THE BLOG

If this is your first time reading one of my posts, welcome! I’m here to help you navigate the complicated and confusing world of eating to look and feel your best. If you’ve been reading my blog for some time now, I owe you an apology. I say this because I’ve been doing you a […]

I was just finishing up a run and slowed down to a jog on the way to my car when a woman, who was running in the opposite direction screamed at me: “You’re ALREADY skinny!!” Oookay. When I was 15, I was told: “You’re so pale, you look like a corpse”, by a bunch of […]

If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you’ll know that I hate the word ‘diet’. To me, it’s a dirty, four-letter word (although it shouldn’t be) that has no place in anyone’s life. However, I can see why so many of us automatically assume that we need to go on one […]

This year has been full of ups and downs. As far as taking care of myself went, I had my highs, I had ‘OK’ days and I also had lows. Diet-wise, I no longer go off the rails the way I used to—I cannot fathom how I used to let myself eat until I felt […]

  I love my body for everything it does for me, and allows me to do for others, every single day. I’ve also hated it because of how it’s looked—the cellulite that’s seemed to have found itself a permanent home on my butt and thighs; the lumps and bumps that make me think twice about […]

Stress. When it’s around, oh, you’ll know it. There’s no mistaking the… familiar (and uncomfortable) tightening of your muscles increasing edginess as the day goes by shallow breathing inability to focus elevated heart rate, and gnawing feeling that something just isn’t right in your universe. All of us deal with stress in different ways. Some […]

I know you. Yes, you. You, who desperately want to say “No” to the tub of Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey when your stress levels hit the roof, but can’t imagine anything else that would make you feel better. You want to be able to eat healthily for more than three days in a row […]