Traveling doesn’t have to disrupt your healthy eating routines. In fact, traveling can be a PERFECT opportunity to start fresh habits and take them back home with you! What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is practicing present moment awareness. You are practicing mindfulness when you step out of “autopilot” (your every day way of reacting to life) and you step into moment-to-moment...

Traveling and spontaneity go hand in hand, but when you want to maintain your great nutritional intentions and if you have food sensitivities and allergies, planning and foresight are essential ingredients. Road trips, picnics, hiking, day trips, concerts, barbecues and patios are a huge part of our travel and summer experience but they can pose challenges, stress, and anxiety when...

What to expect from your weight in food freedom. You already know that losing weight without a diet is possibly the only way to achieve a long-lasting and healthy result, but you still get lost on how to make it work? From experience, I know that the idea of ​​stopping dieting is scary, especially if you want to lose weight. But stopping dieting is effectively the ONLY way to...

Remember when you were a kid and summer vacation was right around the corner? You probably had a countdown going on the back of your hand, reflecting how many days were left in the school year as “School’s Out for the Summer” was on replay in your head. You anxiously awaited summer’s arrival and imagined days filled with swimming pools,...

If you’re ready for some carefree living, put your hand up! Nice weather is nearing, summer is around the corner, and opportunities for more social activities in a mid-or post-pandemic world are going to start happening! When life eventually starts making its way “back to normal” to your neck of the woods, you’re probably going to start receiving invites for...

Learn how to stay motivated to get healthy, and how to stay motivated to exercise and eat right for the long term. When we approach being healthy with an all or nothing mindset, chances are our motivation will disappear. Why not approach it differently to actually be motivated to eat healthier, workout, and build those healthier habits around it too!...

I wanted a sandwich for dinner — an avocado, melted Swiss cheese, cucumber, and spinach sandwich on sourdough spelt bread. Yum! But before I took my first bite, the “nutritional choir” chimed in, singing: “gluten is bad, bread will turn to belly fat, this meal has too many carbs and not enough protein, dairy is congesting, cucumbers aren’t in season,...