PHF Nutrition Consultancy

PHF Nutrition Consultancy 📉 Fat Loss Nutritionist
👊🏻 Helping people break the diet cycle
🔬 1-1 evidence-based coaching

A friend sent me this post yesterday, and they asked me to clear it up.So let’s get straight into it…Is sourdough “natur...
02/06/2026

A friend sent me this post yesterday, and they asked me to clear it up.

So let’s get straight into it…

Is sourdough “natures Ozempic”?

In a word, no 🙄

Yes, sourdough is different from standard bread because the fermentation produces organic acids, which can change how the bread behaves in the gut.

But saying eat loads of sourdough and you’ll lose weight without trying, is not supported.

What the evidence does say…

Satiety is sometimes a bit better, but not magic.

Some studies show that certain sourdough breads can increase feelings of fullness and slow gastric emptying slightly.

But when researches look at the part that matters (do people actually eat fewer calories later?), the effect is often small or not significant.

High resistant starch is also overstated.

Resistant starch in bread depends heavily on the flour, recipe, fermentation conditions, and storage.

Sourdough doesn’t automatically mean high resistant starch, and any increase, when it happens, is usually modest.

Saying it blunts the whole meal’s glucose spike is also too strong.

Acid and food structure can reduce the glycaemic response in some contexts, but results are mixed across studies.

It also depends on what sourdough is compared against (white vs wholegrain, rye vs wheat, etc)

And let’s not confuse physiology with pharmacology when it comes to GLP-1…

Fibre fermentation in the colon can influence appetite hormone signalling over time.

But that is certainly not the same thing as GLP-1 medication, which produces pharmacological effects.

Bread cannot replicate that.

So what’s a sensible, evidence-based takeaway?

Sourdough can be a perfectly good carb choice.

But it’s not a fat loss drug by any stretch of the imagination.

And any dumb idiot claiming it is just doesn’t understand science.

Again, it just blows my mind how big accounts get away with misinformation like this.

It’s absolutely scary.

So you can file this one under “B” for bin, or bullsh*t…

Whichever one you prefer 🚮💩

Check this feedback out…This client was training hard.She was showing up consistently.And trying to “be good” during the...
30/05/2026

Check this feedback out…

This client was training hard.

She was showing up consistently.

And trying to “be good” during the week.

But despite all the effort, her body composition wasn’t changing in the way she wanted.

It wasn’t that she lacked discipline.

And it wasn’t because she needed to train harder (she’s absolutely nails!)

What she actually needed was a framework that fit her real life, along with an understanding of how to piece that all together.

She has a busy job, travels with work, has family commitments, a full training schedule, meals out, and social occasions.

And the mental load that comes with trying to juggle everything at once.

So instead of throwing more restrictions at the problem, we focused on building a framework she could actually sustain.

The result so far?

4kg of body fat lost.

Muscle mass largely maintained.

Better control of food.

And no “all or nothing” approach to dieting, where she’s living off salads and shakes, and where she feels trapped in another diet cycle.

It’s one thing to lose weight.

But to lose weight while holding onto muscle so you can build a shape you enjoy seeing in the mirror?

That takes a completely different level of strategy.

Because the goal should never just be to weigh less.

Scale weight fluctuates like a m**o, and you’ll never live your life fully at peace if you judge your progress and self-worth by it.

The goal is to improve body composition, performance, health, confidence, and sustainability.

Without running yourself into the ground and looking like a co**se in the process.

That’s exactly what we focus on with our clients.

Real coaching, structure, and real-life nutrition.

So you can live a happy, fulfilled life where you enjoy your body.

And that’s what we do here inside PHF.

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This heatwave has been the perfect reminder of why in-depth coaching matters here at PHF.Because fat loss, health, and y...
27/05/2026

This heatwave has been the perfect reminder of why in-depth coaching matters here at PHF.

Because fat loss, health, and your relationship with food doesn’t happen in perfect conditions.

They happen in real life.

And real life changes week to week.

This week, the heat has hit a few people hard.

Poor sleep, low energy, increased hunger, feeling uncomfortable, and ready to launch the duvet out of the window (maybe that was just me đź‘€)

And when that happens, it’s very easy for one messy day to enter a pattern you don’t want.

But that’s where coaching should step in.

Not next week or the next check-in...

In real time.

Inside our consultancy, we don’t leave people to spiral because the weather, work, sleep, or life has thrown them off.

We get in early.

Help them understand what’s happening.

Adjust the plan.

Pull them back into their framework.

And we make sure a couple of tough days don’t turn into two weeks of uncontrolled eating.

That’s the difference between a programme and being coached properly.

A programme gives you the plan and hopes life behaves.

But my consultancy and coaching expects life not to behave and we have the systems in place to deal with it.

That’s why we cap the number of people we work with.

Not as some fake scarcity tactic either.

But because I want to coach closely.

I want our clients to be supported properly when real challenges show up.

That’s what we do better than anybody here at PHF.

Yesterday, I also had a brilliant call with a health and wellness manager from a big company about delivering a nutrition and wellness seminar for their team.

Again, a different environment but the same standard.

Evidence-based nutrition, delivered in a way that real people can actually understand and use.

No surface-level rubbish from some idiot on social media who is absolutely clueless.

We lead the way in nutrition at PHF, because it’s the only thing we do, it’s our speciality.

If you’ve got any questions, drop me a DM, let’s have a chat 🙂

26/05/2026

You’re not burning as many calories as you think you are in the gym…

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The one thing I’ll always stand by here at PHF is that we are not a programme.We are a high-level consultancy.And there’...
23/05/2026

The one thing I’ll always stand by here at PHF is that we are not a programme.

We are a high-level consultancy.

And there’s a massive difference.

Yesterday, during one of my client’s ongoing coaching reviews…

I took a detailed snapshot of their nutrition over the last 28 days to see where we could tighten things up even further.

Now, every client here gets in-depth weekly reviews…

But I also like to zoom out and take a look at the bigger picture.

So I pulled up their last 28 days of nutrition data and did a full deep dive into it.

This isn’t just some surface level “eat more protein” advice.

It’s not generic macro talk.

It’s a proper analysis of what was actually happening with their nutrition patterns.

Food quality, meal structure, nutrient timing, satiety patterns, lifestyle variables, consistency markers, areas creating friction, and areas creating momentum.

The complete picture.

A couple of hours later, I sent back a full breakdown highlighting…

What was working well.

What potentially needed tightening up.

Where we could pull specific levers to improve further nutrient density.

And the small strategic adjustments that could move the dial even further over the coming weeks.

That’s what coaching should look like.

Not throwing somebody a PDF and disappearing.

Not “nutrition guidance” that means absolutely nothing once you scratch beneath the surface 🙄

And not some random one size fits all plan built around guesswork.

This is why we only specialise in nutrition here.

Because nutrition is deep.

When you really understand it, there are layers to this that go far beyond calories and macros.

Behaviour, lifestyle, relationship with food, habit structure, health markers, performance, recovery, and stress.

Everything overlaps.

And when you coach it properly, those details matter massively.

That’s why we cap the number of people we work with.

Because this level of coaching takes time, attention, and experience.

We aren’t a jack-of-all-trades here…

We are a master of one 🫡🥇

22/05/2026

Are you making this fat loss mistake in the gym?

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21/05/2026

Handling monthly cycles and fat loss…

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20/05/2026

The problem with portion control and fat loss…

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19/05/2026

Is this stalling your weight loss progress?

It’s been a very real week here inside the consultancy, and it has reminded me why I love what I do so much.The reason i...
16/05/2026

It’s been a very real week here inside the consultancy, and it has reminded me why I love what I do so much.

The reason it works here is that we don’t try to be everything.

We specialise in nutrition only.

And that’s it.

Fat loss, health, relationship with food, and nutrition for menopause and perimenopause.

We know our stuff, and we lead the way in evidence-based coaching.

Nutrition is the only thing we do here.

And because of that, we can coach it properly.

This week has been full of real conversations with my clients who are dealing with real life.

Work stress, kids, social events, low motivation, and busy schedules.

The stuff that doesn’t fit neatly into a generic plan.

And that’s why close coaching matters to me.

Because anyone can write calories on a spreadsheet.

Anyone can send a ChatGPT meal plan.

And anyone can say they offer “support” and then pray nobody asks too many questions.

But proper coaching is different.

It’s being there when someone feels stuck.

Helping them regain clarity when the week gets messy.

Adjusting the strategy before things spiral.

And giving them the right n**e, the right reassurance, and sometimes the right level of honesty when they need it.

That’s why we cap the numbers here.

I promise you that’s not a scarcity tactic.

It’s because I’m the only nutritionist here.

And I can’t give 100% to endless numbers of people.

I want to know what’s going on with my clients.

I have a huge passion for coaching them closely.

And I want to understand every detail.

Because details are where the results are built.

This isn’t a program.

It’s a consultancy.

And until you’re inside it, it’s hard to fully explain the depth of support we give.

But this week has been a perfect snapshot of what we do.

High-level nutrition coaching.

Real-time support.

Evidence-based strategy.

And clients being guided through real life, not some perfect version of it that doesn’t exist.

That’s the PHF way.

And we won’t dilute it.

If you want more information on what we do here, drop me a DM, I’ll send you some more information 🙂

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