No Forking Nonsense - The Nutritionist UK

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Hosted by Paul Evans, Registered Nutritionist (@paulthenutritionist) Tired of the endless food fads, influencer nonsense, and TikTok nutrition “hacks”? This podcast cuts through it all. No Forking Nonsense delivers straight-talking, science-backed nutrition advice that actually makes sense — in under 20 minutes. No fluff. No fads. Just real answers from a qualified expert who knows what works in the real world. Each episode tackles one myth, one headline, or one common mistake — and gives you clear, practical takeaways you can apply straight away. Whether you're trying to eat better, feel more human, or just stop falling for the same old food BS — this is the show for you. Follow now and stop forking about.

  1. 20h ago

    Feeling flat? It's the time of year, and it isn't just you

    If you've felt flat for the last few weeks, there's a reason, and it isn't you being lazy. The end of September does this to people. It's technically still summer, so you feel like you should still be riding the highs, but the kids have gone back, the streets have gone quiet, everyone put the tools down in August and hasn't quite picked them up, and the only thing left on the calendar is Christmas, which is months off. No man's land. I see the same pattern in clients at this exact point every single year. So this one isn't really about food. Or not only about food. I'll also challenge the thing nearly everyone is about to do: get in shape for Christmas, let it all go over Christmas, start again in January. That's not a way to live, and you don't have to. In this episode: Why this stretch of the year flattens people, and why it catches you off guardThe "everythingness" list, and why writing all of it down is the first moveThe five minute rule that starts the engine when nothing feels doableOpen loops, why they wake you at 3am, and how to close themThe phone habit to stop tonight, and why it wrecks your whole day rather than just your sleepWhy I have no notifications on my phone at allLight, wind-down, and why your bedroom should be for two things onlyThe minimum standard for food: plan your dinners, and never walk into a supermarket blindWhy Wednesday evening is where good intentions die, and how to take that decision off your future selfWhere your attention is going, and who's currently in charge of itInstagram: @paulthenutritionist.

    Feeling flat? It's the time of year, and it isn't just you

  2. 5d ago

    Should you eat breakfast? Quick breakfast ideas

    TODAY I tell you OFFICIALLY whether you need breakfast and if you do. What should you have... and how do you make it QUICK? Is breakfast actually the most important meal of the day? No. It's no more important than lunch or dinner. But when you skip it and end up shaking at eleven, or face down in Janet's homemade cake, that's worth understanding. This one's about energy, not rules. Why the wrong breakfast leaves you ravenous by mid-morning, what to add to slow it down, and a run of genuinely quick options, including the one I have almost every morning that takes about a minute. Cereal, porridge, yoghurt, eggs, smoothies. All of it sorted, none of it complicated. And if you make it to the end, there's something in it for you that I'm not putting in the description.

  3. Sep 23

    Why you're not losing weight: 3 real client cases

    When you're ready: Book a chat THIS WEEK: Three people. Three completely different problems. And in all three cases, the thing they came to me for wasn't the thing that needed fixing. A man who was "good all day" and lost it every evening. A woman in her late forties doing everything right, stuck for eight months, convinced something was medically wrong. A bloke training hard, feeling flat, and already three hundred quid deep into supplements. I'm giving you the full fix in each case, including the bit where one of them got worse before she got better. In this episode: Why the evening isn't the problem, it's the billHow to build food around the day you actually have rather than the day you wish you hadThe move almost everyone makes when they stall, and why making it harder isn't a strategyTired, sleeping badly, training going backwards, scale stuck: a pattern with a name, and it usually isn't your thyroidThe hardest conversation in my job, and why she hated it for two weeksWhy flat training is a fuelling question before it's anything elseWhy eating less on rest days undoes the work you did on the other daysListen out for yourself. Statistically you're in here somewhere.Instagram @paulthenutritionist.

  4. Sep 18

    Supplements: what works, what doesn't, and what's a waste of money

    Fancy a chat? CLICK ME. The UK supplement market is worth well over a billion pounds a year, and most of what's in your cupboard is doing nothing. Not all of it, though. A small number of things genuinely work and are worth your money. The trick is knowing which, and almost every article you've read on this was written by someone selling something. So: no affiliate links, nothing to sell you, and I'll tell you which ones I take myself. In this episode: The short list of supplements with real evidence behind them, and what each one actually doesVitamin D, and why the UK government position on it is different from everywhere else, and what that means between October and MarchCreatine: the most researched supplement there is, why the loading phase is unnecessary, and why the hair loss thing traces back to one small studyProtein powder, which is food rather than a supplement, and when it's worth buyingWhere a multivitamin does and doesn't make senseThe ones that only work if you're deficient, and how to know whether you areThe big money-wasters: fat burners, detox products, greens powders, collagen, and anything sold on "supports" rather than "does"Why the word "supports" is doing so much work on that labelHow to read a label so the marketing stops working on youWhen a supplement is genuinely worth taking, and the situations where testing beats guessing@paulthenutritionist

    Supplements: what works, what doesn't, and what's a waste of money

  5. Sep 16

    Eating on the road: service stations and long drives

    Whatever you eat at the services was decided before you pulled in. Bank holiday weekend, work trip, driving up to see family, or heading to Portman Road to watch Ipswich beat Tottenham 2-1... At some point you're stopping somewhere off the M6, and the choice gets made in about four seconds. Service stations aren't the problem. There's more decent food in them than there's ever been. The problem is walking in hungry, tired and without a plan, because then whatever's nearest wins. So most of this episode is about what happens before you leave the house. In this episode: The twenty minutes before you set off that buy you three hours of not caring what's on offerA four minute bag, and what actually survives a warm carWhy people drink less on purpose on long drives, and why it backfiresThe one move once you're inside that changes what you end up withWhat you're aiming for, in one sentenceThe meal deal, and which of the three slots is the trapWhy a big lunch halfway through a long drive is a safety issue rather than a diet oneThe share bag, and why what's in it isn't the pointArriving at family, and the gap between crisps at four and dinner at eightThe drive home from an away day, win or lose One to one coaching at thenutritionistuk.com. Instagram @paulthenutritionist.

    Eating on the road: service stations and long drives

  6. Sep 11

    How fat loss works and calories explained like you're 12.

    In this weeks episode I explain in less than 7 minutes how calories work like you're a 12 year old - this is the easiest way to understand what is happening with your body, it'll help you understand calories for fat loss, weight gain, energy and supporting performance. ENJOY IT.

  7. Sep 9

    Fad diets: every single one of them works.

    DOWNLOAD A COMPLETELY FREE SUPERMARKET HACKS LIST: https://ultimatehackslist.carrd.co/  I've spent two years telling people to ignore fad diets. This week I'm defending them. All of them. Keto, carnivore, alkaline, celery juice, cabbage soup, the lot. They work. That's the problem. Then there's a study from Stanford that quietly demolished the entire "find the right diet for your body type" industry, including the DNA tests and the metabolic typing, and nobody reported the most important line in it. After that I make the case for what I actually do for a living, and then list all the reasons you might not need it, which my accountant has asked me to stop doing. In this episode: Why every fad diet works, and the one mechanism they all shareWhy a rule beats good judgement at four o'clock on a Thursday609 people, 12 months, low fat against low carb, and what the difference actually wasThe gene test question that got answered directly, and what it predictedWhy "just build sustainable habits" has the same failure rate, and why nobody in my industry says soThe detail buried in that Stanford study that changes what the headline meansWhat beat an actual prescription drug by nearly two to one Learn more at: thenutritionistuk.com. Instagram @paulthenutritionist.

    Fad diets: every single one of them works.

  8. Sep 4

    How to avoid a hangover (and what actually cures one)

    FREE ULTIMATE SUPERMARKET HACKS LIST: https://ultimatehackslist.carrd.co/ Only a FEW things can cure a hangover...  Not the fry-up, not the Berocca, not the pint of water before bed, and definitely not the hair of the dog.  What you can do is have a much smaller one, and there's decent evidence for how. This week: What a hangover actually is, why it isn't just dehydration, why the colour of what you're drinking genuinely matters, and the honest version of the alcohol and health conversation now that the old "red wine is good for you" line has quietly fallen apart. No lectures. I'm not telling anyone to stop drinking. In this episode: What's actually happening in your body the morning after, and why dehydration is only part of it Congeners, and why dark spirits and red wine hit harder than clear ones Why alcohol wrecks your sleep even when you sleep for nine hours The things worth doing before, during and after, in order of how much difference they make You'll thank me after listening to this...

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Hosted by Paul Evans, Registered Nutritionist (@paulthenutritionist) Tired of the endless food fads, influencer nonsense, and TikTok nutrition “hacks”? This podcast cuts through it all. No Forking Nonsense delivers straight-talking, science-backed nutrition advice that actually makes sense — in under 20 minutes. No fluff. No fads. Just real answers from a qualified expert who knows what works in the real world. Each episode tackles one myth, one headline, or one common mistake — and gives you clear, practical takeaways you can apply straight away. Whether you're trying to eat better, feel more human, or just stop falling for the same old food BS — this is the show for you. Follow now and stop forking about.

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