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Age Better with Liz Earle

How to eat for healthy weight loss and fewer cravings – with Dominique Ludwig

Age Better with Liz Earle

Liz Earle

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

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Maintaining a healthy weight, beating cravings and having energy that lasts all day doesn't need to be complicated, says clinical nutritionist Dominique Ludwig. She's back on the show to explain why eating in the right proportions transforms everything from weight management and blood sugar to gut health and mood – and why her simple balanced plate model does the hard work for you.


In this episode:

  • Why calorie counting can work against you (and what to focus on instead)
  • How to manage food noise and cravings
  • The balanced plate: protein, fibre and healthy fats in the right ratios
  • The go-to foods you'll always find in Dominique's kitchen
  • Why breakfast really is the most important meal of the day (and how to nail yours)
  • How to hack hunger hormones with food
  • The difference between soluble and insoluble fibre – and which one actually feeds your gut microbes
  • Why leaving gaps between meals matters more than most people realise
  • Is it time to ditch intermittent fasting? 


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0:00.0

I think that when you start to eat your food in certain proportions, what happens is everything else starts to balance, whether it's the protein, the fibre, the fats.

0:10.0

What happens is you get nearer to your 30 grams of protein a day, your 10 grams of fibre on your plate, without really trying.

0:17.0

And it keeps the calories under control as well.

0:19.1

But it also has this knock-on effect that it keeps you fuller for longer,

0:23.1

switches off the food noise,

0:24.6

and also helps you then to maintain your weight more easily

0:27.9

because you're not wanting to snack between meals.

0:31.5

Well, Dominic Ludwig is a nutritionist and her delicious meals

0:35.7

will help us wave goodbye to energy crashes, sugar cravings

0:40.1

and that horrible bloating. I'm Liz Earle. Welcome to Age Better, the podcast changing the

0:46.1

conversation around aging. And what I'd love to show you here is that small but powerful shifts

0:51.9

in what you eat, how you move, the way you sleep and live, can

0:56.1

genuinely transform how you age. Now, this isn't just about extending lifespan. It's about

1:02.9

extending our health span. And these are the precious years where we want to live well and feel

1:08.4

bolder and more confident in our skin than ever before.

1:12.6

And the great news is that when you start feeling the benefits of these changes inside and out,

1:18.4

you'll naturally want to keep going.

1:20.8

And this is something that Dominic Ludwig is well aware of.

1:24.4

She's written a great new book.

1:26.0

It's called No Nonsense Nutrition,

1:28.2

precisely because over 20 years as a clinical nutritionist, she has learned that simple changes

1:34.8

can have incredibly powerful effect on our mood, on our energy and on our health. And as we head

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