Dietitian Susan

Your goal weight was never really about the weight.

A client came to me recently set on a very specific number on the scale. So I got curious — why "that" number? What does it mean to you?

When we slowed down and asked, here’s what we found: at that weight, she remembered feeling energetic. Strong. Capable. Clear. The number was never the goal — it was a stand-in for a way of feeling she missed.

So we stopped chasing the number and started building the thing underneath it. How do we get that energy back? How do we train and feel good again — whether or not the scale ever shows that exact number?

Here’s the quiet shift I want for you: your weight doesn’t get to dictate your worth, your peace, or your day. You were never meant to make a number the centre of your story.

Matthew 6:25 — "your life is more than food, and your body more than clothes."

Focus on your routines. Focus on the way you want to feel. Let the number be a passenger, not the driver.

💬 If you’ve been chasing a goal weight, reply and tell me — what’s the feeling you’re actually after underneath it? I read every one.

— Susan, RD

There's one question every diet hopes you never ask. Once you do, the diet falls apart — and something better can start.

The question is — "who am I when I stop trying to shrink?"

Because every diet you've been on has given you an identity. Dieter. Loser. Pre-loser. Comeback story. Before-and-after.

Take that identity away — and many of us don't know what's underneath.

That's the secret the diet industry guards. Not your weight. Your need for an identity that the diet kept feeding you.

Psalm 139 already answered the question. "Fearfully and wonderfully made." Known before you were formed. Held when you were small. Your identity was settled long before any scale told you who you were.

Who are you when you stop trying to shrink? You are already someone. You always were.

Ask the question. The diet will not survive the answer.

💬 Reply with your honest answer — even just one word. (And if you don't know yet, that's the most honest answer of all.)

— Susan, RD

There's one question I ask every new client in our first ten minutes. It tells me ninety percent of what I need to know about why they're tired by 3 p.m.

The question is — "what did you have at breakfast?"

And if the answer is coffee, or toast, or nothing — I already know how the rest of the day went.

Without protein at breakfast, blood sugar climbs and crashes. By 10 a.m. you're snacky. By 3 p.m. you're starving. By 9 p.m. you're standing in the kitchen wondering why you can't stop.

It's not character. It's a wobbly foundation.

Add eggs. Add yoghurt. Add a slice of cheese. Add leftover chicken if that's what's in the fridge. Aim for roughly 20–30g of protein at the first meal.

The shape of the day changes when the first meal carries protein.

Don't take anything away from your breakfast. Add to it. Morning protein is the magic.

💬 Reply and tell me: what's actually on your breakfast plate this week?

— Susan, RD