Why I Threw Out Everything I Knew About Nutrition
I used to know everything about nutrition. I knew the calories in 95 percent of the items at the grocery store, which foods had the most omega-3s, what a plant-based diet did for the body, how food combining helped digestion improve, and which foods had the lowest fat...
Why Self-Forgiveness Is The Answer
So much of this food journey is spent beating ourselves up, berating ourselves for not being able to eat healthy (even when we know so much about nutrition), and living in this state of regret and guilt over failure around food. I used to spend days and sometimes...
Are You Unintentionally on a Diet?
Restrictive thoughts can be sneaky little devils. We're happily going about our day and think we are eating healthy...then BOOM after dinner, we find ourselves eating cookie after cookie and can't seem to stop. What's going on? It could be that you're unintentionally...
Is There A Shortcut To Getting Through Food Issues?
When you’re struggling with food, constantly obsessing over your body, and desperately frustrated with your weight, it’s hard not to get sucked into the promise of a quick fix. Everywhere we look we see promises of instant “solutions” to our most-pressing problems....
Should You Cut Out Sugar From Your Diet?
Have you ever eaten a cupcake, then inhaled another, and could barely stop at a third and thought to yourself, "That's it. I feel disgusting. I'm addicted to sugar and I'm giving it up completely. I'm never eating processed foods again. They make me feel awful." (*I'm...
Revealed: An Inside Look At My Body Struggles
I wrote a post a few months ago called Revealed: An Inside Look At How I Eat and received a ton of comments and emails about it, with so many woman saying it helped them to see what “normal” eating looks like. I wrote it because I wanted to give a deeper perspective...
The 3 Things I Discovered When I Stopped Weighing Myself
When you're battling your weight and body image, obsessively weighing yourself can actually do more harm than good in the quest for self-love and acceptance. I know because I used to be a slave to the scale. I weighed myself in the morning, after a big meal, after I...
“But If I Accept My Body, It Means I’m Giving Up!”
Every single woman I work with is afraid to accept her body. (And I was terrified to accept my body for a long, long, long time). Why is this? We have this belief that if we accept our bodies, it means that we’ll never lose weight and we’re giving up on ourselves. It...