A Nutritionist's Opinion

🍊Contrary to popular belief, good skin isn't all about getting more vitamin C.

🌟Vitamin E is great too, but the best way to improve your nutrition for skin health is to get a variety of fruits and vegetables.

Comparisons in green are for pasta to rice (looking across, not down).

Both rice and pasta come up a lot during consultations as foods to limit or avoid; yet they're both great energy sources and meal options 🍚🍝 

 Find weight loss hard? Of course you do!

🌟There's a lot more to nutrition than just food, a lot more to health than just food and exercise and a lot more to losing weight than just willpower. 

 🧐It's quite a tricky comparison - basically, one isn't really 'healthier' than the other. Sugar looks better, but in theory, you would be likely to use less agave nectar because it has a sweeter taste. 

For more info, click below.

 4 Steps to make your kitchen HEALTHIER! 🍎 ⁣
👉🏼 Your kitchen is the main part of what we call your home food environment. 

Research has shown that simple changes to your environment can really help you make subtle changes to your cooking and snacking habits!⁣ 🤩 

🧐Thought sweet potatoes were always the healthier choice?

🤓Not quite! Both types of potato are nutritious (values also depend on how they're cooked). 

So you can enjoy both in your diet without worrying that white potatoes will make you put on weight. 

This checklist looks simple, but is actually quite hard to do in practice. 

  🧐Thought bread was 'bad'? Or wraps 'healthier'?  

 👆Here are the nutrition facts for an example of bread and an example of a wrap - so which one should you choose for lunch?

Nutrition and mental health are linked, and there's an increasing amount of evidence to show that healthy habits in one help the other.

To understand more about how our diets can affect our mental health, check out the article here

More info on what chronic stress is, what the symptoms are and how it can affect weight loss can be found on Insta - click the link below.

More info on each of these points can be found in my article on the Nutritionist Resource website - just click below.

It's a tough winter this year, so here are some simple tips on staying healthy (and happy) - not just with your nutrition, but your wellbeing too.

🤓More info on each of these points can be found in my article on the Talented Ladies Club website - just click below.

Feeling burned out and exhausted this week, and worried about your nutrition?😴

🌟Some tips here to have a good Sunday and feel ready for the next week. 

With #lockdown2, we're all cooking more at home again - so check out the benefits of faking a takeaway every now and then.

👉For more #fakeawayfriday recipes, have a look at past posts on my Instagram grid for some #foodinspo - there's loads to choose from and new ones every week to improve your nutrition!

Bored of the same old #soups and want to mix them up a bit?

Use this guide for some warming #soupspiration to optimise your nutrition! 

 Nutrition is more than weight goals or getting your 5 a day (although anyone who knows me knows how much I love veg 🥦 🥕 🍆)

🥙 Good nutrition means health inside and out, in a way that allows you to live without obsessing over calories or restricting yourself.
⚖️ Balance is key!

Bored of your #salads and want to mix them up a bit for better nutrition? 

Use this guide for some sexy #saladinspiration!🥗 

If eating less were as easy as some people make it sound, we'd all be our ideal weight. 

Read more to find out some facts about why always eating healthily is not that easy, and not just about self-discipline.

What's the link between your nutrition and mental health?

This infographic explains the latest evidence linking diet and depression.