I'm so glad you're here.
If you've come this far, there's a good chance that I understand exactly how you feel.
Improving my relationship with food always felt impossible - until I started to understand why my seemingly irrational behaviours around food actually made perfect sense. I wanted to change my eating habits more than anything, but I now understand why I couldn't - and it wasn't my fault.
That realisation shaped the way I work today. Supporting people to break free of yo-yo dieting, emotional eating, stress-eating, and binge eating isn’t just my profession - it’s my passion.
Before I got the help I needed, I felt like an unfixable case. I’d always felt I was more focused on food than other people, but after following an intensive diet in my teens, it spiralled into feeling completely out of control around food - for over 18 years.
Whether I tried diet clubs, coaches, non-profit, or psychology settings - nothing helped me to regain the control I once had over my diet. I even had people openly give up on me, which felt terrible.
I felt desperate, but felt I didn't "qualify" to get proper help, even though my struggle with food was taking over my life.
I now know that disordered eating takes special understanding. It can't be changed overnight with willpower, diet trends, meal plans, or "mind-over-matter" psychology.
Feeling trapped in destructive cycles with food can be incredibly lonely, especially when much of the nutrition and wellness world doesn’t fully understand that reality.
But you don’t have to figure it out alone.
I want to assure you that despite it how feels, there is a way to regain more peace and choice around food.
My approach is about discovering what truly aligns with you, in order to feel unconditionally seen, heard, nourished - and free to live your life.
My NutriFit coaching style and philosophy is designed to fit you. It's built on everything I wish I’d known to get my mind back and stop obsessing about food and my body, drawing on years of personal experience, training, and results from hundreds of clients.
Qualifications
Lizzie Mara: Health Coach and Registered Associate Nutritionist (Reg No. 27806)
- MSc Nutrition and Behaviour
(Distinction/First, Bournemouth University)
- BSc (Hons) Psychology
(First, Open University)
- Contemporary Therapeutic Approaches:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy
(Module 1. Advanced Dip., Derby University)
- Applying Therapeutic Skills and Studies
(Module 2. Advanced Dip., Derby University)
- Diabetes Care and Management (L2, Coventry College)
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome for Professionals
(CPD Course, The PCOS Collective)
- Applying Intuitive Eating and Non-Diet Approaches in Practice
(London Centre for Intuitive Eating)
- Optimum Nutrition for Health and Performance in fitness
(Glanbia Performance Nutrition)
- Health Coach Training (Undivided Personalised Care Institute)
- NHS Health and Wellbeing Coach. Low Carb Program Coach (4 years)
- Experience coaching in ADHD and Autism, Chronic Health Conditions, Binge Eating
- Books and Guides:
Science of Nutrition; Science of Metabolism; Lose Weight Without Losing Your Mind; Brain Over Binge; The Hungry Brain, Food Isn't Medicine, Intuitive Eating (3rd edition); Fat Loss Forever; Fat Loss Habits; Nutrivore; Why Calories Don't Count; Acceptance Commitment Therapy made simple; Overcoming Perfectionism; Chimp Paradox; I Can't Stop Eating; Chasing Cupcakes; The F*ck It Diet, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?; The Happiness Trap; Neurodiversity Coaching