I’ve been asked a few questions about fruit sugar recently - lots of people seem to be shunning the fruit bowl, swapping out their bananas and becoming befuddled by berries. The new 'Sugar Tax' and the rise of ‘sugar-free’ challenges has meant more people than...
I get asked this a lot. [blockquote text="So, you don’t do diets. What do you do then?" text_color="#213d06" width="" line_height="undefined" background_color="" border_color="" show_quote_icon="yes" quote_icon_color=""] Me personally When I say non-diet, I simply mean that I don’t promote any form of unnecessary dietary restriction. So that’s along the...
One of the most common things my clients describe is feeling out of touch with their hunger and fullness signals. As I mentioned in my last blog post, we eat for a gajillion different reasons. Today, in the western world, we're pretty lucky to be...
In a previous blog, I outlined ‘why diets don’t work’, checking out diet culture and how to start sticking a big ol’ middle finger up at it. Today I want to take a look at the food police, the rules we’ve all absorbed around food...
Image - Dagny Walter on Pixabay (Updated 16th June 2020) So, anyone get a Kombucha kit as a gift recently? Kefir grains? Fermented foods have been having a sexy moment for a little while now. It's something I get asked about a lot, so I wanted to...
Veganuary You must have seen it by now. Veganuary - the pledge to go vegan for the month of January. It’s grown exponentially in the last few years. [blockquote text="1,500 participants in 2014 to 52,000 in 2018." text_color="" width="" line_height="undefined" background_color="#f6faf2" border_color="" show_quote_icon="no" quote_icon_color=""] I want to start...
Following on from my introduction to Intuitive Eating post, I wanted to delve a bit deeper into why exactly diets don't work. Let's start at the beginning, what exactly do I mean when I say diet? [blockquote text=" Diet: any method of restricting food intake (kcals, carbs, fat...
Are you the type who’s done already? Have you not even started? A few last minute things left to buy? Read on for some last-minute ideas that'll be here before Christmas ...
You might have heard me talking a lot about this Intuitive Eating thing lately, so I figured that I’d better explain what it is...
More and more people are embracing the vegan way of life in a bid to boost their health, for animal welfare and ethical reasons and to save the planet - there are a few things worth looking out for if you do decide to go...