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…
This Brightline Eating review is an opinion piece. I’ve gotten so many requests for a Brightline Eating review, so here we go! What is Brightline Eating? Brightline claims that it helps people live ‘happy, thin, and free’. The diet is based off of the premise that just like smokers who can’t have one cigarette every…