Dietitian Susan

01/06/2026

Last call — and then I'll go quiet on this, I promise.

Applications for the first cohort of The Nourished Table close tonight. If you've been quietly carrying this for the last few weeks, waiting for the right moment — this is simply me telling you the moment is now.

Here's the whole thing in one breath: 8 weeks, a small group of Christian mothers, a video lesson each Monday, a WhatsApp circle through the week, and a live Saturday call with me. The cohort runs 8 June – 8 August.

And if you're still unsure — that's alright. The application is just an application, not a commitment to pay. The seat is yours to claim, not yours to lose. Send it in, and we'll talk.

Remember: your job was never to transform yourself. The verb is passive — be transformed. Your part is to show up and say yes. This is one small, brave way of saying it.

Apply before the doors close → tally.so/r/EkvP84 (or reply TABLE with any question).

— Susan, RD

30/05/2026

A quiet reminder before the weekend closes, because I didn't want this one to slip past you.

Applications for the first cohort of The Nourished Table close on Monday, 1 June. After that, the doors stay shut until the next cohort — which is some months away.

I'm not here to push you. If the season isn't right, that's completely okay, and there are no hard feelings. But if the willpower that keeps failing, or the war with your body you're tired of fighting alone, has been quietly tugging at you these last few weeks — this is the moment to listen to it.

It's a small group — 12 to 15 women, 8 weeks, walked alongside together. The application takes about five minutes, and it isn't a commitment to pay — just a way of telling me your story so I can see if it's a fit. I read every one personally.

On the fence? You don't have to decide alone. Reply TABLE and we'll talk — no sales call, just an honest conversation.

Full details + apply → tally.so/r/EkvP84

Two are better than one (Ecclesiastes 4:9).
— Susan, RD

29/05/2026

Three words to take into this week.

*Received, not earned.*

Your worth was never something you could earn — not with the right meal plan, not with the right number on the scale, not with the perfect Monday-morning start.

Ephesians 2 says we are saved by grace through faith — and that not from ourselves. It is the gift of God. Not by works, so that no one can boast.

Salvation is a gift. Worth is a gift. Belovedness is a gift.

Care for yourself this week because you are loved — not because you are trying to become lovable.

That changes the verb. From striving to receiving. From earning to enjoying. From performing to resting.

💬 Reply and tell me: one way you're going to *receive* this week.

— Susan, RD

28/05/2026

Romans 12:2 says: "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

BE transformed. That verb is passive. It is not — transform yourself.
It is — let yourself be transformed.

And yet a generation of women believes that they just need to be better or stronger to be healthy. Get up earlier. Try harder. Discipline more.

Transform yourself into the woman God wants. And then we wonder why we're so tired.

Transformation is His work. Your work is to show up and say yes.

The hands on the clay belong to the Potter. The clay does not transform itself.

If you've been white-knuckling your way through every health goal — through every diet, every plan, every January — you may have been doing a verb God never gave you.

Lay it down. Be transformed.

💬 Reply and tell me: what's one thing you're laying down this week?

— Susan, RD

27/05/2026

Eating to the Glory of God: A Grace-First Approach to Food, Body & Health for Christian Women

Should you eat breakfast or fast until noon? Low-fat or full-cream? With so many conflicting messages, no wonder women feel confused. In this talk, registered dietitian Susan Conradie () isn't here to add to the noise — she looks at food, body and health through a completely different lens: a lens of grace.

Drawing on 13 years of clinical experience and a grace-first, faith-based framework, Susan unpacks why "just eat better, just be better" never works long-term — and what to do instead. This is not a talk about food rules. It's about reframing the entire question.

Should you eat breakfast or fast until noon? Low-fat or full-cream?...

27/05/2026

The temple verse has been misquoted so many times before... Let's get it right.

A temple is not sacred because of its size. A temple is sacred because of Who lives in it. If you've received Christ, the Holy Spirit lives in you. Your body's sacred status was settled the moment He moved in. You don't have to earn it. You can't lose it by weight gain.

Stewardship flows from indwelling. Not from earning.

💬 What would it change, to care for your body as a dwelling place instead of a project?

— Susan, RD

26/05/2026

An application came in from a woman who has been on diets since she was a teenager. She has been at war with her body most of her life.

"My worth and happiness have always been linked to the scale."

The Nourished Table is 12 women for 8 weeks. Few spots left. If you've been waiting for the right environment to do this work — this is it.

🔗 Application link in bio.

— Susan, RD

21/05/2026

Three foods I make sure my three daughters see me eat. Often. Without flinching.

As a registered dietitian and a mom of three girls, I think about this a lot — what they see me eat, and how I eat it, will shape how they think about food for the rest of their lives. So three foods that diet culture taught a generation of mothers to fear, that are a non-issue in our house:

1. Eggs — whole eggs, with the yolks.
The cholesterol fear of the 80s and 90s was based on bad science, and a generation of women learned to throw out the most nutritious part of the egg. The yolk holds nearly every nutrient eggs are famous for — vitamin D, choline, fat-soluble vitamins. Scrambled, fried, boiled, baked — yolks always included.

2. Potatoes.
Roasted, mashed, in a stew, with olive oil and salt. Potatoes are a food God put in the ground, and a generation of South African mothers learned to fear them as "just carbs." Satisfying, deeply nourishing, a normal part of our week.

3. Honey.
Real honey. In tea, on porridge, baked into things. Diet culture taught us that "sugar is sugar" and that natural sweetness needs to be avoided like the refined kind. That's not how stewardship works. Sweetness, received with gratitude, is a good thing.

Received, not earned. That's the difference.

💬 What's a food your kids see you fear? It might be the place to start.

— Susan, RD

20/05/2026

There's a difference between caring for your body and being consumed by it. Diet culture taught Christian women to confuse the two.

Stewardship is good. Sleep, protein, movement, rest, sit-down meals, water — these matter, and they're worth showing up for. Caring well for the body God gave you is part of obedience.

But hyperfocus on the scale, the mirror, the measuring tape — that's not stewardship. That's a different relationship entirely. One puts the body in its proper place. The other makes the body the centre of the story, and crowds out everything else.

You were not made to take up less space. You were made to fill the space you were given — with your voice, your gifts, your calling, your family, your obedience. And with care for the body God gave you to do all of it with.

Care for yourself because you're loved — not because you're trying to become lovable.

💬 What is one piece of stewardship you can pick back up this week — without it becoming the whole story? Reply and tell me.

— Susan, RD

19/05/2026

Caring about your body and obsessing about your weight are not the same thing.

I care about how you steward your body. Deeply. Sleep, protein, rest, movement, water, real food, sit-down meals — these things matter, and your body will tell you when you neglect them. Stewardship is real work, and it's worth doing well. Helping women do it well is what I've spent thirteen years on.

But diet culture taught us to make our weight the centre of our story. To shrink our way to worthiness. To measure our way to peace. That's not stewardship — that's something else entirely. It teaches us to be our own saviours, and that job is already taken.

The cost is high. The enemy of our souls is happy when gifted women spend their best mental energy on a treadmill in their minds — trying to shrink, trying to disappear a little more. That's energy not spent on calling, family, kingdom work, joy.

You were not made to take up less space. You were made to fill the space you were given — with stewardship of your body, yes, and with everything else God put in your hands.

The diet is not your saviour. Jesus Christ is.

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?" — Matthew 6:25

💬 What is one piece of body stewardship you can show up for this week — without making it the whole story? Reply and tell me.

— Susan, RD