The Gut Goddess Show with Kezia Hall

Ep 231: How to eat - My 5 principles

Hello and welcome to The Gut Goddess Show. I have an incredible episode for you today that is going to inspire and equip you to be as well as healthy, as energised as you can be.

This episode is going to help your gut microbiome, your relationship with food and help you balance your hormones and improve your energy, all while inspiring you, motivating you, and also letting you know you're not in this alone. I'm right here with you. I've got you.

So, before I dive into the five principles and foundations about how to eat and how to eat like a gut goddess, how to eat in a different way, I bet you can look at your bookshelf or your recipe shelf and look at all the different ways you've been told to eat, all the different diets, all the different formulas, all the different kinds of methods to eat but actually what I'm going to be doing today is sharing something a bit different. It's probably not stuff that you've heard before.

It's probably not an approach you have heard a lot about and what I'm going to be talking about is how to eat in a way that really heals your body.

I really approach food from a couple of different angles. I love eating and I love eating food. I think it's fun. I think it's a great way of building community and relationships. It's a great way to celebrate. It's a great way to comfort. It's a great way to have fun. Food is fun. I love eating food. I'm not going to be one of these people that just eats protein shakes for the rest of my life because I love a good bowl of meatballs or tomato soup or whatever it is.

So food is fun. It's a great way to build community love and connection, but it can also be really healing and I do believe it's part of our kind of spiritual act here in the world. It can be a way to really nourish and heal ourselves and our minds and our lives.

Eating is really one of those key foundations that can propel us into our dream health and our dream life and all the things that we've created on this earth to do or it's something that can take away from what we want. It can make our life. Eating in a way that's not helpful, can actually diminish our dreams, can mean we're less able, to have the energy to do all the things that we want to do.

So, that is how I approach food. I approach it with joy, with love, with celebration. I approach it with the knowledge that it's healing, that it's actually something I can do every day to heal and build myself up towards the dreams that I want to live.

If you're listening to this before the 21st of December, you can get access to my Eat and Be Merry Recipe ebook.

This is full of all of my favorite, most delicious, festive recipes. From stolen bites to gingerbread muffins, to Christmas cake, to brownies to, or basically all the snack and treat recipes that you need so that you can enjoy Christmas, feel festive, have some treats, but also not be bloated, sluggish, tired, and fatigued and enter the new year feeling more like a winter whale, then a fabulous goddess.

I've put it all in the Eat and Be Merry Recipe ebook.

It's only £11. You can buy it now if you go to keziahall.com/bemerry. It's basically your survival guide to the holiday season.

 

Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?

Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.

Resources Mentioned

• Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
• Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
• Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
• Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here

Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.

 

MINI #5: We need you well

The reason that we need you well is because we need you WELL. The world needs you shining bright, glowing, thriving, and being healthy.

We need you to feel resilient with energy and with balanced hormones. This isn't about being perfect or about being thin.

This is about you being well so that you can show up in your life, in your unique way and create beautiful things. Do beautiful things, help serve and be who you are so that you can shine a light on everybody around you.

You being well means you shine bright. You being well means you are no longer in victim and survival mode. You shift into thriving and you role model that for the next generation.

You are an example of that to other people around you. We need you to be well because it nourishes and feeds and helps everybody else.

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Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?

Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.

Resources Mentioned

• Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
• Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
• Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
• Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here

Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.

 

Ep 230: Things we should all have been told about our health & bodies

This week in the podcast, we are looking at the 10 things that I wish I had been told about my health and my body.

Things that I wish I had been told when I was growing up, or even just a decade ago as a young adult and I'm sharing them with you because something my clients say to me all the time is, why did no one tell me this? Why didn't I know this?

I have clients that are retired, and they're like, I didn't know this. I didn't know this about my hormones. I didn't know this about my body. I didn't know this about the food that I eat.

So, I want to save you that thought, and go through all the different things that I think we should all know about our bodies, about our health, and I think this is going to be a really inspiring episode for you.

It might also be a bit of a kick up the butt, but that I'm okay with that. We need a bit of both. We sometimes need a bit of encouragement in the right direction and some inspiration all at the same time.

 

Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?

Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.

Resources Mentioned

• Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
• Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
• Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
• Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here

Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.

 

MINI #4: This is why it feels HARD

If you have ever felt like your body and your health has been hard and difficult to work on, I just want to let you know that if you have a female body, then the female body being healthy and good, and well actually hasn't been something that has been valued, prioritised, or promoted in our Western culture for a really, really long time.

So, we inadvertently get trained and unconsciously told and have done since we were little, that how we feel doesn't matter, that our bodies as females aren't our own and that actually the safest thing to do is to potentially disconnect from our physicality because it's dangerous and it's not ours to own anyway. So there's nothing we can do about it.

If you then add into that the medical bias and the lack of data that we've had, the lack of investment in research into medical treatments and all of that stuff for specifically females, if you add into that the assumption that women are just small men medically speaking, you can then begin to build a picture and understand and then have so much compassion for yourself and for your body.

So many of the people that I work with find their relationship with their body and their health really hard, and then they can quickly jump to blaming themselves for that or their lack of self control or willpower or like some personal failing.

I just wanna gently remind you and offer you this other option of thought that is the system has actually been rigged against you for a really, really long time.

Systems, structures, thought patterns, paradigms have actually created an environment that probably has made it really hard for you in a female body to be well, to have a healthy relationship with your body, to be connected to your physicality, to know and understand.

Take your periods, for example, growing up, that was such a shameful thing. You used to hide that you wouldn't tell anyone about it, and therefore, what we shame we don't learn about.

So many women don't really even know about their own biology, their own cycle. Just using that as an example because it's been so gross and shameful and something to hide when actually it's something that the entire human race depends on. (But that's a whole other topic)

So, I hope this thought has been helpful. I hope that this gives you some permission to just be a bit more compassionate to yourself.

You've been doing the best job you can. You've been doing the best job with the tools that you've been given, and the reason that things have been hard is not necessarily a personal failing. It probably isn't. You've gotta look at the bigger context of everything that's been in our world and the structures that we have influencing us.

So, I hope that gives you hope, and I just encourage you to just be a bit kinder to yourself today.

And a really great way to counteract this is to actually really learn to celebrate yourself and the areas of progress that you make instead of thinking about everything you haven't done. Really think about what you have done and celebrate that.

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Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?

Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.

Resources Mentioned

• Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
• Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
• Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
• Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here

Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.

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Ep 229: You need to do this if you want to seeing lasting weight loss

So, you need to do this one thing if you want to see some lasting shifts in your body composition, in weight loss, or in any other area of your health.

If you want to see some big, easy, sustainable, and lasting shifts in your body composition or in your gut health or in your skin or in your hormonal health, this is something that you need to adopt and it will change everything for you.

It'll actually make the whole process feel easier and just stop you being stuck in this vicious cycle of on, off, on, off, and will actually help you to just see some sustainable results.

And I'm going to be sharing with you a little bit more about some of the key takeaways of my own recent weight loss process. I had twins last year and gained a lot of weight with them as you would, and have been gently, very gently working on my own body composition and weight loss.

And I want to share with you some of the bigger picture, the higher level strategies that I've been applying that have made that possible in the business of life.

Even the other day, I was thinking, ‘oh my goodness. Yeah, I'm totally at the weight I want to be now. Oh, that happened, awesome' and it didn't feel like a big deal. I'm going to share with you how you can apply those same things to make it easier and simpler for you, which sounds pretty good, right?

 

 

Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?

Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.

Resources Mentioned

• Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
• Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
• Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
• Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here

Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.

MINI #3: We all need to be reminded of this

For many people, this has been a bit of a revelation, and it's just a really simple idea that how you feel every single day, how your body feels, how your mental health is, your motivation, the food habits you have, the way you honor your body with food, the way you move or don't move.

All of these things, that are just part of our day to day, are actually our lives. The way that you feel on a day to day basis is actually the very thing that *is* your life that makes up your whole life.

So, what I mean by this is so often people just keep putting off, dealing with their health or their food habits or whatever it is for some other point in their life - when they think everything, or will maybe be ready or sorted or something.

Whereas actually, we kind of put things off to the future without realizing that it sounds odd and very simple to say, but your life is right now in this moment, and for so many people I work with, they tolerate feeling awful for so long that when we suddenly work together and they make loads of progress, they suddenly realize, ‘Oh my goodness, I spent 10 years of my life tolerating all of these things and kept pushing it forward, pushing it forward, push to some time in the future when they have more money or when they have more time.

When the kids are older. When, then, when, then, when, then. Whereas your health and your body is your life.

 

Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?

Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.

Resources Mentioned

• Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
• Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
• Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
• Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here

Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.

Ep 228: Three things I do to make my health & eating SO much easier!

This week on the podcast, I'm sharing with you the three things that I do that make eating healthy and my relationship with food and working on my health so much easier.

They take away the overwhelm, the sense of hardness and difficulty, and just make this whole journey so much lighter, easier, and more effortless.

Because one of the things that holds people back is the idea that thinking about improving their gut, their hormones, their skin, working on their specific diagnoses or health conditions just feels like another massive project or task on their to-do list, and they're already like tapped out.

So, I'm sharing the three things that I implement regularly that make working on my health and me becoming the healthiest version I can be so much easier.

 

Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?

Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.

Resources Mentioned

• Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
• Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
• Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
• Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here

Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.

MINI#2: Only you can do this

The thought I have for you as part of this mini episode is that no one can do this for you, when it comes to your gut, your hormones, your relationship with your body, your relationship with food and your energy or whatever diagnosis you're looking at, or your skin or your gut microbiome or your IBS, no one can sort that but you.

Yes, you know, my whole job is supporting people through that, so you can get support, but this is something that you have to DECIDE.

And I know for me, for a long time, or when I first realized this, it wasn't a conscious thought I had, but there was this unconscious thought that hopefully there I would stumble across some magic, fix some one thing, one supplement, one medication, one thing that would just like fix everything for me.

And the reality is that's very rarely the case. I needed to take responsibility for my whole self. Only you can decide that this is worth it, that you feeling good and being well is worth it.

 

Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?

Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.

Resources Mentioned

• Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
• Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
• Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
• Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here

Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.

Ep 227: Why stool tests are game changer if you are struggling

This week we are talking about why gut microbiome tests are game changers and why I get all of my clients to take scoops of their own poo, send them off to a lab so that we can get data.

This episode is a deep dive into why stool tests are one of my most common live tests that I run with clients and why that's a game changer.

Why getting this type of data can really accelerate your progress and mean that even if you've been struggling with stuff for maybe a decade (which a lot of my clients have) - when you gather the right types of data and know what they mean and what to do about them, you can see results within a couple of weeks or within a couple of months, despite having struggled for years.

 

Want to see BIG results in your energy, belly, skin and hormones?

Then chances are you need some personalised support (hint – that is what I do!). Click here to find out more and to book your call with me.

Resources Mentioned

• Find out more about working with me here – and book your call.
• Find out more on how to deal with constipation – here and here
• Find out about the BIGGEST mistake people make in supporting their digestion here
• Looking for free-from recipes? Then check out all my yummy recipe here

Head to kezihall.com/blog to stream from there or subscribe to the Gut Goddess Show on iTunes and then it will delivered to your device every single week.