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Hello, I'm Nicola, creator and writer of Fear-Free Food.
I created Fear-Free Food because I was tired of reading conflicting nutrition information. I was fed up of being told that I should replace my favourite chocolate brownies with gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free ones. And I was frustrated at hearing that healthy eating requires willpower, self-denial and self-control. Millions of us are slave to a diet culture where feeling guilt, confusion and anxiety around eating is an everyday occurrence. We ‘eat clean’, avoid carbs, and eliminate ‘forbidden’ foods. We cut out sugar and gluten and dairy. We jump from one fad diet or lifestyle trend to the next in the search of the perfect diet in the hope it will give us the perfect body, perfect health, and perfect life. I’ve been down that path (anorexia, orthorexia, low carb, calorie counting, clean eating...) and it didn’t make me any healthier or happier. |
Despite all the scientific advances, nutrition research, and expert advice, we are still deliberating over what foods are good for us and what foods aren’t. And while we’re deliberating, rates of obesity, eating disorders and diet-related diseases are higher than ever before.
So I’ve written Fear-Free Food to show you that there is another way. To show you that you can stop dieting, make peace with food, trust your body, and still look and feel great.
Fear-Free Food is about replacing dieting and deprivation with nutrition and nourishment. It’s about eating with less restriction and more freedom. It’s a about rebuilding a healthy, fear-free relationship with food and giving you a bucket load of delicious recipes to reignite the fun, enjoyment, and excitement we can get from eating.
This is just a holding page while I finish off writing Fear-Free Food: The Revolutionary Alternative to Fad Diets & Clean Eating (it'll be out in March 2018 and will be packed full of over 150 recipe and meal ideas!!) to give you a bit more info on what Fear-Free Food is all about.
Once the book is written (and I have some free time!), this will become a blog full of recipes, meal ideas, mindset exercises, and tips to help you build a healthy relationship with food. I'm aiming for this to launch by the new year so, for now, I've included a little bit on my story, what Fear-Free Food is, why it is SO important to me, the different things that will be included on the blog and a few pictures of the kind of recipes you'll find here and in the book to inspire you to get creative in the kitchen.
And I'd love to hear from you. So feel free to drop me an email or just pop your email in the box below and I'll let you know as soon as the blog goes live.
So I’ve written Fear-Free Food to show you that there is another way. To show you that you can stop dieting, make peace with food, trust your body, and still look and feel great.
Fear-Free Food is about replacing dieting and deprivation with nutrition and nourishment. It’s about eating with less restriction and more freedom. It’s a about rebuilding a healthy, fear-free relationship with food and giving you a bucket load of delicious recipes to reignite the fun, enjoyment, and excitement we can get from eating.
This is just a holding page while I finish off writing Fear-Free Food: The Revolutionary Alternative to Fad Diets & Clean Eating (it'll be out in March 2018 and will be packed full of over 150 recipe and meal ideas!!) to give you a bit more info on what Fear-Free Food is all about.
Once the book is written (and I have some free time!), this will become a blog full of recipes, meal ideas, mindset exercises, and tips to help you build a healthy relationship with food. I'm aiming for this to launch by the new year so, for now, I've included a little bit on my story, what Fear-Free Food is, why it is SO important to me, the different things that will be included on the blog and a few pictures of the kind of recipes you'll find here and in the book to inspire you to get creative in the kitchen.
And I'd love to hear from you. So feel free to drop me an email or just pop your email in the box below and I'll let you know as soon as the blog goes live.
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The blog will focus on the following areas to help you become healthier and happier:
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FEAR-FREE EATING
These articles are all about improving your relationship with food so you can escape the diet mentality and fall in love with food, your body and your life again. Here, I'll be exploring everything from why we worry about what we eat to what healthy eating actually is. I'll share my approach to finding freedom from the cycle of chronic dieting and eating disorders and give you the tools move from fear-based eating to fear-free eating. Here are the kind of articles you'll find in this section:
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FEAR FREE NUTRITION
This section is all about providing you with the knowledge to make food choices that you know will nourish you, leave you feeling energised, and improve your overall quality of life. It will include articles on everything from common food myths that foster anxiety around eating, such as 'sugar is toxic' and 'gluten is the devil', to how much protein you should be eating and how to discover the best eating strategy for you (e.g. meal plans, calorie minimums, potion-based eating, intuitive based eating...). My hope is that these articles will give you a deeper understanding of how amazing food can make you feel based on the nutrients it contains. Articles will include:
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FEAR-FREE LIVING
We can’t look at our relationship with food outside the context of our lives so these articles are about those areas that are closely linked to food fears and unhealthy eating habits: weight and body image, obsessive exercise and the fitness industry, self-esteem and perfectionism, social media, and food shopping and eating out. In this section I'll share yoga routines you can follow along with at home to help you become more in tune with your body, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem, as well as articles such as:
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FEAR-FREE RECIPES
Fear-Free Recipes is about making food fun again. It's about upping your kitchen game, helping you understand flavours, teaching your traditional cooking techniques, showing you how to make both nutritious and delicious meals, inspiring you to try new dishes, and getting you excited about food again. You can find more info on the Recipe page. |
If you fill in your details below (and leave me a message to say hi if you want!) then I will let you know as soon as the blog is launched, the book is published, and I have coaching slots available. And if there is anything in particular you'd like me to cover in the blog then feel free to drop me a message as I'm sure there are lots of people who have the same kind of questions as you do.
I keep my Instagram pretty up to date with all things fear free - recipes, yoga poses, and lots of tips to help you eat freely, love fiercely and live fearlessly so feel free to connect with me on there too: @NicolaJaneHobbs
