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47. Cycling is a weight sensitive but not a weight making sport.
The number one nutrition goal cyclists of all ages and abilities have when they want to work with me as a sports dietitian is to lose weight and improve their power to weight ratio.
Many cyclists assume that if you...
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46. Plant based sources of iron: Ask a sports dietitian
My blood tests show that I am anaemic. I don’t like eating meat and am not a huge fan of eating eggs. What foods should I eat more of to help increase absorption and help manage fatigue?
If you don't like meat or...
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45. Tracking your menstrual cycle as a female athlete
For female cyclists, and female athlete, there is a lot of debate about whether our menstrual cycles influence our performance... how, when and what to do about it.
A recent systematic review and meta-analysis...
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44. Your body isn’t Amazon prime. The results take more than 24 hours!
If you could snap your fingers and change something about your nutrition within the next 24h, what would it be?
What's your Amazon overnight order?
How awesome would it be if we could press send and within two days...
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43. Are you tracking this? Synrgy female specific cycling coaching
What would a man know about female cycling?!
Female cyclists have a few more things to consider for their training and their nutrition than their male counterparts. And a man is never going to fully understand the...
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42. You have permission to eat cookies and other “forbidden” foods
How many foods right now are on your 'not allowed to eat' list?
Maybe it's cookies.
Maybe it's chocolate.
Maybe it's icecream.
chips, cheese.....
It might even be hot cross buns!
Whatever the food that you've...
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41. Carb loading advice for 3 Peaks challenge. ASK A SPORTS DIETITIAN
Are you training for the 3 peaks Challenge in March? Have you thought about training your nutrition as well as the physical training you need to ride 235km with >4000m climbing in less than 13 hours?
One of the...
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40. What does success look like to you?
I am currently in Adelaide at Tour Down Under this week and was asked the question what does a successful athlete look like to me? Such a great question!
Typically when it comes to success, most peoples minds would...
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39. You don't have to go on a diet. Every meal is an opportunity to level up your nutrition
You don't have to give up any of your favourite foods, go on a crazy diet or start an extreme exercise regime this January if you don't want to.
At the beginning of the new year there can be a lot of pressure and...
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38. You Might Be Hungry! Using The Hunger fullness Scale
There are a lot of labels attached to the word 'hungry'. Sometimes people think this can be considered a 'good' thing, for others it's a bad thing.
Especially when people are trying to lose weight I often see people...
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37. Nutrition tracking as a tool not a rule
Rather than using nutrition tracking as punishment to guilt trip or shame you into action (which rarely works in the long time by the way), I like to use nutrition tracking intentionally as a tool to help you rewrite...
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36. Let go of your attachment to the outcome. Three life lessons from 2023
What life lessons have you learned this year? Can you see ways in which you have grown and developed and changed?
In a previous episode I shared some of the life lessons I've learned over the past 6 years, and as we...
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