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Zimbabwe based nutrition coaching, for performance, functionality and fully-lived life.

06/11/2023

What do you need to start tomorrow?

28/10/2023

There’s 8 weeks till Christmas 🎄

If you’re looking to run your first or fastest 5k or just to get into good exercise and nutrition habits before Christmas, this is your chance.
$50 for a personalized 6 week plan. Built to fit your nutritional needs and your fitness level right now.
And you’ll get a discount if you’re doing it with a friend!
Send us a DM. Limited spots available.

14/09/2023

Eating healthy is just easier when the weather is warmer, am I right? ☺️🍉

07/09/2023

This is your reminder to just start 🍋

Start saying no more.. or saying yes.
Start prepping your work lunches, even if it’s just to try it.
Start that class at your gym.
Start setting an alarm 30mins before you want to go to bed, to wind down and sleep better.
Start being real with your friends, your family, yourself.
Start saving $5 a day for that trip you’ve always wanted to go on.
Start drinking more water!
Start today.

Comment below what you’re starting today as a form of accountability to yourself. We ALL need to be kept accountable for things we want to do. Because life is hard and messy and it gets in the way, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t.

When life gives us lemons.. 🍋🍋🍋

26/12/2022

We’re taking in new clients for 2023 💫 If you would like to work with a nutrition coach to reach your 2023 goals then please fill in the form in our bio and we will email you with details for this quarters intake, including what the coaching will entail and pricing.
* Intake closes on Jan 2nd, or when all the spaces are filled.

15/12/2022

There are 3 pillars of Functional Nutrition.

#2 INDIVIDUALITY

Nutrition is not, and should not be, one size fits all. We’re different and so are our nutritional needs, preferences and compatibilities. What is ‘good’ for one person may not be ‘good’ for another. Anyone who tells you differently is either lying to you to sell you a program that is too broadly prescriptive, or doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Your ‘optimal’ when it comes to nutrition is as unique as your finger print.

14/12/2022

There are 3 pillars of Functional Nutrition.

#1 SUSTAINABILITY
Short term, highly restrictive diets that take a lot of will power and have an end date will more than likely leave you back where you started, eventually. Detoxes included.
Learning to eat functionally, in a balanced, healthy, whole way is sustainable. It leaves you better off than where you started and with the tools to never be back where you started ever again. It’s yo-yo free. It’s for life.

18/04/2021

This one’s for those who lift 💪🏼

You may or may not have heard of creatine before. You may or may not think it’s good for you.

Creatine is a derivative molecule of amazing little energy pockets in muscles called Phosphocreatine. Phosphocreatine is the reason any of us can perform powerful, short duration movements like snapping your fingers or deadlifting a barbell. At any one time, a 70kg male has approximately 120g of creatine in his muscles, naturally.
Creatine monohydrate is the supplement that most athletes take to keep their stores of creatine in the muscle up.
Why should you take creatine?
-Optimal repeated high power output (more effective weight training), resulting in more effective strength gains.
-Optimal muscle hypertrophy, if combined with adequate training.
-Preventative of muscle mass and strength loss that comes with ageing.
-Plays a role in maintaining brain function.

When should you take creatine?
-After training, with 50g carbohydrates.

Who should take creatine?
-Anyone serious about training.

Creatine is *the safest* researched supplement. Over 1000 scientific studies have been performed on the safety of creatine monohydrate to conclude no dangerous side effects. It is inexpensive. It’s tasteless.

As with all supplements, without adequate focus on the quality of the rest of your diet, taking a supplement is like a plaster 🩹 on a gun shot wound 🔫

04/04/2021

I hope you get some speckled eggs today 🥚
I hope you eat some speckled eggs today 🤤
I hope you feel completely guilt-free about it 🤸‍♀️
I hope you know that chocolate is good for the soul 🍫
Like a diet who’s context is whole foods is good for the body 🥕🍠🥑

Enjoy today, like every day. Trust yourself and your choices. Do what you love and fuel yourself to enable that. Rest, play, laugh, love and be present. Happy Easter 🐣

17/03/2021

4 years, 11 kilos, but the same special friend.

A lot of fighting with food and then a lot of peace with it.
Restriction, bingeing, crying, feeling useless, helpless, doomed.
Learning, growing, feeling grace, having grace, changing focus.
Feeling confident, happy in my skin, healthy, free… feeling like me.

I know the struggle of feeling unhappy in my skin. Of feeling like I’m not in control.
Bulimic tendencies? Been there.
Crash diets? Been there.
Using exercise as punishment? Been there.
Avoiding social settings with food involved? Been there.
Feeling like a failure for being ‘healthy’/‘fussy’ about food but still not losing weight? Been there…

Now, I know what food freedom is. What it means to be healthy, and that the scale doesn’t measure that. To use food as fuel but also to enjoy it. To spend time and emotions on productive, meaningful things in my life, and to have the energy to do so.

To love my body, what it’s capable of and what it does for me.

If you’re struggling with some, or all, of these things- it’s important to know you’re not alone. To know that you’re moving forward, even when sometimes it doesn’t feel like it.

Keep going. You’ve got this 🌈

07/03/2021

Part 3 of 3 of “What healthy nutrition looks like to me.”

Exercise is imperative.
Exercise changes the way we metabolise food, both on days we exercise and on days we don’t. It changes the way our bodies store energy. It changes appetite regulation. It changes the emotional environment of food. It changes sleep, which changes hormones, which changes our choices around food.

You cannot be healthy without exercise. Not even if your nutrition is completely optimal.

The type of exercise matters less. There are types of exercise that will bump you up the healthy scale, and have longer lasting healthful effects.. But some type of movement matters most.

Exercise is imperative.
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06/02/2021

Part 2 of 3 of “What Healthy nutrition looks like to me”

Self love ✨

Someone really wise once told me that if you look after your body, it’ll look after you too.

Self love looks like fuelling your system with what burns the fire brightest 🔥

It looks like knowing what works for you, and what might work for others, but doesn’t work for you 🤷🏼‍♀️

It looks like LOVING healthful food (because it tastes good but also) because you respect yourself enough to care for yourself, like no one else can 🦸🏻‍♂️

It looks like learning to work *with* your body and not against it.
To not constantly overburden it with amounts it can’t, and won’t, handle.
To not purposefully starve it, and still expect it to perform- to accomplish, day in and day out.

To accept it, love it, cherish it, use it, enjoy it and thrive in it. It’s perfect. In every way ✨

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