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By Michele Chevalley Hedge, Nutritionist  |  A Healthy View

You eat something sweet after dinner. Maybe it's a few squares of chocolate, a biscuit or two, or a bowl of something that felt harmless at the time. You go to bed. And somewhere around 2 or 3am, you're wide awake.

Sound familiar?

I hear this from clients all the time. And while they often blame stress, their mattress, or their partner's snoring, the answer is frequently much simpler: what they ate in the hours before bed.

Specifically — s…

Let me guess.

Your yoghurt has protein added. Your snack bar is high protein. Your friend is putting collagen in her coffee like it's a personality trait.

And fibre? Quietly sitting in the corner like the overachieving employee no one thanks.

Well — here's the thing. While we've all been debating how many grams of protein to eat at breakfast, most of us have quietly fallen well short of our daily fibre target. And the consequences of that are more significant than most people realise.

In Australia, …

I'm going to start with a confession.

A few years ago, I used to walk past the weights section of the gym and think — good lord, those women are going to end up looking like small men.

I know. I was a nutritionist. I should have known better. But honestly? I hadn't yet looked at the research properly. And I certainly hadn't done it myself.

That changed four months before my 60th birthday, when I started weight training seriously for the first time. Eight months later, my visceral fat had decreased …