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Bold Health is an online coaching service run by Nutritional Therapist and trainer Harri Bold

Bold Health is an online coaching service run by Coach and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner Harri Bold. Harri's mission is to help busy professionals cut through the fad diet trends and bonkers exercise regimes so that they can break the cycle of weight fluctuations, poor digestion and hormonal imbalances and start working with their bodies to reach their goals. Free newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hRArKD

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04/08/2025

Here’s the wild thing about metabolic syndrome....

… you might not even realise you’re already struggling with it.... 😅

😅Metabolic syndrome is essentially a cluster-f**k of conditions which increase the risk of:

❤️‍🩹 Heart disease

🍬 Type 2 diabetes

🧠 Stroke

😵‍💫 Fatty liver disease

The 5 key risk factors include:

1️⃣ Raised blood pressure

2️⃣ Abdominal obesity (waist circumference above 102cm for men and 88cm for women)

3️⃣ Elevated triglycerides (you’d ideally want them to be below 1 mmol/l)

4️⃣ Decreased levels of HDL (ideally above 1 mmol/L)

5️⃣ Raised blood sugar.

👉👉 I’d also be looking for elevated liver enzymes and elevated fasting insulin (both indicating insulin resistance).

Are the signs already there..... and your markers creeping up…. Your waistline creeping out ?? 😅

And I’m all for people having curves… but storing weight around your waist is a big red flag for your health. 🚩

Is it time to turn this ship around ⛴️ ?? Because your body won’t always be able to bounce back! 🫣

03/08/2025

You’re at that point where you’ve tried every possible macro split combination…
.. Low carb.
...High protein.
...Low fat.

Hell, you can’t even budge a single pound on the ‘low everything diet’

Frustrating, right?

But here’s the thing: you can’t out-macro, out-deficit, or out-discipline a body that’s hanging onto every last calorie for survival.

Why? Because fat loss resistance isn’t about willpower — it’s about what’s going on under the surface:

🚫 Undiagnosed Hashimoto’s (you can bet your bottom dollar your doc’s not checking this unless you ask them!)

🦠 A dysbiotic gut (some bacteria absorb more energy from food, yup you could eat the exact same meal as Susan and absorb more energy from it)

❌ Lack of Akkermansia (a gut microbe which increase GLP1 and boosts metabolic health)

🔥 Prolonged calorie deficits (these fckers will have slowed your metabolism)

🏋️‍♀️ Overtraining (another way to kick your body into preservation mode)

🧬 Subclinical low thyroid function and elevated reverse T3

😰 Chronic stress (acute stress = survival. Chronic stress = s**tshow)

🍬 Insulin resistance (your body is essentially converting sugar to fat for storage)

⬇️ Declining oestrogen, (this is going to exacerbate insulin resistance and contribute to weight gain around your waist during perimenopause)

So if you’re doing everything “right” and still not seeing results, it’s time to stop blaming the macros... and start looking at the root cause!

02/08/2025

Yeeeaaaaahh… you know the feeling, when you have your busy social life teed up, outfit planned, picked out your fave dish on the menu…..

BUT the bloat has other ideas for an uncomfortable whoopy cushion of a weekend 💨 💨 😬

🤦🏼‍♀️ What the f**k was it this time?

Something I ate….

Something I drank…..

Something I contemplated eating….??

Hormones….

Stress…..

Or just General gut rebellion and that vague diagnosis of IBS gifted to you by your doc…. 🎁

Sometimes s**t does hit the fan 💩 we can’t micromanage every last gut reaction….

BUT you can dramatically reduce the chance of feeling bloated and uncomfortable with these 3 really basic steps:

1️⃣ Keep a food diary (I don’t care about your macro splits…. I mean a ‘dear diary I shat my pants today, this is what a ate’) - keep an eye out for trigger foods

2️⃣ Stay hydrated (people love to skip this unsexy part and go straight to the supplements) and eat your veggies (some plants may also bloat you…. But you’ll know that because it will be in your ‘s**tty pants’ diary 🩲)

3️⃣ SLOW DOWN and chew your food. Put your knife and fork down, stop multitasking. Give the cascade of digestion chance to do its thing!

Start here, before jumping into heroic amounts of supplements or testing. 🦠

You’ll be amazed how much you can change with the simplest of tools 🛠️ 🥘 🥗

If you’ve tried the basics, and don’t feel any better…. Hit me up, we can get to the root cause 🦠 🍱 🍲

01/08/2025

It’s probably not your work ethic — it’s your strategy…

Here’s what might be holding you back:

1️⃣ No structured training plan – Random workouts = random results. This structure also needs to be flexible, you have to be able to adapt your workout schedule to your body’s current state (think lack of sleep, fluctuating hormones, high stress levels)

2️⃣ Under-recovering – if there’s no rest days (or adequate rest between sets/sides/sessions) there’s limited repair and hindered growth.

3️⃣ Poor nutrition – You can’t out-train a diet that doesn’t match your goals and under-fuelling because you’re chasing some insane calorie deficit, will slow your metabolism and encourage body fat storage & catabolism of muscle tissue.

4️⃣ Lack of progression – If you’re not tracking and progressing, you’re just spinning wheels.

5️⃣ Doing too much – More isn’t always better. Overtraining means taxing your adrenals, encouraging burnout and flogging a dead horse!

🔁 Stop grinding blindly. Start training with intention and listen to your body! 💪

31/07/2025

You’ve felt like s**t for months…

Your energy is in your boots…

You can’t sleep….

You’ve lost all motivation…

You’re gaining weight and nothing seems to work anymore.

But your doc says everything is ‘normal, no action’…… coooooool 🫣😅

Take a closer look….

Did they actually run a full iron panel….??

Did they just test serum B12, or have they included MMA (your gold standard for low B12 levels)….??

Have they run more than just a TSH for your thyroid function?

Have they noticed that your folate and B12 are both borderline low despite supplementation?

If they tested your hormone levels, did they even know where you were in your cycle…(if you have one!)?

Are they saying your blood sugar is fine even though HbA1c has been on an upward trend and your liver enzymes and triglycerides have crept up?

If you don’t feel normal, if you don’t feel yourself….. that’s a good indication that something IS out of whack….

And I’m not here to diagnose disease, I’m here to encourage you to listen to your body, and ask questions.

I’m here to help you to figure out the missing piece to your health puzzle…. and help you to create sustainable nutrition and lifestyle changes so you can feel f**king tip-top again! 🙌

15/07/2025

If weight loss was simple, no one would be overweight doc! 🤦🏼‍♀️

If you’ve tried every diet going and everything that used to work, just isn’t cutting it….

That doesn’t mean that you need to dig yourself deeper and deeper into a miserable f**king unsustainable deficit, a life of cabbage soup and endless exercises classes….

It doesn’t mean your will power is crap or your destined to struggle with your weight forever.

It just means you’ve got to dig a little deeper to work out what’s going on in YOUR body….

Not what worked for auntie Sue, or your brother in law, or your mate at work…..

Here’s some missing pieces to the puzzle for you to consider:

💥 Get your gut tested (an overgrowth of firmicutes means extracting more energy from food, low levels of commensals particularly akkermansia will also hinder weightloss, overgrowths of pathogens or opportunistic bacteria create systemic inflammation, this can cause problems for the thyroid ie slow your metabolism)

💥 Get your fasted insulin tested (insulin resistance = stubborn weight gain around the waist, this is exacerbated with a decline in oestrogen)

💥 Get a FULL thyroid panel tested, not just your TSH. This tells your sweet FA about how your thyroid is functioning.

💥 Get your genes tested, what’s missing? How’s your detox of hormones, are you more prone to thyroid/insulin/oestrogen dominance….??

None of these things can be corrected with a calorie deficit….. hell you might even have to eat more…. 😋

And won’t it feel great, marching back into the doctor’s office with your cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure back in check, having lost the weight, without being on a soul destroying diet or worrying about gaining it all back.

Cheers for your help doc 😉

19/06/2025

Still tracking every calorie you burn in a workout?

Let’s talk about what really drives sustainable fat loss — and it’s not the number flashing on your fitness tracker.
⁠⁠
Movement should nourish your body, not punish it.

Out here doing yoga with the dawgs not to burn f**king calories…. Because regulating the old nervous system, balancing hormones (including your body clock) and supporting metabolic health matter more than chasing a burn.

⁠⁠If your workouts are leaving you bloated, burnt out, and gaining weight... it’s not discipline you need — it’s a new strategy.

15/06/2025

Happy Father’s Day fathers! ❤️

🥰 ❤️ 🥰

01/06/2025

Sooooo f**king grateful to spend time with these legends, the OG’s and friends of our little CrossFit community from 15 years ago 🙌 ❤️

Thank you ladies ❤️

20/05/2025

Diet culture wins again 🤣

But seriously….

Here’s my suggested alternatives…

1️⃣ Prioritise rest and recovery

2️⃣ Eat enough calories to support an adult (rather than a small child)

3️⃣ Experiment with time restricted eating (12 hours) or fast in line with your infradian rhythm

4️⃣ Take a dump EVERYDAY 💩 if you’re not, this needs to be your priority

5️⃣ Eat whole food, and plenty of it. If your diet has become too restrictive from ‘clean eating’ look at what you could add back in that brings you f**king JOY

✌️ If you know you’ve got some stuff to unpack, around food, health, dieting… hit me up 😊

16/05/2025

if you're decades into the dieting rollercoaster, it's probably time to have yourselves a good old rethink....

Imagine your body as a rock band rehearsal gone f**king haywire:

Metabolism is the drummer pounding out a tempo no one asked for

Gut is the lead singer belting out gibberish

Hormones are the guitarist switching chords at random

Stress is the roadie awkwardly tripping over cables.

Turbocharging this s**t means hitting pause

Tuning into each instrument (taking a f**king deep-deep dive on your symptoms)

Tossing broken strings (gruelling calorie deficits, overtraining, gut rampaging artificial sweeteners that no microbiome asked for...)

Then kicking back into the perfect jam, where you get to live your best life, back in your charge of your body.

It's time to stop trying to play someone else's tune

Stop chasing the next fad

Listen to your body, it's ready with a f**king belter of a top hit!

01/05/2025

That energy slump before your period…..That’s your cue to slow the f**k down 👌 Don’t let diet culture tell you otherwise

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