Macros: To Track or Not To Track

To track or not to track, that may be the question. You've heard me encourage intuitive eating. And as part of that philosophy, you may have deduced that I’m a big fan of tracking macronutrients. So, you may be wondering, what’s the deal? Don’t these ideas contradict each other? The short answer is, not necessarily. [...]

By |2020-01-29T20:38:19+00:00January 27th, 2020|0 Comments

Bone Broth Roundup!

Why Bone Broth? We're coming on cold and flu season so I've done a round up of all my bone broth recipes from easy to stupid-easy, as well as a rundown of the many health benefits that can be found in Bone Broth! So, what if I told you there was a delicious food that [...]

By |2019-11-26T20:51:34+00:00September 27th, 2018|2 Comments

You Are Not Your Workout (or Your Diet)

What you're currently doing, or not doing, in your life should not define you. I used to identify with the activities, practices and behaviors (workouts/diets) that I participated in to the point of letting it define who I was as a person. The problem with was when my boat in life got rocked, (which it [...]

By |2018-07-02T23:03:45+00:00July 1st, 2018|0 Comments

Eating Healthy with Summer Travel

With summer comes travel and with travel can come some serious problems with eating in healthy ways. You may have found your groove eating at home. Maybe you’ve even found certain restaurants where you’ve figured out what to order. But once you hit the road, these healthy patterns get a bit lost on translation. [...]

By |2018-06-07T21:44:18+00:00June 7th, 2018|0 Comments

Intuitive Eating: 5 Surprising things that Happened when I Stopped Obsessing about Food

(Article originally posted in the Elephant Journal February 23, 2018)  This year, I ended a negative relationship and started a beautiful one. I dropped my love-hate battle with diet, weight, and body image, where “food is the enemy” and made peace with food instead. I decided that since we’re in this together, we might as [...]

By |2018-07-25T20:28:45+00:00April 17th, 2018|2 Comments

I Didn’t “Detox” this January… Here’s why:

This was the the first January in recent memory that I wasn't in desperate need of a detox... Desperate, not only because my physical body needed it (which it usually did), but more so, desperate to break all my bad habits from holiday indulging and get back “on track.” To be completely honest, a [...]

By |2018-07-25T20:23:26+00:00February 26th, 2018|0 Comments

Mindful Meal Challenge

Most of us pay little to no attention to the food we're shoveling into our mouth. We may be choosing the healthiest foods out there we can but when it comes to actually eating them... well we all have some work to do in this area! Why does it matter? Paying attention to our food and [...]

By |2020-01-21T22:59:05+00:00January 19th, 2017|0 Comments