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IS THERE ANY POINT IN CHANGING WHAT YOU EAT WHEN Y

IS THERE ANY POINT IN CHANGING WHAT YOU EAT WHEN YOU DON'T SLEEP?

I was obsessed with my tiny human's sleep when he was a baby.

Not because I was worried about how much sleep he was getting. No, it was because his sleeping patterns dictated how much sleep I was getting.

I love sleep. Deep, floating, drooling, rejuvenating sleep.

After spending 3 years sorting out insomnia, you'd think I was prepped for the sleep deprivation that was about to hit.

Nothing preps you for it.

Nothing preps you either for the constant questions about how tiny human is sleeping, how to sort it and how they're tiny human was sleeping 17 hours at 3 days old.🙄

No one cares about how your sleep is.

Awful is what it was and it continued for about hmm, 3.5 years.

My small human is now 5 and usually only wakes up if he's too hot, too cold, needs a pee, hungry, thirsty, wants a cuddle, the light is off, the light is on.

So, most nights.

How do I deal with the sleep deprivation?

I eat and drink to give myself energy.

It's the only thing that will when you're not getting the sleep you need.

Yes, we do need to work on the quality of your sleep.

But when the quantity isn't there and you're feeling frazzled, knackered and like you're hanging on by your chipped fingernails, then what you're eating will make a BIG difference your energy levels.

There's ingredients to baking your energy so that it rises to va va voom levels.

🥘What you eat & drink
🏃‍♀️Movement
😴Sleep quantity & quality
🤫Quiet time
🌞Daylight time
🛌Sleep schedule
🤯Stress management
👩‍🦰Hormonal considerations

They can all be tweaked depending on your specific circumstances.

What you eat and drink will always have the biggest impact on energy levels as its influences how we work with all the other ingredients.

Don't wait until your small humans start sleeping to your schedule as you might be waiting until they're 14 by then you'll have a nervous system that wakes you every time someone sneezes at 3am.

Because being tired all the time is a waste of yours.

Don't wait till the small ones stop depriving you of sleep before you start making changes, DM to chat about what we can do now to upgrade your energy.

I WANT TO HAVE MY CAKE AND EAT IT 🍰I never und

I WANT TO HAVE MY CAKE AND EAT IT

🍰I never understood the phrase "you can't have your cake and eat it"

Why not?

The whole point of having cake is to eat it, isn't it? Or have I been committing a social faux pas for 40 years?

🥛We're also always told to fill our cup up so that we can pour from it.

Again. I fill my cup up so that I can drink from it. Am I meant to be filling someone else's cup with the stuff from mine?

This feeds into the idea that the whole point of looking after yourself is for the benefit of others.

What about you and your needs?

While I'm all for giving.

I'm not all for giving while you dehydrate and can't poo.

Yes, everyone benefits when Mum is feeling fresh, fabulous and fun.

She's not going to ever get to that stage if her cups being filled with the sole aim of pouring it into everyone else's cups.

That adds more processed junk to the story we're fed that once tiny humans arrive, we don't matter anymore, and we live for everyone else.

Let's challenge that status quo (curly mullets optional) and liberate you from the story that motherhood equals the demise of your health, ambition and freedom.

What about you? What about the benefits you're going to get when you fill your cup up for you?

⚡Your energy upgraded
💤Better sleep. Life changing
😍Revitalised libido. Also, life changing in many ways!!
⛽Fuelled and nourished for everything you want to achieve
🏊‍♂️Feeling like you're no longer drowning in the emotional and physical demands of motherhood, work, life and the laundry basket.

Deciding that you want to switch up your health habits to get some va va voom energy needs to be about you otherwise you'll never stick to the changes.

Quiet that voice that tells you it's selfish.

Fill your cup up. Drink from it. Stay hydrated.

What do you think, are you ready to fill your cup for your benefit?

If you want to fill your cup up but are energetically running on coffee fumes, hit me up in the DM's and we can chat about getting you to where you want to be.

"I'LL START IN JANUARY" “I don’t have time ri

"I'LL START IN JANUARY"

“I don’t have time right now; I’ll do it when life quietens down.”

How many times have you said one or all of the above to yourself?

I love New Year.
A fresh start.
All things new.

Who knows what the new year will bring. New friends, new tiny humans, new jobs, new holidays.

It’s all very exciting.

Come January 3rd it’s a bit of a comedown though.

The holiday season is well and truly over.

You’re back at work.

Small humans are back at school (and already asking about next Christmas and what they’re going to get).

It’s cold. It’s dark at 3pm.

You’re feeling bit sluggish, sniffly and stressed.

Why the bleepin' heck did you commit to cutting out carbs, coffee and Chablis?

I hear you.

I used to go on a detox every January that involved no booze, no bread, no coffee, definitely no pizza.

Instead it was special K, green tea and salads (none of which I liked, especially on a cold, damp, grey Scottish morning.)

It didn’t feel good. It felt like punishment.

What if I told you that January was the worst time to get started on getting your energy back?

Around this time of year, I get a lot of “I’ll start in January”.

I can almost 100% guarantee you won’t.

There’s never a good time to start making changes to how you eat.

You’re always going to busy (I know some of you want to book in a free call but are too busy to schedule it in).

Life when there’s small humans involved never slows down.

Sticking to a diet you start in January isn’t easy.

But this isn’t a diet.

This is showing you how to eat so that
☕you’re not the mum whose looking for the next coffee and cake on a day out with the small humans, so you’ve got the energy to keep going.

⏳you feel like you’ve got more time.

🛌you’re not counting down the minutes till bedtime from when you get up.

😁you can enjoy the small things instead of being impatient and cranky cos you’re tired all the time.

There’s not going to be a Christmas miracle that’ll give you more time, less to do and an unwavering belief in yourself.

But if you start now, well who knows how fabulous you’ll feel come January 1st (well actually I have a very good idea of how you'll feel.)

THE MISSING BIT OF ADVICE WE WERE NEVER TOLD Some

THE MISSING BIT OF ADVICE WE WERE NEVER TOLD

Sometimes your body SHOUTS.

Sometimes your body *whispers*

It's always communicating with you.

But the one thing we've never been told to do or taught how to do is listen to our body.

🚽How many times have you held in your pee cos your too busy to go to the loo? I have.

😋How many times have you ignored your empty stomach and skipped lunch cos someone scheduled a meeting over lunch, or you run out time once you've made your small humans gourmet lunch? I have (it ended with me reversing my car into a parked car!)

👩‍⚕️How many times have you thought I can't bother the Dr with how I'm feeling, it's a waste of their time and anyway, we're all tired? I have.

Growing, birthing and looking after small humans is exhausting. We're going to be tired, impatient and p*ssed off sometimes.

I'm never going to say you're not allowed to be tired, buck up mummy.

I want you to know that if something feels off energy, tiredness wise and you can't shake that feeling, then no you're not destined to feel this crap till the small ones leave home.

There is something that can be done and you are always worth the same love care and attention that you give everyone else.

The overwhelming feedback from my clients is that I've shown them how to tune into what their body needs.

If you want to start listening to your body and, most importantly, taking the action it wants you to so that you feel energised and like you again, then hit me up in the DM's.

Because being tired all the time is a waste of your time.

Have you ever been fobbed off about how you're feeling or have you fobbed yourself off (we all do it)? Let me know in the comments.

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