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The clocks haven’t even changed yet and suddenly 7pm feels like midnight. 😴

The darker evenings arrive and our usual routines can quietly disappear:

The evening walk gets cancelled.
Salad starts looking deeply unappealing.
The sofa becomes emotionally supportive.
And “I’ll start again in spring” begins sounding perfectly reasonable. 😂

But winter doesn’t need your summer routine—it needs a winter version of it.

Try this:

🌤️ Move earlier when you can
Take a walk at lunchtime, park farther away or get outside during daylight instead of relying on evening motivation.

🥣 Swap cold meals for warm ones
Soups, stews, curries, porridge and traybakes can be colourful, nourishing and brilliant for healthy weight management.

🛒 Keep easy ingredients ready
Frozen vegetables, tinned beans, eggs, cooked lentils and homemade freezer portions can rescue you from the nightly “what on earth are we eating?” conversation.

🫖 Keep drinking
Thirst doesn’t vanish because it’s cold. Swap some chilled water for warm water or unsweetened herbal teas.

💡 Brighten your mornings
Open the curtains immediately, get outside when possible and avoid spending the whole day in dim rooms.

🛏️ Respect the earlier tiredness
A consistent bedtime can be far more helpful than fighting sleep with snacks, scrolling and another episode.

You don’t need to do more this winter.
You simply need to adapt what already works.

Which habit disappears first when the evenings get darker—walking, cooking, drinking water or leaving the sofa? Tell us below 👇

Save this as your winter routine reminder and share it with your favourite hibernation partner.

You’ve got this.
We’ve got you.

Love,
Carina & Shona 🩷💚

Comfort food doesn’t have to come with a food coma. 🍲

It’s getting colder. The curtains are closing earlier. And frankly, a cold lettuce leaf isn’t doing it for us.

We want something warm, delicious and easy — preferably with leftovers, because tomorrow’s dinner shouldn’t require another committee meeting.

Your Bodytype’s idea of comfort might look like this…
💚 Nikki: A chicken, mushroom and leek stew with olive oil, herbs and plenty of vegetables. A gorgeous bowl without automatically adding bread or pasta.
💚 Kate: A hearty lentil and vegetable cottage pie with a golden potato topping. Plenty of variety, plenty of flavour, and a proper sit-down dinner.
💚 Maya: A warming chicken and vegetable curry with cauliflower rice. In our Bodytype approach, this keeps the protein separate from a starchy carbohydrate side.
💚 Lilly: Creamy roasted squash sauce stirred through gluten-free pasta with spinach. Blend the squash with a little unsweetened almond milk — creamy doesn’t have to mean cream!
💚 Jess: A fragrant coconut chicken soup with courgette, spinach, ginger and lime. Warming, grain-free, gluten-free and dairy-free.

Five bowls. Plenty of comfort. No complicated cooking required.

Use frozen vegetables, make extra portions and let the freezer take a shift. You don’t need to cook from scratch every single evening to eat well.

Comfort food doesn’t have one recipe.

Which bowl would you choose — Nikki, Kate, Maya, Lilly or Jess? Tell us below, and save this for the next “what’s for dinner?” moment. 👇
For our Bodytype quiz follow the link in the bio 🔗

You’ve got this. We’ve got you.
Love, Carina & Shona 💚🍉

If your comfort food leaves you uncomfortable… we need to rethink the comfort. 😬

We’ve somehow been taught that comfort food has to mean enormous portions, beige food, stretchy trousers and an evening spent horizontal on the sofa.
It really doesn’t.

Comfort food can be:
🥣 A rich, vegetable-packed stew
🌶️ A warming bean chilli
🍛 A fragrant curry full of colour
🥔 A cottage pie topped with proper mash
🍎 Warm cinnamon apples
🥕 A hearty roasted vegetable traybake

The secret is building a meal that comforts and nourishes:
✔️ Plenty of colourful vegetables
✔️ A good source of protein
✔️ Fibre-rich carbohydrates
✔️ Herbs and warming spices
✔️ Enough healthy fat to make it satisfying
✔️ A portion that leaves you content—not comatose

You don’t have to choose between eating salad in October and disappearing into a family-sized pie.

Make the warming food. Add the vegetables. Enjoy every mouthful. Stop when you feel comfortably full.

That’s comfort food doing its actual job. 🩷

What meal feels like a hug in a bowl to you? Tell us below—we’re always looking for dinner inspiration.

Save this for the next cold, dark evening and share it with the friend who enters hibernation after dinner. 😂

You’ve got this. We’ve got you.
Love, Carina & Shona 🩷💚

Your breakfast shouldn’t need a project manager. 🍎

You’re getting dressed, finding someone’s missing shoe and answering a message. A complicated breakfast? Absolutely bloody not.

But a warm, cinnamon apple breakfast you can put together in minutes? Now we’re talking.

One autumn breakfast. Five Bodytype twists.
Start with a batch of soft, spiced apples — and we already gave you the recipe last Sunday 😜 A little scroll back now could make your mornings a whole lot tastier.

Then build your bowl using our Breaking Fads Bodytype approach:
🍏 Nikki: Spoon over plain almond yoghurt with chia seeds and chopped walnuts. A simple option without modern grains.
🍏 Kate: Add to porridge made with unsweetened almond milk, then finish with pumpkin seeds. A proper breakfast you can sit down and enjoy.
🍏 Maya: Try the apples over chia pudding made with unsweetened almond milk. An easy breakfast without a starchy grain base.
🍏 Lilly: Go for certified gluten-free oats, almond milk and a generous spoonful of warm apples. All the comfort, without gluten or dairy.
🍏 Jess: Pair with plain almond yoghurt, chia and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Grain-free, gluten-free and dairy-free, keeping her combined Bodytype preferences in mind.

Make the apples once. Give tomorrow-you one less thing to think about. 🙌

Same season. Different bodies. Which one are you? Link in bio for the quiz to find out your Bodytype 🫶

Tell us your Bodytype below and save this for your next busy morning! Missed Sunday’s recipe? Comment APPLE and we’ll send it over.

You’ve got this. We’ve got you.
Love, Carina & Shona 💚🍉

Your dinner doesn’t need to be cold to count as healthy. 🥶

Somewhere along the way, we gave lettuce a halo and made stew sound like you’d “given in”.

It’s October. You’ve had a long day. You want something warm—not a cucumber with a superiority complex. 😂

A stew packed with vegetables, beans, lentils or your choice of meat can be a proper, nourishing dinner. Comfort food can be good food.

At Breaking Fads, we help you find meals that suit your body and your life. Because eating well should leave you satisfied, not standing at the fridge an hour later wondering where dinner went.

So get the pot out. Eat the bloody stew. No guilt required. 🥣💚. That’s real comfort food!🥘

What’s going in yours? Tell us your favourite stew below—and send this to your friend who thinks healthy eating means eternal salad.

You’ve got this. We’ve got you. 💚
Love, Carina & Shona x