WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?
“(Performance) Nutrition, isn’t about rigid rules or creating stress - it’s about flexibility, and finding a supportive approach that works for you - it’s personalised!”
We work with you to create sustainable and healthy behaviours - whether that’s better energy, pushing training adaptations, PBs, and/or health goals. In reality, our work is so much more than this, and we often explore wider concepts that influence our food choices, like your lived experience, work environment, sports culture and marketing lures to name but a few (protein chips, anyone?!).
Our non-diet approach focuses on total nutrition for performance and health without prioritising weight loss as a primary measure of success or health or improved performance. Instead, we explore meaningful nutrient needs for function, life, training, performance and recovery. There are endless myths and theories about weight and performance, and we’re here to consider them with you - read more here.
GENERAL NUTRITION
Including:
- Nutrition Adequacy
- Nutrition advice across the ages, from Teens to Masters
- Female health and nutrition concerns
- Vegetarian & Vegan nutrition advice
- Macro’s, micro’s and functional nutrients
PERFORMANCE NUTRITION
- Fuelling Training
- Supplement advice and strategies
- Competition Nutrition and Event Plans
- Recovery Nutrition
- Digestive Issues in and around exercise
- Travel nutrition (domestic & international)
SPORTS MEDICINE
- Low Iron levels and anaemia
- Injury Management e.g. Bone, Tendon, Muscle
- Low Energy Availability & REDs
- Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders in Sport
- Body Image in sport and exercise
- Weight concerns in sport/exercise* (see more below)
OUR CORE VALUES:
Collaboration
We want you to feel confident and in control of your own nutrition, not dependent on us or a meal plan. You bring the lived experience, we bring the tools, strategies, and knowledge. Together, we create lasting change.
Evidence & Research based
Our practice is grounded in science alongside extensive real-life experience, and always tailored to your unique context. We respect the science and psychological approaches with nutrition, integrating both in our approach in an easy to digest manner.
Empathy
We know reaching out for nutrition support can sometimes feel daunting. That’s why we create a supportive space, that is non-judgemental and not the food-police. We understand the constant opinion, noise and pressure to “eat right” - we can help you to navigate your own nutrition path with confidence.
*WHY DON’T YOU PROMOTE TARGETED WEIGHT LOSS?
The truth is that 80-95% of diets fail in the long term when defined as maintaining weight loss for only 2–5 years (just google it or AI it, if you don’t believe us!). Coupled with all the biological and mental health issues caused from dieting, and the proven data that it’s actually the sustained healthy behaviours including, movement, nutrition quality, sleep, stress, social connection etc. that demonstrate strong, independent effects on long-term health, whether or not weight changes occur, it’s a light bulb moment. If dieting was a drug or medication; it wouldn’t be fit for purpose, given the almost inevitable failure rate, yet the myth and attempts at rebranding it (cue GLP-1s) are never ending. Read more on our blog about this.
We acknowledge that weight concerns are highly prevalent in sport and exercise, but dieting or weight control quite often causes more harm than good. There are other ways to approach these concerns that prioritise your health, performance, mental well-being, and set you up for life.
Are You Ready for a different and sustainable approach?
Working with us you’ll gain confidence in how to fuel adequately, while freeing up mental space for the things that really matter to you - just imagine what that could mean for you.
Discover how food flexibility and peak performance can work together.
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CHARITY DONATIONS
We acknowledge our many privileges, one of them being able to fuel ourselves and loved ones. We donate money every month to the following charities who are close to our hearts in providing nourishing food to those that do not have the means: UN World Food Programme, Variety - The Children’s Charity NZ and Save the Children NZ.