Ultimate 4-Step Acne Nutrition GLOW-UP Guide for Summer (Clear Skin in 30 DAYS)

If you’ve ever canceled plans, skipped photos, or avoided holidays because of your skin then this is your moment.

This summer, you’re not hiding anymore. You’re claiming clear skin, magnetic confidence, and a life where you feel excited to show up fully.

In my latest YouTube video, I’m walking you through my 4-step process for clearing acne through nutrition. This is the same approach I use with my 1:1 clients and what I break down inside my Clear Skin Complete programme that helps you glow from the inside out.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

✅ Why skipping meals, drinking coffee on an empty stomach, or “eating healthy” might still be triggering breakouts.

✅ How to build your balanced plate using the right proteins, carbs, fats, and veggies for skin clarity.

✅ How blood sugar imbalances sabotage your skin (and what to do about it).

✅ The exact foods that reduce inflammation and give you that lit-from-within glow.

✅ My 80/20 approach to food freedom without sabotaging your skin progress.

This isn’t just about skin. It’s about how you show up in every part of your life.

Watch the video now and step into the most confident version of yourself this summer:

Click here to watch the full YouTube video now.

You deserve to feel incredible in your body and this is your starting point.

Rooting for you always,

Melissa

Transcript

You are not playing small anymore.

This Summer, you are gonna claim the skin and the life that you want.

You have been letting yourself fade into the background for far too long...canceling plans, avoiding being in pictures on holiday, and fearing your foundation smudging off in the sunshine...

But not this year.

Because this year, you are taking these four steps that I’m teaching you today in this video and you are taking action.

So that in 30 days, you are feeling more confident and more aligned with embodying the highest version of you. The you who shows up to her holiday without foundation, who feels incredible at her best friend’s, sister’s, or cousin’s wedding, and who is excited about showing up to an event in a new outfit because she's no longer focused on how her skin or makeup looks in pictures.

By the end of this video, you’re going to feel empowered to take action so that you can feel like your best self this summer.

It’s time to claim the clear skin that you want and take it as your own. You deserve this, and you can do this.

In this video, I’m breaking down my four-step process for clearing acne using nutrition which will not only give you a glowing complexion but will also give you vibrant energy, better sleep, improved digestion, and a healthier gut.

This isn’t just an outer glow-up, this is from the inside out.

Step One: Clear Skin Acne Nutrition Basics 101

The first step with clearing your skin with nutrition is gonna start in the basics. Step one is gonna be your clear skin nutrition basics 1 0 1.

And we're bringing it right back to the basics here. Because so many of the women that I work with feel like they're already doing everything when it comes to their nutrition, but it's just not making a difference. But the truth is, I've actually never seen a diet diary from a client who doesn't need tweaking in some way or another.

And it was the exact same for me when I had acne. I felt like I was doing everything right. I was watching nutritionist on YouTube. At the time I was vegan, I was reading all of the health books from doctors and. Nutritionists and even functional medicine specialists who were telling me to do one thing, but my skin, my energy, my sleep, and my anxiety was literally giving me symptoms and signs that this just isn't working for me.

So we wanna bring it right back to those basics. And the first one is gonna be just making sure that you are eating enough.

When we have acne, now is not the time to be skipping meals. It's not the time to be intermittent fasting. It's not the time to be drinking coffee on an empty stomach, and I know that you feel like you're doing the best thing for your skin when you are drinking a spearmint tea or a lemon water instead of breakfast because you really have no idea what to eat.

But actually that's adding more stress onto your body.

So what we wanna do is we really wanna focus on eating a balanced plate. So when you get your plate and you're looking at the meals that you are eating, we really wanna be asking ourselves, does this meal have protein? Does it have complex carbohydrates? How much fibre does this meal have? And can you see that there's lots of different colours from all the different vegetables that you're eating?

And we definitely, definitely do not wanna skip out on fats. This is something that I used to do, I used to avoid. Oils, even extraversion, olive oils. And I always felt like maybe it was avocado that was breaking me out. Maybe it was having too much fat. But that actually is not the case because we need fat to be able to build healthy hormones.

And if your body is already under stress, then it's not able to actually create and produce your reproductive hormones in the way that you really want it to. So starting at really bringing it back to those foundations and building the balance plate. I'm gonna be breaking this down for you. Really, really specifically.

Okay, so starting with protein, what we wanna be focusing on is making sure that you're having0.7 to one gram of protein per ideal body weight in pounds. So the guidelines for protein is usually one gram of protein per kilograms of body weight. But actually, if we really wanna build those healthy hormones, strong nails, strong skin, strong hair, we need to amp that up even more to go for the 0.7 to one gram per pound of ideal body weight.

And if you wanna get more details on actually how to calculate this and how to work it out more specifically for your body type and your body goals, then in the description box, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna include the link for my mini course called Fundamentals of Acne Nutrition because in this course I'm breaking everything down for you in very, very specific details.

And you can get this course literally for only 27 pounds. It is cheaper than your brunch meal. So don't skip out on this one because it's gonna give you all of the tips, all of the advice, and all of the specific suggestions that I use, even with my one-to-one clients when it comes to clearing your acne. And this is information that you can literally use for a lifetime.

And when we think about using the balanced plate as it comes to protein, the easiest way of looking at this is when you actually look at your plate and your meal, you want a quarter of that plate, a quarter to a third of that plate to actually be your protein. So this could be your animal protein, like your chicken, your turkey, your beef, your steak. It could be oily fish like salmon, it could be your eggs. And then from a plant-based perspective, this could be your tempeh, maybe even a little bit of tofu. We could do chickpeas, kidney beans, lentils, just really making sure that you are getting your protein with every single meal.

And next we have fat. So your fats need to be 0.3 to 0.6 of fat per pound of your ideal body weight. So this what we'll average around 60 grams of fats per day. So we definitely don't wanna be skipping out on fats. And the best way to do this, I found is to take extra virgin olive oil and just drizzle that on top of your vegetables because not only is that gonna give you the fats that your body needs, it's going to mean that you're able to actually absorb your fat-soluble vitamins from your vegetables.

So this can be like vitamin A, vitamin E, and vitamin D and vitamin K. We need fats to be able to absorb those vitamins, and we already know how essential vitamin A and vitamin E are for your skin cell turnover, so do not be skipping out on your fats. So this is gonna be things like your avocado, your extra virgin olive oil.We can do olives, coconuts, there’s some fats in nuts and some fats in seeds. And then we also have our animal sources. So there's different types of fats in your animal sources. So for example, your egg yolk, your meats, your oily fish, which is gonna be your Omega-3. So that's more of a fatty acid. But we just wanna be incorporating a variety of these different fats into your nutrition.

Okay, so we're looking at the plate now. We have a quarter to a third of the plate as protein. We know that we're prioritising fat. So this will be around a thumb size portion per meal. And then we are looking at our carbohydrates.

So when we think about carbohydrates, sometimes people get confused between carbohydrates and gluten because a lot of the simple carbohydrates do contain gluten, so these are things like white bread, white pasta, pastries, cakes, any sort of baked goods.

These are all gluten-containing simple carbohydrates. Whereas those aren't necessarily the best carbohydrates that you want, if you really want to clear your skin, 'cause they do have a higher glycemic index. Not only do they contain gluten, which is quite inflammatory, a lot of them are also containing sugar, especially if it is more baked goods and more sugary foods.

So what you actually want to do is we are not cutting out carbs. Carbs are essential for building healthy hormones, your body needs carbohydrates. If you have acne, we are not cutting out carbs. I just wanna make that really, really clear. So instead we're focusing more on complex carbohydrates. So what this is it's gonna be your fruits, your vegetables.

Yes. But we wanna take that step further. 'Cause you're not likely going to get your daily intake of carbohydrates just from eating fruits and vegetables. We also wanna be looking at your root vegetables, which have really, really high in different minerals and different fibres. We can look at your whole grains and also your legumes, beans, lentils, and things like that.

So for example, we've got white potato and I would suggest keeping the skin on it. We don't need to demonise white potato. It is literally filled with minerals but we just wanna make sure that we're not deep frying it, right? We want to boil the potato, or we can make homemade chips.

And if you cook it, leave it to cool and then reheat it, that's even gonna be even better on your blood sugar. Of course we have sweet potato. Sweet potato is an interesting one because we always wanna leave the skin on it for sure. But if we bake it, that is gonna increase the glycemic index.

And if we boil it, that's gonna keep the glycemic index at a medium level. So be wary of baking your sweet potato. And really focus on boiling it or cooking it into meals so you can cook it into curries, stews and different things like that. But we definitely wanna be getting in sweet potato.

We can also do butternut squash as another root vegetable. And then whole grains — we’ve got brown rice, we’ve got quinoa, we’ve got buckwheat, all these different types of gluten-free whole grains. And if you aren't necessarily reacting negatively to gluten, we can look at some of the more gluten-containing whole grains like spelt.

And then we also have legumes. So these are things like lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans, quality beans, all those different types of beans that you could use as a really good basis of curries. But I would say, you can still have your chickpeas and your legumes with some sort of root vegetable.

Okay. So when it comes to carbohydrates, I would say roughly aim around 200 grams per day of carbohydrates. So this is gonna be the grams of carbohydrates, not the grams in weight. So what you're doing is you are getting a carbohydrate from your fruits and vegetables, yes, but also from your whole grains, your root vegetables, and your lentils and legumes.

And looking at this from a balanced plate perspective, your complex carbohydrates, which will be the whole grains, the root vegetables, or the legumes, is gonna make up around a third. So a quarter to a third of your full plate. And then. Okay, so we've got a quarter to a third of the plate as protein, a quarter to a third of the plate as complex carbohydrates.

We know we've got a thumb size portion of fat. So what is filling the other third to even a half of that plate? That is gonna be your vegetables.

So if you're not already eating many vegetables because maybe you get bloated, then definitely start small with this and start with vegetables that you feel like you can, your body tolerates quite well and make sure that you are cooking, steaming, sautéing your vegetables and that you're not having them raw because that is gonna be a lot harder on your body to actually digest, but you don't wanna be skipping out on your vegetables.

And even though it's great to fill a third of your plate with broccoli, can we do at least three different vegetables?

So yes, we can do broccoli, which is gonna be great. That's gonna be great for your oestrogen detoxification, it’s great for your liver. Amazing. It's also high in vitamin C. It's high in potassium. All the things that your skin love — keep the broccoli in.

But we wanna add that with maybe cauliflower, maybe some carrots, maybe even some beetroot. You can get the cooked packets of beetroot from the supermarket. You can do some roasted peppers. There's so many different ways that you can include a variety of different vegetables in with your meals, because what you're doing is — you are needing a third of the plate, right?

So how can we fill that third and then take it next step further and do even half of the plate? We're drizzling the olive oil onto those vegetables, and assuming that your meal is just broken down as vegetables, carbohydrates, proteins, and then drizzle with some fats — that's generally not actually how I build my meals.

I will take this method.And if you do get your hands on the Fundamentals of Acne Nutrition course, you'll also be able to get the specific grams and even cup sizes of the portions that you can include in your actual meal so that you can take your ingredients and use them as creating actual meals.

And then you can start cooking with a ton of different herbs, spices, and make your meals incredibly flavourful. So we don't just have to — one thing that I don't want you to do, 'cause it's gonna be incredibly boring and feel really repetitive — is to just do:Okay, chicken, and then we've got broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and then we've got boiled potatoes and we drizzle with olive oil and then some salt.

That's gonna get really boring really, really quick. And that's something that I used to do in the beginning when I first started to learn how to build this plate.

Now take those ingredients. Turn them into a real recipe because your herbs and your spices are also gonna do incredible things for your skin. Flavour your food. That is the secret to eating healthy and continuing to eat healthy. Your foods are not gonna be boring.

In fact, take your favourite meals and you can look at the ingredients and you can just tweak the ingredients. One thing that I like to say is:Whenever you are having a meal which contains chopping and cooking onions — which is basically all meals, if you're cooking from scratch — get your white cabbage, chop that really, really small and cook it into your onions.

You've just increased your fibre, you've increased your cruciferous vegetables, which is gonna help balance your hormones, and you probably won't even know that you've done it, and it was literally so quick.

Okay, so that is the base of eating enough and really building your balanced plate.

So I'm just gonna put on screen now the portion sizes that you can use to measure with your hands,'cause this is gonna be the easiest way for you to actually make your meals in a pinch. We're not always gonna be weighing out our ingredients. I never use scales. I'll either use cups or I'll use my hands. Or honestly, at this point I will just eyeball it.

So I'm looking down 'cause I have my laptop here with all the information, but okay.

When we are looking at your animal protein per meal, you want a full palm size.If you're doing plant protein — if it's tempeh or tofu — we can also look at the palm size.But if it's more like lentils, legumes or more of the actual like plant foods, then we're almost looking at the whole hand. So you will notice that if you are on the vegan side or maybe even vegetarian, you're not leaning towards animal protein, your carbohydrate load is gonna be higher.

If you don't have an ethical viewpoint towards animal protein, then definitely keep that in, because that protein is gonna be so beneficial for your skin, your hair, your nails, your hormones — literally everything. So your blood sugar, which I'll come onto next.

So that is the next thing.

Okay — palm size for animal protein, hand size for plant protein, and then with your fats, we're looking at the thumb size.

So this is gonna be your thumb size for your fat portion. For your carbohydrate portion, we're looking at your fist — the fist.

And then for your vegetable portions, we really wanna be having at least — so your fist here, that's gonna be one portion — so we're gonna do at least three fists.

So then that should build up your plate. So if you are creating a meal, you can look at the amount that you have, and if you're spreading it over two portions, you would just obviously double it.

You might start realising that actually you are eating quite a lot more food because the volume of vegetables that you're eating makes you feel fuller quicker.

This is how I eat every single day. This is how I get my clients to eat. So you can build to this gradually, but that is what you wanna focus on.

To help you clear your skin.

Step Two: Balance Your Blood Sugar

Number two on the four steps to clearing your skin through nutrition and having your nutrition glow up within 30 days is gonna be balancing your blood sugar.

Balanced blood sugar is literally the secret for clear skin.I see imbalanced blood sugar in so many of my clients, and this really goes alongside not eating enough or eating more on the carbohydrate side as opposed to including the amount of protein and fats that your body actually needs. And fibere — we're skipping out on fibre, right?

Majority of our diets are really built around these carbohydrate-based meals. We really wanna be moving away from that. Like I said, complex carbohydrates and getting your daily carbohydrates are really important.

But we definitely don't wanna be skipping out on your protein, fats, fibre.

Okay, we're gonna go into blood sugar now. So what I want you to know is that in terms of how this would work — every time we eat, our blood sugar will spike, and this is a normal response.And when the blood glucose rises, the pancreas is gonna release insulin into the bloodstream.And the purpose of this is so that the insulin can then move the glucose into your cells and into your muscles so that the body can actually use the sugar for energy.

The problem happens if your blood sugar is spiking too high, too low, or if you're on this rollercoaster every single day of every time you eat — it spikes really high and then it drops really quickly. It's gonna be adding more stress onto the body.

And whenever there's too much insulin, the body is also gonna create more sebum in the skin and then lead to acne. So a lot of the literature for acne is really based around leaning more towards this lower glycemic diet with your nutrition.

But for me, I just like to make sure that we are really focusing on the nutrition principles that keep our blood sugar balanced every single day.

The Basics of Keeping Blood Sugar Balanced:

• Eat the balanced plate — protein, fats, fibre, and carbohydrates.

• Lean more towards complex carbohydrates.

• Just eat your meals as balanced as possible.

If you really wanna take this a step further to support the way that your body is responding to the insulin, then we wanna be focusing on going for a walk after your meals.

So what you can do is you can go for a walk after your lunch, after your dinner, even after your breakfast. This movement is gonna essentially help your insulin move that glucose into your cells and into your muscles.

What I like to do is — I won't necessarily go for a walk after breakfast, which is more protein-heavy, but I will go for a walk after my lunch.

But if you really wanted to actually understand your blood sugar on a more detailed level, something that I get all of my clients to do is actually to spend either two weeks or ideally a full month so that we can use this alongside your menstrual cycle — 'cause your blood sugar will shift depending on your hormone pattern.

Use a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)

What we wanna do is we actually wanna use a continuous blood glucose monitor.Some companies will do like a two-week free trial, but otherwise there’s the company Lingo.So you can just buy one or two glucose monitors so that you can start tracking your blood sugar through the app and actually really understand:

How is my body responding after I eat meals?

'Cause what you might find is you might be eating a really balanced meal, but your blood sugar is just rising really, really high and your body just isn't necessarily responding to that insulin the way that you would want it to.

In which case you can use your lifestyle and really adapt around that.But this is why I like to say:We’re eating our balanced meals, and then we are going for a brisk walk, getting our heart rate into that moderate intensity just for a short period of time to really help facilitate moving that blood sugar into the cells and the muscles.

And if you do have a healthy blood sugar response, you don't necessarily need to do the movement.But a lot of the time, if we have been maybe living more of a sedentary lifestyle or if we haven't necessarily been eating this way for as long, we may just need to support the body in facilitating that actual process.

The first thing is with your nutrition basics, you're focusing on eating enough and eating a balanced plate and really getting to know your portions of your macronutrients per meal so that we can get your micronutrients in from all of these foods as well.

It's not just about macros, it's also about your micronutrients.

And then we are focusing on balancing your blood sugar.

Step Three: Eat Anti-Inflammatory

Step three, which is eating anti-inflammatory. And I think this is the part which you have probably heard of before, because as we know, the majority of the time, the diets that people are eating — the Western diet — is very heavy in those processed foods, refined foods, sugars, and inflammatory fats. And we're not necessarily getting the nutrients that our body actually needs.

So we’re focusing on bringing in this anti-inflammatory component as much as possible, and I’m going to break down the specific numbers in step four when we talk about the 80/20 approach.But we really need to start eating anti-inflammatory foods more consistently. We need to start eating consistently like the highest versions of ourselves.

We can definitely still have a balance. But for now, we're going to be building the bulk of our nutrition around these principles and really focusing on reducing the inflammatory aspect.

I’ll just give a disclaimer here that reducing your inflammatory foods is going to be absolutely huge for you. If you have already reduced your inflammatory foods and increased your anti-inflammatory foods and you still have a level of inflammation with your acne — which most people do, well if you have acne, you do have a level of inflammation — then that’s more systemic.

We want to understand what is the drive of this more systemic inflammation. So I just want to give that disclaimer, but you still need to make sure that you're doing this step. Don’t skip over this. This is literally your foundation.

So we are going to start getting really familiar with eating whole foods and eating the rainbow.

Key Anti-Inflammatory Foods for Skin

I want to first talk about some of my favourite foods as it comes to the skin. I want you to be having these at least every week:

• Blueberries and blackberries: These are so high in antioxidants, which are going to help with your cells. They’re going to give you the glowing skin that you want and reduce what's referred to as oxidative stress, which I’m seeing more and more with clients. The more blood tests I do, the more I see that there is a level of oxidative stress within the body.

  
  

So what we want to do is increase your antioxidants, and blueberries and blackberries are an incredible way of doing that.

I have had blueberries every single day — at least half a cup — for years now. They’re a non-negotiable. You can have them frozen, or fresh.

• Salmon: This is going to be so high in Omega-3s. Omega-3 is an essential fatty acid, and it helps reduce inflammation in the body. When you are eating more of an inflammatory diet, you're getting a lot of Omega-6, which throws out your Omega-3 to Omega-6 ratio. If we have low Omega-3 and high Omega-6, that is the imbalance that drives inflammation.

  
  

So reduce Omega-6 load and increase Omega-3, and the ratio comes back to where it should be. Ideally, this should be a 2:1 or maximum 4:1 Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio. This will dramatically reduce inflammation in the body. The redness in your skin is literally going to reduce.

This is why we can see results so quickly with nutrition — if you’ve been eating processed foods for a while and then you switch to anti-inflammatory foods, your skin is going to thank you.

• Beetroot: So high in nutrients and antioxidants, but also contains nitric oxide. This dilates blood vessels, increases circulation, and helps those nutrients from the foods you’ve eaten get to your skin.

For years, I used to juice raw beetroot with spinach or kale, lemon, ginger, and celery. Now I usually just buy cooked beetroot from the supermarket (ideally without vinegar) or roast raw beetroot at home.

• Radishes: Especially good in the spring and summer. You can have them in salads, raw, or even as a snack. These are cruciferous vegetables, so they help with detoxification.

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If you’re dealing with acne, especially hormonal acne, constipation, or bad period pains, then one thing that I see quite a lot is an enzyme in the gut called beta-glucuronidase. When elevated, this contributes to oestrogen and toxins recirculating in the body. When we can’t clear them through our normal detox pathways, they can come out through the skin.

Acne can be one symptom of that. Cruciferous vegetables help lower this enzyme and aid oestrogen balance. Radishes are a great food to start with.

Additional Food Guidelines for Anti-Inflammatory Eating

• Hydrating foods: Especially important in the warmer months. Bring in foods like cucumber, tomatoes, celery, peaches, and strawberries. These are also high in minerals.

• Berries: Already mentioned blueberries and blackberries, but also raspberries — especially high in fibre. Fibre keeps digestion strong and regular. Constipation and acne are best friends.

• Cruciferous vegetables: In addition to radishes — broccoli, red cabbage, white cabbage, cauliflower. These help balance oestrogen and support skin health. Aim for at least 2 cups per day.

• Oily fish and Omega-3: Already covered with salmon. Essential to bring down systemic inflammation.

• Vitamin A-rich foods: Sweet potato, carrots, and any orange or yellow vegetables are high in beta-carotene (a precursor to vitamin A). However, the body must convert beta-carotene into retinol to use it.

  
  

If you have genetic SNPs or have been vegan, this conversion might be low. Animal-based sources like egg yolks and organ meats offer more bioavailable forms of vitamin A.

Step Four: The 80/20 Approach (4R Method) Acne Nutrition

Moving on to Step Four, we have the 80/20 approach.I'm going to break this down in more detail because I’ve had so many questions on what this means and how we can actually understand these numbers.

But what I’ve done with my Fundamentals of Acne Nutrition course is I’ve actually turned this into my 4R 80/20 approach.

The Four Rs:

1. Replenish

2. Replace

3. Reduce

4. Remove

   
   

Replenish

What we’re going to do first is make sure that we are eating, like I mentioned before, the balanced plate.We’re getting the protein, carbohydrates, fats, fibre, vegetables and fruits, and anti-inflammatory foods that our body needs so we can really replenish the minerals and nutrients we may have lost or that our body already needs.

Once we’ve replenished the body and have a really good understanding of our 80%, then we can start moving into the 20% — bringing in a more balanced approach.

Replace

Replacing your acne triggers that you feel completely neutral about. So, for example, you may be adding skimmed milk to your tea just because you’ve always done that — but it’s not a difficult shift for you to go from skimmed milk to an almond milk alternative such as Plenish Almond Milk, which doesn’t contain any of the oils or nasty ingredients and isn’t going to spike your blood sugar like oat milk.

That’s an easy swap. You probably won’t even notice much of a difference — and congratulations, you’ve just reduced your inflammation with one simple shift.

Also: replace sunflower oil or grape seed oil with extra virgin olive oil, or even ghee. This will reduce your inflammatory load because you're no longer heating seed oils.

Reduce

This is reducing the foods which are driving inflammation but that you actually enjoy.

When we think about reducing, we want to approach this in terms of specific numbers. I’m going to break that down for you now.

Let’s say you're eating 3 meals a day + 1 snack per day = 4 eating occasions. Over 7 days: 4 × 7 = 28 eating occasions per week.

If you follow an 80/20 model, that means:

• 20% of 28 = 5.6, so up to 5 meals/snacks per week can be flexible or include inflammatory favourites.

  
  

I don’t like the term “cheat meals” — and if you’re using that language, that’s a mindset we want to shift away from.This is a lifestyle change, not a temporary fix.

Let’s say on:

• Sunday you go for brunch

• Friday you have pizza night

• Saturday you have cake at an event

• Thursday maybe a chocolate bar or fizzy drink

  
  

That’s four — and you’re still within 20%. That’s freedom and structure.

Now, you might feel you don’t want to use up all five, because your body doesn’t actually crave those things anymore. That’s great. For example, I tend to follow more of a 95/5 lifestyle, but I still enjoy treats — just in a way that feels good to me.

I like alternative desserts, such as yoghurt with fruit and a little manuka honey.That makes me feel nourished and aligned with the highest version of myself.

So again, you have flexibility.This is about knowing that you can have space for balance — without guilt — as long as the 80% is consistent.

Remove

The final R is Remove — eliminating foods that are clearly blocking your healing.

This includes:

• Allergies

• Intolerances

• Foods that give you immediate physical reactions (e.g. dairy causing diarrhoea)

• Highly processed foods (like McDonald’s, KFC, greasy takeaway)

  
  

Even if those foods don’t give you breakouts, they still trigger systemic inflammation and add to the internal stress load, which will show up eventually — even if not immediately on your skin.

So when I talk about removing, I mean:

• McDonald’s

• KFC

• Greasy Chinese takeaway down the road

  
  

Ask yourself this:

“Does the highest version of me eat this — or does she go out to a high-quality restaurant where she can enjoy a beautiful sourdough pizza, a proper Italian pasta, or a thoughtfully made dessert with loved ones?”

If you’re someone who drinks alcohol, then be intentional — have it with a nice meal. While I personally don’t drink, I’m happy to talk more about alcohol and acne if you’d like.

Final Thoughts

I have just gone through four steps that you can focus on — with quite a significant amount of practical steps you can start to take and really implement to start transforming your skin in as little as 30 days.

But I really want you to continue with these habits, because:

• It takes at least 30 days, sometimes up to 3 months, to implement new habits.

• Your taste buds can change in 30 days.

• When you balance your blood sugar, your sugar cravings will reduce, your energy will increase, your digestion will improve, and your skin will glow.

• Drink at least 2 litres of filtered water per day — I know I haven’t mentioned it much, but it’s essential.

If you really want more specific details and support, then you can get access to the Fundamentals of Acne Nutrition mini course — it’s only £27.

You’ll get:

• Full course modules

• A glowing skin recipe guide

• Shopping list

• Meal planner

• A spreadsheet calculator to calculate your energy needs (even adjusted for your menstrual cycle!)

• And more...

  
  

👉 Scroll down to the description box and click the link to learn more.It’s less than what you’d spend on a Sunday brunch — but the value is lifelong.