I changed my relationship with food...

With my 40^th birthday looming I decided to take stock of my health. Having successfully avoided any meaningful exercise I chose to target my food intake as a means to control my weight and feel better about myself. I had seen posts from Karen on Instagram, giving advice on all manner of health-related issues, many of which spoke to me personally, PCOS, iron deficiency, fibroids to name a few.

From the first session, I began to immediately change how I viewed myself and food. Her wealth of specialised and in-depth knowledge gave me the confidence to listen and follow every tip she recommended. I really looked forward to our weekly meetings which went beyond nutrition and sugar management to quite involved life coaching.

I have completely changed my relationship with food. I am fully aware of when I am eating something that is not ‘nutrient rich’ a phrase that Karen has me repeating all the time. Gone are the days of stodgy sandwiches for lunch or giant bowls of pasta. I now really enjoy the food changes I have made and feel really good that I have stuck with them.

I feel much lighter in myself and have massively controlled the bloating that I used to suffer from. I have a much better understanding of how my blood sugar level was affecting my energy levels and have made long-lasting, great-tasting substitutions to many of the unhealthy options I used to crave.

I not only learned a lot about how to eat better for health during my sessions with Karen but also learned so much about who I am as a person and what my drivers and motivators are. I’ve made fantastic lifelong adjustments and I feel even more empowered to enjoy all that life has to offer.

Cleo De Jong, London