About Renae & Chias to Health
This page has been created to provide a safe place for nutritional advice, recipes, health & lifestyle tips/information. I am in my second year of studying a BSc in Nutritional & Dietetic Medicine with Endeavour College of Natural Therapies. I am very passionate about health and how food is used to promote health and wellbeing including the treatment and management of illness and disease.
A little about me; In 2011 I was diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer which was removed including the entire thyroid. Before my diagnoses, I always had issues and struggled with my weight even though I would try to eat healthy and forced myself to exercise at least 5 times a week, and to this day I find it hard to keep to a healthy weight. Along with this, I was always tired, lethargic, moody and just a hard person to get along with. Looking back now I realise I was very unhappy within myself, I hated the way I looked and worst of all I let certain people take advantage of me because I had no self-worth at all.
After my surgery, there was no nutritional advice given and so I continued on my daily routine, eating healthy food (or so I thought), binge drinking and getting caught in the trap of unhealthy foods due to a hangover.
It wasn't until 2015 I had enough of dieting, had enough of the binge drinking and feeding my body disgusting food at the time. I decided to go and see a nutritionist to clean up my diet and my dirty habits. The nutritional program I was put on basically changed everything I ever knew about food and how I can use it to help heal my body. After the first week, I remember losing 2kgs and every week after that 1kg. Not only was I eating healthier and losing weight, but my sleep also improved, energy levels went through the roof so I was no longer tired and lethargic every day, my hormones started to rebalance and I was no longer suffering from acne or heavy and painful periods. This program was a real lifesaver and it changed the way I thought about myself and my
