Angela Foster Performance Podcasts - Episode 84

EP 84 – Lose Weight Permanently, Optimise Your Health and Glow with Vitality with Dr Michelle Braude

Dr Michelle Braude author of ‘The Food Effect Diet’ and ‘The Food Effect Diet Vegan’ is passionate about food and cooking working with her clients to make sure they can enjoy their food whilst achieving their weight loss goals.

Working with a combination of science, choice and taste she has created the Food Effect Plan, a diet that is healthy and sustainable and has great results.

Michelle shares some great advice in this episode from the importance of portion control to the benefits of whole grains, why starting the day with apple cider is beneficial and how to make your weight loss permanent.

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Lose Weight Permanently, Optimise Your Health and Glow with Vitality with Dr Michelle Braude

Working with a combination of science, choice and taste she has created the Food Effect Plan, a diet that is healthy and sustainable and has great results.

Key Takeaways

With the food effect diet, you can have what you want
You will lose weight but the focus is on healthy eating and because it’s enjoyable it is sustainable as a lifestyle.
People don’t always distinguish between healthy eating and healthy eating for weight loss
Portion control is important even with healthy foods.
Having two snacks is important and the mid-afternoon snack prevents overeating at dinner.
You should aim to stop eating around 3 hours before sleeping
A large part of the issues associated with gluten are actually about eating white refined bread and products filled with fats and sugars
Whole natural foods are the key to a healthy diet
A good quality probiotic has lots of benefits.
Apple cider vinegar has been shown to have lots of benefits in terms of gut health, inflammation, helping with digestion.
The Food Effect diet is completely balanced so whatever meals are selected there is no need to count calories or macros.
In the attack phase, the intake is around 1,400 calories a day
Sticking to the right foods is more important than counting calories.
Stress is a huge factor, with higher cortisol levels leading to retention in fats.

Best Moments

‘I’ve made the diet so it’s perfectly balanced and there is no need to count calories or macros’

‘Lower and fat-free dairy always has a higher protein content than full fat equivalent

‘With The Food Effect Diet, you can have what you want’

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About the Host

Angela Foster

Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.

After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:

To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life.

Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.