The Truth About Weight Loss: What Mums Don’t Know but Need To
If you had to count the number of things you did on any one day this week - how many would there be?
The mum health you want starts With THIS... and it may not be what you think
I don’t know about you, but the New Year has brought home its annual seasonal home truths. I’ve eaten too much and not moved enough. The post-Christmas slump is as much a tradition as the mince pies that caused it.
The Misery of Hormonal Headaches & Menstrual Migraines
Hormonal headaches. Menstrual migraines. Some women endure these each and every month. Are you one of them? Women are at least 3 times more likely than men to suffer from migraines due to hormonal changes.
Perimenopause - what is it and am I in it?
You’re going along, PMS-period, PMS-period, all the joy, and then BAM something changes. Your PMS is a little worse. Or a lot worse. You cycle has gotten shorter. Or longer. You’re feeling anxious, but you can’t work out why, and is it me or is it HOT in here?
Knackered Mums SOS: Start here for better energy
Being a mum and being knackered go together. If you’re one, then you’re the other. Right?
"Periods are meant to hurt. Right?"
Your period has started, and you feel like someone has applied a clamp somewhere deep in your womb. And the clamp is tightening. It hurts. What you really want to do is crawl under a blanket on the sofa and watch trashy TV.
If this is you for a few days every month, you’re not alone. But your period does not need to hurt.
Ever want to scream, "WHAT ABOUT ME?"
If you had to count the number of things you did on any one day this week - how many would there be?
Foods that balance hormones in females
There is a torrent of advice about nutrition everywhere. Instagram is exploding with photos of food, bloggers are clamouring to tell you about what to eat and what diet will lead to a happier, shinier you.
So, what should we eat?
Motherhood: Adjusting What We Expect of Ourselves
I wish someone had said two things to me when I became a mum: It feels hard because it IS hard - it doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong. Be kind to yourself, FIRST, not last. No one did.
I (tried To) quit sugar: confessions of a sweet-toothed nutritionist
“I NEED sugar.”
I hear this in my clinic from mums all the time. They rely on sweet foods to get them through the day.
What I learnt the year I became a mum
I was pregnant when I qualified as a nutritional therapist. I graduated, burgeoning bump, full of enthusiasm and newly acquired knowledge, threw my mortar board in the air – the whole nine yards. I was good to go.
Food & Your Family’s Immune Health: What Every Mum Needs to Know
As mums, we want just want to keep everyone happy and well. 2020 has made that far more challenging.
New Year, New You? No thanks...
I don’t know about you, but the New Year has brought home its annual seasonal home truths. I’ve eaten too much and not moved enough. The post-Christmas slump is as much a tradition as the mince pies that caused it.
Getting to Know Your Thyroid: Why feeling exhausted & overwhelmed might be about more than being a knackered mum
Women are amazing. They hold up the world. Unfortunately, they are not always so amazing when it comes to paying attention to their own health. One of the most underdiagnosed issues that affects women is thyroid disorders. Often ignored as part and parcel of being an overworked, overwhelmed mum, a thyroid in trouble may be the cause of those niggles you’ve learned to live with.
My Top Tips for A Happier, Healthier & EASIER Christmas
Can I tell you a shameful secret?
It was my turn to host Christmas Day this year, and I am not entirely sorry that I now can’t host 10, as planned. #hangsheadwithshame
Are you fatphobic?
The issue of dietary fat is divisive and, for lots of people, confusing. The idea that some fats are healthy is a lot to take in, especially for those who endured the 80s/90s low-fat bullshit extravaganza.
To Bleed Or Not to Bleed
“Women Don’t Need to Bleed” was a headline in The Guardian newspaper in the UK on July 18th.
My immediate response, I’ll be honest, was to roll my eyes and mutter, “Of, for FU*CK’S sake.”
Carbs: yes, no or maybe?
No-carb? Low-carb? ALL THE CARBS?
What do you eat?
There was a time not so long ago that no-carb was the standard dietary dogma trotted out when it came to weight-loss.
Motherhood and Booze
My job is to support you to feel the best that you can, to guide you towards achieving your health goals. Now, food is the focus of what I do, but sometimes good health, mental and physical, can be about what we need to work on leaving out, too.