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Food Is Life, Basingstoke (2026)

23/03/2026

As a mum of 1 kid, I would describe myself as pretty chilled

As a now mum of 2 in the last 7ish months

Well let’s just say

I didn’t think I’d shout as much as a mum in my entire parenthood

Than I have in the last 6 months

Some of it I’ll put down to the famous “terrible twos” (boy are they terrible)

But if I look inwardly, I know my fuse is SHORT

And you know what? Post partum hormones

Hormones are WILD

It’s not in my nature AT ALL to be short tempered

But sometimes the rage just takes over me

And I know many of my menopausal clients feel similar

They don’t recognise themselves anymore

Their emotions, their attitude to life

Their body fat increasing by the day

We can choose to ignore hormone shifts at different times in life

Or we can recognise them, lean into them and adapt

Shifting the unwanted weight might not look the same as it did 20 years ago

But if you adapt

With the right education, support and science on your side

You can still guarantee to make it happen

Want some help with that?

DM me the word HORMONES and I’ll show you what we can achieve together

19/03/2026

Filtered water though, of course 😅

18/03/2026

The ups and downs of business never stops

Throw two babies under 2 into that mix

It leaves me with little down time in any 24 hour period

And some would argue, I burn the candle at both ends

But there’s another way you can look my life too

1. I still get to live out my dream job every day, working with clients that feel like virtual friends to fit back into their jeans

2. I get to be extra present in moments like this with maternity leave friends and babies

And maybe I’m just wired up wrong

But I really do believe I get to have my cake and eat it (pun fully intended)

And I thank my lucky stars daily for the life I get to currently live 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

17/03/2026

Mandy made a decision that I really respected

She had friends losing weight on the injections

And fair play to them, they were spending around £300 a month on themselves to get the result they wanted

But Mandy knew that wasn’t the route she wanted to go down

So she said something that stuck with me:

“If they can invest that in themselves, I can invest in myself too… just in a way that feels right for me”

Because the truth is, Mandy had been trying to figure this out on her own for 30 years

Lose a couple of stone

Put it back on

Start again

Repeat

Same cycle. Different diet

One of the biggest things we changed actually had nothing to do with “diet food”

With two kids in their 20s and her mum living at home, Mandy was cooking different meals for everyone

And something separate for herself because she thought that’s what dieting meant

Salads for her

Normal food for everyone else

So we flipped that

She now eats the same meals as the family

We just adjusted portion sizes, balanced the nutrients properly, and made the food work for her goals

No separate “diet meals”

No feeling like the odd one out

No cooking twice

And the pressure that lifted off her because of that? Huge

Now she knows she can eat the same dinners as everyone else

She can have a takeaway at the weekend

And she can still lose weight

She’s lost 20lbs so far

But the biggest shift isn’t the weight

It’s that she finally believes this is something she can keep doing

Because the rules she always thought wouldn’t work for her… actually do

If you’re an overweight menopausal yo-yo dieter stuck on the hamster wheel…

And you’d love to lose 20lbs in the next few months without spending another decade trying to figure it out alone…

DM me the word DIET and I’ll show you what it would look like if we worked together

16/03/2026

Most dieters treat “bad days” like a problem to solve

They try to be extra strict the next day

They white-knuckle their way through hunger

Or the most common one… they write the whole day off completely

“Ah well, I’ve ruined it now”

But what if that’s the wrong way to look at it entirely?

Because the women who finally stop yo-yo dieting aren’t the ones who never have bad days

They’re the ones who learn how to handle them

A stressful day at work

A meal out that turned into dessert as well

A weekend where the tracking wasn’t perfect

Those moments aren’t proof you’ve failed

They’re actually the moment where the real skill of weight loss is built

Anyone can stay “good” when life is calm

When meals are planned

When the routine is perfect

When nothing unexpected pops up

But life isn’t calm all the time

I don’t need to sit here and tell you that

So whether you want to lose 1 stone or 5 stone

You need to remember you’re going to have weeks where everything clicks

And weeks where you feel like throwing the towel in

The difference between peri/ menopausal women who stay stuck on the yo-yo dieting hamster wheel…

And the ones who finally break free from it…

Learn the few key habits that keep them consistent when life gets messy

Not perfect

Never perfect

Just consistent enough to keep moving forward

So if you struggle with the "Ah well I've ruined it now" mindset

DM me the word ALL and I’ll send over a podcast episode you’ll benefit from

11/03/2026

The C word gets thrown around a lot these days

It’s as common as seeing a shark with your bare eyes on the UK coastline

Wait, what word did you think I was going to say?

Confidence

One of those things you don’t realise how much you’ve lost

Until you regain it

And the sad thing is, there’s many out there that never have it

Why?

Well there’s a million reasons to answer that question

But one I deal with on a daily basis

Because people are not able to invest in themselves

And when I say not able, I mean not willing to be uncomfortable

Not wired to take the risk

Don’t believe there is a better life out there for them

If I didn’t sign up with Sarah for post-natal PT

I would have gone through the rest of my days with my body out of alignment

And I would have been none the wiser

Thinking, “this is the best it gets after growing and birthing kids”

So firstly I want to thank myself for making the hard decision to invest in future Steph

When I could be sat at home with my kids and my dog

Rather than rolling around on the floor, lifting weights and learning how to breath again on Sarah’s command

So trust me, I get it

Investing in yourself is really hard and uncomfortable

But the confidence I have not only in my body, but how I walk around in the world after only 3 SESSIONS

I honestly already feel like the old me again

PS if you’re ready to find that confidence in yourself and lose all the weight you’ve ever dreamed about

DM me the word CONFIDENCE and let’s see if I’m the right person to help you find it 🫶🏻

10/03/2026

Joy didn’t come to me because she wanted another strict diet plan

She came because she was tired of feeling chained to the scales

If she’d had a “perfect” week of tracking and the scales didn’t move… it would send her straight into a spiral

“Why bother?”

“I’ve messed it up”

“I’ll start again next week”

And that inconsistency was keeping her stuck and miserable

You might think the first thing I did was tell her to stop weighing herself

But actually… we did the opposite

For one month, I asked her to weigh every single morning

Not to judge herself

Not to panic

But to see how normal weight fluctuates

Because here’s something most women aren’t told…

During certain parts of your hormone cycle (week 3 and 4), the scales can be higher

Even if you’ve done everything right

And once Joy saw that pattern? It was like a lightbulb switched on

Suddenly it wasn’t about being “good” or “bad” with food

It was about understanding her body

She stayed consistent through the whole month, even when the numbers were higher in the second half of her cycle…

…because she knew it wasn’t fat gain

It was biology

And that change in thinking is what breaks the yo-yo dieting cycle for so many of my clients

If you’re an overweight menopausal yo-yo dieter who feels chained to that number on the scales

And you would love to lose 2–3 dress sizes in 2026 without letting the scales control how you feel about yourself…

DM me the word SCALE and I’ll show you what it would look like if we worked together

09/03/2026

I reached out for help

And still doubted whether it was the right decision whilst handing over the money

As a mum, a partner, a friend, a business owner

It’s HARD to prioritise yourself

It’s hard to spend money on yourself

But I’ve done it

I’m working with a post-natal PT to realign and re-figure out my body

I have handed over the future strength of my body to an expert

I’ve done 3 sessions and I feel the strongest I have felt since having Cody 2 years ago (and Casey, since)

But to get there I went through the same process as so many of my clients do

Before they sign up to work with me

I promised myself I would exercise from home with my newborn

I did one session

Then didn’t do another one for months

So I joined a mum and baby Pilates class

Low cost, low commitment

It was the perfect stepping stone to realising that

“Okay, this is great, but I need more specific help for me personally”

That’s when I contacted Sarah, I knew I was ready

That’s the EXACT moment that my clients sign up with me

And what potentially you might do in the future too

We are funny old humans aren’t we

Investing in ourselves is HARD

But the rewards I have got from making that hard decision

MAKE ME WANT TO SHOUT THEM FROM THE ROOFTOPS

05/03/2026

Live recording from the gal with a Masters degree in Nutrition

That’s raising 2 kids and a dog

Whilst running a business

Helping menopausal women fit back into their jeans

Reality check: your diet doesn’t need to be Instagram sexy to succeed

Follow me to follow along for the dinner addition

I will not disappoint.. 😛😅

04/03/2026

Go on, entertain me for a second

I’m British at the end of the day

So it’s really hard not to talk about the weather

And 99% of the time I bite my tongue

Because your time is precious and I don’t want you reading god awful boring emails from me

BUT HOW MISERABLE IS THIS WEATHER?!

More to the point, how up and down is it recently?

Having glimpses of the sun makes my heart happy though

Anyway, anyway

Speaking of up and down

Your motivation with dieting probably goes in waves too right?

Gives you whiplash the amount of times it changes direction

Yet, so many menopausal females base their new diet on the foundations of motivation

Are you going to wear shorts tomorrow because you can guarantee you’re going to see the sun?

No

But you apply that similar theory

With your precious body

The one things that matters more to you than most things on this planet

My clients will try to convince their friends doing SW and the jabs that dieting isn’t complicated

Once you know how to do it properly

But what they need to get across really is

You need to create a calorie deficit a way you’re not relying on motivation

That’s how you will stay consistent with dieting long enough to lose all the weight

And THAT’S how you’ll win

I promise you, you will win

03/03/2026

Lisa came to me at her absolute wits’ end

Not because she didn’t know what to do

She’s dieted for years

Tried low carb

Tried being “good”

Tried starting again every Monday

But she realised something big…

She didn’t want to spend the next 20 years going round in the same circles

Calm week? She’d lose weight

Life happens? Night out, holiday, stressful week at work…

Boom. Self sabotage

Back to square one

And the worst part?

Every time the scales didn’t move much, she’d spiral

“This isn’t working.”

“I’ve messed it up.”

“What’s the point?”

So we changed one key thing

We stopped letting the scales decide whether she stayed in a calorie deficit

Because here’s the truth no one shouts about:

The scales have barely moved since November

Read that again

Barely. Moved

But her body?

Shrinking

Clothes looser

Waist smaller

Confidence growing

And the bra fitting lady isn’t going to lie… that’s not exactly in her best financial interest 🤣

She’s proof that when you stop panicking at normal scale fluctuations…

When you stay consistent even when life isn’t calm…

When you don’t let one night out turn into a three-week spiral…

Everything changes

Not overnight

But properly

If you’re an overweight menopausal yo-yo dieter stuck on the hamster wheel…

And you would LOVE to lose 2–3 dress sizes in 2026 without wasting another decade figuring it out alone…

DM me the word BRA and I’ll show you what it would look like if we worked together 🫶🏻

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