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Menopause Bloating: Why It Happens (And What Actually Helps)
Your jeans fit in the morning. By late afternoon, your stomach feels tight, swollen, and uncomfortable. You didn’t overeat.You may have even increased your fiber, cut back on sugar, or tried to “eat cleaner.” And yet — by dinner, you look and feel distended. If this...
Improve Digestion in 4 Steps (Without Cutting Out Food Groups)
If you struggle with digestive symptoms like bloating, constipation, diarrhea, or heartburn (to name a few), you might have wondered if changing what you eat could help eliminate your symptoms. You’re not alone. In the media, we see individual stories of people...
How To Cope With Your Emotions With Kindness: Principle 7 Of Intuitive Eating
Originally published December 5, 2019. Updated January 28, 2026. Emotional eating involves using food to help you cope with your emotions. If you struggle with emotional eating, you are not alone! One of the most common topics I get asked about is how to stop...
High Fiber Fast Food: Meet Your Goals On The Go
Updated January 24, 2026. Originally published May, 30, 2024. Think You Need to Avoid Fast Food to Meet Your Fiber Goals? This may surprise you, but staying on track with your fiber goals isn't impossible, even while eating a meal on the go. Many of us spend lots...
Why Women Gain Weight in Their 40s and 50s (and What Actually Helps in Perimenopause)
Updated January 8, 2026. Many women who experience weight gain in their 40s and 50s are actually navigating perimenopause or the menopause transition, whether they realize it or not. During this stage of life, hormone shifts can affect body composition, appetite,...
Looking for a 1700 Calorie Meal Plan? Try This Instead
If you’re searching for a 1,700 calorie meal plan, you’re probably trying to feel better in your body — maybe lose weight, improve your health, or just feel more in control of your eating. And it makes sense. Meal plans feel clear. Reassuring. Like a step-by-step path...
Sneaky Ways the Diet Mentality Keeps Showing Up In Your Life and Keeps You Stuck
Have you and your toxic ex – restrictive dieting that is – broken up for good? Or are you still having an on-again, off-again fling from time to time? As an Intuitive Eating dietitian, I’ve seen this pattern again and again with my clients. And no wonder: diet...
How not to jump on the January diet bandwagon – even if you want to focus on your health this year.
It’s hard to avoid diet talk in January. News shows, podcasts, and magazines focus on cleanses, losing holiday weight, and “new year, new you draw us towards jumping on the January diet bandwagon. And thanks to the shape-shifting nature of the diet industry,...
How to Make Peace with Holiday Food – Enjoy & Savor Your Favorite Foods
We have several big holidays right around the corner. Does the idea of gatherings with family and friends, work parties, and happy hours make you feel anxious? Don’t worry. I can help with that! As a fellow ex-dieter, I can relate to how a restrictive diet can make...