Fibre, or lack of it, in our diet is something I talk about to my clients a lot.

Fibre helps feed our good bacteria and also helps with healthy stool formation.

In this week's episode I explain the reasons why most of us are not getting enough ,and share my top 5 tips on ways to get more in your diet.

full show note at hillstart.me.uk/63

This seems to be the year of unscheduled everything.

In this week, a special episode where I tell you the 5 things that I have on my daily list.

These are the things that are keeping me sane, safe and well.

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This week I talk about fats.

Good fats are essential to a healthy diet. In fact we refer to them as 'essential' and generally contain high levels of Omega 3.  

However it can be confusing with so many different terms, essential fatty acids, Omega 3, good fat, unsaturated fats, saturated fats and trans fats are all things that we hear, but do you understand them?

This week I explain the differences and help you understand which ones you should be eating, where you will find them, and why you should be eating them.

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It was a pleasure to talk to Kate Lyman from KL Nutrition about all things health, wellbeing, nutrition and of course fitness.

Kate and I connected over a shared passion for supporting clients in their long term health not simply short term results.  Kate and her team work tirelessly to help their clients achieve their goals and then maintain.  

Her philosophy is that you've got to be prepared to sacrifice if you want to achieve a specific goal, but ultimately long term health and wellbeing should be your focus.

For full show notes and Kate's links visit the show notes

This week I thought I'd have a bit of fun and share with you some foods that I do eat and some that I don't eat that might surprise you.  

And so if you want to play along, write down what you think they are and then share them on social media. Tag me @hillstartnutrition on instagram or facebook and if you get it right I'll send you a prize!

I also share the reasons why they are on my list.

I hope you enjoy!

This week's guest is the amazing Lucy Rose Metcalfe. I talk to her on the tenth anniversary of her finding out she had a brain tumour.  Lucy subsequently underwent brain surgery and has spent the last ten years understanding and learning about the long term affects this has had on her health.

Lucy is an extremely positive person, and she has devised her 7 Steps which she follows daily to protect her health and wellbeing.  Lucy is now a coach and it is her mission to help others who have suffered brain injury.

For full show note and links to Lucy's program 

www.hillstart.me.uk/58

This week I talk to my very dear friend Jess.

I knew her for a while before I knew quite how ill she was, and I really wanted to have her on the show to talk about fibromyalgia as it is a hidden illness that many people know very little about.

As Jess explains she has a rather 'messed up' immune system, she suffered with Guillian-Barre Syndrome, PCOS and Hashimoto's Thyriodism. That compounded with an extremely stressful time ended in her being hospitalised and told she would never walk again - she wasn't even 30.

Jess is an amazingly strong person, and she talks honestly about her determination not to let the disease define her.

Full notes and links www.hillstart.me.uk/57

5th to 11th October marks the third Malnutrition Awareness week, the campaign is driven by BAPEN

Their drive is to help healthcare professionals and the general public to understand the risk and help reduce malnutrition and dehydration in the vulnerable.

This week I also pose the question, what about undernutrition.  This is becoming an increasingly regular problem.  Are we forgetting that the rising levels of childhood obesity are not a correlating with the health of our children.  So are they eating nutritious food?

And I am increasingly shocked by the very low cost of some processed foods.  When you have a small budget for food, have very little time and few skills in the kitchen, how do you feed a family?  With low cost ultra-processed food.

The Childrens Right to Food Campaign are working hard to try to ensure that all children get basic nutrition.  

In this weeks podcast I ask you to take a look at yourself, and ask you some tough questions.

Are you guilty of getting in your own way?

Do you say things like

• I'll start Monday
• I've eaten two biscuits so I might as well eat them all?
• I've gone of plan so I might as well quit?

I get it, it's tough, but if you continually try diets that are just too hard then are you setting yourself up for failure.

And even harder question - are you scared of success?

My advice is clear, it needs to start with you, and you can't expect to make changes if they are just too big and too hard.

Please follow me on social media where I share much gentler tips that will help you achieve your health and weight loss goals.

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This week I'm delighted to interview my very good friend Dani Saveker who is the global CEO of GLAS. GLAS is a method that can be used in any situation, for anyone.

The system is designed to help you understand there is any imbalance and then help you to create that balance.  The understanding is that when we have alignment we have balance.

GLAS has been designed to be used by teams, businesses and individuals alike.  For a business it can help to ensure there is a coherent message and vision, in a teams it can bring structure and alignment and in individuals it can help create understanding and balance.  It really can be used by everyone everywhere.

The current circumstances has created a great deal of imbalance for everyone, and it is Dani's mission to bring GLAS to everyone. 

To find out more visit the full show notes