Chanel here. Welcome to menopause nutrition.
I believe women can thrive in menopause and
had the body composition of their choice if
they must have their nutrition and lifestyle.
Today, we're going to talk a little bit
about cooking,
and I'm gonna give you some backstory, but
also, I want to share
like, a few things, a few realizations I
have learnt and I'm learning,
over my journey of coaching women and helping
them on their journeys,
and we're going to investigate and chat about
the
ups and downs if you like of
cooking food.
I personally
have come from a background where I was
encouraged to cook from an early age. But
before we get started, I just wanna remind
you that my Thrive program kicked up on
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Okay. So
so what I have experienced in my journey
of helping other women
is that cooking can actually be a thing.
So I personally love to cook. It's kind
of like therapy for me. And I have
to credit some of this to my father.
So at at a young age, he encouraged
me and my sister to get in the
kitchen and cook and, like, learn the skill
much to my mother's kind of probably
cringe
because we would make a big mess the
kitchen.
But he was very... He was like, k.
You've could let them do it. It's really
important.
I came... I've come from a family of,
like good cooks is about. Like, my my
Nana, she was an amazing cook. Her mother,
apparently, great cook.
My grandmother great cook like, so
so for me,
I have already always been motivated by cooking.
Because I get to enjoy whenever I'm cooking.
So some of it is a little bit
of control
because we get to eat what I want
to eat. Right?
I know that sounds selfish, but that is
how it goes. Like, when you cook the
food, you actually get to choose what you're
eating, and
then you you get that. Right? So that
is 1 of the reasons why I think
I've always been quite motivated to cook, and
I actually love it Any of you have
been around me for a while, knows that
it's... Like, you should look... You should look
forward to eating a food. It should taste
great and delicious, and
that should be part of your life like
food should be enjoyable.
So what I'm
realizing is that not everyone feels the same
way I do, and there's some reasons for
it, and I wanted to share some of
these because you might hear yourself in this
conversation, and I want you to know that
there's some things that you can do about
it. So,
you know,
1 I'm finding is there's a few different
reads.
1 of them is you actually don't like
cooking. And generally when that is the case,
and this is why I'm learning from, obviously
in my programs, and when I work with
people 01:01,
on actually giving them recipes. Right? So they
get a meal plan every week,
tomorrow every Friday. A meal plan goes out.
Everyone gets the meal plan in all honesty
that male plan is what I'm eating for
the week. And then everyone else gets to
eat what I'm waiting for the week, but
I have my recipe library, so they all
can go in there and and they can
they have they have the option to change
it and make it whatever they want. I
just design a ml plan around. What I
personally wanna say. And everyone just gets to
enjoy the journey. So
what happens then is every Friday, the meal
pain goes out that comes with recipes in
a shopping list.
So what women are realizing is that then
they go and cook some of these recipes
and
they taste great and the recipe takes like
not very long to make. And so what
I'm learning
is that this is actually a real important
part here because generally most of us don't
have a lot of time. We're all very
busy. We live in a world where we're
so busy. We've just got so much going
on
we're all very
like
committed. We're working. We've got kids. We've got,
you know, families they're
time is the essence. We're trying to fit
in our exercise. We're trying to walk the
dog where we're trying to do all the
things. So having an hour to cook dinner
is not necessarily like on the schedule that
that time is not
actually
very achievable.
If you can throw something together in 20
minutes and it tastes great,
then that is a achievable. Right? So the
first thing I'm realizing is that some of
this comes back to confidence
So what I'm hearing from women is that
firstly,
they've got no time to plan. So
they've trying to find recipes that are good.
They go test the recipe. It turns out
terrible. The family are like, what's this mom
disgusting.
You don't even wanna eat it because it
tastes gross and then your
motivation to cook is like not very high.
Right? Because
You've just had a bad experience. Everyone else
has giving you hard time for it and
quite frankly. You're like what's even the point.
I might well just order takeaway or whatever
it is. Get get a roast roast or
whatever.
But when you actually cook a meal that's
like, takes to 20 minutes, you throw it
together. It tastes amazing,
and then it's hitting your protein,
you feel better you've got better energy. The
family are like, wow, mom, this tastes great.
I love it. They're stealing your food,
like
there's like, this whole positive,
like,
kind of situation going on within you're, like,
much more motivated
to, like, get back in the kit in
the next night because there's like, positive
enforcement coming on. Like, you're not feeling like
a complete now here in the kitchen. And
then once you start seeing results with your
body composition, not only your body composition. Like,
generally when I'm working with women and my
will try. We've got to the point where
we're not happy with their body. Like, you
know, I work with hundreds of women now.
And, like, I wanna I wanna say there's
probably been
2 people who have not wanted fat loss
in that... And that's un talking hundreds of
people.
And that's jen because as you know, we
damn it. I meant to turn it off.
And
is there as we know,
the whole
thing, the estrogen, all of the stuff going
on,
I didn't put my phone on to not
disturb.
People are trying to call me? I mean,
like, can I not say that I'm trying
to teach my people? Honestly.
It you guys, you know, I'm over here
trying to do my best. If it's not
the neighbor, it's random
trying to call me or it's my family.
I mean, on a thing.
Okay.
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Okay. So
this is the... This is what I'm saying
though is that
you know, generally,
most people had somebody composition goes. They wanna
lose somebody fat. And
when... I can't remember what Was saying now
that I got interrupted.
Oh, yes. So then when you get a
couple of you get a good week or
2 of, like, eating high protein going.
You feel better. You start seeing body composition
results. You start getting better energy because yes,
like everyone that comes, they want to build
a muscle. They wanna lose the belly fat.
They wanna feel better. They wanna they want
their clothes to look better they wanna get
their body back. But actually, how's your energy?
How's your boat? How is your folks this.
Like, how your sleep, like all of this
other stuff falls into place. Right?
So this all starts from where they're like,
we are feeling motivated to get ourselves in
the kitchen and cook. So on my program,
and then when I'm working with my 1
of my clients, we really talk a lot
about meal planning and prepping
because it's a skill that sets you up
for success. So what I wanted to share
this little chat with you for was because
what I'm understanding more about women that don't
like to cook, like they come and going,
but I don't really cut chanel now. Like,
I don't really cook. And then they get
involved. They start making some of the recipes
They start realizing that it doesn't have to
take hours to make dinner. You can throw
something in the so cooker, It tastes amazing.
The family are happy, you're kind of ticking
on the boxes,
looking like a little bit of a superstar
when you served dinner up and it tastes
awesome,
and
you're head your protein,
you, like getting your body composition goes on
track, like, it's all these things, but it
starts from the food. Right? Because
the hundred percent
Nutrition is the start of this. Like, yes,
it's a exercise.
And the... And you hear people say this,
you can't out train a bad diet, and
it's true. I promise you it's true because
80 percent of this is nutrition. Like, the
food you put in your body is doing
so much more than just giving your energy.
And the reason I say that I have
to share those of you who follow me
on social media.
Tomorrow,
I will share the king that I am
mixing up for myself
this week. So if you're changing yesterday, you
would have heard, I went to my doctor
yesterday,
and I've got some low cortisol. So I'm
actually trying to support my body with some
natural
at adapt, which are like plant based options.
So I have got this mixture going. And
I have to share it with you on
my social media tomorrow for those of you
following along. So you can have a good
old laugh and see what I'm doing.
It looks terrible.
It has about 6 things that I'm banging
in there
because
our food does so much more than just
get my energy. Like, it it... There's so
many things going on, and this is so
much more hone in. For my menopause tribe,
Like, watch she 10:40? I swear to god,
this is really like,
really important. Like there's so many factors. There's
so many things. Right?
So I will do that tomorrow if you
follow my stories. To stay tuned you like
your laugh when you see it.
It's got sp and it's got makeup powder.
It's got the cr. It's it's it's a
it's a right king, and I can tell
you.
But that's... My point is if we can
nail learn Nut And obviously, I'm over here
like passion about teaching women if they can
master their nutrition.
So many things fall into place.
And
the cooking part of it, like,
obviously,
you can order
food. And, like, we have companies here like
my muscle share, and
there's, you know, even ko do like, you
know, there are little males.
And that can be helpful and and my
program and I will be talking a little
bit about how they can be helpful at
7 times.
But in all honesty,
If you're cooking your food, you have control
about about what you're cooking. You know what's
going in now, when you eat out, you
don't really know like,
how much protein is this, like what sources
are they put it on. What ingredients have
gone into this. That is why, like,
honestly, Ga I don't really eat out that
much. And it's obviously because
I
enjoy cooking to a point. But these days,
like, Friday night, I might, cooking. Like, you
know, it's not like I love cooking every
day. I just actually enjoy eating it. So
there's times where I don't necessarily
like have the energy to be bothered cooking
either. However,
that's where we have hacks, you know, that's
where the snow cooker comes in, and this
is, you know, but in all honesty, we
don't really eat out that much because
I would rather eat food that I've prepared
because I know what it is. And I
know that I'm hitting my protein. I know
it's healthy. I know it's full of vegetables,
I know it's, like nutrient dense,
and I'm in control of it because I...
That's fun of my non negotiable negotiable.
So
the reasoning,
I I've I've got a lot to talk
about here, you know, and and I warn
you guys about this, I'm good at talking.
But the the reason I get passionate about
this part of it is that
this some
disconnects with, like, confidence
with, like,
education with, like,
just once you you learn some of these
things. And and honestly, like, when you can
follow a recipe where you know what the
breakdown is.
So this is why on my program it's
very easy. I've kinda taken the guest book
out of it. So when you make a
recipe you know how much calories, how many
protein? Like all of those things.
So it takes all that guest work out
of it. So then when you go and
do it and it tastes great that builds
your confidence
to then keep cooking and keep, like, you
know, I can do this like this tastes
great. I can do it. It's not that
hard. It took me 20 minutes, like sometimes
less, you know, I can do this and
then you can build on it. So that
is some of the thought processes I wanted
to share with you today because I know
the amount of women I'm, like, I'm gonna
call Nancy out here, Nancy is 1 of
my beautiful clients who did my last program.
She's amazing.
And why Nancy did so well.
And this is literally Nancy story. Right? She
came in at the sun because but chanel,
I don't really like to cook like we're
just like eat out all the time because
I don't really like to cook. She has
literally
transformed
herself. Now she's cooking. She's enjoying it. What
I'll do
is
I will set up a call with Nancy
so you can hear her story
because it is so,
like, that's part of part of the reason
I wanted to share this with you is
the change she has had, and this is
not just nancy.
I just love Nancy. So she... We we'll
set this call up so you can hear
it from here
from her version of it.
But there's many women that come in like
this. And even some of the new girls
in the the current program, we've been on
calls and this... So I know that for
them, this is the start of the journey
for them. But I wanted to share it
because I know there's lots of people out
there. If these girls are in the same
boat, that that there's lots of other women
out there because you've got the pressure from
your family. You've got the pressure on yourself.
You just up a a meal that you've,
you know, you're you're trying out because you've
seen and it looks good and it tastes
like crap because maybe it was harder to
make than what it looked out day.
And then you feel like a failure,
and your confidence tends to crack. And then
the whole family are like what's this rubbish.
And then you don't even wanna edit it.
So then it just doesn't make you want
to keep doing the thing.
So
I want you to know that you can
fix that. And
that's
lean into, like, If you're not already on
my email list, I send out recipes every
week. So and no most no and no
life. Netflix actually has a banana bread recipe,
so it's not a dinner recipe, but the
family will still love it. I finally cracked
an awesome banana a bread recipe that has
got protein in it. I've had a few
shots to it and they have an all
been great. So this 1, I really like
it.
So next week I feel on my email
list, you'll will get the Banana bread recipe,
but I tend to send recipes out every
week over there. On my email list. So
if you're not on my email list, you
need to get on it and make sure
that you are getting the rest because give
them a try,
have a go
and build that confidence up. And if you're
not on my email list, I'll drop a
link care for a little freebie. If you
grab that freebie, that will get you on
the email list, and then you'll be able
to get the banana bed recipe.
So I hope that makes sense, and I
feel like
the more I kept thinking about Nancy story,
that there there are a lot of other
women out there in this boat. And if
we can fix this for you guys, then
I swear to God, you will
you will not look back. It makes a
massive difference.
Another tip that might be helpful is
I hear quite often like women
feeling
overwhelmed. You know, like it's like, I wanna
cook this recipe. I wanna do this dinner,
and then they just feel overwhelmed and it's
just like too much.
So if you are someone who is super
busy through the week like this is me.
I am quite time through the week just
of my training schedule.
So
endeavor to make Lasagna during the week is
not going to be a good idea for
because I don't have the time
to put into that. So having a slow
like tonight, I have a double session of
training tonight, I'm going to be coming home
late.
I'm literally throwing something in the slow cooker
when I get home from I'm training, it'll
be cooked.
I know. I I don't have time to
dedicate today. So if you wanna try something
that's a little bit more intricate that's gonna
take a bit more time, then allow yourself
maybe time in the weekend where you're... You've
got more time you're not under pressure, and
then you'll have a better outcome. So this
comes into the equation as
1 of the new ladies on my program,
for example,
she is very busy. She really
is
traveling a lot. And so we are mastermind
her,
learning to do this using very quick recipes.
The ones that literally you've burn something in
the So cooker, you come back it's cooked,
you know? And so she can start building
that confidence
So she doesn't get to 6PM and go,
crap. I've gotta cook dinner and then be
really negative about it and feel
all sorts of ways about it. So these
are just some taps and, hopefully, this has
helped. I know that this conversation is important.
And that's why I know a lot of
you will be listening and going.
That's me. So if you are not already
getting my emails, I would definitely
recommend you get on my email list because
I send out our recipes every week. Normally,
This week no, it's banana bread. So it's
not a generous recipe.
But if you're not on my email list,
then, I will pop a link here in
the comments. It's a little freebie. Just grab
it
what,
grab me on social media. Follow me on
Social media now shoot me a message, ask
me for that link.
And we can get you on the email
list, And then at least you can try
some of my recipes
and,
you know, build that confidence up,
because, of course, my wrist just take the
guest back out of it. So that is
my
recommendation for you today. But hopefully, this is
held And I just want you to hang
in there and truly
build this skill if this is you, You're
listening to and you're like, yep. This is
something I've really gotta work on I truly
know from the transformations that I see occur
in the hundreds of women I work with
that this is a big part of it.
So So if we can help teach you,
build skills and confidence in this area where
you're cooking your own food and you're enjoying
and loving it. This is going to really
help you in your health and wellness journey.
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So thanks for that. You're awesome. Thanks for
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Next time. Bye.