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Today is all about Intuitive Eating Principle 1 - Reject the Diet Mentality. In case you missed it, I am doing an Intuitive Eating series here and on my Instagram page. What is Intuitive Eating? Read my Introduction to Intuitive Eating post. Intuitive Eating Principle...
What is Intuitive Eating? Have you heard of Intuitive Eating? Maybe you've seen something about it on social media or heard it in conversation. Intuitive Eating is a non-diet approach to nutrition and health by making peace with food created by two Registered...
As a sports dietitian, I often recommend chocolate milk as a post-workout recovery beverage - so, let's look at - is the added sugar in chocolate milk bad? This comes up because there is sometimes a person or two (usually adults) that say they don’t drink chocolate...
The Anti-Diet book by Christy Harrison, RD, is a recent book taking a stance against diet culture and exposing all the ways it destroys people's well-being and offering insight into how to reclaim your body, mind, and life so you can focus on the things that truly...
Do you feel tired often? Do you drink a lot of coffee or other caffeinated beverages to get you through the day? Low energy can obviously be a symptom of lack of sleep or poor sleep quality, but it can also be the result of other factors, including your eating habits....
It's ok to eat pizza (and other "bad" foods). Truly. Let's discuss... I wrote a blog post last December titled There Are No "Bad" Foods and I think it is a message that needs to be reiterated. Here's what happened the other day: I workout at Planet Fitness and they...
Truly, there are no bad foods and I'm here to tell you why. {Please note, if you are allergic or have a legit medical reason to avoid a certain food, please do so. That is NOT what this post is about.} In the health and nutrition world, it is becoming more common to...
Having read recently books like Body Kindness and Health at Every Size, I've been thinking more and more about the Weight Set Point Theory. Essentially, the Weight Set Point Theory is that your body wants to be in a certain weight range (and likely not the weight YOU...
If eating "healthy" was simply knowing what foods are good for us, everyone would do it, right?! I mean, as a dietitian, I would be eating a "perfect" diet if the only barrier was knowledge, right? And trust me, I do not eat a perfect diet! (Spoiler: there is no...
I am a dietitian, but I do not have a list of foods I won't eat. Sure, there are foods I don't like so I prefer not to eat them. Similarly, there are foods that I know are not the best nutrition-wise or do not make me feel my best, so I won't eat them often but that's...
