A huge part of nutrition counselling is helping people to change their habits. I’m like a professional habit-changer! Sure, there’s some nutrition-based technical stuff that happens, but in the end, most people require some sort of habit-shift to improve their eating habits and their health. This can be really tough, especially when someone has been eating…
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 Ideal Protein diet review is an opinion piece. It’s been quite a while since I reviewed the Ideal Protein program, but the response to my review has been overwhelming to say the least. I’ve gotten hate mail, compliments, and even a few clients coming to me because they couldn’t bear to be on this…