Stress Eating Is Biology Not a Character Flaw
The late-night reach for cereal, chocolate, toast, crisps, biscuits, or whatever is quick and dense rarely comes from nowhere. It often begins hours earlier. A hard training session. Rushed breakfast. A coffee instead of proper recovery food. A light lunch because the day got busy. Another coffee at 3 pm to push through. Then by 7 pm, the body starts shouting. By 9 pm, the brain is not asking for a balanced salad and a mindful pause. It is asking for fast energy, comfort, sal
Poppy Hawe
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Why Food Freedom Is Really About Consistency, Not Control
Most nutrition coaching conversations are not really about protein. They are not really about meal timing. Or snacks. Or whether a latte “counts”. Those things matter. Of course they do. But the layer underneath is usually the same. It is the swing. The swing between being completely locked in and completely off. I see it all the time. I have lived it too. That is why I care about this so much. For a lot of active women, there are two familiar places. One is the locked-in pha
poppy5672
8 min read
Processed Sugar and Training Why the Advice Does Not Apply to You
Sugar has been put in the same moral category as smoking, laziness and lack of discipline. For a lot of women who train hard, that message has done more harm than good. The public health advice is not random. It exists for a reason. Diets high in free sugars, low in fibre, and disconnected from movement are a real issue across the UK. Around a third of UK adults do not meet basic physical activity guidelines. That is the population most of the “sugar is bad” messaging was wri
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