career. For me, that was cooking, doing yoga and working out. At the time I was a health and fitness journalist and didn’t want to give it up completely. Luckily, all my passions relate to each other, so it seemed like a natural progression. How do you usually go about preparing your food for the week, while also managing different demands and responsibilities? I’m really organised and make healthy eating a priority. With my busy lifestyle it’d be easy to just grab takeaway when I’m under the pump, so I make sure I’m always prepared. On Sunday I’ll batch-cook meat and vegetables, and maybe some quinoa or buckwheat. Depending on how much time I have, I might make yummy bread or soup. Plus, I always have plenty of colourful salad ingredients in the fridge. Then all I have to do is throw everything into a container when I’m cooking dinner each night. I eat breakfast at the gym on weekdays, so while I’m making lunch I’ll put whole eggs and veggies in a container, then make scrambled eggs in the microwave between clients. It takes about two minutes and tastes delicious. It’s so easy to do and means that when I leave the house each morning before 6am, I just have to grab brekky and lunch from the fridge and go. Food prep can feel like a chore at first, but it becomes habit. Now I’m really good at streamlining the process, or even making enough dinner to take for lunch the next day so I can still have a life. What is your favourite part about food blogging? I get to eat constantly! Also, hearing great feedback from people who try my recipes is incredibly rewarding. Plus, it means my own diet is pretty varied. When I’m busy, I often fall back into eating the same foods every day because they’re easy to make. So coming up with new dishes is a fun way to make my own meals more interesting. I also feel pretty chuffed with myself when I create something really delicious from just experimenting in the kitchen. I just add a bit of this, a bit of that, and see what happens. What have you learned from teaching yoga and what do you hope students take away from your classes?

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My biggest lesson is exactly what I want my students to know: it’s not a competition and it’s not about the pose. That’s why I love teaching Strala yoga. Everyone just moves however it feels great for their own body, rather than trying to force themselves into a perfect Warrior II, when maybe their hips are tight, or anatomically they just aren’t designed to make that movement. When you take the pressure of trying to look a certain way, you’re able to do what’s best for your body and that’s an amazing feeling. Do you have any tips to help readers stay energised throughout the cooler months? Invest in a slow-cooker! Honestly, you throw the ingredients in before work and you get home that night to a warm, healthy dinner. There are so many recipes online for delicious meals and most of them you can freeze for the times when you haven’t been grocery shopping. Like clockwork every year, come September everyone panics because it’s almost beach weather again and they’ve added a couple of layers from eating stodgy comfort foods over winter. Save yourself the drama and fill up on homemade soups and curries packed with fresh veggies and lean meat. Aside from preventing that sluggish, lowenergy feeling, getting all those nutrients in your body will help stop you from catching all the bugs that do the rounds at work. Keep on top of nutrition now and you’ll be really grateful! Finally, do you have a favourite recipe that’s featured on your blog? I actually have two that are on high rotation. When the weather was warmer I made my Spicy Coriander Fish and Watermelon salad quite a lot. And a few weeks ago I came up with this Goji Berry, Herb and Almond-stuffed chicken. Both are absolute winners and really easy to make. Personally, I get frustrated by laborious recipes containing obscure ingredients, so everything on my blog can be thrown together pretty quickly.

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SOPHIE CLARK Journalist & dog lover based in Tasmania, Sophie received First-Class Honours for her thesis 'The Skin I Live In'. In her spare time she enjoys creative writing, being a cinephile, meditation, art and going for long walks.

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