A Healthy Lifestyle with Dessert First
Your overall health is extremely important. Whether it’s your mental health, physical health or your health around mindful eating, this is the place to be.
New year, new you, right? You’re starting out this brand new year with the best of intentions. Setting goals to help you achieve your desired weight loss. Vowing to yourself that this year will be different. You’ll definitely stick to your diet and exercise routine, surely making it past the first month when everyone else …
It’s December 2020, and we’re finally getting to the end of one of the craziest years we’ve likely all experienced. When we all went into lockdown earlier this year you likely had to make some pretty big adjustments. From your gym closing to eating at home way more often to your home becoming your office …
This is probably going to come as an unpopular opinion: Weight Watchers is still a diet. If you’ve ever looked up “best diet of [enter year]”, Weight Watchers is likely to come up. Diets are intended to help people lose weight. It’s likely the reason you started a diet in the first place; to help …
You’ve probably heard of elimination diets before. If not, here’s a quick recap of it. You eliminate multiple food groups for around two to four weeks. This is meant to cleanse your immune system. After the two to four weeks are done, you slowly start adding those foods back in. It’s meant to help you …
I want to preface this article with the fact that binge eating disorders (BED) are a serious medical issue. If you feel you suffer from BED, seek medical support for a defined plan. Binge eating tends to follow a cycle. One I like to refer to as eat, repent, restrict, repeat. Part of this cycle …
Negative body image: something I think we’ve all dealt with at some point in our lives. But where does this negative body image come from, and how exactly do we get rid of it? The self-love movement is strong right now, but it can still feel out of reach to fully love ourselves. That’s because …
Last week I shared with you the five simple tips for healthy weekly meal planning. Now this week I want to share some of the ingredients that are almost always on my list to help with making nutritious and easy meals. These nine ingredients are essential, at least I believe so, to creating quick and …
The summer is winding down and it’s likely time you’ve started to think about healthy meal planning options. Why is it that the summer seems so easy when it comes to meal planning? Probably because there’s an abundance of fresh produce. The grill is hot and ready to roll in a matter of minutes. Basically …
Many times we find ourselves only thinking that the foods we eat will affect our bodies. The healthier we eat, the more in shape we’ll be. The more we workout, the better results we’ll see on the outside. But I want to throw a wrench in this whole thought process about what happens to our …
What would it feel like to live a guilt free life around food and body? If you no longer felt guilty for the foods you ate. You no longer felt stress around your body. Wouldn’t that feel pretty amazing? We’ve perpetually been conditioned to believe that we should feel guilty for eating “bad” foods. Or …