Client testimonials
The impact of nutrition coaching, in their own words
"I think everyone has their own reasons for following a healthy eating plan. Mine personally was to actually look after myself in a very challenging time in my life. Although I had no control of what was going on around me at least I could take control of what I ate and how much exercise I could or would do. Laura you have shown me to listen to my body and to what it needs instead of stressing what the scales say."
“Working with Laura has been an absolute pleasure. I consulted her in relation to sports nutrition as I was hitting a bit of a wall with my marathon training. Laura is extremely knowledgeable on all things nutrition and running. She is also highly organised, positive, motivating and great at tailoring information so that it can be easily digested and understood. Laura was able to easily identify my goals and help me achieve them. It has been an extremely helpful six week period during which I have learned so much. I now have a mini library of tailored nutritional information which is personal to me. She has helped me to instil new habits (e.g sufficient water consumption) which are making such a difference to my every day training. Worth every penny – a very wise investment. Thank you Laura."
"Laura is just amazing, her enthusiasm and knowledge of diet and nutrition is exceptional. Having struggled with my weight and fitness all my adult life. I have tried just about every diet there is with varied success but always reverted to type. Laura has inspired me to change this with a change of attitude to my relationship with food, life and indeed myself. I have learnt so much when I though I knew so much about diet and losing weight, I could not have been more wrong. I was not on a diet but on a lifestyle change. If you had told me 6 weeks ago that I would be feeling this confident and looking forward every day to not obsessing about food and to taking exercise… I have started running for the first time EVER. Laura I can’t thank you enough."
"I feel so much healthier and have a lot more energy now that I’m eating the right things at the right time."
"Laura has supported me and my family’s various dietary whims to give a language and structure to our nutrition choices. Out are the days of calorie counting and crash diets, with different meals for different family fussy family members. In are the days of confidence in food choices, simple swaps to improve benefits of loved items and the removal of ‘bad’ or ‘good’ from food categories. I have a means to discuss food without worry with my growing daughter and I have lost weight without feeling hungry or constricted. I feel confident to pull together comprehensive and nourishing meals which feed my faddy family as well as fill my cupboards with options that I know will be enjoyed for snacks too. As an added bonus, Laura gently encouraged strengthening exercise to this gym-phobic mummy that is increasing my confidence in getting sweaty and supporting my body acceptance goals. I didn’t know that Laura’s unique brand of nutrition and wellbeing coaching was exactly what I needed to support my mental and physical health over the past 8 weeks and into the future. "
"I am very grateful I decided to try Laura’s programme. I have previously tried Weightwatchers and Slimming World, and yes they were effective for me, but I seemed to yo-yo with my weight. If I had a bad day or night I would end up having a bad week and had the mindset that I would start afresh after the next weigh in. As a result, my weight would fluctuate, and I would lose motivation. I was always going to go “back on the diet”, so I would eat to try and have all the nice things I wasn’t allowed, and then for one reason or another I wouldn’t go back on and it would get put back a week. As a result, my weight went up and I seemed to go round in circles. Laura has managed to reset my mind. I am not longer eating badly ready for the next diet to start. If I have a bad day or night, I just reset for the next meal and don’t let it have the effect it did before. I understand what foods to choose and I am not having to count points to control it, I know that I can have a range of food including the things I had to cut out on other diets, I just pay more attention to what I am eating, the quantities, what it does for me. Which overall means that I don’t feel like I am missing out on anything, and therefore I don’t crave anything or feel restricted. I have lost half a stone, and this weight has stayed off, which has been fantastic, I am more energetic and feel much better in myself. Laura taught me a lot about foods and myself, and this has given me the tools to escape the cycle I was in and stop the yo-yo effect. Food is a huge part of my life, some people just eat because they have to, I eat because I love it, it’s an event for me and I am so pleased Laura has managed to change the way I think about it all so that I can love food and not feel like I am letting myself down."
