Have you ever thought about time? The kind of reflection I’m thinking about is looking back after a busy season, and noticing weeks of little habits that disappeared as life got “lifey.”

When I first began to change my food, I had started with a trainer who pushed me to change everything at once for a weight loss goal.

We often shame ourselves over cravings.

The truth is, this is your body’s way of caring for you when you neglect it. When the body is missing certain nutrients or energy, …

I like routines. They keep me off of the emotional tilt-a-whirl.

Recovering from an eating disorder, I use some personal fences around eating. Most of these were gradually normalized with healthy behaviors…

I think fiber should be celebrated the way that we celebrate about weight loss, cold plunging or meditation for health! Why do I feel so strongly about fiber?

For years, I managed my anxiety at gatherings with binging and purging thru parties and holidays. Being in recovery, I have clear boundaries around food, soda and alcohol.

f you hate this time of year for how you feel, you’re not alone. Many people struggle between the end of October, when the days are shorter, …

A little known fact about your bones, is that you can rebuild them like a house—within reason, and if you don’t wait too long.

Have you noticed certain friends or family choose the month of November to share daily gratitude lists on their social media?

Here we go again! Leaving out the politics of whether or not falling back and springing forward is “good for society,” this one little hour wreaks havoc on your health. You aren’t imagining feeling lousy!

It’s that time of year again! Light is ending earlier, and the temperature drops. During the day around this time of year, I often have to have a change of clothes with me…

I wanted to talk a little bit about having a multifaceted health team. It frustrates me how our “health care” system is set up in silos. What we really need is a team of experts that share the load of a healing journey.

When we want chocolate badly, is that a real need or a craving for some inner need for happy chemicals in the brain, a hug, vitamins, protein or water? Why do we have these cravings?

Cravings, sigh. We all have them from time to time. I am finding as my life gets busier and I’m sleep less to fit it all in, I’m craving more things to make up for the lack of sleep.

When it comes to problems with weight and processed food and the peptides helping people lose weight, it’s complicated.

Sleep is the MOST IMPORTANT habit to change on ANY health journey. When it comes to weight management, most people think about diet and exercise first.

I remember when I thought I was being healthy for choosing sugar-free vanilla syrup in my coffee and having a lunch with Coke Zero. I was totally addicted to the sweetness.

Beginning in the 70s when the cigarette companies finally had to be transparent and could no longer market Americans in the predatory way they had, they moved their business into Big Food.