Share your nutrition and health tips with Premier Global NASM - Nutrition Coach course plus £300 voucher to be won

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Balancing staying healthy with the demands of busy work and family life can be tough. With that in mind, Premier Global NASM - who offer training courses, supported by their unique 'live learning through digital technology' methodology, in fitness, personal training and nutrition - would like to hear your tips for nutrition and staying healthy.

Here’s what Premier Global NASM has to say: “Our Certified Nutrition Coach programme was created in response to the need for scientifically proven and validated nutrition information. Our aim is to empower as many people as possible with the right nutritional information suited to them – as opposed to following the latest celebrity diet trend.

Combining this need with a holistic approach that takes into consideration clients’ various fitness levels, backgrounds, religions, and other circumstances, ensures our Nutrition Certification, unlike others in the market, isn’t just a “one-size-fits-all” approach.

We spent years developing the most comprehensive Nutrition Certification available today, working with over 20 experts in the fields of nutrition, metabolism, physiology, psychology, behaviour sciences, and more to create and validate every aspect of the course.”

Do you make sure you have healthy snacks like fruit or nuts on your desk at work to prevent the call of the shared biscuits? What are your go-to ‘emergency snacks’ for when hunger or hanger strikes away from meal time? If you’ve experienced pregnancy cravings, how have you managed these while ensuring you get the nutrients you need?

Whatever your tips for nutrition and staying healthy below will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher for the store of their choice (from a list) as well as the Premier Global NASM Certified Nutrition Coach programme (worth £749).

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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I picked up some bad habits when I was caring for my Mum, as I was looking after my children on my own and caring for a parent, and this meant that while I was constantly trying to ensure they got all the vitamins and healty grub they needed, I would often eat on the go, or I would find after cooking up my mums and kids meals that I was never hungry myself, I would fill up on the smell of them!

Because of my rubbish diet though I started to have acid reflux, which is blooming painful, and was put on tablets.
Since then I make sure that while I still allow myself a small treat now and again, I always try to snack on healthy gut friendly foods, and this has really helped me energy and weight wise!

I eat a healthy and varied diet, which is mainly vegetarian. I pre-prepare meals at the weekend, and get my Daughter involved (I want to teach her about good nutrition, whilst making it fun). This means when I get home in the evening after work, I'm not reaching for ready meals, and we eat the same meals. I keep a supply of fresh fruit (grapes, sliced apple, bananas), and also some dried fruit for a treat, and to give me a natural sugar boost. Carrot sticks with cottage cheese also make for great snacking. I take a packed lunch which means I'm not nipping out for a quick fix lunch (I am allergic to nuts, so I'm pretty much used to avoiding the chocolates and biscuits!

I make loads of soups with whatever is cheap at the grocers, we do eat cakes and biscuits but mostly homemade and we try and eat fruit . Crisps etc are loved in this house but we have them as a treat on a sAt games night not as a normal thing.

Keep busy so less snacking. Snack on nuts and olives. Eat regularly and healthily. More home cooking, less takeaways.

I try to have plenty of fruit or raw carrots around so that I can have a healthy snack if I feel peckish. I try not to have many biscuits at home to try and curb the temptation to reach for a sweet snack.

I feel like I will take much more from this thread that I will be able to add to it!!
Unfortunately I have a pretty poor relationship with food &, as quoted in 'Girls' - I see eating as an activity rather than as a means of fuelling my body.
I hope to change this viewpoint but it is a hard slog!!
I TRY to cook from scratch whenever I can, so I can see whatever goes into our meals & when I have the time, this works great - it's just parenting, work, chores & every other excuse gets in the way..
I do like Joe Wicks' attitude - a lot of what he says & does makes sense, I just need to master the prepping!
I agree with a previous poster about not having unhealthy treats & snacks in the house - if they're not there, I can't eat them!!

If we are going to have the occasional snack I buy things in individual packets. It’s not great for the environment but if I opened a whole packet of biscuits I’d eat the whole packet. It’s less tempting this way.

Fruit with natural yogurt and oats, plenty of home made soup, stews and curries. Home made flapjacks and cake made with all bran. Filling healthy and economical.

I am just trying to eat more fruit and vegetables with every meal (and not too much chocolate)

Eat at variety of food, cook from scratch, no snacking and get out every day.

Working 40 hours a week in a&e I loved overnight/over day oats! When I wake up, breakfast is ready 😋😋

Everything in moderation.
I do love honey cashews though and cucumber batons

I try hard not to snack, and have moved away from sugary drinks to fruit teas. But this whole area is something I'm not good at.

Try to make up a batch of soup as well as tubs of fresh fruit and keep them in the fridge for snacking emergencies.

Freeze down any leftover portions for times when you feel too tired to cook healthily.

Eggs are a great standby.

Try and have half your plate full of vegetables or salad.

Do you make sure you have healthy snacks like fruit or nuts on your desk at work to prevent the call of the shared biscuits?
I’m well known for a drawer full of food. Cup a soups and crackers. Nothing worse than getting hungry during a 12 hour on call.
What are your go-to ‘emergency snacks’ for when hunger or hanger strikes away from meal time?
Cheese or a smoothie
If you’ve experienced pregnancy cravings, how have you managed these while ensuring you get the nutrients you need?
Loved a slushie when I was pregnant !!

I started a healthy eating programme during lockdown, and my tips are to get rid of all of your biscuits and treat, and find food swaps for these, for example healthy oat biscuits (oats, greek yoghurt sweetener and eggs baked) make a great filling biscuit, I buy only lean meats, and mince which is 5% fat and lower, buy lots of seasonal fruit and vegetables, use your slow cooker for your lean meats, add lots of herbs and vegetables (I use my nutribullet to blend carrots and onion and garlic cloves and add this to my meat). Drink lots of water and sugar free squash throughtout the day. This has certainly made a difference to me, I feel fitter, sleep deeper, and have lost weight.

Do you make sure you have healthy snacks like fruit or nuts on your desk at work to prevent the call of the shared biscuits?

I take a dish of sweet tomatoes, slices of red and yellow pepper, and grapes as a 'nibble fest' to keep me from dipping into the biscuit tin.

What are your go-to ‘emergency snacks’ for when hunger or hanger strikes away from meal time?

I take some bitesize cereal, (Weetabix Minis Chocolate, malt wheats, and bitesize shreddies) - I weigh 45grams and take a pack to work every day.

If you’ve experienced pregnancy cravings, how have you managed these while ensuring you get the nutrients you need?

I craved sour things - and only tinned grapefruit would stop the cravings, I was lucky really.

I'd love a Certified Nutrition Coach programme as I think I am eating well to help stop the cravings, which I am not always on top of, but my tips would be to have a good breakfast- I go for oats, normally overnight oats with fruit, which is supposed to fill you up to lunch, signs of hunger can often be thirst, so before reaching for a hobnob, have a drink - listen to your body.

My other tips would be to eat lots of protein to keep you fuller for longer, low fat greek yoghurt, lean meats, and protein based health snacks, and boiled eggs help be from snacking.

I'd love to know more about nutrition and health for my family, especially as the fitter we are and slimmer we are it's a win win for us all.

I think it's important that you have 3 good meals (breakfast, lunch & dinner) everyday. I also make sure that we have multivitamins and as balanced a diet as possible. Snacking is a problem that my husband and I have in front of the tv in the evening, we have now replaced our 'evening treats' with a yoghurt which we enjoy just as much.

Eat when you are hungry. Drink lots of water. I think balance is everything. A diet full of variety will give you the nutrients you need.

I make sure bread, cereals and pasta products are wholegrain as much as possible.
I also think it's so about balance, so if I have a less healthy day I can make up for it.

I have recently discovered the impact of drinking more! It's so simple but I bought a water bottle that tracks how much you've drunk and it's amazing now I am drinking more how little I feel hungry

I find it easiest not to snack so try not to have food lying around. I prefer to bake my children’s snacks myself as I know what has gone into them.

We are making food swaps such as wholemeal pasta, I have started buying a variety of fruit and vegetables to keep it interesting. We make smoothies and I grow my own vegetables so lots of pasta sauces etc packed with rich vegetables.

I've gone back to basics of ensuring I drink 2 litres of water a day. I've started to see the correlation on smart scales with increased body water measures to when my weight drops. I'm trying to focus on 3 meals a day and less skipping of meals.
I've started to try power balls for a snack and introduced 1 health snack a week rather than trying to fix everything in one go which is helping to form habits