If you’ve been prescribed a GLP-1 or other medication for weight loss, your doctor has probably warned you of the importance of eating and making good choices, even if you lack an appetite. But when eating less can equate to hard-fought weight loss and you don’t feel hungry anyway, this advice can be hard to follow! Thankfully Dietlicious now offers a highly nutritious, sustainable and affordable light meal package that perfectly complements your weight loss medications.

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Making good fish choices is important for everyone who enjoys a seafood meal occasionally, but choosing the right fish matters even more if you're on a pescatarian diet.

As your main source of protein, opting for high-protein fish is an important consideration for pescatarians, as is looking for fish with good healthy omega fatty acids.

However, not all fish are created equal!

Larger, predatory fish, like tuna, while very high in protein, can also contain high mercury levels due to biomagnification (where mercury accumulates as fish eat other fish). While enjoying a delicious tuna salad or tuna sashimi occasionally won't put you in danger, mercury-heavy fish shouldn't be your mainstay when following a pescatarian eating plan.

It's also important to consider how sustainably caught or farmed your fish is. Luckily, in Australia, we're blessed with an abundance of fresh, sustainable seafood options. Locally sourced, line-caught, and organically farmed are going to be some of your best seafood options.

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Protein is more than a muscle-building nutrient—it’s a metabolic multitasker. Eating enough protein at breakfast slows gastric emptying, keeps the hunger hormone ghrelin low, stabilises blood-sugar levels, and supplies the amino-acid building blocks your muscles need after an overnight fast. In practical terms, that means longer-lasting energy, fewer mid-morning cravings, and better support for weight-loss or body-recomposition goals.

Tip: aim for 25 to 30g of protein at your morning meal to blunt appetite and kick-start your metabolism.

For easy, chef-designed healthy breakfasts, explore our ready-made breakfast range.

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The popularity of Ozempic for weight loss

If you haven’t heard of Ozempic yet, you’ve probably been living under a rock! There’s plenty of buzz about the use of this diabetes medication as a wonder weight loss tool. Speculation about which Hollywood A-listers are using it is rife, but it’s not just celebrities that are accessing this drug. Everyday Australians on a quest for a magic solution to their weight woes are hankering to get their hands on this medication.

The lure of easy weight loss is easy to understand. However, weight loss drugs are not risk-free. Like any other medication, they come with warnings about potential side effects, which vary in seriousness and can impact individuals differently. In this article, we’ll examine some of the dangers of taking Ozempic weight loss injections or other medications to lose weight.

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Staying within a healthy weight range and reaching your health goals is a challenge for lots of people. We live in a time where highly processed foods are available at the click of a button. Snacks tend to be packed with sugar and refined carbohydrates. Ready meals in the supermarket are often lacking in balance and the kind of nutritional value Read more...

In recent years, low-carb diets have gained popularity for their potential to aid in weight loss and improve overall health. By reducing carbohydrate intake, these diets promote stable blood sugar levels and encourage the body to burn fat for energy. But low-carb doesn’t mean low taste – you can still enjoy delicious Aussie favourites, including a BBQ and pizza, all while keeping your carb counts in check.

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What does protein do in the body?

Protein is an important macronutrient for the human body. Proteins are made up of amino acids and these are used in various critical functions such as building and repair of bones and muscles, maintaining pH and fluid balance, making hormones and enzymes, and keeping the immune system strong. Proteins also transport nutrients and can be used as an energy source.

Many people advocate the health benefits of eating a high protein diet. There has also been plenty of media and celebrity attention on dieting buzz words like keto, Atkins, Dukan Diet and South Beach which have raised the popularity of high protein meals combined with low carb eating. In terms of weight loss, eating high protein foods may assist with boosting metabolism, increasing muscle mass, and fat burning.

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Have you recently been diagnosed with prediabetes and looking for answers to how to reverse prediabetes naturally? We can help. This article covers the background on prediabetes as well as the risks, tips to reverse prediabetes and scientific research to support it. Not to mention, the best prediabetes diet.

Prediabetes is a condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as type 2 diabetes. If left untreated, prediabetes can progress to type 2 diabetes, which can lead to serious health complications. However, the good news is that prediabetes can be reversed naturally through lifestyle changes. In this blog post, we'll explore some tips for naturally reversing prediabetes.

Great news! Dietlicious now offers a new Blood Sugar Diet meal plan, specially created for those with pre diabetes or type 2 diabetes.

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Do you want to live healthier in 2024? Perhaps you’ve got #healthgoals you want to accomplish, doctor gave you some bad news, or you have just decided that your New Year’s resolution is to live to 100. Whatever your motivation, we’ve got ten top tips to get you feeling healthier and stronger, so you can live well and live longer. If you’re hungry for more information, there are plenty of linked resources throughout this article.

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What’s the secret to ultimate health and wellbeing? You might think good genes or good luck. Perhaps a good lifestyle, including exercise, sleep and stress management. But the number one thing? Diet.
Ok, so are you all rushing off to buy kale and sardines yet? Whilst we often think of what we should eat when we think of dieting, we’re going to turn that on its head. Instead, we believe that for ultimate health, you should probably focus your attention on what you shouldn’t eat.

The bottom line is - ultra processed food is bad for your health. If you want to enjoy the feeling of ultimate health and wellbeing this year, then cut out, or dramatically cut down on your intake of ultra processed food. When you eat a wellbeing diet rich in natural, unprocessed food, it’s almost impossible not to improve your biology, your weight management, your positivity and lower your disease risk. That’s a whole lot of benefits for just following one simple dieting rule.

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