You can learn to find happiness with exercise by following Principle 9 of Intuitive Eating - Exercise: Feel the Difference. If you’ve been reading along in my Intuitive Eating series, you might have been wondering when I’d discuss exercise. Well, that time has come!...
Originally published May 21, 2021; updated March 18, 2026. Many women turn to 100-calorie packs or pre-portioned snacks to help with portion control, prevent overeating, or feel more “in control” around certain foods. But whether these snack packs support your health...
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...
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...
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...
If you’re new to the concept of Intuitive Eating, please check out my article, What is Intuitive Eating? before you read on. When you are diagnosed with diabetes, you are often instructed to change your diet and start counting carbohydrates, calories, or macros. ...
Do you spend your holidays stressing about food? There’s lots of fear during the holiday season. The traditional advice we get around holiday food is that we need to be careful around special holiday foods because if we aren’t, we will gain weight and harm...
What do you think when you hear the phrase before & after? Perhaps you envision side-by-side photos where the after has a dramatically smaller body size…what usually follows the photos is a detailed description of just how this person achieved their new,...
One of the most important steps towards healing your relationship with food is to give yourself unconditional permission to eat all foods. When most people quit dieting, it’s because they are sick of feeling like they’re stuck in a never-ending cycle of...