By now, I’m sure you’ve heard the news about Weight Watchers, or sorry, ‘WW’, acquiring an app called Kurbo. Kurbo is aimed at kids ages 8-17 and is a free nutrition and weight loss app. Yes, I said weight loss and age 8 in the same sentence. What is WW Kurbo? Kurbo is couched in…
A few years back, I had the opportunity to do nutrition-based genetic testing. The company wasn’t making any weight-loss promises, but they took my DNA and gave me a report telling me lots of interesting things: I am more at risk for iron deficiency, gluten intolerance, and lactose intolerance. I have an innate drive to…
It’s hard for me to even understand what sort of person would find this shit funny, but a company named ‘Pourtions’ recently came out with a set of plates that use fat-shaming to ‘help people eat better.’ The plates, according to Pourtions, ‘keep you from overindulging…Research shows that people unintentionally consume more calories when faced…
There’s a lot of ways to describe food, eating, diets, and our relationships to all of those things. Sometimes though, I think we inadvertently use words in those contexts that actually make the experience of eating into something negative. You all know that I adore food, and I feel as though too many people associate…
We have a weight problem. The problem isn’t with what we weigh; rather, it’s with how we talk about weight and our bodies in general. Kylie, a client of mine, recalled to me a time that she went out to what was supposed to be a fun, relaxing dinner with some of her friends….
I reviewed intermittent fasting a while back, admittedly, I didn’t have many good things to say about my 5:2 experience. Today I’m re-reviewing IF because it’s still a really big thing. Before we get started, I want to put one thing on the table. Intermittent fasting, like any diet, works because it cuts calories. It hasn’t…