Hydrated Girl Summer

💦🥵HOW TO BEAT THE HEAT 🥵💦 Forget “Hot Girl Summer”, it’s all about being HYDRATED 💦 ☀️Whether it’s still sunny in the UK where you are, it’s so MUGGY outside 😩making it so important to stay hydrated throughout the day! 💦 Being dehydrated can cause headaches, delirium, dark coloured and strong smelling urine, weakness and …

Artificial Sweeteners- Are they safe?

🍬ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS🍬 🌍WHO (The World Health Organization) recommends that we consume less than 30g of added/free sugars (those added to food and drink that are not already naturally occurring) or less than 5% of adults’ total daily calories to reduce the risk of weight gain and dental caries. 🦷 Artificial sweeteners or ‘non-nutritive sweeteners’ (NNS) …

Fats: friend or foe?

🧈Are we fussing over fats?🧈 🧈Often demonised by the media and diet world, fats have been given a bad rep since as early as the 70s- with many consumers believing that no matter what, eating fat will make you fat 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🔎So, let’s look at the fat facts ⚖️Fat is an essential part of a …

Foods to fight fatigue

Struggling with fatigue and think diet might be playing a part? Here are a few foods that may help fight fatigue and keep you going throughout the day! Nuts and seeds –  Getting a variety of nuts and seeds in your diet can provide healthy nutrients and energy. Try almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, pecans, walnuts, …

Your clothes size does not matter!

Your opinion of your body should NOT be based on the size of your clothes.  One reason for this is that a size in one store may be completely in another store. For example, some brands’ sizes are based of different model types or they may use a S/M/L size guide which may not have …

All bodies are bikini bodies!

✨👙DITCH THE SUMMER DIETS👙✨..Unfortunately, diet culture is RIFE this time of the year, with ads for quick fixes for weight loss and promoting “bikini body” diets and workouts..‼️Disclaimer: Every body is ready to wear a bikini!! 👙.Life is too short to shy away from wearing the clothes that you love!.It’s much easier said than done …

What do Nutritionists do?

🍋WHAT DO NUTRITIONISTS DO?🍋 I recently renewed my registration as an Associate Nutritionist for a 3rd year. So, I thought I’d share the Association for Nutrition’s definition of a Nutritionist! In general, nutritionists provide evidence-based information and guidance about the impacts of food and nutrition on the health and wellbeing of humans (at an individual …

Is breakfast REALLY the most important meal of the day?

One of those classic phrases along with “Carrots help you see in the dark”, but the reason it’s referred to as the most important meal of the day comes from the name- eating to “break” our overnight fast. Eating breakfast kick-starts your metabolism, helping you burn calories throughout the day. It also gives you the …

Where do food rules come from?

When trying to develop healthy, sustainable changes to our diet, wemay have ingrained “food rules” holding us back. These are the kind ofrules built on judgements of others’ bodies or food choices making usquestion our personal food or lifestyle choices. These may be from something we’ve seen on Instagram, the TV or acomment our friend …

“I feel fat”- what does it mean?

“I FEEL FAT”- A phrase that we’ve all said all probably said- and most likely more than we should.. But what does it really mean when we say this? feeling “fat” is often used as a way of expressing dissatisfaction or frustration with your body or any feelings of negativity or inadequacy. This emphasises how …