Nutrition and exercise are just a piece of the health puzzle. Health is incredibly complex and nuanced. And it’s easy to believe that health is all up to us when the health and wellness messaging almost always revolves around physical behaviors like, diet and exercise.…
Interested in improving health? Amazing! There’s a lot you can do for your health. Thinking about which diet for weight loss can boost your health? Hold the phone. Dieting with the intention of weight loss is not the same as health. In fact, diets are…
Have you dipped your toes into intuitive eating only to decide it’s not working for you? Or maybe you love everything about the philosophy and have been working on it for awhile but you’re feeling stuck? Here are 3 common struggles to intuitive eating you…
What reinforces a behavior? Rewards! Rewards are an important part of habit formation. They make our actions feel good and satisfying! The key to nourishing healthy eating habits is to make them so that they’re satisfyingly rewarding. And in a way that the satisfaction feels…
Ready to make some changes to your healthy eating habits?! This next portion of the series is all about how to begin to make changes. And it’s about how to make those changes in a way so that they have all the leverage they need…
Welcome to Part 2 of this How to Make Healthy Eating Habits That Last Series! It’s incredibly important that we don’t underestimate what drives our eating and health behaviors. A lot of that drive comes from our thoughts, feelings and emotions. So making changes to…
Nourishing our bodies is a profound act of self-care. But when it comes to making changes to eating habits or making attempts at incorporating other self-care practices, sometimes it can be challenging to do so in a non-diety and sustainable way. That’s why I’m coming…
We’re in the thick of diet season y’all. The beginning of the year is synonymous with many pursuits of weight loss only to fizzle out come mid-February. And too often it’s in the name of getting health ‘back on track.’ So taking the jump into…
Do you feel like you’re going crazy around food during the holidays? And no matter how many rules you have or how much you tell yourself to just have more willpower, you just can’t help it around trays of cookies and delicious holiday foods. For…
BMI is heavily present in our world. From gyms and doctors offices to “biggest loser” breakroom competitions, media reports and insurance companies. This crude measurement categorizes people’s weight into ranges solely based on height and weight. And it uses language like “normal,” “underweight”, “overweight”, or…