Why Your Week Falls Apart and How to Build One That Works
The Monday reset is one of the most misleading ideas in fitness. I see it all the time at Nutrifit. Someone gets to the end of a messy weekend and thinks, “Right, Monday. Back on it.” But the body does not wipe the slate clean because the calendar has moved from Sunday to Monday. A client recently came to me after a full weekend of training. They had not properly rested since Wednesday. Friday was busy, Saturday was hard, Sunday was hard again, and by the time they tried to p
Poppy Hawe
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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
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