Work with your body and your body will work with you

Why do you want to change your diet? Is it to feel better and have more energy? Is it to lose weight?  Is it to feel more confident with yourself and your body? Or is it to live longer and avoid disease later in life?

Our reasons are individuals but if we know why, the first and most important step towards change has been taken. 

''It's not about calories and it's not (all) about exercise'' 

This probably goes against everything you've ever heard in relation to weigt loss. Exercise is important but exercising more and eating less will not always work...

Our body need nutrient dense food to function at it's best. It needs carbohydrates, protein and healthy fats.

It also needs fibre, water, vitamins and minerals.

The simple fact of the matter is fat is essential to human health; it is the building block of healthy cells and hormones within our bodies that keep us fertile, warm and durable against injury, it even helps us absorb the benefits of what are called fat soluble vitamins such as Vitamins A,E,D and K.

What we eat also impact our gur health, which will in turn impact our immune system, hormones and how we feel.

Yo-yo dieting and cutting out food groups have a really bad effect on your weight, both short and long term which is why learning what and when to eat is a much more sustainable way to maintaining good body composition, health and long term weight loss.

For years we have been told to avoid fat, especially saturated fat due to its high caloric density and that these calories will work against us if we are trying to loose weight. But what if I told you that this simply wasn’t true? And that eating a diet high in healthy saturated fats and exceeding your daily caloric intake may actually be beneficial?

Recent studies have also found that those who track their calories tend to eat more than those who focus on eating a whole foods diet. This is because a diet rich in whole, real foods achieves satiety, whereas calorie counters are more likely to restrict themselves at meal times in an effort to ‘allow room’ for a snack later on. Not to mention that most meals and snacks a part of a calorie counting diet are typically low-fat and largely devoid of essential macro and micro-nutrients required by the body and therefore make that next snack feel like a need instead of a want.

Many clients find it very liberating to finally stop the calorie counting and instead have confidence in their knowledge that the food they eat will have a better impact on their body, and won't deprive them of anything.