Mar 29, 2016 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
Should you cut out carbs from your diet? Ahhh the million dollar question. (And one I hear all the time from clients.) Cutting out carbs is something everyone THINKS they need to be doing in order to lose weight. If you’ve struggled for years battling your...
Mar 15, 2016 | Food 'n Stuff, Nourishment and Self Care
Mindful eating is one of the fastest ways to single-handedly change your relationship to food. How can one “simple” practice be so powerful? Because mindful eating gently forces you to slow down and look at what you’re doing to your body when you...
Mar 1, 2016 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
Clean eating is all the rage these days. Wherever you look, there’s someone raving about the benefits of their 30-day eating clean challenge, showcasing amazing before and after pictures, and swearing to eat this way forever. Which is great if it works for the person...
Feb 16, 2016 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
So what DO these two seemingly unrelated things (binging and Facebook stalking) have in common? Let me explain. Last week I wrote about emotions and food. Namely, that when you start to feel your emotions and not use food to numb out, escape, or forget about your...
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,...
Nov 18, 2015 | Food 'n Stuff, Nourishment and Self Care
Cleansing is everywhere these days! Tune into any podcast, blog or social media outlet and you’ll hear claims about the benefits of juicing, fasting, and detoxifying. But is cleansing right for you? Is it something that will benefit you in your health journey? A...
Nov 10, 2015 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
We’re inundated these days with the latest fad diets, the top tips for keeping weight off, and the “fastest” way to lose 5 pounds in 7 days. And yet at no other time in our society have we struggled more to keep our weight off. We are a culture obsessed with being...
Oct 27, 2015 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
So often in our weight struggles, we’re going to battle with food. We think we love food and convince ourselves that this food obsession is our biggest problem…that we just love Reese’s Cups, brownies, and ice cream waaaaay too much. We...
Oct 20, 2015 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
If you’re feeling guilty about what you ate (or still feeling guilty from something you ate 3 days ago!), you’re not alone. Guilt comes up A LOT with the woman I talk to. Guilt over eating 6 too many cookies. Guilt over having a third bowl of ice cream...
Sep 23, 2015 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
I know we get “proper” nutrition drilled into our heads at a very young age. Carrots are good for you. Donuts are not. Kale is healthy. Doritos are not. Tomatoes are chock full of vitamins. Double stuffed Oreos are not. And then when we are old enough to...
Sep 8, 2015 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
You know the person I’m talking about…the one who can go away on a vacation and come back the same size, the one who passes on the 2nd piece of cake, and the one who can say “no thanks, I don’t want a cookie right now”. Most likely, this...
Jul 20, 2015 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting, Life Lessons
For a good twelve years of my life, I was obsessively consumed with food. I had this unhealthy relationship with my body and my eating. I simultaneously loathed myself and desperately desired to be skinnier, while also compulsively binging until I couldn’t move. For...
