Looking for a Nutritionist in Colchester?

Do you yearn for the time when you just felt ‘normal’ on a daily basis?

The old you, that was more confident, fun, and full of energy. Are you fed up with waking up at 4 a.m.? Spending mornings feeling shattered and dragging yourself through your day with coffee and willpower. Feeling like you are wading through treacle, just about meeting your basic obligations…but lacking the space and energy to experience joy in your life. As a Nutritionist in Colchester, I can support you in regaining your vitality.

Perhaps you feel tearful or snappy, overwhelmed with anxiety, or that your cotton wool brain just won’t function. Maybe you are feeling bloated and sluggish – reacting to foods but unable to identify the trigger, leaving you scared to eat. Your expanding waistline means shopping for clothes no longer brings any comfort. You are trying to be healthy and eat more fruit, but it just doesn’t feel the same as a Snickers. If you would like your life to be about more than ‘just getting through the day,’ if you have important things that you want to accomplish, then why not choose today to make a start and choose a different path?

So, what is actually going on?

Many things can impact your mood and lead to these kinds of symptoms. If you are not getting enough good quality sleep, your energy and mood will suffer – and in turn, this will also affect your sleep. It is a horrible, debilitating, vicious cycle. I understand that your gut health is crucial in supporting your mood and how well your brain functions. There is a super communication highway between your gut and brain that impacts many other systems too. Even if you are eating the best diet in the world, the health of your gut will dictate how well you can break down, absorb and use the nutrients you consume – to fuel and support your energy, mood & sleep.

Your hormones also have a big role to play in regulating your mood, no matter your age or gender. This doesn’t just relate to sex hormones – oestrogen, progesterone, testosterone – but we have many other hormones too. So much of how we feel (physically and mentally) is regulated by our hormones – including sleep, appetite, energy, mood, and sex drive. While all hormones affect each other, cortisol, our master stress hormone, is particularly important when it comes to managing these symptoms.

When the systems of the body are under pressure, it is also very common to hold onto excess weight, no matter what ‘diet’ is tried. Excess cortisol, in particular, can lead to weight gain around the belly area. Faddy diets, fasting, and punishing exercise routines can worsen the situation – by adding to hormone imbalance problems and reducing the nutrition available. As a Nutritionist in Colchester, I believe that optimising your mood, energy, and sleep requires a holistic approach to explore and address the factors that are relevant and specific to you, your situation, and any existing conditions you have, to help you get the very best results.