As a nutritionist and health coach – I don’t just consider the food you eat or how much exercise you are getting. I take a holistic approach to weight loss, health and fitness because it’s never one thing causing the problem or condition a client is dealing with. Prolonged or chronic stress has a huge impact on our physical and mental health.Continue reading “A Guide to Tackling Stress to Improve Health and Wellness”
Category Archives: Health and Fitness
Sustainable Living: Looking after the Environment and our Health
I always believe how we look after ourselves reflects how we look after our environment. For me, the body and environment are intertwined – yet so many of us don’t consider this. There is no point in striving for good health when we’re surrounded by toxins and pollutants. Likewise, the products and lifestyle choices we make haveContinue reading “Sustainable Living: Looking after the Environment and our Health”
Body Image and Emotional Eating: Understanding the Connection and Breaking the Cycle
The patterns of emotional eating are normally set down in childhood. This doesn’t mean your parents did anything wrong. With the abundance of food and choice available, using food to soothe, celebrate or as a reward is common for many families. Emotional eating is the practice of consuming food in response to feelings rather than hunger or nutrition. ManyContinue reading “Body Image and Emotional Eating: Understanding the Connection and Breaking the Cycle”
10 Tips for Mastering Healthy Meal Planning on a Budget
If you’ve been following me for some time you will know that rather than talking about diets, I talk about nutrition, healthy eating, and cooking from scratch using fresh ingredients and superfoods. There seems to be an assertion that eating healthy is more expensive. Whilst I agree it can be, especially if you are buying 100% organic – it really doesn’t have toContinue reading “10 Tips for Mastering Healthy Meal Planning on a Budget”
Creating an Emotional Eating Journal to Understanding Your Eating Habits
You may have heard me talk about emotional eating several times. Emotional eating is using food to make yourself feel better, to fill emotional needs, rather than your stomach. I find it’s often what lies behind yo-yo dieting, you can try every diet in the world but if you don’t uncover and deal with the emotional reasons behind your eating habits, they won’tContinue reading “Creating an Emotional Eating Journal to Understanding Your Eating Habits”
Sustainable Weight Loss Strategies for over 40s
As a health coach specialising in helping women over 40 lose weight and regain their confidence, I understand the unique challenges women face when it comes to weight gain around this time. The truth is the metabolic and hormonal changes that occur as we age can make weight loss more challenging but not impossible. I hear so many stories of women either saying they started putting on weight in their 40s,Continue reading “Sustainable Weight Loss Strategies for over 40s “
Embracing Exercise for Longevity
If you are over 40 and have not had a regular exercise routine – then this one’s for you! You see, as we get older, maintaining a healthy lifestyle becomes increasingly important, and regular exercise is part of this. There’s a saying – ‘use it or lose it’ and this is true for muscle mass, bone density, brain health and flexibility! If you look towards theContinue reading “Embracing Exercise for Longevity”
Thriving in Your 40s and Beyond
As women, we’re used to changes over the years. As we journey through life, each decade brings its own set of new experiences, challenges and triumphs. It begins in puberty as we navigate becoming a woman. As we grow and enter our 20s and 30s, we navigate and juggle the workplace, relationships, marriage, childbirth, parentingContinue reading “Thriving in Your 40s and Beyond”
Understanding Andropause: The Male Experience of Hormonal Changes
As you may know, I mainly work with women over 40, and many of those women have husbands and partners of a similar age or older. This has brought up some interesting conversations and observations which I thought were worth addressing. Women are great at seeking out support and sharing information – men are notContinue reading “Understanding Andropause: The Male Experience of Hormonal Changes”
Practical Tips for Finding Relief from PMS
Continuing on the theme of hormones, today I’m going to take a look at Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and how to manage symptoms. It’s not something I’ve talked about here before yet it’s a common experience that many women ask me about. It’s commonly thought that we cannot do much about PMS – it’s just part of being a woman and our monthly cycle – right? Wrong! ItContinue reading “Practical Tips for Finding Relief from PMS”