Amanda Heading

20/02/2026

Give the gift of health and wellbeing. 🎁✨

E‑gift vouchers can be used for physiotherapy or nutritional therapy sessions.

The perfect thoughtful gift for anyone who deserves to feel better, move better, and thrive.

Purchase your voucher today, message me at www.amandaheading.com and make someone’s day brighter!

19/02/2026

Warm salad…roasted cauliflower, aubergine and tomatoes with lentils, wilted spinach and garlic tahini yogurt dressing. Add some coriander, basil and toasted flaked almonds. This packs a punch of colourful polyphenols, fibre, protein, low GI carbs, vitamins and minerals. Add some avocado or mixed seeds for your healthy fats 😋 😋

18/02/2026

Invest in your health and wellbeing. ✨

From personalised nutrition plans to movement programmes and engaging sessions, I help you feel better, move smarter, and perform at your best.

When you prioritise your health, everything else improves.

Get in touch today, message me at www.amandaheading.com to start your personalised wellness journey.

16/02/2026

Healing starts with the right hands and the right approach. 🤍

Every body is different, which is why treatments are tailored to target the root cause, not just the pain.

Relief, recovery, and stronger movement all in one plan.

Visit my website at www.amandaheading.com and book your session today and start moving pain-free.

12/02/2026

Your training plan matters, but your daily nutrition matters even more. 🏃‍♂️🥗

Performance is not built from race day gels alone.

It comes from stable energy, a healthy gut, strong recovery, and resilient immunity, all powered by the right food choices every day.

If you want to run stronger, recover better, and stay consistent with your training, this session is for you.

Sports Nutrition More Than Just the Basics:

📍 FREE Online Event
📅 Weds 18th Feb
⏰ 7PM

Learn how to fuel your body for strength, endurance, and long term performance, not just the race.

Save your spot and join us!

Click the link below to register: www.us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/E7jEoQ7ORR6ZELYUuVIb-Q

10/02/2026

What you eat shapes how you think, move, and recover. 🥗

Nutrition does more than build muscle.

It plays a major role in brain performance, which affects work, sport and daily life. 🧠

• Supports focus, reaction time, and decision-making
• Influences mood, stress response, and resilience
• Provides the energy your body and brain use to perform and recover

Food is not just fuel for workouts. It fuels how you show up every day.

Start noticing how different meals make you feel, think, and move.

Visit my website at www.amandaheading.com
and start your journey to becoming your best self!

08/02/2026

This is a delicious base for a warming, light, homemade curry: onions, spices, kale, tomato, apple cider vinegar and coconut milk. Talk about colourful!
Then add the protein you want: I used some mixed white and oily fish, but chickpeas, butter beans, sweet potato or butternut squash are perfect too. Add some nori sushi strips for extra calcium and taste, serve with mixed wholegrains or green leafy veg (broccoli, spinach, beans, greens) - yum!😋

06/02/2026

Wearables can support motivation and training but they shouldn't replace your ability to read your body.⌚

Use them as guides, not decision makers.

• Great for motivation, training structure, fitness gains and spotting sleep trends
• Algorithms are general, even when personalised over time; your body is individual to you
• Best results come from combining the data with body feedback: energy levels, stress, recovery time, mood, injuries, immune health

Your watch tracks numbers, but you live in your body.

Learn both.

Save this for the days your watch says “push” but your body says “pause.”

Message me at www.amandaheading.com and I'll help guide you towards your performance goal.

04/02/2026

Creatine is one of the most researched supplements in sports nutrition, but it still gets misunderstood.

It's not magic. It's not necessary for everyone. But in the right context, it can be highly effective.

💪Strong evidence supports improvements in strength, power, and muscle performance.

🧠 Creatine is also linked to muscle health, recovery, and emerging cognitive and clinical benefits.

💧 It's less useful for pure endurance performance and may cause water retention or weight changes.

Like any tool, its value depends on the goal, the person, and the bigger picture of training, nutrition, and recovery.

Learn how creatine can support your training and whether it’s right for you.

Connect with me at www.amandaheading.com to see how I can support your training goals with sports nutrition and supplement advice tailored to you.

02/02/2026

Strength training isn’t about looking strong. It’s about staying capable. 💪

It is one of the most powerful tools for long-term health, not just sport performance. ⚡️

Strength is what lets you carry, climb, lift, move, and stay independent as the years go on.

Not just for athletes. For life.

Message me at www.amandaheading.com and I'll help you become the best you can be.

31/01/2026

This is not new news - it's just news that the pharmaceutical companies don't want to share and some users don't want to hear. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm24evgyyzpo

As a registered nutritionalist and dietitian, I held a workshop about the possible damage of weight-loss jabs to the gallbladder (and pancreas, amongst others) last year. It's available online here: https://www.amandaheading.com/weight-loss-injections

GLP-1 agonist meds are VERY effective for losing weight.
They can also be VERY damaging to your overall health if misused - just like any medication.

It's shocking to read that one user thought that losing his gallbladder was an acceptable compromise. I wonder what he'd think if this progresses to losing his pancreas and developing thyroid tumours?

Another user thought she could lose weight whilst eating what she wanted, without any negative effect on her health.

I'm sure these people aren't stupid.
They just want to lose weight.
The pharmaceutical companies don't care about their health. They care about their profits.

The burden of obesity on the NHS will simply be replaced by the burden of gallbladder (and other organ) operations, bone fractures, muscle loss, irreversible digestive issues and even more mental health issues.
Gallbadder: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2790392
Thyroid: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36356111/
Pancreas: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11416045/

We live in a culture of immediate gratification, but your body doesn't work like this.

I help support a number of people using these meds effectively - to loose weight successfully whilst moderating the negative side effects, so they actually end up HEALTHIER. And they're doing great!

Don't act stupid (because you're not).
Get some help and guidance so you can maximise your weight loss safely and effectively, AND optimise your health.

Last year, there was a 15% annual increase in the operations and surgeons want more research.

28/01/2026

I'm not sure this paper tells us anything new, but it does validate those women who suffer the frustrating effects of menopause on cognition. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/menopause-linked-to-loss-of-grey-matter-in-the-brain-poorer-mental-health-and-sleep-disturbance

I can struggle with word-finding on occasion, but that tends to be when I'm multi-tasking or under pressure. Again, we know that long-term stress negatively effects all health, in both men and women, and is certainly a key player in exacerbating menopausal symptoms.

So what's the answer? Throwing our arms in the air and shrieking "we're doomed!" is not it.

As with most health declines, there are things we can proactively do. And this brings me to another study, over 10 years ago and before the focus on menopause: that muscle strength, particularly of the lower legs, can help offset grey matter decline in the brain.

"Leg power predicts both cognitive ageing and global brain structure, despite controlling for common genetics and early life environment shared by twins. Interventions targeted to improve leg power in the long term may help reach a universal goal of healthy cognitive ageing." https://karger.com/ger/article/62/2/138/149063/Kicking-Back-Cognitive-Ageing-Leg-Power-Predicts

Exercise and movement, particularly when done outdoors, is beneficial for overall brain health, improving mood and reducing stress. Loss of muscle mass can start in your '30s, accelerating after the age of 60, with a loss of up to 8% of muscle mass per decade. So use it or lose it.

And as I've said before, if exercise was a pill, it would be prescribed to everyone.

Menopause is linked to reductions in grey matter volume in key brain regions as well as increased levels of anxiety and depression and difficulties with sleep,