End the dieting rollercoaster once and for all

Welcome to my website! I am a registered health coach, natural wellness practitioner and nutritional chef who founded Saffron + Seed to help fed up and overwhelmed people—particularly women—achieve sustainable weight loss and better health and ultimately body confidence.

My approach combines theoretical nutritional coaching with practical, personalised lifestyle adjustments, with a focus on stopping restrictive diets and fueling with nourishing foods instead. Ultimately, my goal is to help women rebuild a more positive relationship with food and their bodies, resulting in greater appreciation for all that they do, plus renewed energy and relief from niggling symptoms like low mood, anxiety or digestive issues.

I like to support my clients through several key methods:

• Sustainable Weight Loss & Nutrition Recommendations: I help my clients find realistic, long-term and importantly enjoyable eating habits to shed weight without resorting to punishing, short-term fad diets or food deprivation.

• Shifting Emotional & Overeating Habits: I work with my clients to uncover and address the root causes of overeating and weight gain, such as stress and time restraints, poor self-image and mean self-talk, hormonal imbalances or nutrient deficiencies.

• Success through Holistic Lifestyle Coaching: My fully personalised 1-to-1 programmes also look at and incorporate step-by-step stress management, self-care practices, sleep improvement and exercise patterns so clients do not feel more overwhelmed and can achieve their goals without giving up too soon.

• Supporting Practical Cooking & Meal Prep: As a therapeutic chef, I bridge the gap between nutritional theory and real life by encouraging a renewed love for cooking nourishing meals for yourself (the ultimate act of self-care).

If you want to look at yourself in the mirror in a kinder way, enjoy having your photo again once more and get your va va boom back, you can find out how I can help you achieve this and more by booking a free, 30 minute call at a time that suits you.

Is dieting making things worse?

You need to know that low calorie, deprivation diets don’t work for weight loss, well they do for a short time, until your body decides makes you so ravenously hungry, feel deprived or lacking in energy that you can’t stick to it any longer. You end up feeling you must be weak willed or lazy and you beat yourself up for not being able to stick to the diet and keep off the weight you so desperately want to lose. Well I’d like you to know that you’re not weak or lacking in willpower! It’s actually biology and evolutionary survival that kicks in with restrictive dieting styles and that you have very little control or power over the metabolic process that results.

But there is better way. As a health and naturopathic nutrition coach, I can help you find a different, kinder way of eating that doesn’t upset your metabolism and gives you natural energy throughout the day. And you’ll be able to stick to it long enough to see you achieve your weight and health goals, and you won’t want to go back to old eating habits and behaviours that made you feel worse, not better. It’s about becoming a healthy weight naturally as unhealthy habits are addressed and resolved and you are able to shed stored fat stores to welcome in a happier, healthier body.

I’ve spent years and years studying, training in and researching natural health and nutrition, specifically for mood and healthy weight management, as well as stress management and habit change, and I’m very happy to be able to pass on that knowledge and experience to you. If you’re struggling with your health and are unhappy with your current weight and would benefit from having a coach to support you on your journey and keep you accountable (just like my client did below), why not book a free 30-minute call with me to see if you’d like to work together?