Lemonpeels Health

A bit about me

Hello world, i was born as Emily Iliopoulos, my mother is English and my father was Greek and i married a gorgeous Northern Irishman, so now i am Emily Magee and i live 20mins from the Irish border on the South side. We moved here from Dublin with my husband and our 2 babies in 2015 to be closer to my in-laws, as being close to family is important and mine is overseas.

I grew up in Greece - In fact above you see a photo from our house in Greece, the one i’m hoping to turn into a wellness retreat soon- on the gorgeous mediterranean diet cooked by an English mum, so i think i was pretty lucky! However, those that know me now will be shocked to learn i was a fussy eater until just 3 years ago ‘only meat,potatoes and lemon for me please’, while my friends in Greece are shocked at the healthy eater i have become today ‘seriously? you want salad with that?”.

I got into Nutrition to help myself and my husband deal with his auto-immune issue, but in the process i learned how many more things could be helped through Healthy Nutrition, through Natural, through Unprocessed, through Breathing, through Grounding, through Pause... With a family background of diabetes and auto-immune disease myself i think it’s ever more important to give my children a solid start in life providing the nutrients their body and mind needs to hopefully give them the best chance out there and also equally as important that my husband and i get the nutrition and movement we need to safeguard our health and mobility now, so that we can enjoy our golden years as i am looking forward to. Did i mention my husband is doing great and in remission of his symptoms these past 2 years medication free? ;)

While i was still studying i realised i wanted to take this journey beyond my family, i realised this was the future i wanted, this was the dream life i would wake up excited to begin and so at 39 i can finally say ‘I do know what i want to be when i grow up & i want to be a Health and Nutrition Coach’ !

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