Is Your Midlife Diet As Healthy As You Think?
There’s a great article in The Telegraph today (I haven’t linked to it because it’s behind a pay well) about why your “healthy” diet might not actually be that healthy.
This is something we drum into our clients when we’re working with them on our programmes.
We break nutrition down into simple coaching, including what to avoid.
– Those vegan sausages? 24% of your total daily salt allowance.
– Low fat spread – actually going for the butter is better for you
– Ready made sauces – usually packed with sugar, salt and starches
– “Healthy” snack bars – packed with sugar in the form of dried fruit and fruit syrups not to mention palm oil, emulsifiers, glycerol…
Yes folks, sugar has many sources. I’ve even seen creators of “healthy” snacks proudly promoting their produce as “sugar free”. What they mean is there is no processed sugar, instead they’ve used fruit sugars, nectars and syrups.
It still spikes your insulin, still has calories, will still lead to excess body fat if you’re in a calorie surplus (not to mention the inflammatory effects of sugar on the body and brain).
If you haven’t started educating yourself on food labels yet, now is the time to start. At midlife especially with decreases in leptin (the satiety hormone), increased ghrelin (your hunger hormone) and increased insulin resistance (meaning your more likely to lay down excess energy as fat), you need to be more aware of what you’re putting into your body, and how it will metabolise.
Nailing nutrition and your habits and mindset around it really is a game changer, which is why it’s such a fundamental part of our programmes.
As one client said to me last night, “I’ve tried so many diets and apps, I just find myself thinking about food and what I can’t have all the time. With your approach I’m not thinking about it, beating myself up about it, I’m just enjoying it.”
Get in touch and see if our midlife programmes, midlife coaching or midlife mentoring is for you ….