Health Tips

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6 Things the Dieting Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

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6 Things the Dieting Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

Today, for various reasons, social media is a hard place to be. My newsfeed is also full of dieting ads, supplement pushes, and diet/supplement “reset” plans. Ya, they’re expensive and the budget-conscious part of my brain cringes. But it’s more than that.

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Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants

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Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants

“Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants” ~ Michael Pollan (from In Defense of Food, An Eater's Manifesto). This is really it; this is what we need to follow. Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. But…then why is it so hard?

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1200-Cal is a Starvation Diet

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1200-Cal is a Starvation Diet

Tell me, what’s your relationship with 1200-calorie diets? Does this seem reasonable to you? Or too abstract to visualize? Have you tried it in the past? How did you feel?

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Your Body is Your Best Ally, Not Your Enemy ❤️

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Your Body is Your Best Ally, Not Your Enemy ❤️

After many months of self-isolation, many of us (myself included) are feeling a tad more soft and squishy than a year ago. The trouble is, what we’ve been “trained” to do whenever the scale goes up by the dieting culture only makes matters worse, not better.

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Intermittent Fasting - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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Intermittent Fasting - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

I’ve been very hesitant to weigh in on Intermittent Fasting. I’m asked about it a lot and I always want to be honest with you. Yes. There’s some research on IF that looks promising. And…there are many, many gaps.

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Be Rebellious, Choose Whole Food

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Be Rebellious, Choose Whole Food

One of the most common questions I get asked is, “what should my macros be?”. Or a variation of that, like “how much protein should I eat?”, or “can I eat carbs?”. Today, I want to tell you why you can ignore macros completely.

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Lose weight...without counting or deprivation

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Lose weight...without counting or deprivation

The scale has tipped over that number that, in your mind, you’ve connected to “danger, danger!”. The question is - now what? The trouble is what we’ve been “trained” to do through our dieting culture usually only makes matters worse, not better.