From a young age, all of us have been lied to about diets and nutrition. Most of us believe, without question, that if you just find the right foods and the right diet, your body and your life will magically transform into something better. The details might change, but the societal pressure to get it right doesn’t.
Despite what we have been taught, there is another way, a better way, to think about food without restriction, elimination, guilt, or shame: Gentle Nutrition.
Read MoreTo change my relationship with exercise, I had to first decouple the idea that exercise was only for weight loss. Second, I had to find physical activities that I actually liked doing. One of those activities happens to be hiking.
Read MoreBinge eating is consuming a large amount of food quickly and mindlessly without regard to hunger, fullness, or physical comfort.
Dieting taught me how to binge eat.
It started with calorie counting…
Read MoreIntuitive Eating is a framework of 10 principles that support self-care and can help you improve your relationship with food and your body. It helps you relearn how to listen to and trust internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction rather than relying on strict external diet rules.
Read MoreWhat we eat does impact how we feel. If we skip regular meals and prop ourselves up with caffeine, sugar, and refined snack foods, we are not only missing important nutrients, but we are also causing blood sugar, our brain’s preferred energy source, to erratically spike and drop throughout the day, which is very stressful on the body.
Read MoreReclaiming the joy of baking helped me make peace with food (dare I say, bake peace with food?), and maybe it can help you too.
Read MoreIf you have been around here for a while you may have noticed a change in the language used to describe Whole You Nutrition. In the past few months, I have updated business materials including the website to explicitly state “anti-diet gentle nutrition.” You might be wondering, what exactly does anti-diet gentle nutrition mean?
Read MoreConsidered by some to be an “easy fix,” these drugs have to potential to exacerbate anti-fat bias. The affordability, spotty insurance coverage, and the fact it won’t work for everyone (either because it simple doesn’t work or the side effects are untenable), or someone simply doesn’t care to take a medication, means these biases will unduly impact those with marginalized identities including those in larger bodies, POC, trans folks, and those with lower socioeconomic status.
Read MoreHave you considered working with a nutritionist but aren’t quite sure if it makes sense for you? Read on to learn 4 reasons why you might want to add a licensed nutritionist to your care team.
Read MoreThe idea behind eating the rainbow is to get a variety of different foods on your plate each day. Did you know the color of your food can give a hint as to what health promoting phytonutrients it contains? Here I will breakdown the color code so you can learn the benefits of adding ROY G BIV to your meals and snacks.
Read MoreIt is important to keep in mind a few things as we navigate detox and cleanse messages during this time of year. First, our body has a pretty amazing system in place that detoxes your body on the daily. And second, all those packages of juices, shakes, and supplements are trying to profit off your fears. The very same fears that those products are perpetuating in their marketing. One way to avoid the pitfalls of very convincing messages cultivated to help us part with our hard-earned dollars in exchange for a box of green juice or a canister of powder is to know more about how the body works.
Read MoreThere are probably as many different ways to meal plan as there are meals in a week. The key is really finding what works for you and your family. And what works might look different depending on the season of the year (like summer versus winter) or the season of life (like newborn baby versus teenagers versus kid-free home). The single biggest factor in long-term health in not following a specific diet but rather eating mostly whole, minimally processed foods. Eating whole foods consistently tends to require some planning. Here I will cover why meal planning is helpful and offer some suggestions on how you can get started
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