Quite often when we talk about nutrition in health terms, we talk about diets. The word ‘diet’ can have negative connotations for people, it can imply ‘restrictions’ or ‘excluding’ foods we deem to be unhealthy or high in calories because we are trying to lose weight. We rarely look at nutrition and the relevance of this in our diet - making sure that we are making our bodies as healthy as they can be so that we have energy, we feel good and we are fuelled for whatever it is that we need our bodies to do. We need the right nutrition so that we can make our bodies reach the maximum of their abilities.

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The reality is, we need to have a balanced diet and one that is sustainable and fits in to our daily lives and schedules. There are so many quick fixes available nowadays - we go on a 6 week plan and lose weight or inches but invariably, we will put this weight back on. If you are a person who has gone on one of these types of diets, you have probably been on about twenty of them and you cycle through them but the outcome generally never changes.

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Food for a lot of people is a very psychological thing – comfort, stress, social situations, reward – there is so much we link food to. We often find ourselves in social situations where there seems to be so much emphasis on food or drink when the reality is, food isn’t the variable that should affect the overall outcome of that situation – it should be the fact we are out with friends or family and enjoying ourselves.

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We all to often use food as a reward or a treat for once we have been at the gym or gone for a long walk, and often these treats have more calories than we would have burnt off during exercise.

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I believe that nutrition is about going back to basics and making sure you have an inclusive and varied ‘diet’. I think we need to change our mindset about food and understand that to effectively fuel our bodies, we deserve to give them delicious, nutritious food.

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