34. Tips and tricks for creating and cooking delicious and healthy meals with Leah Itsines (@leahitsines)

Today on the podcast, we chat to one of my favourite foodies, Leah Itsines. Leah is a creative self-taught cook and author with a passion for making real food healthy and delicious. Her mission is to help people all around the world become healthier and more confident in the kitchen with her BARE community.  In our chat, we talk about how she became one of Australia’s leading self-taught cooks and what a typical day in her shoes looks like. We talk about how she finds her inspiration to create all her recipes, her thoughts on why people can’t achieve their health goals, how to improve your cooking skills, kitchen essentials she recommends for everyone, what it was like working with dietitian’s to create her eating guides and her light bulb moment from working with them.  We also discuss the things she wishes everyone knew about cooking and eating well, her favourite go-to meal to cook at home her favourite tips to save money but still eat well, Leah’s favourite lower calorie ingredient substitutes and the biggest myths she sees when it comes to cooking at home.  Finally, we discuss how to eat out socially and enjoy balance, Leah’s travel tips to stay healthy and her meal prep ideas for beginners.  If you enjoyed this podcast, please tag me and share it in your Instagram stories and leave me a positive rating or review in the purple Apple Podcast app (in the rating & reviews section underneath the episode lists). This really helps my podcast get prioritised by Apple and helps me disseminate evidence based information to the people that need it the most! Don't forget to subscribe to my podcast so you never miss an episode!