Beyond Confusion: The Clarity of a Diet Edit

I don’t know about you, but there are times when I recognise that my eating patterns need a rethink. This often happens after a disruption to my routine, like my recent return from a trip overseas.

For me, holidays are a time to put diet considerations aside and indulge in foods and drinks I wouldn’t usually have. I don’t want to miss out on cocktails in the pool or the tempting desserts at restaurants. This works on the proviso that when I return home, I also return to my regular eating routine. Sometimes, that takes longer to do so.

The net result is the creeping in of fatigue, brain fog, feeling sluggish, and even anxiety — symptoms I thought I had said goodbye to once and for all. That’s the sign to take action! That’s when it’s time for a rethink of what I am doing food-wise.

When it comes to healthy eating, most people don’t know what that looks like for them. For decades, we have been exposed to campaigns by organisations like the dairy corporation and the meat industry, various iterations of a food pyramid, and told low fat, low carb, paleo, ketogenic, raw food, carnivore, gluten-free, Mediterranean, or vegan diets are the way to be a healthy person. What constitutes a healthy diet has become a minefield.

The net result of misinformation, cherry-picking of research, and too many chiefs (mostly on social media, with no nutrition qualifications) telling us what to eat is confusion. With confusion comes yo-yo dieting because we try one thing, don't see the results we want fast enough, and adopt an all-or-nothing approach.

The best way to cut through the noise and find the right way to eat for you that feels good and improves your health, is to identify what you need nutrition wise with current blood work. This informs us about what we need to eat more or less of. With your data points we can create an ultra personalised approach to eating for you.

If you know you need a diet edit, make that the one thing you are going to change and focus on that.