5 ways to beat cravings and food noise in midlife – with Kim Pearson
6/12/202648 min
If you’re struggling to regulate food noise it might just be that you need to eat more – not less. Nutritionist Kim Pearson joins Liz to discuss how a few simple food swaps and easy lifestyle hacks can manage our appetite just as effectively as weight-loss jabs.
They talk about the importance of muscle mass for healthy weight maintenance, and why protein and strength training are essential in midlife.
Kim also explains how we’re getting breakfast all wrong, and shares ways we can hack our daily routine to train our body to turn off the cravings.
In this episode:
· Natural ways to reduce food cravings
· Why we should be eating more – not less
· Protein-rich meal ideas
· How you can sleep yourself slim
· The low-fat diet myth
· How skipping breakfast is sabotaging your weight loss
· Why olive oil might be nature’s GLP-1
More from Kim:
· Read Kim’s new book The Nozempic Diet
Get in touch with a question for Liz:
· Email: podcast@lizearlewellbeing.com
· WhatsApp: 07518 471 846
More from Liz:
· Order Liz's new book – How to Age
· Follow Liz Earle Wellbeing on Instagram
Host: Liz Earle
Producer: Anouszka Tate (Fresh Air Production)
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First 90 secondsKim Pearson· Guest0:00
We have to remember that food is not just calories, and carbohydrates, and something that's going to cause us to gain weight. It's providing us with absolutely essential nutrients that the body requires to function, to produce energy, to support cell turnover, the regeneration of tissues, cognitive function. Every aspect of health is, is impacted by nutrition, and so simply shutting off our appetite and not eating is going to have really detrimental consequences.
Liz Earle· Host0:35
[upbeat music] Now, are you considering taking a GLP-1 medication? Nutritionist Kim Pearson says there's a way to quieten food noise and achieve healthy weight loss simply through the foods we eat. This is Age Better with Liz Earle, and it is my mission to change the conversation around aging. What I'd love to show you is that small but powerful shifts in what we eat, how we move, the way we sleep and live, can genuinely transform how we age. And the great news is that when you start feeling the benefits of these changes inside and out, well, then you'll naturally want to keep going. Now, next month, we're going to be looking at how to eat well if you are taking GLP-1 medications for weight loss. But today, is there a way to stimulate our body's own satiety hormones and reduce cravings