When we think about a healthy life most of us know it’s important to consider exercise and what we eat but have you ever thought about how you eat and whether that might be impacting your health?

So often I hear clients tell me how guilty they feel after they have eaten something they deem to be “bad”. Firstly I just want to say that I don’t like to categorise food as “good” or “bad” and don’t even get me started on the term “clean eating”!

To me food all sits on a nutritional scale – some have a higher nutritional value than others, some, in my opinion, have a negative nutritional value – e.g. those that actually add stress to the body, but the least nutritional food you can feed yourself is actually guilty thoughts and negative self-talk after you’ve eaten something. sometimes I think it can be more damaging than the food itself and here’s why…