You Are Nourished

Holidays should be a time for relaxation. Escaping the rigmarole of daily life and treating yourself to a much-needed break. For so many of us though, we can end up spending the whole time worrying about what we look like, what people will think of us, and what we should or shouldn’t eat. What if you could go on holiday without the crash dieting beforehand? What if you could enjoy being somewhere new and trying new flavours that satisfy you? What if you could be present and soak up all the wonderful experiences you’ve been so looking forward to enjoying?Today I want to help you stop wasting your hard-earned holidays worrying about things that are really not important. I talk about how it’s possible to have food freedom even on holiday. It’s not easy, and it does take time, but in this episode, I share my top tips on changes you can start implementing right away to help you shed the diet mentality and work towards healthier habits and behaviours.“You are going to miss out on so many amazing opportunities in life if you spend them worrying about your body and about food the entire time.” - Lauren Gayfer In This Episode:Understand how crash dieting before a holiday adds to the stress you feel during a holiday.Reassess what’s important about holidays and understand how diet culture keeps you stuck in an unhealthy cycle.Learn different tools that will empower you to develop a new healthier mindset.Discover strategies that will help you to nourish your body rather than punish it.Find out how you can honour your hunger even when on holiday.Follow my simple tips to avoid going overboard at the breakfast buffet. Resources:To help have a stress-free summer, check out my Mega Summer Bundle which includes an incredible collection of 50 fresh and fruity recipes perfect for all occasions, and a gorgeous printable planner to help stay organised: https://youarenourished.com/summer-bundle Connect with Lauren: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nourished.laurenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nourished.lauren 

Holidays should be a time for relaxation. Escaping the rigmarole of daily life and treating yourself to a much-needed break. For so many of us though, we can end up spending the whole time worrying about what we look like, what people will think of us, and what we should or shouldn’t eat. What if you could go on holiday without the crash dieting beforehand? What if you could enjoy being somewhere new and trying new flavours that satisfy you? What if you could be present and soak up all the wonderful experiences you’ve been so looking forward to enjoying?Today I want to help you stop wasting your hard-earned holidays worrying about things that are really not important. I talk about how it’s possible to have food freedom even on holiday. It’s not easy, and it does take time, but in this episode, I share my top tips on changes you can start implementing right away to help you shed the diet mentality and work towards healthier habits and behaviours.“You are going to miss out on so many amazing opportunities in life if you spend them worrying about your body and about food the entire time.” - Lauren Gayfer In This Episode:Understand how crash dieting before a holiday adds to the stress you feel during a holiday.Reassess what’s important about holidays and understand how diet culture keeps you stuck in an unhealthy cycle.Learn different tools that will empower you to develop a new healthier mindset.Discover strategies that will help you to nourish your body rather than punish it.Find out how you can honour your hunger even when on holiday.Follow my simple tips to avoid going overboard at the breakfast buffet. Resources:To help have a stress-free summer, check out my Mega Summer Bundle which includes an incredible collection of 50 fresh and fruity recipes perfect for all occasions, and a gorgeous printable planner to help stay organised: https://youarenourished.com/summer-bundle Connect with Lauren: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nourished.laurenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nourished.lauren 

Today’s episode brings us to the end of my four-part series on reasons why you might be struggling to lose weight. Today I am talking about a subject that I have first-hand experience of, which is an underactive thyroid.Thyroid symptoms can affect us in so many different ways which can make it hard to get a correct diagnosis and work out the treatment you need – it certainly took a considerable amount of time for me to get the help I needed. When visiting the doctor, you may end up with a short-term solution to one of the symptoms (such as constipation, low mood, or weight gain) but that’s not dealing with the long-term root cause. It is really complex which is why I want to share my experience of what I went through so you can get the help you may need. In this episode, I explain what to look out for, how to get a diagnosis, and the potential need for medication. I also share my diet and lifestyle tips that I find help to successfully manage my condition.“Thyroid issues can often be misdiagnosed because your thyroid hormone is responsible for so many different processes inside the body.” - Lauren Gayfer In This Episode:Learn the surprising ways thyroid issues can affect us which make it so hard to diagnose.Understand some simple science to give you the confidence to ask for investigation into the root cause of your symptoms.Learn about my own journey with getting the right diagnosis and finding a treatment that worked for me.Discover changes I made to my diet that helped me manage my underactive thyroid.Try some simple lifestyle tips that can help improve your overall health. Resources mentioned:If you’re interested in getting your thyroid tested privately, you could try https://medichecks.com/pages/thyroid-health or https://bluehorizonbloodtests.co.uk/collections/thyroid-blood-testsFor further information on thyroid problems, check out Dr Izabella Wentz’s website: https://thyroidpharmacist.com/A great book for more information would be ‘The Thyroid Connection’ by Amy Myers: https://amzn.to/3aJpT55  Connect with Lauren: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nourished.laurenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nourished.lauren

Today’s episode brings us to the end of my four-part series on reasons why you might be struggling to lose weight. Today I am talking about a subject that I have first-hand experience of, which is an underactive thyroid.Thyroid symptoms can affect us in so many different ways which can make it hard to get a correct diagnosis and work out the treatment you need – it certainly took a considerable amount of time for me to get the help I needed. When visiting the doctor, you may end up with a short-term solution to one of the symptoms (such as constipation, low mood, or weight gain) but that’s not dealing with the long-term root cause. It is really complex which is why I want to share my experience of what I went through so you can get the help you may need. In this episode, I explain what to look out for, how to get a diagnosis, and the potential need for medication. I also share my diet and lifestyle tips that I find help to successfully manage my condition.“Thyroid issues can often be misdiagnosed because your thyroid hormone is responsible for so many different processes inside the body.” - Lauren Gayfer In This Episode:Learn the surprising ways thyroid issues can affect us which make it so hard to diagnose.Understand some simple science to give you the confidence to ask for investigation into the root cause of your symptoms.Learn about my own journey with getting the right diagnosis and finding a treatment that worked for me.Discover changes I made to my diet that helped me manage my underactive thyroid.Try some simple lifestyle tips that can help improve your overall health. Resources mentioned:If you’re interested in getting your thyroid tested privately, you could try https://medichecks.com/pages/thyroid-health or https://bluehorizonbloodtests.co.uk/collections/thyroid-blood-testsFor further information on thyroid problems, check out Dr Izabella Wentz’s website: https://thyroidpharmacist.com/A great book for more information would be ‘The Thyroid Connection’ by Amy Myers: https://amzn.to/3aJpT55  Connect with Lauren: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nourished.laurenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nourished.lauren

We’re continuing our four-part series on reasons why you might be struggling to lose weight, by looking at inflammation. And this week I am joined by my first-ever podcast guest expert! Emily Niswanger, a Functional Dietitian from Anywhere Nutrition – who is an expert in all things to do with inflammation – joins me all the way from Minnesota!Now, when we think of inflammation, we tend to think of conditions where you can obviously see or feel the inflammation, like arthritis, for example, where you would experience persistent pain. Many of us don’t realise that we can also have internal inflammation that goes on inside our bodies that we just don’t see. Do you suffer from digestive issues like bloating? Do you lack energy all the time? Do you find it hard to concentrate and forget things a lot? These are all indicators of chronic inflammation!In this episode, Emily helps us delve into what inflammation is, why it can make weight loss difficult, and shares lots of ideas on changes you can make to your diet and lifestyle to reduce inflammation.“If you are struggling with inflammation in the body, no amount of dieting or exercise is going to help unless we deal with this root cause first.” - Lauren Gayfer  In This Episode:Learn about different types of inflammation and how inflammation can prevent you from losing weight.Discover the role nutrition plays in exacerbating inflammation and how to look out for hidden ingredients in shop-bought products.Understand the importance of finding a healthy and sustainable balance with what you eat and how letting go of perfectionism will help reduce both stress and inflammation.Learn how different lifestyle factors can increase inflammation including some surprising things you think would have the opposite effect.Get top tips on healthier habits you can try to help reduce inflammation.  Resources mentioned:Connect with Emily on social media using @anywherenutrition or go to her website: www.anywherenutrition.com Find out more about the history of low-fat diets in podcast episode, ‘How to stop fearing full-fat foods’, here: https://youarenourished.com/episode20.Listen to the first episode in this series, ‘3 Underlying Reasons You Might Be Struggling to Lose Weight’, here: https://youarenourished.com/episode21.Listen to the second episode in this series, ‘Underlying “non-food” reasons for weight gain – Stress’, here: https://youarenourished.com/episode22.Connect with Lauren: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nourished.laurenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nourished.lauren