I'm a Dietitian. And I Used to Have a Terrible Relationship With Food.

For years, food was exhausting.

Not because I didn't know what to eat — I'd always been interested in nutrition, read everything I could get my hands on, knew more than most people about what healthy eating looked like. The knowledge was never the problem.

The problem was that none of it helped with what was actually going on.

I grew up thinking I had a weight problem. As a child I had a belly that stuck out — the kind that gets commented on. I grew tall quickly, my younger sister was petite. People used to say casually but frequently how “big” I was. At some point my mind translated "big" to mean "fat" and as a consequence, my body became a problem to solve.

So I tried my best to solve it. At fifteen I tried to follow a supermodel's "perfect" diet. Green apple, plain yoghurt, boiled chicken, salad, no dressing. I lasted about two weeks. I was dizzy, hungry, permanently irritable, but determined — because clearly this was the price of being acceptable.

That was just the beginning. I tried lots of strategies, but nothing worked for long. My belly didn't shrink, but my relationship with my body changed — and not for the better. I hid behind baggy clothes, avoided mirrors, thought about food and was deeply insecure about how I looked for years.

But thankfully, that all changed a long time ago.

What finally shifted was how I saw things. I'd been so convinced I had a weight problem that it never occurred to me to question that idea. When I did, I realised the problem had never really been my body — it had been the thinking about my body. Once that became clear, the whole thing looked different.

That was before I became a dietitian.

When I did go back and complete my training, what I learned confirmed what I'd already discovered from the inside: that the body knows how to eat, that hunger and fullness are reliable signals when we're not overriding them with rules and fear. The thing people struggle with most isn't knowing what to eat — it's everything that gets layered on top of eating.

The fear, the rules, the guilt, the overthinking — the noise has been there so long most people assume it's just who they are.

Fast forward to now — I'm in my fifties, I eat carbs, I drink wine, I thoroughly enjoy food, my weight is stable and my mind is quiet around eating. I didn't finally find the magic diet, I stopped trying to fix myself. It took time, but as I did it confirmed what I'd begun to suspect — my body was never the problem to begin with.

What I didn't find in my training — and what I've spent years since then piecing together — is a way to help women actually get there. A way that will provide a genuine shift in how they see food, their body and themselves.

And I found it.

If you're someone who knows what to eat but can't seem to do it — who feels fine around food one day and completely out of control the next — who has tried everything and still can't figure out why food feels so hard — you're in the right place.

I've been where you are and I know that what you're looking for isn't more information on what to do or another diet plan. It's understanding. And once you have it, everything else just falls into place.

If you’ve spent years trying to eat better and are wondering why it never quite sticks — then do I have guide for you! It explains exactly what’s going on. Click here to find out more.

Or get in touch and let’s talk.