Nutrition | Sports Nutrition | Weight Management | Hormone Balance | Life Coaching
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Research continues to demonstrate that our mental and physical health is affected by what we eat. As a result, more and more people are making changes to their nutrition and lifestyle to help manage health problems and improve the way they feel. Confusion still surrounds the right approach to healthy eating and people are seeking a way to sift through the range of messages, to find a way that suits their body and their life.
There is no one size fits all when it comes to food, exercise, lifestyle and healing. My approach to nutrition and health coaching is based entirely on YOU and your goals and needs. Together we will work through your challenges and symptoms, uncover the causes of your health concerns and put in place a way forward that will help you to regain your health and well-being.
We will discuss and plan a very specific wellness protocol for you to implement into your daily life. It will not involve weighing food, counting calories, or following a rigid diet that leaves you feeling hungry and stressed. What it will do, is give you the confidence to apply nutrition principles to your daily eating, eating out, getting takeaway and going to social functions.
The process I use is referred to as coaching. It is a very supportive process where I will give you a set of carefully planned and personally specific strategies that will help you to successfully achieve a level of physical and mental wellness that will put you on the road to feeling amazing. You will gain a tool kit of skills and knowledge and a level of confidence that will enable you to take control of your health journey.
If you’re looking for a diet, that’s not what I do. If you’re looking for an eating style that will improve your chances of a better health span, then come and have a chat with me.
Nutrition and Health Coaching includes
➤ A full nutrition and lifestyle assessment
➤ Nutrition and lifestyle recommendations
➤ Reading material
➤ A meal plan and recipes
➤ A probiotic tasting
➤ A body composition analysis (optional)
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Nutrition therapy and Feeding
ASD and Neurodivergence can cause significant feeding challenges. Parents can become extremely distressed and feel quite helpless. I guide and support participants and their family to ease stress and improve nutrition outcomes.
Please contact me if you’d like my help.
Health coaching
Did you know that health coaching can help you move from who you are to who you want to be? These days, lots of successful people use a coach in many areas of their life. Health and wellness is now one of those.
Health coaching is an approach that utilizes interventions and strategies to help build behavior change and lasting positive habits. Change can be difficult but it’s absolutely necessary if we want a different outcome. Don’t let this frighten you, think about this… it’s easy to overemphasize big changes and fast results and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis. New habits come from repeating 1% changes to behavior until they become a way of life. Health coaching with a teaching technique gives you the ability to identify, practice and consolidate those 1% ers to help you form habits that can take you to your health destination.
Health coaching works in this way:
Step 1: identify your reasons to change and what you’d like to achieve
Step 2: start setting goals, make commitments and be held accountable
Step 3: develop strategies to help you stay on track
Step 4: gain momentum and feel empowered to take responsibility for your own wellbeing
Step 5: form healthy habits and lasting change
Nutrition
Are you confused about what you should be eating? Have you reached a time in your life when you want to take some control of how you feel? Does your eating sometimes feel crazy? Would you like to take better care of yourself?
Well, good nutrition, planning, physical activity and relaxation can help you to reach a feeling of wellness that will help you to feel like you are in charge of you. Nutrients that feed your body will help you to maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of chronic diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and heart disease and promote a feeling of good health with the energy to enjoy each day.
Nutrition is medicine! It has the ability to heal, build and sustain you in a way that can help you feel strong today, tomorrow and in your ageing years.
Sports Nutrition
Whether you want to build muscle, develop endurance, tone up or just feel a bit fitter, food and lifestyle choices can help you to achieve the outcome.
Exercise requires energy and this can come from your food intake or from your body’s stored energy reserves. Which one you want to use, will depend on your goals and this will influence food type, quantity, frequency and timing. If your desire is to build lean muscle and reduce body fat, then it’s absolutely necessary to target the nutrients that can help you to achieve that.
For those people focused on performance, recent sports nutrition research has changed how food is used to enhance an outcome. People are targeting specific use of low GI and unprocessed carbohydrates, while others are trying intermittent fasting and fat adapted training as a way to get the best out of their body. What does remain consistent is that eating well for physical activity and sport, allows people to perform well, reduce the risk of injury, improve recovery and enjoy being active.
Weight Management
Controlling your weight is far more complex than eating less and exercising more. If you are someone who has had to manage your weight all of your life, you know how difficult it is. To give your body what it needs to work at an optimum metabolic level, the first place you need to start is your gut. Yes, your gut bacteria, AKA your microbiome and your hormones are the key to weight management.
The link between gut health and weight is at the centre of recent scientific research. A personalized eating plan can alter your gut bacteria within days. This mean that in a short space of time, you can begin to feel better, lighter, clearer in the mind and happier. This doesn’t mean you need to starve yourself. There is no need to count calories, weigh food, count points or eliminate nutrient groups. It’s not about being perfect. It’s much more about eating in a way that tastes good, is realistic, sustainable and easy. Small changes make a significant difference and small changes that become habits will help you to get to your goal weight and stay there.
Hormone Balance
If you feel like your hormones are just not working for you, it could be an imbalance caused by poor gut function or it could be a sign that you’re perimenopausal or menopausal. Regardless of which one is causing it, they both mess with your body’s ability to function well.
What’s important to know is that your diet and hormones are more connected than you think. What you eat effects your gut health and your gut health effects your hormones.
A hormone balancing diet can put you back on track and completely change the state of your health. When the balance is in your favour, your hormones can improve your mood, stabilize your blood glucose and improve your liver function. They can influence insulin sensitivity, skin condition, anxiety, bowel function, weight and much more.
If you treat food as medicine and choose fresh and low GI food most of the time, you will have the best chance of getting those hormones to behave and treat you nicely.
our rates
Initial consultation $120.00
Follow up consultation $60.00
Body Composition Analysis $10.00
nutrition Wellness Package $350
Make the first step and commit to a package. It’s a decision that could change your life. Small changes will lead to new habits and what you want will turn from thoughts into actions.
1 hour initial consultation
5 x 30 min follow up consultations
1 bottle of probiotic kefir for improved gut health
1kg Aprille Seed Mix for breakfast
Goal setting that is specific, measurable, achievable and realistic
Meal plans
Recipes
Lifestyle analysis and recommendations
Body composition analysis at week 1 and week 6 (muscle mass, fat mass, bone mass, hydration, visceral fat, metabolic age)
$470 of value for $370
Benefits
The health benefits of an eating plan that includes plenty of good fat, a moderate amount of protein and is free of processed carbohydrates:
improved metabolic function, better hunger and appetite control
greater blood sugar control
easier weight loss and maintenance
better ageing, mental clarity and sleep
lower inflammation, reduced blood pressure and improved cholesterol
reduced bloating, wind and flatulence
improved fertility and maternal environment
improved immune function
improved menopausal symptoms
decreased anxiety and mood swings
improved behaviour in children with ADHD and Autism Spectrum
sustained energy availability during exercise
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