Louise MUDGE

30/05/2025

Thank you for an inspiring day. Loved networking with my people 🫶

05/05/2025

22/03/2025

Feels great to be back out walking Lofty again. I pushed super hard until I had nothing left in the tank. Why do I love it so much?

Perimenopause is a never ending rollercoaster for me🎢 I can survive it that much better if I schedule in at least 150 min moderate intensity activity (or 75 min vigorous) and at least 2 strength classes per week working all the major muscle groups.

Most importantly it helps me to sleep better 😴 so I have less brain fog, less overwhelm and anxiety & to temper that at times raging appetite. I think my teenagers may find me a more reasonable Mum when I work out.

I am also working on my muscles and strength to supercharge my metabolism, minimise fat gain (especially visceral fat gain) and optimise my heart and bone health.

16/03/2025

AGIS photoshoot fun. Can’t believe I have been with this team now for 12yr 💕 Thanks for all support and helping me grow.

A little bit about what I do….

Louise Mudge is a specialist dietitian at Adelaide Gastrointestinal Specialists. She is an Accredited Practising Dietitian, completing a Masters in Nutrition & Dietetics at Flinders University South Australia in 1998.

Louise has more than 25 years clinical experience both in private practice and her former role as Senior Dietitian/ Team Leader, Digestive Diseases, Royal Adelaide Hospital. This involved coordinating nutrition and dietetic services to the Gastroenterology, Professorial Oesophago-Gastric Surgery, Pancreatic & Hepatobiliary Surgery & Colorectal Surgery teams.

She is results driven and committed to evidence based practice. She participates in research to inform her patient care. During 2010-2015 she was seconded to the University of Adelaide Discipline of Surgery as the Clinical Trial Coordinator for a national multicentre trial evaluating specialised nutrition “immunonutrion” use in patients undergoing surgery for oesophageal cancer. She presented the results at the 2016 ESPEN Congress in Copenhagen and published in the British Journal of Surgery.

She specialises in the dietary management of patients with reflux, achalasia and motility disorders, gastric and oesophageal cancer.

She has extensive experience in the implementation of preoperative low calorie “liver shrinking” diets and was involved in recent research evaluating their use, along with body composition analysis (InBody 570) in patients before surgery for reflux. This enables her to ensure she achieves quality weight loss (fat mass) whilst minimising muscle mass loss. She was invited to share her expertise at the 2024 AANZGOSA/ SUGGS conference in Sydney.

Louise also has extensive experience managing patients with sarcopenia and malnutrition, IBS, functional dyspepsia and implementation of a Low FODMAP diet, lactose intolerance, Crohn’s & Ulcerative Colitis, Coeliac Disease, pancreatic cancer,pancreatitis, bowel obstruction, MAFLD & liver disease.

10/03/2025

It’s sizzling in Adelaide today. Whipped myself up a berry & mango high protein smoothie bowl 🥭 💕 So yum, so quick & most importantly, so easy.

Simply add:

- 2 Tbspn frozen raspberries
- 1 handful frozen mango
- 4 ice cubes
- splash skim milk (~50 ml)
- 2 heaped Tbspn yoghurt. My current faves are Farmers Union Greek Style High Protein Yoghurt & Chobani Fit Greek Style Yoghurt Natural. Both minimally processed with very few ingredients ✔️✔️

PLUS to meet my increased perimenopausal protein needs 💪 and to tame my afternoon appetite I add 1 scoop FeelGood Tasteless Protein Collagen.

Blitz in NutriBullet or equivalent & voila you have a bowl of nutritious goodness which will give you 20g dose protein in under 175kcal 🫶

11/01/2025

Wish every day good start like this

31/10/2024

Done ✔️Just presented on doing what I love. Helping patients to “shrink” their liver & get fitter before upper GI surgery. Now time for some R&R in Sydney

17/10/2024

❤️ the views along the Bondi to Coogee walk topped off with brunch . Doesn’t get much better than this…

14/09/2024

It only took 49.5yr but I finally just did it & ran City to Bay and beat my 12k PB. Yay 🥳

10/08/2024

Unsure what I am more excited about. Beating my PB for 10k or the fact that I will get an awesome sleep tonight 😆

08/06/2024

How do you soup? Devouring this bowl of porcini mushroom chickpea soup. An amazing microbiome “tonic” packed with veggies