Holidays should be a time for relaxation. Escaping the rigmarole of daily life and treating yourself to a much-needed break. For so many of us though, we can end up spending the whole time worrying about what we look like, what people will think of us, and what we should or shouldn’t eat. What if you could go on holiday without the crash dieting beforehand? What if you could enjoy being somewhere new and trying new flavours that satisfy you? What if you could be present and soak up all the wonde...
Jul 06, 2022•24 min•Ep. 25
Today’s episode brings us to the end of my four-part series on reasons why you might be struggling to lose weight. Today I am talking about a subject that I have first-hand experience of, which is an underactive thyroid. Thyroid symptoms can affect us in so many different ways which can make it hard to get a correct diagnosis and work out the treatment you need – it certainly took a considerable amount of time for me to get the help I needed. When visiting the doctor, you may end up with a short...
Jun 29, 2022•31 min•Ep. 24
We’re continuing our four-part series on reasons why you might be struggling to lose weight, by looking at inflammation. And this week I am joined by my first-ever podcast guest expert! Emily Niswanger, a Functional Dietitian from Anywhere Nutrition – who is an expert in all things to do with inflammation – joins me all the way from Minnesota! Now, when we think of inflammation, we tend to think of conditions where you can obviously see or feel the inflammation, like arthritis, for example, wher...
Jun 22, 2022•58 min•Ep. 23
Stress is our body's way of reacting to feeling under pressure. We enter the fight or flight response where our bodies go into life-saving mode to make us stay and fight or run away to escape danger. Originally this would have been vital to help us survive being attacked, whereas these days, we’re in much less life-threatening situations! Unfortunately, our bodies can’t tell the difference between cheating death in the claws of a predator to dealing with a stressful email! If we’re not actually ...
Jun 15, 2022•32 min•Ep. 22
We can eat healthily and exercise regularly, yet still find that we can’t lose weight. What’s important to realise is that weight loss is not as simple as calories in versus calories out. Our bodies carry out countless functions every day that are intricately linked, so it should be no surprise that there may be other things going on in the body that might prevent weight loss. Having the sole focus on weight loss can leave us feeling frustrated and demoralised as well as making conditions worse....
Jun 08, 2022•23 min•Ep. 21
Fat is a really complex subject, yet we have been told all fats are the same and they are all bad. So we’ve ended up fearing whole, natural, healthy fats found in avocados, nuts and seeds, while happily eating highly processed, low-fat foods. However, these processed foods contain saturated and trans fats that increase our risk of certain illnesses and are usually full of sugar too! Not all fats are the same, and by excluding healthy fats, we are robbing our bodies of essential nutrients that we...
Jun 01, 2022•24 min•Ep. 20
We have been brought up to associate food with comfort. Whether you were soothed with ice cream after falling off your bike or given a piece of cake to cheer you up after falling out with a friend… food was used to make us feel better. Typically, emotions weren’t something we were taught to deal with and instead, food was used to distract us from the root cause. So, it’s no wonder that as adults, we rely on the same tools to help us cope with bad days at work or having an argument with a family ...
May 25, 2022•18 min•Ep. 19
As much as diet culture would like us to believe there are good and bad foods, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a snack. I couldn’t get through the afternoon without a cuppa accompanied by an energy ball or granola bar! The issue comes when it’s mindless snacking. It can be so easy at the end of an evening in front of the TV to find you’ve finished off an entire packet of biscuits without even realising it. You’re left feeling awful because you’ve overeaten, and you didn’t even get any pleasu...
May 18, 2022•19 min•Ep. 18
Fear can keep us confined to our comfort zone, which stops us from experiencing life at its fullest and being the best we can be. Think about our fears around weight loss. Maybe we fear failure… that we won’t be able to stick to our diet, that we’ll give in to temptation and eat a biscuit, leading us to munch our way through the entire packet. But have you ever thought that we might also fear success? What if we actually reach our goal weight? Suddenly we’d be expected to have to do all the exci...
May 11, 2022•24 min•Ep. 17
We have been brought up to believe that being smaller or skinnier means you are healthier. Diet culture has drilled into us that food is the enemy, and we must restrict our consumption of calories to avoid gaining weight. Our health is judged by the number on a scale, which tells us nothing about our health. How could it when no two bodies are the same? If two people followed exactly the same diet, they would still not get exactly the same results. We’re all individuals, and trying to put us all...
May 04, 2022•25 min•Ep. 16
As women, we must cope with monthly menstrual cycles. Not only can periods cause us to feel self-conscious and uncomfortable, but they can also cause us to reach for the sweet stuff. Instead of beating ourselves up every month for being weak and giving into temptation, what if we looked at the science of what’s actually happening? Maybe then we can understand what our bodies are trying to tell us and if we actually listen (rather than fighting these signals), we can feel more in control of what’...
Apr 27, 2022•23 min•Ep. 15
Does food consume your daily thoughts? Do you spend all day thinking what your next meal will be and go to bed dreaming of what you’ll be having for breakfast? Perhaps seeing a chocolate bar at the checkout sets off an exhausting dialogue of ‘want it, not allowed it, must resist it, oh screw it’? It’s so tiring isn’t it? This obsession over food can lead us to feeling totally out of control… but the good news is that you have the power to change this. Today I want to talk about mindset and how y...
Apr 20, 2022•25 min•Ep. 14
Life is busy. If you’re a working mum like me, you can often find yourself being pulled in all directions and it can feel a constant battle to keep on top of it all. When we’re under lots of pressure, good intentions can go out the window and we end up reaching for convenience foods full of processed nasties that aren’t actually going to help us feel better. But I do understand that sometimes we just don’t have the capacity to be spending hours in the kitchen. That’s why I’ve put together some t...
Apr 13, 2022•18 min•Ep. 13
In a previous podcast I’ve talked about the importance of including a good balance of proteins, carbohydrates and fats in our meals and snacks in order to balance our blood sugar and reduce cravings. The dieting industry, however, likes nothing better than to demonise food groups, and currently carbohydrates seem to be the group we are told we must stay away from. But if we avoid them at all costs, this actually only makes them more tempting which can lead to feeling out of control when we do al...
Apr 06, 2022•25 min•Ep. 12
It’s been just over two years since the pandemic began and also two years since I was first struck down with the virus. As a nutritionist, I am a healthy person who looks after myself, but it goes to show this can affect anyone... and it can really wipe you out. I sadly had to pause my podcast and postpone my Food Freedom Bootcamp event, as I realised trying to carry on as though nothing was happening was making me even more ill. Having now recovered from Covid for the second time, today I wante...
Mar 30, 2022•30 min•Ep. 11
Cravings can cause us so much stress… Constantly battling the urge to consume chocolate, cake and biscuits, no matter what the time of day. You are not alone in this fight – it’s one of the most common concerns I hear from the women I work with. Cravings can totally consume us, leaving us obsessing about food every moment of the day. Feeling it’s your fault, that you are weak and lack willpower… but it’s not your fault! There are so many different causes for your cravings, but today I want to ta...
Mar 02, 2022•26 min•Ep. 10
Many of you will be familiar with my incredibly popular 5-day Shift the Sugar challenge. This challenge has helped thousands of women ditch their cravings without feeling deprived. But as my own relationship with food changed over the years, it no longer felt in alignment with what I’m passionate about. Today I want to talk about why I created Shift the Sugar, the incredible results it provided and how I’m replacing it with something even more exciting that will still help you achieve amazing tr...
Feb 23, 2022•25 min•Ep. 9
Food freedom is a term that is used more and more, but what does it actually mean? There are lots of companies out there who profess to promise food freedom, but they are still setting rules and restriction around food, and that is not food freedom. Today I want to help you understand what food freedom really means, how obsessing about food is leaving you miserable, and discuss whether it is possible to achieve a healthy relationship with food after a lifetime of dieting. So in this episode I’m ...
Feb 16, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 8
The diet culture taught us that the purpose of exercise is to burn calories and get thin. So you just work off what you ate. Just eat less and move more. Track your food and stay on a calorie deficit. All that talk about what we should eat and how our bodies ought to look. As if it's that simple. It is not! In this episode, I'm going to talk about how diet and exercise are so closely linked to one another. I will also share with you the reason most fitness plans fail and what we should be doing ...
Feb 09, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Every diet you’ve ever been on claims that theirs holds the secret magic formula, and all you need to do is follow it, and your life will be all sunshine and roses. But the truth is there is no secret magic formula, so this week, we’re chucking all that out the window and taking it back to basics. Today we’re talking all about food, which, as a nutritionist, is one of my favorite things to talk about. Eating well doesn’t need to be as complicated as everyone makes it out to be; it is actually ve...
Feb 02, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Up until now on the podcast, I’ve been talking about the anti-diet movement and culture but I haven’t shared a huge amount about myself. So I figured that this week, it might be time to give you a sneak peek into my relationship with food, health, and nutrition. Whether you are on and off different diets, or if you don’t identify as a dieter but still have quite a lot of rules and restrictions, you’ll want to tune in for this episode. In this episode, I’m sharing all the different diets I’ve bee...
Jan 26, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 5
It is extremely difficult to stop doing something that you have been doing for years, and that includes dieting. Many of the women I work with have dieted for decades and find it very hard to break the habit, especially when diets and diet culture continue to draw you in. But there are some downsides to dieting that no-one really speaks about, so I’m sharing five of them with you this week to help you say goodbye to dieting and feel more confident that it’s the right way to go. If you are at tha...
Jan 19, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode of the podcast, we talked about diet culture and how to reject it, and I shared some tips and mindset shifts to help you live more freely and happily around food. And in episode 2, we discussed why you might struggle to stick to diets and why it has nothing to do with your willpower. But today, I’m sharing the key to actually stop dieting and how to stick to it once and for all so that you can move on with your life. This week, I’m sharing my proven method – the Three Pillars of ...
Jan 12, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 3
How many times have you told yourself that this diet will be your last and that it will finally be the one you stick to? And then how many times have you failed on said diet, and called yourself lazy, weak, greedy, and told yourself that the reason you can’t stick to your diets is that you just lack willpower? If you struggle to stick to restrictive diets and believe that it’s down to a lack of willpower, you are going to want to listen to this episode. I’m revealing the real reasons you can’t s...
Jan 12, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the very first episode of You Are Nourished - I’m so excited to be bringing this podcast to you! If you are ready to start thinking and behaving differently, start checking your beliefs around body shapes and sizes, and finally reject diet culture once and for all, this is the right place for you. You’ve likely tried all the diets – Slimming World, Weight Watchers, SlimFast, Atkins, Cambridge – you name it, you’ve done it. And although the diets are different, some things remain the s...
Jan 12, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 1
The You Are Nourished podcast is for women who are tired of feeling trapped in a never ending cycle of dieting. Does this sound like you….you start a new diet, the diet causes you to restrict your eating... so you end up feeling hungry…then you binge...then you lie in bed feeling guilty about it and then you start dieting all over again on Monday. Have you tried Weight Watchers, Slimming World, Keto, 5:2, Fast 800 and all the other well known diets out there but you cannot stick to any of them a...
Dec 08, 2021•2 min
