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Nutrition Consultant, Life Coach, Sports Nutrition Lecturer, Bikini Athlete

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Lecturer, Bikini Competitor & Nutrition Consultant

The Truth (doesn’t) Hurt

Read my blogs and follow my journey from the beginning of training and competing. Here you’ll also find some hints, tips and other nuggets of information I would have found useful if someone had told me before now!

Project Strong For Summer

by Emilia | Sep 21, 2017

Little black dress diet. Shredded for Christmas Day diet. Get lean to then eat your months worth of calories on Christmas Day diet. You see these packages advertised everywhere and so many of us take the chance to get lean for Christmas. We embark on the cut and say...

Autumn curry

by Emilia | Sep 21, 2017

Autumn food is my favourite. It's warm, comforting and nutrient-dense. And it doesn't always have to contain pumpkin spice... This is one of my favourite curry recipes that I adapt whenever I cook it, according to what vegetables I'm craving. I've been cooking it for...

Peanut Butter Chocolate No-bake Protein Balls

by Emilia | Aug 4, 2017

Mindful eating: airy fairy trend or the key to an enhanced food relationship?

by Emilia | Jul 27, 2017

MINDFULNESS Mindfulness. A term we are hearing more and more frequently, no longer being associated only with the more spiritual of individuals, but is now commonly accepted and embraced even by those who believe in science, facts and figures. Mindfulness involves the...

Why I’m not reverse dieting… gasps

by Emilia | Jun 16, 2017

It's now June 2017 and my competition season is over for the timebeing. I'm so pleased to say that I finished this season walking away with a second place finish at PCA British Finals, two first place wins at the PCA Bodypower Classic and Saxon Classic, and with my...

Client spotlight – Lauren

by Emilia | May 17, 2017

Words from Emilia: I started working with Lauren 13 months ago and the changes that I have seen in her strength, both physical and mental, leave me in awe frequently. I asked Lauren to share her story to highlight the power of nutrition and training in women,...

Sleep – when counting sheep isn’t enough

by Emilia | May 5, 2017

Sleep. Our best friend. As a 30 year old woman, sleep is one of my favourite things. I don’t enjoy super late nights or partying. But, as a 30 year old woman with a business and full-time job, and as someone with a pretty intense hobby most of the year, sleep can...

Gym Owner Monthly Magazine Article – What Supplement?

by Emilia | May 3, 2017

Supplements. They are exactly that, supplemental to your foods that may support you in reaching your specific goals, either through addressing a deficiency in your diet or providing additional quantities. But do you know what supplements really do help you in fat...

FitBits and Energy Expenditure. Time to get OCD about your activity?

by Emilia | Apr 27, 2017

Energy balance Energy balance. A concept that cannot be denied by anyone as the fundamental underpinning concept of weight loss (as much as ‘experts’ of fad diets, low-carb zealots, and those with some other bullsh*t products to promote would love to argue...