Not Broken: The Fat Loss and Energy Reset

In perimenopause the workout that kept you fit for years can stop showing up in the mirror, and with T1D the lows around training get harder to predict. In this episode I go through five things: what changes in your body and why the scale hides it, why lifting heavy matters more now, weights first or short intervals instead of long cardio, the night after a workout, and recovery. Nothing in here i...

In this episode I break down what actually moves your blood sugar during a workday when there is no food involved: what cortisol does to your liver, why sitting still makes it worse, and why the 3pm crash is the result of your morning rather than a craving you failed to resist.

You're told that if you just had more discipline, you'd stick to it. But you already run a career, a family, the whole thing, so discipline clearly isn't your problem. This episode breaks down why "be more consistent" is the wrong answer for a busy woman with Type 1, where that myth even came from, and the one thing that has to come first before any plan survives a bad week.

Before kids, when the weight crept up you ate a little less for a few weeks and it came off. Then you had your baby, and eating less just stopped working - if anything, the harder you cut, the more stuck you got. After a baby your sleep, your stress hormones, your metabolism and (if you have Type 1) your insulin all change how your body handles food. This episode breaks down exactly why, what almo...

If your blood sugar crashes halfway through training, you never really make progress, you spend the session drinking juice instead of getting stronger, and you start training scared. Where you inject, when you train, the kind of training that holds your sugar steady instead of dropping it, and the small tweaks around your session that keep you flat from warm-up to cooldown. Built for high-performi...

Your endo is good at their job. Their job just isn't the thing you actually want. They keep you alive, they keep your numbers inside a range, and then they send you home. But that range is so wide you can be 'normal' and still feel flat, still be stuck, still not lose the weight no matter how hard you work at it. When your Dexcom shows a high at night, you're told to change your di...

You ate double on holiday. Wine every night, pasta, dessert, no tracking, no gym. And somehow you came home leaner than when you left. Here is what actually happened. On vacation your stress finally dropped. Work stopped, you slept, you walked all day, you sat in the sun. When stress falls, cortisol falls, and your body stops fighting your insulin. You ate more and stored less, because the thing d...

Every time you got promoted, your body seemed to get worse. More money, more responsibility, and somehow more belly fat, higher blood sugar, less energy. Nobody connected those two things for you. Here is the truth: it was never you slipping. Success itself changes your hormones. More hours, more pressure and less sleep push your cortisol up and keep it there. High cortisol makes you resistant to...

If you're in your 40s with Type 1 and everything that used to work has quietly stopped — the fat won't move, the blood sugar swings more, the energy dropped — this episode is for you. It isn't you losing your grip. Your estrogen is changing, and estrogen was quietly running your insulin the whole time. As it declines, your body gets more resistant to insulin, fat shifts to your belly,...

Your endocrinologist probably gave you one carb rule for exercise: take about 20g of glucose an hour, no matter what. It sounds simple but is also why you crash mid-workout, spike afterwards, and can't work out why the fat won't move. In this episode I break the three engines down & match them to real workouts — dancing, golf, tennis, strength, Zumba, Pilates — and show you how I adjus...

Most coaches track the same four things: calories, macros, weight, and before/after photos. And it works for twelve weeks. You get disciplined, you get the kick, you get the great transformation photo. Then the program ends, you stop, the weight comes back, and you blame yourself for a lack of discipline. In this episode I explain what I actually track with my Type 1 clients, and why it's the...

The busiest women with Type 1 often do everything "right." They eat clean-ish, they train, they push through. And the belly fat still won't move. In this episode I explain why. and it's usually not discipline, and not genetics. For a woman with Type 1, it's two things stacking on top of each other: chronic stress, and the insulin you have to inject to live. The more stress yo...

This one is tough love. If you're here to grow, it's for you. Most women come to me certain their diabetes is the thing holding them back. Their energy, their weight, their control. And almost every time, the real thing holding them back isn't the Type 1. It's the mindset around it. In this episode I talk about the part nobody wants to hear: ownership. Accountability. The quiet

Every coach gives women the same advice for fat loss: eat less, stay in a deficit. For a woman with Type 1, that advice works against you. In this episode I break down why. When you cut calories, your sugar drops, you correct the low with fast sugar, and those calories come right back. So to hold the deficit you end up cutting the only things left — your protein and your fats — the exact things yo...

In this episode I break down why the timing of your carbs matters more than you think - and how a few small changes to when you eat can steady your blood sugar and help the fat actually move. I cover the simple rule of small portions through the day, why you want most of your carbs around movement, and why eating them too late at night works against you. If you've been cutting carbs and gettin...

It took me 20 years to figure out how to eat with Type 1. Cereal for breakfast as a kid sent my blood sugar through the roof. Lunch from my mum — fat and carbs, barely any protein — knocked me out every afternoon. I thought falling asleep after lunch was just normal. Then for years I went the other way — eating too little, in the name of "clean" and "healthy" — and wrecked my s...

Michaela came to me at 30 with a very specific problem: she couldn't function after 5pm. Come home, lie on the sofa, scroll, fall asleep before she meant to, wake up annoyed. She wasn't lazy. She had a brand-new high-pressure job, PCOS, hypothyroidism, and insulin resistance - three separate reasons her body was holding onto weight and draining her energy. In this episode I walk through ex...

Most fat-loss advice for women with Type 1 Diabetes is built around one idea: Eat less. Cut carbs. Cut calories. Cut meals. Skip breakfast. For a T1 body, that approach actively makes you worse. Lower input raises cortisol, raises insulin resistance, raises your insulin demand, and the system you're trying to fix gets more broken every time you eat less. In this episode I walk through the 5 le...

Amalina came to me at 172 kilos with Type 2 diabetes, sciatica, sleep that started at 4am, a body that couldn't make 5,000 steps without ankle pain, and a hospital dietitian's depressing meal list she'd already thrown out. Six months later, she now sleeps by 11pm for the first time in her adult life. She walks faster than her colleagues. She takes the stairs because she wants to. Her blood sugar d...

I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 13. That's 19 years of living inside a body that doesn't forgive shortcuts, doesn't forget stress, and doesn't care what your calendar looks like. In this episode I'm giving you the 10 lessons that mattered most — not just for diabetics, but for anyone who's tired of doing everything right and still feeling worse every year. We cover...

At 13 I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. And for years after that - without fully realising it - I used it as a reason to underperform. Less energy. Less ambition. Less belief that I could build something real. I cover: - Why having a harder situation is valid - and also not an excuse - The subtle difference between acknowledging your constraints and hiding behind them - What my T1D management...

Most women think the business dinner is the problem. It's not. The problem is what the day looks like around it. We cover: - Why arriving hungry is the biggest mistake - How to structure the day around a dinner - What to order without being the "weird one" - Travel days and how to survive them with structure - Why one meal never ruins progress

You're disciplined. You eat well. You train. And your body still isn't changing. The problem is almost never what you think. In this episode I break down the 4 metabolic patterns that keep high-performing women stuck despite doing everything right. We cover: - Cortisol Dominance - why more effort makes it worse - Blood Sugar Dysregulation - why your body can't access fat as fuel - Meta...

During stressful days, food often becomes reactive and hurts progress. Having only coffee and a snack for lunch is the best way to crave at night or the following days. That's why I break down the best nutrition structure for stressful workdays if your goal is better energy, focus, and easier fat loss. We cover: breakfast / lunch / dinner / snacks / cafés / meetings / events

If you are a busy, high-performing woman and you want the best return on your training time, this episode is for you. I break down what actually matters most in strength training if your goal is better metabolism, better posture, better mobility, and long-term fat loss. We talk about: why lower-body strength has the biggest metabolic return why upper back strength and thoracic mobility matter more...