Rephrase and reframe! You want to know how to stop making excuses? Stop using that phrase, and reframe your thinking. You are not lazy, and those aren’t excuses. Those are your habits, convenient behaviors, values, and unspoken priorities. “I didn’t do my meal prep.” “I only got 1 strength workout this week.” “I skipped breakfast.”…
My Nutrition Philosophy
If there is one core tidbit of “nutrition” advice that I can pass on to you, it is this. This is my foundational philosophy when teaching any and all nutrition concepts. We cannot make choices about food in a vacuum that sucks out all other factors and puts nutrition as the one and only factor…
Hunger / Fullness Scale – Listening to Your Body Cues
Do you think it’s simple to listen to your hunger & fullness cues to tell you when and how much to eat? News flash: For most people, it’s not! It takes practice to develop that higher level of attunement with your body. By applying Intuitive Eating principles to your daily life, listening to hunger cues…
Fullness in Your Throat? Feeling Full After Eating a Small Amount?
If you feel fullness in your throat, it might be getting in your way of nourishing yourself and developing a healthy relationship with food and your body. Stop interpreting this symptom as a sign that you should stop eating! Just because you are feeling full after eating a small amount… This does not mean that…
Intuitive Eating Tips – Your Guide to Making Peace with Food
My latest article written for HealthQuarters! Read on for intuitive eating tips to guide you in your journey to ditch the diet and develop a healthy relationship with food. We tend to think of diets and meal plans as the IKEA furniture instruction manuals to healthy eating: a little complicated, but worth the effort. But…
Tips to regain your lost motivation to workout
Finding the time, space, equipment, and mental capacity to workout at home is tough. You are not alone if you feel like you lost all motivation to workout during this pandemic. I also struggled with the ebb and flow of motivation. Let me walk you through some steps to get back your groove with your…
Trust Your Gut: The Truth About Diet Plans & Weight Loss Meal Planning Services
I wrote a blog post for HealthQuarters! Read an excerpt from the article below: The idea behind meal plans seems very straightforward: a dietitian or nutritionist tells you what and how much to eat, and you eat exactly that—nothing more, nothing less. Diet plans and weight loss meal planning services start by calculating your calorie…
Golden Tofu Taco Salad with Cilantro Citrus Dressing
It’s been getting hotter in Vegas lately, and I love it. But that also means I’m craving some more summery meals for lunch and dinner. I’ve got a quick, healthy meal salad recipe that has all the necessary components. Meal Salads Just a quick reminder for all of you that like to eat salads for…
5 Easy Tips to Get Your Butt to the Gym
1) Find a workout buddy A friend who is at about your fitness level or above it can really help motivate you to 1) show up and 2) put in more effort at the gym. Gym buddies can offer accountability. If you’re having trouble waking up early enough to get to the gym before work,…
Make Exercise a Habit – 5 Crazy Tips You Haven’t Tried
Are you trying to get back to working out? Or maybe the gym was never your thing, but you’d like to make exercise a habit. Try these unconventional tips to make the gym a more convenient and enjoyable place to be! 1) Just plug the gym address into your GPS This has worked for me….