Helen Ritchie
Clinical Nutritional Therapist
“I’ve got my spark back & the relationship with my husband has improved…. SO much more important than the weight loss!”
The impact of taking control of your health can be so much more far reaching than the original goal of losing weight. "I've got my spark back & the relationship with my husband has improved.... SO much more important than the weight loss!" This is just one of the incredible pieces of feedback from a […]
Why Stress is making your menopause symptoms 10 x worse
Stress can make every single menopausal symptom worse: hot flushes, night sweats, anxiety, mood swings, poor sleep and weight gain. Why? BECAUSE hormones work together like an orchestra. When your stress hormone cortisol is high, it has a knock-on effect on all your hormones. It’s a complex chemical process but put simply cortisol takes priority […]
Meet Suzanne – who is now looking forward to the rest of her life!
When I first met Suzanne, she felt like a broken person. She was finding it hard to see to the end of the day. She was struggling with extreme mood swings, zero energy and brain fog that left her unable to think straight. Her weight was increasing and she just couldn’t get an uninterrupted night’s […]
Myth: you need to eat less & exercise more to lose weight at menopause
If you’ve been told you just NEED to eat less and exercise more to lose weight then you’ve been lied to! This calorie deficit theory of weight loss is an outdated myth based on the as-sumption that all calories are equal - which they're not! It also doesn’t take into account your age, sex, weight, […]