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An Introduction to Female Nutrition

Over the course of the Hot Mama Fitness and Nutrition Programme we will explore the different stages of the female life cycle to better understand how we can use good nutrition to achieve balanced female health.

Good diet and lifestyle practices are important throughout the entire female life cycle, however certain stages carry greater importance for optimum nutrition.  The main stages for Hot Mamas to consider are:

After a lovely bank holiday weekend, I find myself thinking more and more about the peri-menopause and menopause periods (not meant as a pun!) and how it starts to affect us all at some point.  I met with some friends I hadn't seen in a long time and one of them mentioned feeling like they want to swear much more often than before.

Emma, 2 children, 5 yrs and 5 mths

I first started classes with Sam after having my daughter, who is now nearly 5. With this pregnancy I wasn't able to attend any of the prenatal sessions, but was keen to start postnatal fitness after having my son and instantly knew Sam would be the best classes to attend. Her knowledge is vast and she has such a passion to help woman with their fitness. 

I've been described by my nearest and dearest as a fairly balanced person and I guess that this is true.  However, last year I did develop a rather unhealthy relationship with food and exercise.  As someone who has always exercised and always been conscious of nutrition, I never took it to extremes, fitting in exercise where I could and generally eating foods that I liked and were in the main healthy.  I've got parents who are laid back about food and there were never any restrictions or bad relationships around food.  It was just something that you ate to fuel your day, with probably room