Victoria Johnston Nutrition

04/08/2026

29/07/2026

✨ A good nutritionist won’t ask you to give up everything you love.
If your morning coffee, a piece of chocolate after dinner, or a family takeaway on a Friday brings you joy, those things don’t have to disappear for you to become healthier.

In my practice, I don’t believe in drastic overhauls or unrealistic rules. Instead, I work with my clients to make small, sustainable tweaks to their existing habits.

We focus on:
🌿 Building healthier routines.
🥗 Adding nourishing foods, rather than simply taking foods away.
💚 Making gradual changes that feel achievable.
✨ Creating habits that naturally replace less healthy ones over time.

Real, lasting health isn’t about perfection—it’s about consistency. The small changes you can stick with will always beat the big changes you can’t.

Because healthy eating should fit around your life, not take the joy out of it.

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08/07/2026

Chronic stress isn’t just “in your head.” 🤍

When stress becomes a constant part of life, your body can stay in a prolonged state of “fight or flight,” leading to chronically elevated cortisol levels. Over time, this can contribute to low-grade inflammation that impacts almost every system in the body.

This inflammation may affect:
🧠 Brain function, memory, and mood
⚖️ Weight regulation and increased fat storage
🦴 Joint health and aches
❤️ Heart and metabolic health
🛡️ Immune function
😴 Sleep quality and energy levels

The good news? Your body is designed to heal when it feels safe.

Making time each day to activate your “rest and digest” (parasympathetic) nervous system can help reduce cortisol, calm inflammation, and support better overall health.

Simple ways to do this include:
✨ Slow, deep breathing
✨ Gentle movement or walking
✨ Quality sleep
✨ Mindfulness or meditation
✨ Eating meals without rushing
✨ Spending time in nature or connecting with loved ones

Rest isn’t a luxury—it’s a biological necessity. The more consistently you give your nervous system moments of calm, the better equipped your body is to repair, recover, and thrive.

07/07/2026

03/07/2026

☀️ Amazing offer for July only! ☀️
No obligation, come and ask me the questions about your nutrition and health that have been worrying you.

05/06/2026

‼️Did you know NATURAL strategies can support GLP-1 production?

IN REALITY Their effects are much smaller than those of prescription GLP-1 medications. Weight loss will take longer.

A MASSIVE POSITIVE Their effects are sustainable UNLIKE the effects of GLP-1 meds.

Foods with particularly strong GLP-1-promoting potential:
A meal built around:
30–40 g protein
High-fiber vegetables
Beans or lentils
A source of healthy fat

Choose nutrient dense foods that fill you up, provide your body with nutrients that will balance blood sugar and increase metabolism.

If the goal is maximizing natural GLP-1 production, the strongest evidence-based combination is:
High protein intake
High fiber intake (especially legumes and soluble fiber)
Regular exercise
Good sleep

These habits tend to reinforce one another and can improve satiety even without medication.

Whether you are taking weight loss meds, or not, if appetite control, blood sugar management, or reducing food cravings is your goal, please get in contact and we can have a free chat 💚

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18/05/2026

Why Perimenopause Steals Your Sleep 🥱
 
As progesterone declines in perimenopause, something happens in your brain.

Progesterone is your body’s natural GABA-enhancing hormone — it binds directly to GABA-A receptors, creating that beautiful feeling of calm, ease, and mental quiet that lets you fall and stay asleep.
 
When progesterone drops 75–90%, your brain loses its primary natural sedative. Your nervous system becomes hyperexcitable. Thoughts race. You wake at 3am for no reason. Anxiety arrives uninvited.
 
Thankfully, this is not insomnia, it is a GABA deficit, and there are targeted supplements and foods that may help:

🌿 Lavender helps our bodies make serotonin which our bodies convert to melatonin, our sleep hormone.

🍌 Magnesium - through glutamate modulation kills the “wired but tired” neuronal hyperexcitability. It also has a calming effect on the Amygdala which regulates our fight and flight response.
🤓 It needs to be a type of magnesium that will pass through the blood brain barrier.

🍒 Foods such as tart cherries, kiwis, bananas, almonds, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, turkey and chicken, milk and yogurt. These all contain products that are serotonin precursors.

💚 It is best to work with a qualified health professional when chosing targeted supplements. Picking the right supplement will ensure that they are absorbed and that they hit the right spot!
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IF YOU ARE GOING THROUGH PERI-MENOPAUSE/ MENOPAUSE I will be doing a workshop in Braunton on:
‘How to build residence during hormonal change’.

Pm me for details, or message below.

15/05/2026

Although many of us may experience similar symptoms, no two people are exactly the same. Our bodies, minds, lifestyles, experiences, and emotional needs are all unique, which means the support that helps one person may not work in the same way for another. Healing and wellbeing are not one-size-fits-all journeys. What brings balance, comfort, or progress for one individual may look completely different for someone else. By recognising and respecting these differences, we can find approaches that truly support our own physical and emotional wellbeing in a way that feels right for us ❤️
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