Humour with you
We can joke about the fan and frozen peas without making light of what you are going through.
Lila Bruk / Registered Dietitian / Founder
Meet Lila.
The person behind
the programme.
Science, practical guidance and room for real life. Lila is the creator of Hot Chicks: Foundations and the registered dietitian behind its core nutrition content.
Explore her programme
A practical approach. ✳
The two parts
A welcome mat.
Then a way forward.
Hot Chicks brings the voice: warm, candid and able to laugh at the duvet-on, duvet-off nights. It offers free resources that make the science easier to approach.
Foundations gives that welcome a practical shape. It is the first programme: a structured 12-week nutrition education journey through perimenopause and menopause, connecting food choices with weight, symptoms and healthy ageing.
This is a separate commercial product from Lila's individual dietitian practice. Its role is general education and practical support, with clear boundaries when someone needs individual care.
What you can expect
Good company.
Clear thinking.
Everyday usefulness
Short lessons and practical choices should help on an ordinary weekday, not only on your most organised one.
Honest limits
Menopause care is bigger than nutrition. Personal symptoms and treatment decisions belong with qualified clinicians.
EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE ENCOURAGEMENT
Knowledge.
With a human side.
Lila has been in private practice since 2006. Her work combines nutrition science with guidance shaped around the person and their everyday circumstances.
Her academic background includes nutrition and dietetics at the University of Cape Town and a Master’s in Nutritional Sciences at Stellenbosch University. She has also completed Integrative and Functional Nutrition practitioner training through IFNA.
Alongside her practice, Lila has contributed to health and lifestyle publications and appeared on television and radio to discuss nutrition. Explaining complex ideas in useful, accessible ways is part of her work.
Read her professional background ↗THE APPROACH IN FOUNDATIONS
A plan should leave room for you.
Food choices sit alongside work, family, preferences, budgets and changing energy. Foundations is designed to explain the reasoning behind your choices. Each lesson connects nutrition knowledge with a practical decision, so your understanding grows as you work through the programme.
You can focus on everyday wellbeing without making weight loss your goal. There is no expectation to eat perfectly or share your personal story with the group.
Lila leads the nutrition content. Other contributors will be introduced when confirmed. The programme provides general education; personal assessment and treatment remain with your own health professionals.
Qualifications and further training
- Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cell Biology (UCT)
- Bachelor of Science Medical (Honours) in Nutrition and Dietetics (UCT)
- Masters in Nutritional Sciences (Stellenbosch)
- Integrative and Functional Nutrition Certified Practitioner Credential through Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy (IFNA)
- OPTIFAST Registered Dietitian
- Manuka Advanced Translational Nutrigenomics
- EatFit FODMAP approved dietitian
- South African Medico-Legal Association (SAMLA) Certificate in Foundations of Medico-Legal Practice
There's a chair for you
Come as you are.
We'll bring the plan.
Build habits for the life you want now, and the years ahead. Explore Foundations with Lila before you decide.
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