It’s frustrating and confusing: you are cutting calories, exercising more than you ever did, and the weight that has accumulated in strange new places (your mid-section, arms, back) just won’t shift. You are not going crazy, you are not being lazy, and rarely is the answer further restriction or a fad diet. Your underlying biology has changed. The key now is understanding that change and working with it. What can Nutritional Therapists (NT) help you with? The right balance

As a nutritional therapist, the questions I’m most often asked are around supplements. It’s not surprising. Supplementation in the UK is a fast-growing, billion-pound industry. Everyone has an opinion, and many people have something to sell you. It's easy to end up with a drawerful of things you don't need, or miss the one or two things that could really help. Nutritional therapists tend to use supplements in two ways. We can optimise a diet: like filling a nutritional ga

Not to boast, but I've got my breakfasts sorted. I’ve honed it down to two or three go-to breakfasts on rotation: nutritious, quick, genuinely delicious. No mental effort needed. It’s such a habit that the shopping and the making of them now just happen. Dinners were more of a challenge – but gradually adopting a habit of weekly menu planning helped navigate the various dietary preferences, likes, dislikes and different timings of the family with (some) degree of control