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I could have literally earned a PhD in diet culture maths.A super annoying place where you spend your day adding up calo...
17/09/2026

I could have literally earned a PhD in diet culture maths.

A super annoying place where you spend your day adding up calories (or in my case, Weight Watchers points) to figure out exactly how much leeway you have to eat the “naughty” stuff later.

And while I didn’t have the words for it at the time, this kind of “food noise” was my bread and butter.

Whether I was having breakfast, wondering if the crunchy nut cornflakes with skimmed milk (super low WW points, don’t you know) would tide me over until lunch.

Or in an 11am meeting trying to shut my rumbling tummy up.

Or figuring out how much wine I could have that evening (I NEEDED it after a stressful week, okay?) if I was super careful during the day…

It took up way more brain space than I was ever able to admit to myself.

And while I used to think that the food noise was the exact reason I couldn’t seem to “keep it together”, it wasn’t until I actually gave up dieting that I realised it was actually the dieting that was CREATING it in the first place.

The more I doubled down on counting points, the more my brain seemed intent on never shutting the f*ck up about food.

So what changed? I just realised that I couldn’t spend the rest of my life doing this.

And I stopped.

At first - fu***ng terrifying. Because after years of using rules to decided what, when and how much you’re “allowed” to eat, taking the rules away doesn’t magically mean you start trusting yourself again.

But the more I paid attention to what was actually going on (real hunger, stress, tiredness…was I just reacting to a day of trying to “be good”), the more I learnt to respond to my needs.

And that’s the bit I’m about to help you with inside DITCH THE DIETS.

Because giving up dieting is one thing.

Trusting yourself without it is another.

Together we’ll start building that trust by learning to recognise your own reactive patterns and creating enough space to respond differently.

So food doesn’t have to be an endless equation you’re constantly trying to solve.

DM or comment DITCH and I’ll send you the details.

16/09/2026

A lack of knowledge is literally the least of your problems. You could probably write the book on making “healthy” choices.

Which makes it even more fu***ng annoying when you can't string together more than a few “good” weeks before you're back at:

“Sod it. I'll start again Monday.”

But you don't have a knowledge problem.

And if you think you have a discipline problem, then every other part of your life begs to differ.

👉 You're stuck in a reaction loop.

Years of dieting, restriction and food rules have taught your brain to react automatically.

So when you're tired, stressed, overwhelmed or simply FU***NG BORED of saying no to things you want to eat…

…it can feel like someone else has taken over your brain.

And that's exactly why giving up dieting can feel terrifying.

Because if the diet is what's keeping you “under control”…

…what happens when you take it away?

😬 What if you just eat everything?
😬 What if you can't stop?
😬 What if you gain all the weight back?

THIS is the bit I want to help you with.

DITCH THE DIETS isn't about throwing out the rulebook and hoping for the best.

It's about learning to spot the moment you're reacting, create a little space, and respond instead.

So you can start rebuilding trust in yourself without needing another set of rules to tell you what to do.

❌ No diet.
❌ No calorie counting.
❌ No “just listen to your body” and hope for the best.

Just your first steps towards actually trusting yourself around food.

DITCH THE DIETS starts in early October.

A small, 3-day coaching experience to help you take those first steps.

Link in bio, or DM/comment DITCH for the details.

P.S. It's completely flexible, so you don't need to be available at specific times.

15/09/2026

After almost 20 years of diets and bouncing from “good” me to “naughty” me, from jeans too tight to jeans hanging off me (and back again), something just changed.

And suddenly for the first time I was questioning WTH I was doing.

Not because I didn’t want my body to change - that bit was still there. But because I was no longer willing to put myself through it…

Thinking about food all day with the running commentary on what I “should” have vs what I wanted to have
Constantly chasing a body I could finally accept and feel comfortable in
And never feeling like I was quite living up to the super high standards I’d created for myself

I didn’t have a map for what to do.

So there were false starts, there were days where I felt out of control and there were moments (like, a lot of them at first) where I almost went back to the diet. Almost.

BUT the biggest thing I did over that time was learn to rebuild trust in myself.

So that instead of believing that I could only ever be okay on a diet, I realised that being able to listen to my body and what it ACTUALLY needed was the key to cutting out the food noise, making healthier decisions more consistently and making friends with my body again.

And it’s exactly this which I’m about to share with you inside DITCH THE DIETS.

Where I’ll teach you to go from the reactive place you’re living in now (which is keeping you trapped on the diet rollercoaster, feeling a bit queasy about the whole thing, but also worried about what happens when you get off), to the responsive place that allows you to make healthier choices with a whole lot less second guessing.

Spaces are limited and we start in early October. DM or comment DITCH and I’ll send you the details.

I’m not about to pretend that even now I’m only eating half a chocolate bar and putting the rest away. Because I’m not a...
10/09/2026

I’m not about to pretend that even now I’m only eating half a chocolate bar and putting the rest away. Because I’m not a psycho.

BUT since I stopped dieting, I’ve got to admit I (kind of) get it now.

Because doing that, just like having biscuits in the house and forgetting they’re there, or saying no to a Friday night glass of wine just because you don’t fancy one (rather than because you’re being good) has got nothing to do with discipline.

And everything to do with trust.

For so many of us living in “diet land”, our sense of trust and connection with our body has been outsourced to calorie counts and willpower.

And we feel like without those things to keep us “on track” we might as well just give up and buy the new 3 sizes bigger wardrobe right now.

But what if I told you that there’s actually a simple switch, which takes you from “I cannot have anything sweet in the house” to “I totally forgot I even bought that chocolate”?

Well there is - and it’s called React to Respond.

In other words, right now your relationship with food is built on well worn reactions that mean your rational brain doesn’t even get a look in. Cue the Friday night binge, “f**k it I’ll start again on Monday” and the endless loop of hope followed by despair and back again.

Instead, I’m about to help you discover how to RESPOND - so food stops being an emotional crutch just waiting to trip you up. And becomes a place where you feel like you’re actively making the best choices for you.

So you can get off the diet rollercoaster and finally start to trust yourself around food.

We’re doing exactly this inside Ditch the Diets - 3 days of live coaching to start your journey to food freedom (without giving up on yourself). Doors open next week, and if you want to be first in

09/09/2026

She complained about her weight, ate a different meal the family and took a weekly trip to Weight Watchers.

In fact, she even started taking you when you were 13 to deal with that “puppy fat”.

So you told yourself “I never want my own kids to experience what I did” - knowing full well that seeing your own Mum go through that? It’s one of the things that set you off on the diet rollercoaster you’re on to this very day.

So instead, you do it covertly.

🍰 You make damn sure you never say negative things about your body while they’re in earshot.

🥗 At dinner, you don’t say you’re dieting - you just “don’t feel like” having pasta today.

🍫 And you’re well versed in making jokes about “mummy’s squishy tummy” to hide what you really feel.

But the pattern doesn’t get broken because you keep silent about it (while secretly hoping the next diet will finally solve everything).

It gets broken because you start seeing the patterns that sit underneath the reactive decisions you’re making about food every single day.

If you’re ready to walk your talk and walk away from diets for good - while learning to make better choices around nutrition (because you’re actually able to hear what you’re body’s been trying to tell you), then join me inside Ditch the Diets.

Doors will open next week and spaces are limited, so get your name on the waitlist by DM’ing or commenting WAITLIST and I’ll make sure you’re first to know.

08/09/2026

The maths works and you know it - if you consistently use more energy than you consume, you’ll lose weight.

That’s biology (and no, menopause doesn’t magically cancel all the laws of science).

But here’s what the “no excuses” gymbros and fake AI fitfluencers aren’t telling you.

You’re not a lab experiment. And you don’t live in a vacuum. You’re a woman with a history.

👉 You lived through “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”

👉 You had relatives giving you unsolicited advice about your body when you were 11

👉 You watched your Mum go to Weight Watchers and hate her body her entire life

Which makes your relationship with food and your body really fu***ng complex.

So when someone reduces it to a simple equation, what you actually hear is: “I’m doing it all wrong”.

And you keep trying to solve emotional reactions with scientific formulas.

Which is never going to feel peaceful.

The bit where this changes is actually hidden in the reactive (and unconscious) decisions you’re making around food every day.

And once you understand the well worn decision short cuts that your brain has created - and you learn to decode and re-programme them - you can start responding differently. And build a new, more peaceful relationship with food.

This is what we’ll be doing inside Ditch the Diets. I’ll be opening doors again next week - and if you want to be first in the know for the limited spaces, just comment or DM “WAITLIST” and I’ll get you on the list.

PSA: your relationship with your body doesn’t have to be perfect for it to be perfectly functional.DM or comment BODY to...
03/09/2026

PSA: your relationship with your body doesn’t have to be perfect for it to be perfectly functional.

DM or comment BODY to work with me 1:1 this autumn.

01/09/2026

Gotta love the summer and the freedom to eat that comes with it. Not only is life feeling that much more relaxed, but you’ve earned a bit of time off.

Until you land back in the “real world” in September and realise your jeans are definitely not fitting like they were when you last put them on in May.

= Panic stations 🚨

But before you go there, here’s what I’d tell you NOT to do if you were a client:

🥗 Jump straight into a diet - because it just becomes the precursor to a Christmas binge, an easter binge, a Summer ’27 binge (plus, if you’re honest, all the weekend binges in between). And that feeling of always being on the back foot and fighting to get back into your jeans. Again.

😢 Be super mean to yourself - I mean, I’ve definitely been there, telling myself how weak willed I am for letting myself off the hook for the entire summer. But in my experience, all that beating yourself up achieves is you feeling s**t about yourself.

🏃‍♀️ Sign up to a brutal 6-days a week fitness reboot programme - tempting I know, but honestly, how soon before you start convincing yourself to just miss a workout, then another, then another? Cue - discipline related crisis, and you looping back to “super mean”.

If this has been your September reality for as long as you can remember, then doing all this, and trying to lock in even harder isn’t magically going to start working now.

What is going to shift the needle is creating a new relationship with your body.

One where you can actually listen to what your body needs, start from a place of peace and build a routine (and a mindset) that means that by Christmas you simply move into maintenance mode, rather than “gain and lose the exact same 7lbs” mode.

It doesn’t mean you can’t lose weight. It doesn’t mean you can’t change your body. It just means that when you do it the ups and downs disappear.

And you can finally trust that you’re not going to f*ck it up the next opportunity you get.

Want to work with me to make that happen? I’ve got a few slots inside my 1:1 programme - THE BODY YOU’LL LOVE LIVING IN.

Just DM or comment BODY and I’ll send you the details.

27/08/2026

As I always say, emotional eating is actually a GOOD thing (there is method to my madness - promise).

Because when you’re feeling stressed, tired, overwhelmed, frustrated and then you get home and reach straight for the Oreos you definitely bought for the kids 😉 it’s actually a sign that your body is doing something to regain its sense of equilibrium. In other words, your nervous system is functioning exactly as it’s meant to.

Problem is that every time you do that what you’re actually doing is trying to override or get rid of an emotion. AND you’re using a tool that makes you feel s**t 30 minutes later.

Because as far as you’re concerned - negative emotion = bad.

And the sooner you can be rid of it and enveloped in an Oreo scented comfort blanket the better.

Which is also why you keep doing it. However much willpower you try and engage.

Thing is, emotional eating doesn’t get better because you get better at getting rid of emotions.

It gets better because you learn to actually live WITH them.

In other words, learning to recognise emotions, sit with them and observe them is actually the skill that will make the biggest difference.

Once emotions lose some of their power over you, so does emotional and comfort eating.

And I’ve totally got you covered on this with COMFORT EATING DECODED - where we’ll help you decode those comfort and emotional eating signals, so you can get back into the drivers seat and stop every tough day turning into an Oreo or 5.

It’s totally free - but you can also upgrade your experience with the Comfort Eating Toolkit for just £7 right now. Giving you the exact tools I give to my coaching clients to deal with comfort eating in-the-moment.

DM or comment DECODE and I’ll send you the link.

Everything you need to know about working with me - from free to premium.Swipe through to pick your starting point.(And ...
24/08/2026

Everything you need to know about working with me - from free to premium.

Swipe through to pick your starting point.

(And if you’re still not sure, just DM me. I’ll tell you honestly what makes sense for where you are.)

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