Eat fat to lose fat, with Davinia Taylor

The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show

Liz Earle

Wellbeing, Arts, Gut Health, Self-improvement, Women's Health, Beauty, Healthy Ageing, Menopause, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Hormones, Supplements, Health, Exercise, Fashion & Beauty, Fitness, Education, Better Second Half, Skincare, Liz Earle

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Do you struggle with keeping your cravings under control? Actor-turned-biohacker Davinia Taylor joins Liz to reveal how to change your diet for better weight management, healthy hormones and stable energy levels.

Davinia shares how she got her zest for life back through nutrition, and the simple strategies she uses to keep cravings under control. Liz and Davinia talk through ketogenic diets and how eating fats can result in fat loss, plus the carbohydrates you should choose and - importantly - when to eat them.

Davinia also reveals her thoughts on weight loss jabs, intermittent fasting and what to look for when choosing a protein powder.

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0:00.0	Craving for me is a horrible, horrible position. That white knuckling is horrible. And it's phenomenal.
0:08.8	How many little snacks and things 15 minutes, 20 minutes later, you're seeking more food.
0:15.3	If you feed the brain these good fats, you don't need any willpower because the craving doesn't come in the first
0:21.7	place. You get ahead of that craving so you don't have to white knuckle through the day. You don't
0:27.0	have to be distracted by, oh, make another sandwich, or maybe what shall I have for tea, or should we go
0:31.4	out for dinner, or should get a takeaway? I mean, the noise. Well, that is Davinia Taylor. She is a high-spirited party girl turned biohacker, who knows
0:42.8	full well that changing the way you eat could truly change your life. And this is me, Liz Earle,
0:50.5	and this is the Liz Earle well-being show, the podcast that helps us all to have a better
0:55.1	second half, which is, of course, my self-confessed mission to find ways for all of us to thrive
1:01.4	in our later life by investing in our health and our well-being today and for it never being too
1:07.9	late ever. Well, January is, of course course the month for putting a little bit of thought
1:12.6	and energy perhaps into how you might want to live your life day to day. What are those small
1:17.2	changes that you could make that will make a huge difference to your physical health and your
1:22.2	mental well-being? Well, last week we focused on exercise and lifting weights for fat loss. Now, I really want to put
1:29.5	food and in particular fat into that healthy fat loss and muscle gain picture. Well, for those of
1:38.3	you who don't know, Divinia Taylor used to be an actress on Holyoaks. She was well known for
1:44.1	partying, and I mean partying hard,
1:47.0	alongside her famous North London pals dubbed the Primrose Hill set. But all this while,
1:53.1	she was struggling with an increasing addiction to alcohol and then later significantly
1:58.2	addicted to foods and specifically to carbs. Now, well, she has lost an
2:04.6	incredible amount of weight in a very healthy and sustainable way. She looks phenomenal. She is a
2:09.7	super fit influencer, author of her first book, It's Not a Diet, second book, Hack Your Hormones,
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