1. Blood Sugar Balance
If you’re skipping meals, living on caffeine and letting your blood sugar swing all over the place, then this can imbalance your hormones. You may feel like you can’t get through your day without something sugary to keep your energy up, or a coffee to keep you going. The problem is, the more sugar and caffeine you have, the more you need it to keep going. Try to choose more sustainable, slow releasing forms of energy. This starts with ensuring each meal has a good handful of protein in it - including breakfast.
So many women forget protein at breakfast, or any kind of breakfast at all. Protein comes from meat, fish, eggs, dairy, nuts, seeds, beans and pulses, plus quinoa and buckwheat - so it might be as simple as a teaspoon of almond butter on your porridge or a big dollop of yoghurt, or some peanut butter on your toast (a good heaped teaspoon - think more protein and healthy fat, less carbs).
Also if you’re snacking, base this around protein - so if you’re having a coffee - have a few nuts with it or a rice cake with hummus on. Yes ideally we wouldn’t need to snack - but if you’re rushing around and finding you end up with low blood sugar and craving all the wrong things - then it’s better to have a protein-rich snack instead.