5 Healthy Eating Rules That Are Actually Wrong | Ep 48
Five things about healthy eating I do not believe anymore.
One of them will make you rethink every snack in your pantry.
This one is different from my usual walk-through-a-framework episodes. After years of trying to make this work, both in my own house with three teenage boys and with the women I coach, five patterns kept showing up. Smart women who already know plenty about nutrition, stuck in exactly the same spot.
So here it is. Five things I have landed on, and the actual mechanism under each one. Blood sugar. Insulin response. Decision fatigue by 5pm. The part most healthy eating advice leaves out entirely.
In this episode:
- Why a "healthy" cookie can still wreck your afternoon, and what makes a plate hold
- The one rule about carbs that changes how your blood sugar responds to the identical food
- Why the scale is almost always the last thing to tell you something is working
- The afternoon craving, and what is actually happening in your body during it
- Why diets fail, and why it is not the diet
- The thing hiding underneath nearly every healthy eating problem, wearing a different costume each time
This episode is for you if you've searched:
- healthy eating myths
- why do diets fail
- why do I crave sugar in the afternoon
- blood sugar and cravings
- do healthy snacks actually work
Resources mentioned:
Free guide, What To Make When You Have No Idea What To Make: https://www.intentionalwellnesscoaching.com/tellme
Your next steps:
- Take the Pattern Quiz: https://www.intentionalwellnesscoaching.com/pattern
- Get on the Real Food Made Easy waitlist: https://www.intentionalwellnesscoaching.com/rfmelist
- Work with me: https://www.intentionalwellnesscoaching.com/work-with-me
- Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikkicheakwellness
- Find me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Nikkicheakwellness
Real Food. Real Energy. Real Life. is a weekly podcast on nutrition, habits, and real energy for midlife moms holding it all together.
