• What’s your ultimate guilty pleasure food (no judgment!)? Chips

 

• Do you secretly hate any “healthy” foods that everyone else seems to love?  Kefir – sorry but it’s rank. 

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• What’s your go-to breakfast when you’re in a rush? Eggs & avocado on toast but if I don’t even have time for that, a handful of nuts and a banana.

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• If you could only eat one vegetable for the rest of your life, what would it be?  Heart says potato, head says broccoli

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• What’s one health myth you wish would disappear forever? Calories in = calories out and the idea that you need to reduce calories by 700cal a day to lose 1lb in fat.

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• Coffee, tea, or herbal infusions—what’s your daily ritual? Builders tea in the morning, peppermint or chamomile tea in the afternoon and a pukka nighttime tea before bed. Sadly, I hate the taste and smell of coffee which gives me total FOMO

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• Have you ever completely failed at a health trend or wellness challenge? Lifting weights. It’s taken me around 10 years to get myself in the gym to do weight training. 

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• What’s the most overhyped food or supplement in your opinion? Most multi-vitamins – they don’t contain enough of each mineral to make much of a difference and also minerals compete with each other, chlorella – it’s detox abilities are over-hyped and can actually make things worse in some people, Calcium supplements – I never recommend them. 

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• What's your personal comfort meal when you're feeling run down? Anything cooked by someone else, especially my mother-in-laws bacon hotpot. 

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• Do you take your own advice when it comes to snacking? Not always. 

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• What’s the one food you wish was actually super healthy? Chips – that would be amazing!

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• What wellness practice you know you should do but never actually stick to? Natural daylight exposure first thing in the morning. I always have good intentions of having my first cup of tea outside in the garden but it only ever happens on holiday. Oh and meditation – I find it so hard to focus which just tells me that I really need to do it. 

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• Are you team smoothie or team juice? Smoothie – they are much more balanced than a juice.

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• What’s a kitchen gadget you can’t live without? We’ve only just jumped on the air fryer bandwagon and I love it but I’ve managed this long without it so, probably something like a vegetable peeler or cheese grater.

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• Have you ever tried a diet or food trend just out of curiosity? Nope but I do try things I am likely to recommend to clients to see how easy or hard it is to follow.

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• What's your go-to way to de-stress after a long day? Netflix

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• If you could design your own health retreat, what would *definitely* be on the agenda? Tennis but not sure that would be popular with everyone else! So maybe some yoga as well. 

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• Do you meal prep like a pro or wing it most of the time? Totally wing it but I think my life would be much easier if I meal prepped!

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• What’s your favourite “healthy” dessert hack? I don’t do healthy desserts. 99% of the time I don’t have a dessert but when I do have one, I want the real deal.

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• If you could share one health tip with your younger self, what would it be? Eating before drinking alcohol is definitely NOT cheating and maybe just don’t drink so much alcohol to begin with!