End the dieting trap once and for all
Welcome to my website! I am a registered health coach, natural wellness practitioner and nutritional chef who founded Saffron + Seed to help fed up and overwhelmed people—particularly women—achieve sustainable fat loss, better health and more energy by jumping off the dieting rollercoaster for good.
My natural approach focusses on stopping restrictive diets that ultimately fail, make you feel worse about yourself and damage your health. It is my goal is to help you rebuild a more positive, kinder relationship with food and your body, resulting in greater appreciation for all that it does, plus renewed energy and relief from other niggling and sapping issues like low mood, anxiety or digestive issues and belly fat.
I like to support my clients through several key methods:
Sustainable Recommendations: together we find realistic, long-term and importantly enjoyable eating and lifestyle habits to shed fat weight and gain health without resorting to restrictive short-term fad diets and/or over exercising.
Shifting Emotional & Overeating Habits: we work together to uncover and address the reason or reasons for your weight gain that led to wanting to go on a diet in the first place.
Success through Holistic Lifestyle Coaching: during fully personalised 1-to-1 packages we aim to overcome the many barriers and obstacles to eating, moving and living well and in a way that is gradual and step by step so you do not get overwhelmed and can achieve your goals without giving up too soon.
Supporting Practical Cooking & Meal Prep practices: As an experienced nutritional chef and lover of food, we explore ways to embrace your own love of cooking healthy, vibrant meals for yourself that both fuel and nourish (a true act of self-care and key to sustainable weight loss).
If you want to stop punishing and restricting yourself and instead learn to prioritise your needs, take pleasure in food again, and get your va va voom back in a natural way, please read on. Let’s stop allowing dieting, food noise and the pursuit of thinness at any cost to interfere with living our lives!
Is dieting making things worse?
You need to know that low calorie, deprivation diets don’t work for weight loss, well they do for a short time, until your body decides makes you so ravenously hungry, feel deprived or lacking in energy that you can’t stick to it any longer. You end up feeling you must be weak willed or lazy and you beat yourself up for not being able to stick to the diet and keep off the weight you so desperately want to lose. Well I’d like you to know that you’re not weak or lacking in willpower! It’s actually biology and evolutionary survival that kicks in with restrictive dieting styles and that you have very little control or power over the metabolic process that results.
There is a better way. I can help you find a different, kinder way of eating that doesn’t upset your metabolism and gives you natural energy throughout the day. And my goal is that you’ll be able to stick to it long enough to see you achieve your weight and health goals, and you won’t want to go back to those old eating habits and behaviours that made you feel worse, not better. It’s about becoming a healthy weight naturally as unhealthy habits are addressed and resolved and you are able to shed stored fat stores to welcome in a happier, healthier body.
After many years spent in the dieting trap myself and suffering the consequences of a poor diet, I’ve spent the last 15 years studying, training in and researching natural health and nutrition, specifically for mood and healthy weight management, as well as stress management and habit change, and I’m very happy to be able to pass on that knowledge and experience on to you. If you’re struggling with your health, are unhappy with your current weight and are fed up with dieting and would benefit from having a coach and guide to support you on your journey and keep you accountable (just like my client did below), why not book a free 30-minute call with me to see if you’d like to work together?
Hi, I’m Hannah!
Hi, I’m Hannah Wyborn and I specialise in helping women just like you find a healthy and sustainable way of eating that nourishes their whole bodies, allows them to be in full control of their eating habits and that removes guilt and the need to go on a punishing diet. As a registered health coach and natural wellness practitioner, I work with you to engineer gradual nutrition and lifestyle changes that fit in with your busy lifestyle and I will support and hold your hand along your health journey. I also seek to address the underlying reasons why you overeat in the first place, whether it’s down to nutritional deficiencies, stress, poor self-image, food choices or hormonal or gut imbalances.
Weight Loss Packages
Mastering healthy habits is a necessary step to take control of your weight and health but it feel overwhelming and can be hard doing it on your own. Sometimes you need a helping hand and accountability partner to guide you through the difficult times and work through any road blocks. Support is at hand with my fully personalised 12 and 18-week packages, plus if you’re short on time, my Deep Dive service.
Winter Specific Weight Gain?
Over the years of helping my clients with weight loss using natural methods, I have seen many people find relief from the often overlapping symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder, otherwise known as S.A.D. or the '“winter blues”. I now offer a service specifically to tackle S.A.D. so that you can get through the winter months without needing unhealthy habits to feel better and putting on weight you struggle to lose again.
If you’ve been putting on weight sneakily and gradually over the years, it is most likely to be the time between mid-November and early January that is responsible for the weight gain. People put on average up to 2lbs in the run up and over Christmas and New Year, which doesn’t seem like a lot given the excesses over that time (we pack 44% more social occasions into December than any other month of the year) but of course this adds up over the years.