When I started my healthy lifestyle journey, I constantly felt bloated, had heart burns and was always hungry. I started to lose body confidence and did not want to go out. I desperately wanted to feel healthier than I was. I was in my early 40s and was very unfit. Today is a different story. After 15 years, I now feel fitter and healthier than I was then.
I now understand that, after studying nutrition and helping a lot of ladies feel better about their health and getting results, I know that looking after the long-term metabolic health is more important than yoyo dieting.
Women especially, lose about half a pound of muscle per year starting around the age of 40, and their metabolism gets slower. These changes can make losing weight more difficult and increase the risk of metabolic diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, kidney disease, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
After 40, hormone levels such as oestrogen drop, which causes insulin (hormone that helps your body use sugar) to rise. Thyroid levels also go down. This combination makes women hungrier, and they end up eating more and burning fewer calories. Much of the weight gain occurs around the belly.
This is where you will benefit from my 8 week nutrition programme, to help motivate and help you to improve your metabolic health, through meal plans and recipes, nutrition tips, exercises on demand, mindset and menopause support.
It is not only going to help you get results, for example shape up or tone, reduce the belly, if that’s your goal, but also help reduce your visceral fat and other body composition markers.
It may surprise you, but I used to be so bad with drinking water. It took me ages to develop a good water drinking habit. One of the key habits I started to develop in improving was to have a large glass of water as soon as I woke up! This simple act encouraged me to then fill up a litre jug to help me continue sipping throughout the day.
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I feel incredible and ready to support more people to feel the same. Never say never! I believe age is not an issue. Irrespective of your age, you too can improve your fitness and lifestyle, feel the energy and get that body you so deserve if you want it.
I find it useful to have healthy snacks to hand.. This helps to boost my metabolism amongst other health benefits.
As a Health, Nutrition and Fitness Coach, I have had the previledge of helping people improve their wellbeing, energy levels, nutrition habits, sports performance and to get fitter overall. I can help you too, whatever your challenge or goal.