093 - The midlife method to losing weight and feeling great - Sam Rice and Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Food and health writer, Sam Rice joins Dr Louise Newson in this episode to discuss eating well in midlife. Sam tells of her unconventional route into nutrition and wellness, and how living in Bali inspired her to write the Midlife Kitchen with her good friend and best-selling author Mimi Spencer.
After the success of the Midlife Kitchen, Sam has recently published her follow up book, The Midlife Method, which supports women who have made the transition to healthier eating but struggle to shift the weight they would like to lose. She urges us to turn away from toxic diet cultures and worrying about our dress size, and focus more on our microbiomes, and having a healthy, happy gut.
Sam’s three top tips are:
- Think about the balance of food you’re eating, you don’t need to cut out whole groups of food, just focus on your complex carbs, lean proteins and healthy fats.
- In your regular exercise routines, don’t forget to include strength training with weights and resistance, as well as your cardio activities like walking or Zumba.
- Embrace eating with awareness. Give yourself permission to eat well and allow yourself to enjoy food.
The Midlife Kitchen: Health Boosting Recipes for Midlife & Beyond
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Midlife-Kitchen-health-boosting-recipes-midlife/dp/1784723185
The Midlife Method: How to Lose Weight & Look Great After 40
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Midlife-Method-weight-great-after/dp/147227893
Instagram: @midlifekitchen
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause |
| 0:15.8 | specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.1 | Today I'm very excited to introduce to you Sam Rice, who actually is in Singapore at the moment, |
| 0:36.3 | so we're doing this remotely. And I've been |
| 0:39.2 | liaising with her for over a year now since I had her first book, The Midlife Kitchen. And so |
| 0:46.0 | it'd be really exciting to talk to her about her journey and about her new book that's just, well, |
| 0:52.5 | barely recently being published called The Midlife Method. |
| 0:55.0 | So welcome, Sam. Thanks for joining me. Hi, Louise. It's actually great to talk to you in real life |
| 0:59.3 | because like you mentioned, we've been messaging and emailing for well over a year. And this is |
| 1:04.4 | the first time we've actually had a conversation. So it's really exciting. Yeah, no, it's great. |
| 1:10.5 | So tell me a bit about you and your background. |
| 1:13.2 | That would be really interesting just to set the scene if that's okay. |
| 1:15.7 | Yeah, sure. |
| 1:16.3 | So my background is not in health and nutrition, which always surprises people. |
| 1:21.0 | And I think actually this kind of midlife reinvention is something that a lot of people get |
| 1:26.8 | quite excited about because midlife is a time |
| 1:29.4 | where you're rethinking quite a lot of things. And, you know, if you're not in a career that's |
| 1:33.7 | progressing, it's a time to have a rethink. And that's certainly what happened to me. I'll sort of |
| 1:38.6 | rewind a little bit. So back in 2012, I was living in Brighton. My husband and I were running actually a ski company, completely unrelated. |
| 1:50.6 | And we decided that we really wanted to have a bit of a life change. And the kids were quite small at that point. |
| 1:57.2 | And we thought, OK, we're running our own business. Maybe we can reorganise things so that we can have sort of a year off, a year out, take the kids, |
| 2:04.3 | do something exciting. And so we decided to go to Bali, of all places. So we headed off thinking |
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