Eat for energy not weight loss! Em the Nutritionist: food impacts mood

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Making better food choices isn’t about changing who you are, but about making you the most energetic, vibrant version of you. Emily English, aka Em the Nutritionist, talks through how food directly impacts mood.

In this chat Fearne and Em both share their experiences of having eating disorders. Was it more about weight and appearance or control and secrecy? They also offer advice for those trying to support a loved one who has a difficult relationship with food.

So, how has Em gone from weighing out spinach leaves to piling plates with delicious nutritious foods? Her mindset is all about adding energising foods and movement into your life rather than restricting or taking away joy!

Plus, Em explains that we’re all allowed to – and should – eat differently to each other (and to that person you follow online!), and they talk through how to build sustainable habits you’re actually going to be able to stick to.

Emily’s recipe book, So Good, is out now.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that looks after both your body and your mind.
0:07.7	Today I'm chatting to Emily English, otherwise known as M the Nutritionist.
0:13.2	One thing that I really want to try and encourage this year is independence in our own thoughts about our own bodies.
0:20.3	If anyone's going into the new year
0:22.0	and they've struggled with gut issues, digestive issues, IBS, you know how debilitating it can be.
0:28.1	There is nothing worse when you feel out of control with your gut health. And we know that
0:32.5	fibre is key for the gut, but also things like managing your stress levels, how's your emotions.
0:38.8	That's really going to make a bigger impact and it's not just about the glass of wine on the
0:42.9	sweets. Well, hi, and a very, very happy new year to you. It's only bloody January. I think I'm
0:49.2	quite excited about January this year. I don't really know why. I love Christmas. I think by this point, I am well
0:56.1	and truly over it, quite frankly, I'm ready for a fresh start. But in a positive way, I don't want
1:01.6	all this bloody pressure of having to set goals or to be, you know, doing things completely differently
1:08.1	like I'm a brand new person. I'm still me and I'm flawed
1:12.1	and I've got things going on and sometimes my brain works in a weird way and I'm not going to
1:17.5	expect anything other than that. So I think I'm not having a new year's resolution of any sort,
1:23.2	but what I will do is make a promise to myself I'm going to be nice to myself because I think that is the one thing that I definitely can change.
1:30.9	I can be a bit nicer to myself, a bit kinder to myself.
1:33.8	And these are the sort of themes that we really want to look at in today's podcast.
1:37.4	I felt like it was really important for January to sort of go against the grain and not talk about having to overhaul everything in
1:46.0	your life to be this new shiny person in January. Quite frankly, fuck that. So, let's crack on with the
1:52.1	guest. Emily is a nutritionist with a degree from King's College London. She spent her childhood
1:57.2	summers in her granny's restaurant kitchen and her school time in the chemistry lab.
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