MIND OVER MIRROR MIND OVER MIRROR

Nutrition is a dancer, it's the soul's companion — I bet you hear it everywhereeeee 😂
(if you didn't just sing that in the tune of "Rhythm Is a Dancer," go back and do it now)

Hey girls,

Me again, popping in to give you a little low-down on nutrition and why it's your biggest roadblock to feeling your best self...

I NEED to get this off my chest.

The amount of misinformation flying around about nutrition right now is doing my head in, to be honest. Everyone's got the "one rule" that'll fix you. And every single one of them is making women feel like the problem is them.

It's not you. It's the noise.

There is no one size fits all. Let me say that again...

THERE IS NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL.

How many diets have you tried in your life, but nothing has stuck? Yeah, I bet you need a third hand to count.

I get it. I've been there. It brings back "eat two bowls of Special K a day" vibes again 🤢

To drop a bit of weight we need to be in a calorie deficit — that is the principle. But the way the calorie deficit is made is just marketing to get you to try the next sparkly new thing, such as:

• Keto (cutting carbs)
• Fasting (reducing eating window)
• No sugar (cutting enjoyment)
• Weight loss jabs (stops you eating loads)

Every single one of them is just a way of creating a calorie deficit, reducing your calorie amount throughout the day.

Now, if any of them fit your life — like never eating a carb again — be my guest, go for it, no judgement here. But I know most women don't want to have to "cut" anything from their diet. I also know they just want to live a life without the bloody guilt around eating every type of food.

You like wine or even beer. You want chocolate or cake. You want pizza and burgers. You know, all the stuff that legit makes us a little less moody 😂

I am here to tell you this is allowed. You are allowed these foods, even when trying to lose a little weight.

So why understanding your nutrition changes everything

When you understand how food works for YOUR body, you stop needing permission from an app, an influencer, or a meal plan you found at 11pm on Pinterest.

You start trusting yourself again. And that's the real win — being able to make a decision about food and not spiral about it for the rest of the day.

Energy increases from fuelling your body well. Your mood swings stop because you're not depriving yourself of a wee bit of choc. You stop treating every meal like an algebra test.

That's what feeling good about yourself actually feels like.

I'm hoping you get my drift, and that you already start being a bit kinder to yourself after reading this.

But for anyone who does want to understand the fundamentals around nutrition and what food does for your body — including calorie deficits and why they work — I have my Nutrition Webinar available for you.

This is a behind-the-scenes educational webinar I did with the girls inside The Durobility Method.

Hey girls, me again 😂👋🏼

I am a massive believer in how we speak to ourselves.

I used to tell myself: I'm a failure, I'll never amount to anything. I can't lift weights, I'm too weak. I'm ugly, I'll never meet someone. I'm fat, I need to lose weight.

I used to talk to myself like that constantly. I know — that's actually heartbreaking, isn't it. The worst thing is, I actually believed all of it. Up until I did some deep work, lots of therapy, and years of sorting my stuff out.

Now every morning I wake up and say to myself in the mirror: "You have got this."

Because I truly believe that when you start treating yourself with respect, gratitude and kindness, you'll actually start to believe it — and more importantly, feel it.

So here's a few sentences I hear women say to themselves on the daily 👇🏼

Punishment and earning food:
"I better go for a run to burn that off." "I'll skip dinner since I had a big lunch." "I need to make up for what I ate yesterday." "I haven't moved enough today to deserve a snack."

Guilt and shame language:
"I was so bad today." "I've ruined the whole week now." "I shouldn't have eaten that." "I feel disgusting after eating that." "I'll start again Monday."

Fear and restriction:
"I can't have that, I'm on a diet." "I'm not allowed carbs after 6pm." "That's basically poison." "I need to cut out sugar completely." "If I have one bite I won't be able to stop."

Bargaining and rules:
"I can have it as long as I run it off." "I'll allow myself this one treat if I'm good all week." "I'll cut sugar tomorrow, just to make up for it." "I'll eat clean tomorrow to balance it out."

Self-worth tied to food:
"I have no willpower." "I'm so weak when it comes to food." "Why can't I just be normal about eating like other people?" "I'm a failure, I can't even stick to a diet."

I know, right, there's a lot there. And I can imagine you've said one, two, maybe even three of those sentences to yourself before.

Unfortunately for us — if you're a millennial like me — it's what we heard growing up. It's what our parents would say, and their parents. It's what we've learnt just by existing on this planet: that this language is normal behaviour and how we should talk to ourselves.

So what if we, right now, were the generation that ended this awful pattern of disordered eating and the way we talk to ourselves around food?

If you're a mum, I'm sure you'd hate your daughter growing up believing any of the sentences written above. I know I would.

So let's change the way we speak to ourselves — around food, body image, and everything that just makes us feel like crap. It's not worth our attention.

Let's start educating ourselves, understanding that food is enjoyment, celebration, and more importantly, fuel to keep our engines turning and our minds a little less moody.

Fancy learning more around nutrition? Inside The Durobility Method I ran a Nutrition Webinar with the girls, educating them on the fundamentals around what food is and how it helps nourish our bodies.

Hello you lovely lot,

So this week's Waffle is a slightly different one — I'm going to share one of my client's stories.

I want to tell you about one of my clients today: Jade.

Jade came to me after an ankle injury knocked her completely off course. She'd lost her routine, lost her direction, and along with it, she'd put on weight during recovery. But the bit that really got me was when she told me how much headspace food was taking up.

She didn't know what to eat. She didn't know if she was getting enough protein (she's veggie, which she was convinced made it even harder). Every meal felt like a decision she wasn't equipped to make.

Here's the thing — Jade isn't undisciplined. She just hadn't been taught the basics in a way that actually fit her life.

So that's where we started. Not a meal plan. Not a list of foods to avoid. Just education — real, plain-English understanding of what her body needed and why.

And the change? In her own words:

"Having a clear plan has taken the mental load away — I don't have to think too much about what I should be doing."

That's it. That's the whole point.

She didn't need more confusion. She needed to understand. Once that clicked, everything else — the consistency, the confidence, feeling more like herself again — followed naturally.

This is exactly why education is where it all starts. Not restriction. Not another diet. Understanding.

That's exactly what I've put together in my free nutrition webinar — landing in inboxes on Monday 29th June. It's the kind of plain-English, no-nonsense breakdown I wish someone had given Jade (and me, if I'm honest) years ago.

Hey girls,

One last final email from me... then I'll leave you alone. I just don't want you to miss out on this free resource!

When I ran the nutrition webinar back in April with the girls inside The Durobility Method, the response I got was fantastic. It's such a taboo subject sometimes, because there has been so much misinformation out there for years:

• "Don't eat fats, they'll make you fat."
• "Cut carbs, you'll lose weight quicker."
• "Sugar is bad for you."

I'm here to tell you that nothing is bad for you. Having a good, healthy, balanced diet is the one you're going to be able to stick to.

It's a lifestyle, not a quick fix.

Understanding the fundamentals around nutrition is going to be the one thing that bridges the gap to start feeling better.

Sometimes all it takes is putting yourself out there to learn what actually works, then putting it into practice.

It's a journey, it takes time. But once you understand nutrition and how you can make it work for you — the possibility is endless.