5 Healthy Eating Rules That Are Actually Wrong | Ep 48

Five things about healthy eating I do not believe anymore. One of them will make you rethink every snack in your pantry. This one is different from my usual walk-through-a-framework episodes. After years of trying to make this work, both in my own house with three teenage boys and with the women I coach, five patterns kept showing up. Smart women who already know plenty about nutrition, stuck in exactly the same spot. So here it is. Five things I have landed on, and the actual mechanism under each one. Blood sugar. Insulin response. Decision fatigue by 5pm. The part most healthy eating advice leaves out entirely. In this episode: - Why a "healthy" cookie can still wreck your afternoon, and what makes a plate hold - The one rule about carbs that changes how your blood sugar responds to the identical food - Why the scale is almost always the last thing to tell you something is working - The afternoon craving, and what is actually happening in your body during it - Why diets fail, and why it is not the diet - The thing hiding underneath nearly every healthy eating problem, wearing a different costume each time This episode is for you if you've searched: - healthy eating myths - why do diets fail - why do I crave sugar in the afternoon - blood sugar and cravings - do healthy snacks actually work Resources mentioned: Free guide, What To Make When You Have No Idea What To Make: https://www.intentionalwellnesscoaching.com/tellme Your next steps: Take the Pattern Quiz: https://www.intentionalwellnesscoaching.com/pattern Get on the Real Food Made Easy waitlist: https://www.intentionalwellnesscoaching.com/rfmelist Work with me: https://www.intentionalwellnesscoaching.com/work-with-me Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikkicheakwellness Find me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Nikkicheakwellness Real Food. Real Energy. Real Life. is a weekly podcast on nutrition, habits, and real energy for midlife moms holding it all together.