Livin' La LowCarb

09/08/2024

Yesss!!! 😅😆

...and make sure your olive oil is not seed oil in disguise...

13/06/2024

Spot on! 🎯 😄

02/02/2024

Fasting is not deprivation. It’s giving our body rest especially from digestion so it can focus more on healing and renewing our body. So this this study makes a lot of sense. Don’t need to overdo it, just little over 13 hours or longer whichever feels comfortable.

Fasting is so much more than just calories. Many people, including many smart health professionals treat fasting as simply a way to reduce calories. However this ignores the many many other potential benefits. This paper shows that a simple fasting of 13 hrs per 24 hrs (which is really not that much when you think about it) reduces your risk of getting a recurrent breast cancer.

Fasting is an incredibly powerful tool to treat disease, when used appropriately.

16/12/2023

What’s your low carb brekkie today? 😊

17/05/2023

💯 Jessica Turton - Dietitian & Nutritionist

At age 40, I don't need to be the leanest, or be in best shape physically, I just need to be as strong, mobile and healthy enough to enjoy my kids and life!

It's all about nourishing my body with as much real food it needs, because I learned from experience that only until I feed it with nutrient dense foods that it stops asking for and wanting more.

What I choose to do doesn't have to be the most perfect nor the healthiest way to eat or live, it just needs to be the better and healthier option that is realistic and sustainable for myself 😉

Then I leave it to the power of compounding to heal and transform my health and wellbeing, because good things take time 😊

Life is too short to be dieting, counting and restricting 👊

Stop counting.

Stop tracking.

Stop weighing.

Stop restricting.

It doesn’t work… ❌

If you are counting and restricting Calories in attempt to lose weight, you must ask yourself: is the weight loss worth it?

Is it worth the obsession around food, dieting and weight loss?

Is it worth the low energy, depressed mood, brain fog and anxiety?

Is it worth the suppressed metabolic rate, meaning that you have to continue to restrict calories more and more to maintain weight loss in the future?

I’ve done my fair share of counting Calories. I lost 30 kg. I was the leanest I could have been…

And I can tell you, it’s not worth it.

There IS another way to lose weight and achieve your health goals. You don’t have to count Calories. 🙏🏽💙

16/01/2023

On point 🎯💯👏

We become carbohydrate intolerant at some point during our consumption (different to everyone) and it compounds, then we start experiencing complications from aches and pains, digestive problems, high blood pressure, diabetes and so much more.

So for starters, we decrease our carb intake and choose the quality ones to include in our daily way of eating and see how our body responds. Everyone is different and its for our ownselves to find out.

We gotta start somewhere if we want to feel better 😉 Happy New Year to all! 🥳💪👊

CARBS. ARE. NOT. BAD.

However, the type and amount of carbohydrates you can comfortably, safely, and healthily enjoy as part of your diet is dependent on many factors.

Many people assume that because I encourage the use of low-carbohydrate diets for certain clinical populations, then carbohydrates must therefore be ‘bad’.

This is not the case.

For patients with diabetes for example, there is a certain level of carbohydrates they can tolerate before blood glucose levels are negatively impacted. Eating within their carbohydrate tolerance is therefore beneficial for improving their metabolic health.

For patients with inflammatory gut issues, there is a certain level of carbohydrates and fibres they can tolerate before they hit their digestive threshold and experience gut discomfort. Eating within their carbohydrate tolerance is therefore beneficial for managing gut symptoms.

There are various clinical populations that will benefit from a low-carbohydrate. However, many carbohydrate foods can still be included on such a diet - this just depends on one’s individual tolerance to carbohydrate foods. 🥭🍌🫐🍓

At , we do not prescribe a one-size-fits-all low-carbohydrate diet. We assess all our patients on an individual basis to identify what their carbohydrate tolerance is, and help them construct their diet accordingly. We also regularly evaluate their carbohydrate tolerance as this can change over time.

As we address and improve someone’s underlying physiology, digestion, and metabolic health we can often improve their ability to tolerate real food carbohydrates.

Nevertheless, no matter what level of carbohydrate our patients choose to include, the following foundational dietary principles always apply:

✅ Prioritise quality proteins

✅ Include healthy fats

✅ Choose minimally-processed foods over ultra-processed foods

Sometimes we need to use diet ‘labels’ if we are referring to evidence based practice for a certain clinical population; however, in practice we always apply the Medical Nutrition Therapy processed to provide personally tailored dietary advice to every one of our patients. 💙

06/11/2022

Junk Food is now mainstream just like dad bods, obesity, diabetes, hypertension and inflammation are normalised 🤦‍♀️🙄 (meaning now part of life and just acceptable when we really have a way out)

20/08/2022

Then and Now

One of the best decisions I ever made = When I decided to commit to my fitness journey

And there's no going back 👊

Baby steps and small changes all adds up. No need to go all-in at once.

For me, this is the best strategy to creating habits and adapting a lifestyle because you only do what you can and what you are happy to do at the moment, then you build on it.

It encourages consistency and commitment.

So, keep your head up and just get going! 💪

14/08/2022

Not sure how the other two have higher "health star rating" when it has so many unnatural ingredients and bad oils added to it?? 🤔🤯

Choose food products
✅️That use natural ingredients
✅️As close to its natural form as possible
✅️With shorter expiry date

In a world full of processed and convenient foods, don't get fooled, choose wisely--

Our health deserve better 👊

06/08/2022

You are in control, you can do it! 💪

Use your thoughts to your advantage, instead of holding yourself back or down, push and lift yourself up! That is self love ❤️

Love
Accept
Inspire
Forgive
Motivate
Challenge
Cheer for
..YOURSELF 👊

Fill your own cup before you fill others. Look after yourself so you can better look after others.

Happy Day 6! 🤩