Mindfulness

Can what you eat affect your mood? We recognize the association between a healthy diet and a healthy body, but we don’t as often acknowledge that a healthy diet also positively affects the health of your brain, and therefore our mood. It’s complicated though, because with all the possible emotions we can and do experience throughout the day, combined with the frequency of eating in our lives...

Loving your body is not the same as loving the way it looks Do you feel that loving your body is way too hard? Do you believe that it would need to be different for you to truly love it? If so, we need to talk. See, we were deeply convinced that the way to love our bodies is somehow tied to our appearance. Have you ever heard, “the lady who got fat...

4 reasons why diets are doomed to failure I understand (and respect) the fact that you want to lose weight. It is not for me to judge whether your motives are good or not, right or wrong. But one thing I can assure you: Starting a new diet is a terrible way to achieve the lasting weight loss you want. If you still doubt that diets are so...

Are you already planning your next diet? It’s officially 2020! If you are already planning out your next diet, ask yourself if dieting has served you in the past. Maybe this can be the first year where you stop dieting and instead start moving towards healthier habits that you can sustain. If your diet does not give you the flexibility to eat normally at parties or special...

Well, we're here. That’s right — it’s 2020! Being that it’s the start of a new year, many of us have set our New Years’ Resolutions (if you haven’t, you should!) and are ready to kick 2020s ass. I. LOVE. IT. However, this time of year always brings the question to mind, ‘Is there ever a good time to bring change into our...

Beliefs you need to lose in order to find food freedom. With each diet we make, we collect a series of rules and beliefs about food and ourselves. In the vast majority of cases, the rules are poorly grounded, sometimes even conflicting, and keep us in a food prison. Beliefs, in general, become self-fulfilling prophecies about who we are as eaters. We embrace these statements as truths after repeating them many...

The promise of a New Year (or a new decade!) sounds exciting, but the truth is that every day (actually, every meal!) we are given an opportunity to start anew. Although you may gain some traction and momentum from the start of a new year, new season or another Monday morning, there is actually nothing “inherently” special about starting (or continuing with) a healthy way of eating on any one of these days. This is great news, because undoubtedly, many of us will be coming ‘back to the drawing board’...