Welcome back to kicking goals with Georgia Perry. Thank you to our major sponsor diverse electrical contractors for making this episode possible. So today's episode is a little different. My guest is Katie bills who is a qualified nutritionist a hardcore fitness trainer and a dear friend of mine. So Katie and I work together at Lorna Jane. We're both passionate about all things fun fitness and the fashion and I'm sure we can definitely We match a quality outfit when it comes to Colors Styles and patterns KTV. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me on I'm so glad our schedules could finally align both very busy people ready to make some magic. So it's currently theriot for but I'm sure you've already achieved a lot Katie throughout your day. What does your morning routine look like? So my morning starts off extremely early. Being a fitness coach. So I basically I'm up at four o'clock in the morning. My alarm goes off and I am basically ready to go. So I get everything packed up. I get all of my meals ready for the day. They're already cracked those. I just basically take them out of the fridge put them in a bag get my gym gear together. And one thing that I make as a routine everyday is I read a book called The Daily stoic you heard of that before I haven't will have to add. It through after oh no. Yeah. Yeah, so it's a really interesting book and it just kind of helps open up insights towards your mindset for the most part and it's just one page a day. So all of the pages are lined up as per the dates you open it up to the page of the date and have a read about it. And I usually take about 5 or 10 minutes to think about what that actually means to me and how I can apply it into my life. So do that and then basically I've got like a couple minutes to Ready before I gotta jump in the car and during that time I either look for a podcast to listen to or I go back to listening to an audiobook or I call my parents back home because the timing lines up really well for the job over to work. So if you haven't noticed already, but it has a bit of an accent. Where are you from Kane? I'm from Canada originally. So I've been in Australia for almost nine years now. Wow, that's beautiful. So there's a few questions. I love to start with so Alison is can find out a little bit more about you. Yeah. So first question is who inspires you I think the people that inspire me are my clients and my members I pushed my clients. If you ask any of my clients members, I pushed them a lot and I make them push the boundaries and the way that they take on those initiatives and they succeed with them. I find that super inspiring to myself. Kind of coming from different ways. So coming in from as opposed to being able to actually connect with somebody that way but then also seeing somebody where they thought they may have never been able to accomplish something and then accomplish it so that's probably like my biggest inspiration that I've got. That's beautiful. So early morning sometimes must be really tough. But what does motivate you to wake up in the mornings? Probably the same thing like I live and breathe for my clients my members it literally puts just puts a smile on your face every single day you get to see them and you know going into the gym or going to a concert and meeting up with somebody and hearing about what they've achieved is just like that keeps you going. So whether it's somebody achieve like the first pull-up or the got the first double under or they managed to stick to their diet over the weekend those little things like make you want to get up and see them again. And it sounds like your workspace is a really great place to be we're about to be working. So I worked out of a couple different areas. So I am a nutritionist. So I do a private practice where I'm pretty much mobile. So I move around wherever I also work for a company called cult Wellness where I'm stationed in Serpentine, so a regional part and then also through canning Vale where I work at a company called result Based training. Being as a coach and a nutritionist there. Well busy busy busy a little serious, like kicking amazing job. So Katie, why food? Why did you decide to study nutrition? So this is a bit of a long story. So it goes back to I think there's a I was 18 at the time and believe it or not. My first round of uni, I went to UNI for fashion design. Wow, that's why we've started working a lot of Jane together. Yeah. The present extent of fashion that my life went to but yeah, it's sort of in fashion design and it was my first time being away from home and I obviously like the stress of uni and everything like that was taking a toll on me, but I was not feeling a hundred percent when I was at Uni. I was falling asleep in class. I was drinking a lot of fluids because I was constantly thirsty and the fourth year students. They were doing a fashion show at the end of this semester. Stir and they were choosing first-year students to be models for them. So I got chosen by a couple of people and we would go through fittings each week and each week. The girls would do fittings on me. They'd have to take the clothes in because I had lost weight again and they started getting angry at me because I kept losing weight and they kept telling me like you need to be eating because we can't have you losing weight, but I was eating so much food and I didn't understand why this was happening didn't get it. Anyway the year went on and then it came to UNI break and I Back home to visit my family and my parents had to look at me and be like, you know, something's something's not right here. So we went to the doctor and the doctor started asking me questions about like what I was doing at Unis. I told me was doing fashion design. I told him I was doing modeling work because of the fourth year students and I was away from home and has started to try and like put two and two together and then basically pulled my mom aside and told told her that he was under the assumption that I was either anorexic or bulimic. Me and my mom knew right away that I wasn't because she had seen me eat and she knew what was going on. So she she demanded like other research to be done. So they ended up doing blood work on me and they sent me home and then they called me back when they got the results in and they told me to go to the hospital right away. So I went to the hospital and at that point I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. So a typical blood sugar level for like yourself would be sitting at about like 5 Seven and then when I got admitted to the hospital, I was at a 46 so they were surprised I wasn't in a coma at that point. I was really bad but during that whole time period I had a dietician come in to talk to me because obviously I needed to understand diet a little bit better and understand how to manage carbohydrates and that kind of thing so she came in and I didn't know a whole lot about it, but I knew that there was certain extent of foods that I should be aware of. And be careful of having type 1 and so I asked her I said, you know, what foods do I need to stay watch of what do I need to be concerned about and she told me that I could eat anything that I wanted as long as I took enough insulin for it. And that just sounded really strange to me and then she proceeded to tell me that at every meal that I had I either had to have bread pasta rice cereal or some form of grain and because I was young and I didn't really know a lot about nutrition and obviously hearing that from a professional being a vulnerable environment you take their word for it. So I went home and started practicing what he told me making sure that I had some form of like carbohydrate every single meal. And obviously the time I was very underweight because I was so sick. So I needed to gain some weight, but I ended up gaining more weight than what I should have changed and I was not at a healthy State and it was really hard to control my blood sugar levels having that many carbs every single meal that I was having. So I started to kind of do my own research and I became my own guinea pig. So I've basically like started doing my own thing and I did any kind of diet you could possibly think of so I was vegan. I was vegetarian. I also did the raw diet. So doing the raw diet in Canada during the middle of winter when it's freezing cold and having to have like a cold meal for every single meal that you have is not fun. So that didn't last very long and that you gave it a good girl good girl. Yes, and then I came across paleo and that was when paleo was not very well recognized at the time and nobody really knew what it was about. But that was the first diet that I started that really connected with me. I started to drop the weight. My energy levels were back and I was managing my blood sugar levels a lot better. So once I got all of that kind of sorted I started to really think about the other people that were, you know going to hospital or receiving the same kind of information that I got and I wanted to help other people because I knew that obviously the information that I had gotten was not ideal. My situation so I wanted to really be able to help other people and then I contemplated going back to UNI because I really do want to go back again. So basically I waited until I came to Australia and then it was just kind of like a no-brainer. It was something I really wanted to do. So I went to UNI and got my official paper that says that I can talk to people about nutrition. So that was a big thing for me. I didn't want to be just anybody that would tell people what to eat. I wanted to make sure that I had the proper qualification to do that Angie. That was kind of like the reason why I got into it. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's very inspiring and I'm sure that's going to be a great help for those people out there that are going through similar things what you've been through and yeah, I'm sure they don't be afraid to reach out to Katie as well. If you've got any nutrition questions sent. Yeah, that's great. So Katie, what does your average daily intake of food and look like I'm quite interested in this. Okay, so I am currently doing what we call a carb cycle. So I have two days a week where it's higher carbohydrates and then the other five days are lower carbohydrates and I just find that this method works well for me because I obviously have not not a social life, but I'm quite busy. So like weekends I tend to be out for breakfast or you know, there's always something going on. So those high-carb days give me a little bit more flexibility in terms of how to manage my macros. So like my low-carb day, I'm looking at 1520 calories where I've only got 70 grams of carbs. And then so that that one so for the low carb day it would be higher in fat lower in carbs. And then my high carb day is 1860 where I've got over 200 grams of carbohydrates. So I've got a lot of carbohydrates in that day and basically those so those high-carb days I've split up on like Wednesday is I Canta and Sundays hike object from you. So that gives me some flexibility in terms of what I can do. I mean without ammonia social times about when you go out for dinner or kind of yeah, it just it just makes things easier. So like if something does come up and I can even move my high-carb days. So right now it's stationed at Wednesday and Sunday, but say I have a breakfast with a friend on Saturday, then I can move my Sunday high carb day to Saturday and it makes it easier to manage and stay within my calories and macros and it's something to look forward to as well. Yeah and talking about calories and I know for me I did I had a mixed relationship with food and I think after doing my ACL and yeah having an injury, I really fell into the Trap of calorie counting and becoming really obsessed with food and what I was putting in my body, I really struggled for a good three to four months and yeah had to implement some strategies and Repeat that positive thinking to get myself out of that. And yeah, I really really struggled with that. So forming a negative relationship with food can really have damaging effects, especially being women. So yeah, how what Ru what's some advice that you can give to girls out there to help get out of that that mind frame of when you feel like you've got a negative relationship with fruit what some steps that you can take to get back on track. I think it's more more of a self-assessment that you need to be doing but even talking to a professional so like for myself if I have a client that comes in I always make sure that I meet with them in person first so I can get to know them and understand them and as a professional you can kind of pick up on those things right away the way that they talk about food the way that they talk about how they track if they check those types of things. So an intelligent professional should be able to pick those things up and then work into a diet that suits them. So in terms of like a selfish Assessment it would be more so taking yourself away from the scales taking yourself away from tracking and just doing more I guess what we call intuitive eating. So understanding what your body actually needs to be fueled and I always try and Implement like a journal of some sort. So talking about so when you eat breakfast in the morning, so before you eat breakfast, how are you feeling after you eat breakfast? How are you feeling and sort of create like a symptom / mood diary. So then you know, like how these foods are making you feel and if you come more focus in terms of like the body as a whole rather than seeing like, oh my God to the scales moved to LA and then also thinking about focusing on other things other than food. So in terms of like we always think about all I want to lose 10 kilos or I want a job body weight one drop body fat we can start thinking about so if you are training then we look at training goals instead and then the food is used as just as a fuel. So then your training goals become the most important aspect of unit. To remove that thought process of thinking about what the ocean. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so maybe it's achieving a pull-up for the first time a string pull up for the first time. So then you would Implement a program for that. So then it becomes that major Focus if they start thinking about rather than focusing on the foods. Wow, that's so powerful and I can definitely relate the scales. I yeah don't use scales anymore. And I think that you know, I go more with what how my body's feeling. Yeah if I feel like this week. I can go run 10 case I'm going to go run 10ks, but I'm not going to never do that. Yeah, I really do listen to my body now. Yeah, and I'm in more of a direction of yoga Pilates walking and that sort of Direction and being being come on my body and eating fun Foods you're eating colorful for those who think so that's the thing. So, you know food has two different ways. We can go even go through obviously like our body composition So Physical connection with our body, but then also the emotional connection like a Kid, you know like the foods that made you happy in life having this family get-togethers and like you always remember like the meals that mom cooked in those types of things. There's always that emotional connection with food and we tend to forget about that when we become more like an adult I guess. Yeah, and how important is we're just sitting at a table at the moment, but how important is it actually to remove Tech and actually sit down and enjoy a meal especially when you're doing something like we were talking about so that Intuitive eating so when we're doing something like that. We're not actually counting macros and calories. It's really important to remove all distractions. So we want to be focusing on the task at hand, which is obviously eating. Yeah and like I was saying like using the journal but you can even do this mentally so like while you're eating your like, how is it making you feel once you get to the 3/4 of your plate done? How do you feel now? Are you feeling Fuller? Are you feeling still really hungry and then giving yourself time to actually chew the food taste the food enjoy the food. Right like a good spot, right? Enjoy it especially if you've taken a lot of time in the cake in the kitchen to prepare it or you spent a lot of money to dine somewhere like you want to be able to actually enjoy what you're having so curious. Well, we're on this topic. Yes. Do you have a recommendation of a restaurant or a cafe that yeah has some really amazing Foods. Yeah. I mean like so I think the original question was talking about like a healthy Cafe and I mean For me like healthy is such a subjective term and it depends on what your goals are. If your goals are to eat food to make you really happy then that's really different to somebody who needs to be down to 10% body fat. So like I think healthy is such a subjective term. But if you know what your goals are, then you can go into a cafe and have kind of a plan of attack but my favorite Cafe is moment Mary Street Bakery is just like a solid Choice like they do. Six probably the best that any Cafe can possibly do recently. I've been to someday coffee and cocoa. They have such a real if you go there make sure you ask to be seated in the back section. They've got this really cute like little patio area in the back and their food is amazing. The coffee's great and services amazing there as well. And then the other one will probably be another Cafe called good things and they just do some really different. Different really creative meals there as well. Yeah judging by the name. I already have a sound like a pretty good thing. So Katie, I put up a question box for our listeners on Instagram. Yeah, and I chose three of the questions to ask you. So the first one was from back in Western Australia. So back said I'm single and on a budget. I feel like most meal plans are for families or couples. I hate wasting food, but I also don't know. Start right, so that's easy like this. So it might seem very overwhelming because you've only got one of you and nobody's there to help you but you've actually got a really easy. So I would suggest that meal planning is ideal for something like that, especially for being a single person and I would assume because most people are busy these days. We've all got really busy lives and time is probably not super available all the time. So things like meal planning can make it really easy. And you can cook like multiple meals with just one recipe. So things like things I would do is like even just cooking up a big batch of like chicken turkey or beef. Mince and just do it plain. So then when you have it, then you can add different things to it to make it different meals. So cooking in bulk, but doing it very very basic so you can add different things to it as you go along throughout the week slow cookers. I like my best friend. They're the best thing in the world. Makes everything super easy. You can literally just chop everything in it and then leave it for a couple of hours and then it's done in terms of being on a budget. This is always a big thing people think healthy. They always think that it's going to be really expensive but you can be really careful in terms of the things that you purchase and make sure you're purchasing them being mindful of what your goals are I guess but like things like mints eggs, they're super affordable types of protein being to be taking in if you cook in bulk for Rice like that super cheap as well and then veggies if you go to a farmers market, you can always get a really good deal there as well. So it's just a matter of planning I think is probably number one priority and then managing your time wasting food. So the other thing is like if you make a lot of meals, there's no reason why you can't freeze them. So like if we make a big batch of something and then by like day three, we know that we're not going to get Even during the week. I always package them up. So they're already portioned out and then pop them in the freezer. So then if I'm stuck when we can I'm out of time and I don't have enough time to do any cooking that I know that I've got already portioned out meals ready to go and just take them out of the freezer. That's brilliant. I'm just nodding my head as we go. So the next question was what is your relationship like with food? This was from Russia in Brisbane? And okay. That's okay. I guess it's kind of a very Broad. Broad question. So for me I've been doing this for ages now. So I've been practicing so when I first started getting a really big interest in nutrition, I was extremely strict. So I went a hundred percent paleo and that was more so coming from being a newly diagnosed type 1 diabetic. I just really wanted to become healthier and better so I stuck with that for probably a good year and I was extremely extremely strict but I feel like as you progress And you learn more the more flexible you can become as well. And I know it's really cliche to say but I am more so like an 80/20 person. So like even talking about like my calories and stuff like that there are days where I don't track I know relatively how many calories I'm taking in but it's not like, oh my God, like I got my goal was to get 15-20 today and I bought 15 25, and I'm going to lose my shit because so I myself Something I'm overly concerned about and I know how to manipulate my calories the following day. So if I go way over they something was unplanned and I go way over I have done enough practice to be comfortable the next day and the next day maybe in the next week to manipulate my calories to make sure that I still kind of stay within range, but I'm not somebody that stresses a lot over I guess. Looking up. It's probably not a like the best way for a nutritionist explain this but this is like this is me in reality. So yeah, this is not to say that somebody who's new who has never died before never really thought about nutrition before should be doing something like this. This is because I've done years and years and years of practice of it and I'm also training consistently making sure that I'm hitting everything consistently. So if I have a day of a slipper then it's easier for me to stay. On track because I've implemented those habits and I have the controlled via mindset. He's out exactly. Yeah. So the third question was fast food is easy, but so is gaining weight. What is a good choice? This is from Amanda? Okay. So yes fast food is easy. Okay, but so is gaining weight. So this is again like so this is big As well because my time my free time is not a lot. So like I don't get a lot of free time. So I need to make sure that I time manage really well and this is kind of coming back to like Amanda's question. So a good choice would be making sure that you plan your week out. So making sure that you reserve a couple of hours during the weekend or whatever time you have the free time to do it make a grocery list go shopping prepare your food get it planned out. So then you set yourself up for a success for the week. If you don't do that, then you're bound to fail you need to be able to have things put into place. You can create these habits. So it becomes easier and easier each week. If you do this one week to say you prepare your food one week and then the next week you like should have been out of the store again. Sorry, that's just me if you so say the next week comes along and you just have not prepared you are going to fall into To your old habits of going out to Red Rooster or wherever you tend to go to get your fast food. So it's implementing strategies to make sure that you do this week in and week out and making sure that it's easy for you to do it. So we talked a lot about how like pre-washed and pre-cut veg is such a waste of packaging and money and Etc. But if this comes down to a point where you look you come home from a farmers market, you've got a bunch of vegetables. Vegetables sitting in your crisper and you look at them and then you look at your phone at overeats. And then you look at them and then you look at your phone overeats. And then you look at them again. If they I can't be EFT to sit and clean and chop and cook all of this. Then I would much rather you go to Willie's of coals and picked up the pre-wash precut veggies so you can stay on track. So it's a matter of figuring out your priorities and how they work and figuring out how much time you have and how to Time so I like to try and spend as the least amount of time in the kitchen as I can when I do food prep. So I make sure that the meals that I do our meals that I have done before so I'm not reading like a recipe for the first time. It's taken me hours to do something in the kitchen. It's always meals that just take me a couple of minutes to put together maybe a couple like 20 minutes to cook and I can do something else while I'm cooking it as well. So like multitasking becomes really important in the case put on the podcast. And wisely people. So yeah, that's kind of my recommendation for that and something I'd also like to add that if you are going on a lot for fast food and you feel like you're doing lots of different social things that result in going to take out. Why don't you be the one to suggest where you go? And why don't you pick a healthier option like going to health freak cafe or maybe the raw kitchen and you know, maybe your friends haven't tried those type of foods, but Opportunity that you can introduce them hundred percent to a healthy version of food understand even if you are going out analyze the menu before you go so then you can make like an educated decision and I always tell my clients this don't be afraid to be an asshole. Okay, ask questions. There are so many people that are on diets that have allergies chefs and waitresses are used to having these questions. So if you see something on the menu, but it's not quite what you want to be having and you think that like you could ask to it for it to be cooked a different way. Ask the question don't be afraid to do that and also referred to us Sarah's Day breakfast. She always picks her own breast breakfast and I absolutely love it like Go full steam ahead and choose exactly what you want. If you want to have avocado on the side have avocado kind of stuff. You want your sauce on the side put salt. So Katie you're always or often in the gym environment and Often things that you go to at always related to Fitness and Nutrition. Do you ever feel pressure to look a certain way and how do you deal with external pressures of being in that environment? I think like anybody in the industry probably has a little bit of pressure that way. I've always been a very strong believer in a very solid mindset there. Like if you check out my Instagram the majority of my posts about mindset. So I think because I've practiced those types of things for so long it becomes easier for me to accept who I am and be proud of what I can do. I think like if you guys ever heard of the coach then Bergeron, he coaches some of the top CrossFit athletes and his main thing that he talks about is only worry about the things that you can control the things that you can't control. You should not be spending any time on it. So it doesn't matter what People are saying about you. The only thing you can do is work on yourself and be proud of what you can do. So I always tend to think about the positives that come out of it. So even coming out of like so say I had like a really Crappy session at the gym and it just nothing felt good. I need to come out of that session being proud of one thing. So always make sure that I can do something like that coming out of a session in terms of like photographs and stuff like that. Like you have put yourself out there and I think if you create that positive mindset and that positive vibe it people find it very hard to the negative about you. So if you come off with a good personality and you come off, Confidence it tends to be a lot harder for people to be able to put a negative spin on it. That's our each other and I I love the quote your tried your Vibe. Sorry attracts your tribe and Hunt. Yeah, I feel like definitely what what energy you put out there. That's the opportunities that come back to you, which I think is super powerful. I love hearing about people's goals like Katie, what are your nutrition and fitness goals so nutrition I'm like, I'm pretty happy with where I'm at. I like exploring things. So typically if I put a client on something I always like to test it out first, I would never put somebody on something that I've never done but that doesn't make sense because I have no understanding of it from a personal perspective. So like even like the carb cycling thing. I made sure that I did this first before implementing the challenge that I was doing. So I got a good understanding of it and I would know how these people were feeling. Coming into it. So at the moment like nutrition-wise, I'm pretty happy with where I'm at. There's nothing that I really want to change their and it's just basically probably looking at increasing my calories as we move along to help increases strength, but in terms of fitness and gym, so I recently dislocated my shoulder again about four months ago. So I've been trying to act a little bit more of an adult rather than a child coming into rehab. And being a lot more mindful in terms of progression and just making my shoulders a lot healthier and stronger for the long run. So that was that's a major major Focus for me right now, and I'm actually really enjoying it as well because I can see the strength improvements that are happening through it. That's really cool. And then probably the last thing that I'm looking to do so I just hit an 80 kilo clean a couple weeks ago, which I was really Happy is like that was a goal of mine for so long. But then I did a workout on the weekend and I hit an 80 kilo clean five times. So obviously got some room there to kind of bump up those numbers. So I mean like I would be super happy with hitting like a 90 kilo clean in the next couple months. Once my shoulder is saying it's okay to go and do so, but that's kind of where my focus is at the moment. So that's awesome Katie and how can we how can we find you on the social as how can we get inspired by your own workouts? And your beautiful quotes So the best place to hit me up is on Instagram. That's pretty much where everything is posted. That's I post something at 9 a.m. Every single day so you can hit notifications on that. If you'd like, you can find me on Instagram. Is this really awkward to spell out on voice but it is K 8 T be Tripoli. I'll get the her to put them in the show notes there. So you guys can link up. Yeah, it's definitely put that in the show notes. But yeah, you can find me on in. Them. I'm also introducing a carb cycling challenge starting on Monday the 18th of not showing this is going to are that if you're Keen to do that. You can send me a message or to get some more information on that and I'm also working on something really really exciting our health. So nutrition and fitness Retreat and volley. I'm just rubbing my hands together. Yes, we're looking at scheduling that in May. So I'm teaming up with the team at CrossFit Wanderlust and we're going to launch a orange beforehand and then have some fun over in Bali for a few days. It is going to be amazing. And if you haven't joined the Bali club like me, please join me on my first trip to Bali and I would love that. So Katie, what are you grateful for in this moment? I'm super grateful for the people that I get to be a surrounded by every single day. So people like yourself that is super super inspiring and I've been so fortunate to To hang out with you for a while. Now. It just been so cool. But you know, like the people that I work with my clients my members they just they just tick all the boxes to keep me going and keep doing what I like to do and it's just like a positive vibe that you get like we were talking about before I like having those people that just support you through anything just becomes really really important and I'm super grateful for that and then obviously, I guess like the other thing is on Instagram because my post if you if you've ever read one of my post they tend to be very novel like so they are not short and I never thought that people would actually take the time to read it and getting feedback from people are getting comments from people and realizing that people are actually taking the time to read through them and being educated and excited about them. That's like I'm super grateful that people take the time out of their busy lives to read myself. I can just see your face is glowing and you have about that. So today I was sitting at a side rows and I thought you know what? I'm going to write down my gratitudes. I was eating my peanut butter ball and it tasted amazing and I was feeling very inspired. So today I'm grateful for connecting with you. Again, Katie. We would have thought we met at one a day and a couple of years down the track. We're recording a podcast episode together. I would never have thought that would happen. But yeah, very grateful. I'm also really grateful for moving my body. Me I actually started the cake program today and did my first morning woke up. Yeah, love just trying new things and seeing how I guess it's similar to you and nutrition. I like to trial how my body feels after a week of doing something. And yes for the kick program. I'm going to give that a go this week. I'm also really grateful for the beautiful weather that we have been blessed with. Oh my gosh, finally. Yeah a good dose of sunshine. Absolutely love it. So, thank you. Thank you Katie. Coming on the podcast today and sharing. Thank you so much for having me. It was so good to catch up with you again. Hopefully we can do it again soon. Yeah, definitely everyone have a fabulous rest of your day nourish your body so you can be the best version of yourself and remember go and kick some goals.
HAPPY THURSDAY EVERYONE! When activewear stylists reunite… I bet you are thinking sport spice sisters, power walking along the coast wearing visors, coffees in hands while rocking the new release Lorna jane activewear sets. Well todays episode is a little different. Think burgers, balance and boss babe BILZ. Who would have thought two years down the track we would be recording an episode educating, inspiring and motivating the community to take positive action around FOOD. This episode is full of raw treats, so order that açai bowl or whiz up that green smoothie because this episode is about to leave you hangry for more. Nutritionalist Katie Bilz peels back the banana layers and reveals the life changing news she received as a teen. “Doctors were surprised I wasn’t in a coma.” - KB  After receiving different nutritional information about what to eat and what not to eat, Katie decided to start doing her own research and trialing different diets to see how food reacted with her body. From vegan, to vegetarian, to paleo, to high carb, low carb and everything in between you bet ya Katie has tried it all. Fast forwarding a decade, Katie is living her best life with the attitude, “Consistency Over Perfection.”  Katie shares her daily intake of food, helpful tips around meal planning and how to develop a positive mindset around food. If you enjoy this episode then please help us share the love by adding it to your Instagram story and leave us a five star review. We hope you have a fabulous Thursday, nourish your body so you can be the happiest and healthiest version of you. Love Georgia xx  Episode Recommendations:  Result Based Training @rbtgyms Lorna Jane @lornajaneactive  Nutrition essential tool @kaltwellness Sarahs Day breakfast @sarahsday  New program @keepitcleaner  The book @dailystoic  Cafe @somedaycoffeeco Cafe @goodthingsmp  Cafe @mary_street_bakery  Restaurant @rawkitchenfreo Restaurant @healthfreakcafe   Podcast Guest Speaker: @k8tbeee   Podcast Presenter: @georgia.louise.perry   Thank you to todays sponsor, Diverse Electrical Contractors for making todays episode possible. 