Let’s talk about hormones. From puberty through to menopause, our hormones are constantly changing. As women, we ride this roller coaster and often, just as we get on top of our monthly cycles, we enter perimenopause and everything changes again! Thankfully as a society, we have moved on a lot. Menopause has become part ofContinue reading “Tips for Balancing Hormones and Lifestyle for Women Over 40 “
Category Archives: Health and Fitness
Understanding Midlife Weight Gain: Causes and Solutions for Women Over 40
I work with many women in their 40s and 50s and one of the biggest challenges they face is midlife weight gain. Some have symptoms associated with perimenopause and menopause. I would like to point out that not every woman in their 40s is perimenopausal. Perimenopause typically begins in a woman’s 40s, but it canContinue reading “Understanding Midlife Weight Gain: Causes and Solutions for Women Over 40 “
Bittersweet: How Excessive Sugar Impacts Your Health and How to Reduce Your Intake
Let’s talk about sugar for a moment. I know it’s not good, you know it’s not good yet still we consume it in excessive amounts. To be honest, it’s hard to avoid – everywhere we go we come across tempting treats and sugary indulgences. You would have to have a lot of willpower to not succumb to the allureContinue reading “Bittersweet: How Excessive Sugar Impacts Your Health and How to Reduce Your Intake”
Starving and Deprivation: Why It’s Harmful and How to Heal Your Relationship with Food
In today’s inundated information landscape, escaping content promoting a new trendy diet promising rapid weight loss is challenging. We hear celebrities talk about how they lost weight quickly to fit into a dress, or costume for a film, and it’s tempting to follow their advice for a quick win. This can see women, and increasingly men, resorting to extreme measures likeContinue reading “Starving and Deprivation: Why It’s Harmful and How to Heal Your Relationship with Food”
Breaking Through Plateaus and Challenges on Your Health Journey
I am going to be honest with you – when you embark upon your health journey, whether that’s reaching an ideal weight, building muscle, improving stamina or focusing on healing and well-being – there will be challenges and plateaus along the way. Hitting any plateau on your health journey can frustrate and demotivate you, it’s whenContinue reading “Breaking Through Plateaus and Challenges on Your Health Journey”
Finding the Balance between Technology and Health
As I sit down to write this blog post, I can’t help but acknowledge the irony of the subject matter. You see, I have a confession to make: I’m pretty much constantly glued to my phone or laptop. As a professional working in a digital world, these tools are a lifeline. Technology enables me to not only work with women aroundContinue reading “Finding the Balance between Technology and Health”
Nourishing Your Immune System: Nutritional Strategies for a Balanced Diet
As I write this, I’m giving myself a much-needed sunshine boost in New Zealand. At home in the UK, it’s still very much winter, the time of year when our immune systems tend to be less effective! The older I get and the more I learn, I realise that our fast-paced world does not support the humanContinue reading “Nourishing Your Immune System: Nutritional Strategies for a Balanced Diet”
Achieving the Elusive Balancing Act Between Work, Life, and Health
Those who know me know that ‘balance’ is my favourite approach to everything. As a health and nutrition professional, I have seen different types of ‘addiction,’ and the ones associated with excessive working or overworking tend to get overlooked as they’re more socially acceptable than say binge eating or drinking too much. In reality, beingContinue reading “Achieving the Elusive Balancing Act Between Work, Life, and Health”
The Mind-Body Connection – How Emotions Affect Your Eating Choices
In my last blog, I wrote about how food affects our mood and how we can get trapped in a cycle of emotional eating. There’s no getting away from it – our minds and bodies are intricately connected, especially with the choices we make around food. In this blog, I’ll continue to explore the profound influence our emotions have onContinue reading “The Mind-Body Connection – How Emotions Affect Your Eating Choices”
Boosting our mood with food
I think we can all agree January can be a challenging month. It’s cold and dark, the holidays have left us short of money and energy, and spring seems a long way off! All of which can contribute to many of us feeling low. Today, 15th January is commonly known in the UK as ‘Blue Monday’ and is thought to be the most depressing dayContinue reading “Boosting our mood with food”