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Tips to avoid Festive Meal Anxiety
Suffer from Festive Meal Anxiety? Here are some top tips to enjoy this festive season but not totally derail your goals and aspirations for this year (or next!!). The over-reaching goal for my coaching clients is to enjoy the festive period without thinking that it...
Is the Low Carb Diet evidence-based?
Is the Low Carb diet approach for Type 2 Diabetes Management truly evidence based? New statement document from Public Health England on the clinical effectiveness of low carb diets in the Type 2 Diabetes population. ie what can be proven by clinical trials. Have a...
What are smart carbohydrates?
What are "smart carbs"? You may see me refer to smart carbohydrates from time to time and the question about good and bad carbs comes up a lot so I thought I would try and help differentiate how we should view carbohydrates. "Smart carbs" are carbohydrates that are...
15 Quick wins for weight loss
Changing how you think and feel is hard. Changing your environment isn’t. And by shaping your environment, your body will follow.
Is there really such a thing as a healthy snack?
Last week i was interviewed by the Daily Telegraph for a health feature in their newspaper. I was "interviewed" over the phone on the question "is there really such a things as a healthy snack?", and had a professional photographer visit my home for the photoshoot. ...
How to build a healthy plate of food – Diabetes Version
This week, we are talking macronutrients and in particular how each of them can support our lifestyle when managing Type 2 diabetes. A lot focus for new diabetics is to limit carbohydrates, eliminating a large proportion of our daily food, leaving lots of people...
Five Reasons your Garmin might be holding you back
It's Sunday 11am. And you are stopping at your local cafe for a well earned coffee and cake. Your Garmin has auto-paused and says you’ve covered 60km this morning. Only another 40km to go, homeward bound for your 3rd century ride of the year and it's only the end of...
My Story…Why I became a nutritionist
Hi. I’m James Belbin, Nutritionist and Type 2 Diabetes mentor. Founder of Your Nutritional Blueprint and the lead coach in our Diabetes Food Academy. I like to think of myself as a healthy lifestyle architect, mostly because that description neatly describes what I...