I bought a tablecloth this week. Round, white and pretty big, for The Intuitive Table. It's probably going to arrive creased. I am not an ironer. I never will be. Don't judge me on my housekeeping. I did warn you. Right. Let me take you back a bit further. Can you smell that in the air? That's September energy. Everyone bangs on about New Year being the time to change. I've never thought that. You've battered yourself into the ground for Christmas. You've had that weird dead

Let me take you back to a client call I had last week. She'd tracked every single calorie that passed her lips. For years. And now? She said to me, "I'm just going about my life. I'm not really thinking about food." That's it. That's the whole thing. Not some big dramatic transformation. Just...enjoying life and the mundane. But I know what you're thinking, because I get told this constantly. If I stopped dieting, I'd eat everything. Ice cream for breakfast. The whole packet

Let me take you to the snack drawer. You know the one. You've just walked past it for the fourth time today. This time you go in. Not because you're hungry. You're not even sure why. You just needed something. I had a message this week from a lady who's about to join The Intuitive Table. She wasn't sure it would help with her snacking. Fair question. So I asked her, what does the snacking actually look like? Turns out it's the fridge, then the snack drawer, then a bit more be

Let me take you back to yesterday morning. Actually, let me take you back to every morning. Alarm goes off. And straight away it's not about you. It's shoes on the kids, out the door, go go go. No breakfast, because there genuinely isn't a spare five minutes for it. Lunch is whatever's fastest, eaten at your desk, in the car, standing at the chopping board. By 3pm you need a coffee. Not want. Need. By the time you're home, cooking feels like one task too many. So it's somethi

The supplements draw. The one with magnesium in, the one with vitamin b12 in, the one with the mushroom gummies in and the one with the menopause supplement in (that you don't actually know what's in it and you can't work out if you feel better or not). Instead of going through the ingredients and telling you what you need and what you don't. We are going to go deeper (obviously - it is me after all!). And I'm going to ask you what you wanted to solve with each of those supp

I was on a coaching call this week. One of my ladies has been dieting for decades, not years...decades. She's done the shakes. The app where you photograph your dinner. The one where Tuesday's your free day. She's got the t-shirt. A few of them, actually. At one point she said, "I've tried everything, Cara." I stopped her there. Because she hadn't. She'd tried every diet. Sounds like the same sentence. But it really isn't. Diets give you structure. Rules, points, macros, cl

Right, let me take you back. All the way back to The University of Leeds and my Sports Science degree. Sport Science has four bits to it, biomechanics, psychology, anatomy and physiology. I could tell you exactly how a muscle contracts. Exactly how a joint moves. All of it. But it didn't matter one bit if I couldn't actually do anything with it. Knowing was never the hard part. It's never the hard part. Doing is. Fast forward to my PT days. Women walking through the gym door

Remember going to a nightclub and everyone was smoking, your hair and clothes would stink. Then do you remember the smoking ban coming into place? People saying that it was the nanny state getting involved, that all the pubs would close, people would still smoke anyway. But they didn't. And now 19 years later, smoking is so anti-social, I don't know anyone who smokes - I know vaping is popular but I'm talking about the smoking ban. Well, what if I said what happened with smok

I was chatting to a lady who had done every diet going. She was telling me about the time she lost 2 stone, put it back on and some. Then did another one which actually made her snacking worse. Then she told me about what she was going to do next. And about how she goes to Chub Club every Tuesday with other ladies who were doing the same thing. And I thought to myself, wouldn't it be good if these women went somewhere where they could learn about being a mindful eater, about

Sometimes the best ideas come to me in the most random places. I was standing in a Boots queue last week, waiting to pay, minding my own business. And something on the shelf caught my eye. The branding reminded me of Skinny Tea. Remember Skinny Tea? And I thought, where did that go? I haven't seen an influencer flogging it in years. No one's holding it up in a gym selfie with a discount code in the caption anymore. It just... disappeared. Which got me thinking. Where did all

Let me take you back to when I was a freshly qualified PT. I signed up to one of those 8 week fat loss programs. You know the ones "eat what you like" and drop a dress size. If I'm being totally honest, I wanted to see how established PTs were doing it. So I paid £125. In return, I got a spreadsheet. Just a spreadsheet. It told me how many calories to eat, how much protein to hit, and how many calories to "burn" that week. The target? 1,300 calories a day. So low. I'd been tr

Think about the last time someone's body came up in conversation. At the dinner table. In the group chat. A comment someone left on a photo. It probably felt pretty normal, right? Just chat. Just banter. But... The language we use about other people's bodies doesn't just affect them. It shapes the way we think and feel about our own. And in this week's episode of Chatting with Cara, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Why does the language even matter? We're surrounded by

100 episodes of Chatting with Cara. I know. I can't quite believe it either. I nearly did a normal episode this week. A tips one. Something useful to screenshot and save. But then I thought, no. You don't get to 100 and just do a normal one. So instead I’m sat in my stepdaughter's bedroom, hiding from the noise, and I just talked. No notes (yes I do normally have notes). Nothing planned. Just me telling you the whole story. Because the more you know me, the more everythin

I was listening to a podcast the other week. Jamie Lang. Good Company. Paris Fury was the guest. And at the end, Jamie asked her what she was most proud of. Paris said her body. Not her looks. Not her size. Her body. For what it's done for her. For the seven children she's carried and raised. She talked about it like a person. Like someone worth being proud of. And I was so happy because that is body appreciation out in the wild. That's exactly what I talk about in my coachin

You've done the diets. You've downloaded the apps. You've watched the what I eat in a day videos. You've bought the supplements. You've followed the influencers. And you still find yourself saying the same thing. "I know what to do. I just don't do it." I know. And I want to talk about that sentence because it tells me everything. If you know what to do, then this isn't an information problem. You don't need more of it. You've already got too much. What's actually going on is

I had a client a while back who started buying a sugary coffee on the way home from work every single day. She didn't even like coffee. She wasn't doing it because she had a sweet tooth. She wasn't doing it because she was hungry. She was doing it and she had absolutely no idea why, other than the fact that she just... did it. Every day. Without thinking. So I asked her one question. "What is the coffee actually giving you?" And that's where it got interesting. It was never a

You've seen them. The pig dancing in front of the pool with the caption about a pre-holiday diet failing. The guinea pig waddling to the kitchen after a cry. "Me, seconds after complaining about how fat I am" - cue the dessert. They're everywhere. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook. And they get reshared over and over again until absolutely everyone has seen them. And I know. I know. They're just a laugh. A bit of harmless fun. But they're not harmless. And I've been wanting to say

I don't think I've ever met a woman who isn't busy. And busy is okay. Busy is normal. Most of us are busy. But life is not set up to refill your energy levels. It is very much set up to use them. So this is what I do with every single client, four things, in this order, that give them more energy. Because when the energy is there, everything else gets easier. Including making decisions. 1. Values and yes, this is always first. People come to me expecting food stuff. Habit tra

I don't see anyone else talking about this. And I genuinely don't know why. Because in all my years of coaching women through their relationship with food, this is the one thing that is missing. Not a meal plan. Not a food diary. Not another rule to add to the pile. Curiosity. Stick with me. When something happens around food, a craving, a pattern, a moment where you've done the thing you said you wouldn't do, most of us see it through the same lens. Shame. "I shouldn't be do

If you read part one, you'll know I went into Wednesday night with a plan. Not a food plan. Not a one plate rule or a skip lunch to save room strategy. Just a set of tools, a relaxed mindset, and a genuine intention to enjoy Sue's birthday dinner without it being a whole thing. So here's what actually happened. The Castle was absolutely roasting. I had a polo neck on. My window of tolerance was already shrinking before I'd even looked at the menu. Luca came with us, which i