Are Hormones & Lack of Sleep Making You Fat? | 6 Ways To Reduce Belly Fat Storage

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Eat less, move more, & you'll lose your baby weight. It's a pretty simple principle, but it's missing something. 'Calories in, calories out' are not the only factor in determining fat loss, especially fat loss from around your waistline. Your hormones, your stress levels & how much sleep you're getting are contributing to the fat around your belly too. Here's 6 ways to balance yours! I … [Read more...]

The REAL Anti-Aging and Slimming Diet: Eat More Fat and Avoid Diet Drinks!

MuTu Food | The MuTu System for your mummy tummy

Fat doesn’t make you fat.  Sugar, stress, processed food, not enough good fats and sitting on your backside do. Of course an excess of any calories will eventually make you fat, but too much sugar really is much worse for your body and your looks than too much fat!   You Need Fats. Good Ones. For years we were fed the ‘low fat’ mantra of losing weight – there was something so … [Read more...]

What I Eat & What I Don’t

MuTu Food | The MuTu System for your mummy tummy

Is MuTu Food A Diet? What are the rules? Will it help you lose weight? What foods should you eat & what should you avoid if you want lose weight & get healthy? Clients often ask me 'Well what do YOU eat?', & "What does MuTu Food mean?":  It means clean, fresh, real food for the whole family. Low in sugar & refined carbs, high in fresh vegetables, whole grains (varied – so not … [Read more...]

How To Start Dropping the Pounds BEFORE New Year!

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You want to lose your baby weight  in the New Year (even if we're not really blaming the baby so much as the chocolate...) You want to lose fat, drop pounds, get fit, tone up & eat healthy food... in the New Year. You're going to do all that stuff, but next week, because it's not the New Year yet is it? And there's all that lovely sweet, chocolate-y, baked comfort food sitting around & … [Read more...]

Struggling to Lose Your Baby Weight? Why What You’re Doing Isn’t Working. And What Will!

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Are your efforts to lose your baby weight getting you nowhere... slowly? Here's the top 5 mindsets why you may not be losing your baby weight, & what you can do to change it! 1. "The XYZ diet worked for me before, so I'm going to do that again" Any diet you have to 'go on', you will at some point have to 'get off'. And you're soon back where you started. #Just sayin. Unfortunately, … [Read more...]

Not Losing Baby Weight, Despite a Healthy Diet?

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I am often asked, "How many calories should I eat to lose the baby weight?" or "But I'm eating really healthy food, why can't I lose weight?". Because if you eat more food than your body needs, you won't lose weight. Now if you're one of the MuTu Mamas who has downloaded the MuTu System 12 week coaching programme to *lose the mummy tummy for good* then you will know all about MuTu Food. MuTu … [Read more...]

Is Diastasis Recti The Reason for a Hard, Protruding Still-Looks-Pregnant Post Pregnancy Tummy?

Pregnant? Or just...

Diastasis Recti symptoms & information can be confusing. A particular area that often causes concern is when your post pregnancy belly is not squidgy, or jelly-belly like, but rather hard & protruding, as if you were 5 months pregnant again :( Is this diastasis recti? Or could something else be causing it? This can be more confusing when the rest of your body is relatively lean or slim, … [Read more...]

Healthy Eating for Mums and Kids

It's a huge challenge for mums: How to feed yourself & your kids (preferably the same) healthy family food on a daily basis. I have recently started working with an absolutely lovely client who has quite a mealtime challenge on her hands: 4 kids, aged 4-10, two of whom are autistic. "Fussy Eaters" doesn't apparently even begin to describe! Meals need to be not only child-friendly, but … [Read more...]

The Mummy Tummy Food Diary Analysis… How To Eat the MuTu Way

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Karin at Cafebebe & her food confessions start here... This is how to eat to lose your Mummy Tummy, the MuTu way! Want postnatal fat loss? Even if you're not so postnatal anymore... that's OK. Please join the *really-quite-a-few-months-postnatal-now* lovely Karin on her journey to a smaller stomach! I have a few days of food diary from Karin now, & so have added my suggestions, … [Read more...]

How to Eat To Lose Your Baby Weight & Your Mummy Tummy!

How do you eat to lose your baby weight & your mummy tummy?  Karin, mummy blogger at CafeBebe is a good few months (years... ;)) postpartum, but still has baby weight & mummy tummy she'd like to see less of. And I'm a sucker for one of the sisterhood in tears, so when she came to find me at the CyberMummy conference for a hug & some support because yet another person thought she was … [Read more...]