Mar 25, 2024 | Holistic Weight Loss
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC Having spent ⅓ of my life stuck in the diet/binge cycle, I spent many years wondering what a holistic way of eating actually looked like. I was either following a rigid plan or...
Jan 22, 2024 | Body Beliefs, Freedom From Dieting, Holistic Weight Loss
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC Understanding Holistic Weight Loss Holistic weight loss is an approach that takes into account not only the physical part of you, but the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of...
Jan 22, 2024 | Holistic Weight Loss
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC Weight can be a confusing topic. Google “how to lose weight,” and you come up with a tangled web of advice and guidance from experts. What I’ve learned in my own journey of...
Jan 11, 2024 | Holistic Weight Loss
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC, Emotional Eating Coach Here are 10 healthy dessert options that you can consider to get your creative juices flowing! But before you dive into the desserts, let me answer the...
Oct 3, 2017 | Emotions and Eating, Freedom From Dieting
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC When you’re obsessed with controlling your food intake, body size, and the number on the scale, the concept of “eating what you want” sounds foreign, frightening, and...
Feb 22, 2017 | Body Beliefs
We’ve been having a lot of discussion lately in The Normal Eater’s Club around body acceptance. And some of the ladies have been asking, “but HOW do you actually accept your body?!” We know we’re supposed to work on body acceptance if we...
Jan 3, 2016 | Emotions and Eating, Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
When you’ve consumed a thousand holiday treats and feel awful about your body, the lure of “starting over” on January 1st entices us to make that infamous New Year’s resolution: “I’m going on a diet!” (or your version of dieting…cutting out carbs,...
Mar 19, 2014 | Emotions and Eating, Freedom From Dieting, Uncategorized
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC Have you ever had one of those days where nothing seems to be going right? You are super stressed out about work, your significant other is irritating the *%$& out of you, your...
Feb 25, 2014 | Body Beliefs
Years ago, the therapist I was seeing recommended I try yoga. “Ugh”, I thought. “Yoga is for hippies”. But I went. I went even though I was wrapped up in thinking about how many calories I would burn during class. I went even though I thought, “this isn’t REAL...
Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
I remember my obsessive affair with the scale. Every morning, I would hop on the scale to weigh myself. And every afternoon, I would weigh myself again after working out. If that number went up even a half a pound, it sent me into a self-induced panic. Irrational...
Feb 7, 2014 | Body Beliefs, Uncategorized
I read some staggering statistics yesterday. 50% of commercials aimed at girls spoke about physical attractiveness. Each year, the average adolescent sees over 5,260 advertisements mentioning attractiveness. Four out of five women in the US are dissatisfied with their...