Essentially, mindful eating is paying attention to What you are eating on Purpose. Slowing down, and making eating more intentional and less automatic. This helps to identify emotional hunger vs true physical hunger.
...I love to share what is possible with nutrition and health through other's stories. During my recent reflection interview with Denise, she encourages, "If I can do it, you can do it too." When Denise and I started working together, she was frustrated that she felt like...
Age has often been the source of blame for a slower metabolism and difficulty losing weight. However, research suggests metabolism is relatively stable from around 20 to 60 years. Around age 60, metabolism only declines by about one percent annually. This is related to...
Alcohol plays a role in metabolism and digesting your food. When you consume alcohol it is broken down into ethanol which is a toxin in the body. Your liver is responsible for detoxifying the body and breaking down fats. When alcohol is present in...
"I fell off the wagon again ...
What if the first question you were asked when starting a nutrition program was, "what do you Value most?" How freeing to have a choice in what you actually Want to eat, vs feeling like the only way to lose weight is focusing on restriction...
When it comes to lasting weight loss, you are often trying to make too many drastic changes at once, eliminating too many foods unnecessarily, and doing a plan that you don't enjoy and won't stick to. You are also not giving your body the nutrients...
This repetitive cycle is what is keeping you from seeing the progress you want and actually learning how to work your nutrition within your life, rather than making your life fit the diet you are on. And then the diet plan you can't follow...
what is the best diet?!
This question makes the diet industry so lucrative because one size fits all restrictive diets are setting you up for failure and frustration. Majority of the women I work with have dieted more years of their life than not, only...
WHY do we sabotage our success?I was thinking about this the other day as I poured myself another drink when I knew I should just go to bed...