It’s been a trying couple of weeks for my family. My parents, my aunt, and uncle were on the Grand Princess Cruise ship where 21 people tested positive for COVD-19. They were being quarantined in Georgia and arrived home last night. Sometimes, no matter how careful we are with our health, stuff ...
Chicken or Egg, Weight Gain or Inflammation?
I recently chatted with Nicole Jardim and Dr. Nat Kringoudis for Episode 163 of the Period Party. I shared how I overcame my infertility diagnosis (including how my thyroid function was normal by western medicine standards yet wasn’t healthy enough to get pregnant), we discussed how after a ...
Food Freedom 6: Sugar Rehab – Insatiable Season 10, Episode 7
Download the transcript (PDF) Season 10 Theme: Research-Based Weight Loss: Rebuild Your Biology + Psychology Feedback Loop Ah sugar… Referred to as the sugar dragon, sugar siren, and sugar addiction. There are physical and emotional root causes and solutions of how to reduce sugar ...
goop, There It Is
Well + Good recently asked me about responding to food shaming, especially if you are recovering from diet culture. Sometimes, what is perceived as food shaming can actually be a teaching moment to share where you are in your own journey and to ultimately deepen your relationships. See when ...
Food Freedom 5: End the Guilt (and Downward Eating Spiral) – Insatiable Season 10, Episode 6
Download the transcript (PDF) Season 10 Theme: Research-Based Weight Loss: Rebuild Your Biology + Psychology Feedback Loop Guilt comes from the idea that we made a wrong choice. Doing the wrong thing sounds like “I ate badly” or “I’m off track”. And good and bad, right or wrong, isn’t ...
Food Freedom 4: End the Restrict-Binge Cycle – Insatiable Season 10, Episode 5
Download the transcript (PDF) Season 10 Theme: Research-Based Weight Loss: Rebuild Your Biology + Psychology Feedback Loop In this episode, we are going to discuss how to end the binge-restrict cycle. We have to address the three root causes of bingeing: deregulated blood sugar, ...
Well-Rounded: Sugar Blues
Truce with Food opens for registration next Monday: register between February 10-17 and save $500! I’ve met many of you in my Truce with Food discovery sessions. I love these because I want the right people in the program as much as you want it to be the right fit (it’s no fun running a group of ...
Food Freedom 3: Redefine Self-Acceptance – Insatiable Season 10, Episode 4
Download the transcript (PDF) Season 10 Theme: Research-Based Weight Loss: Rebuild Your Biology + Psychology Feedback Loop There are many definitions of self-acceptance when it comes to accepting our bodies. I used to think self-acceptance meant resignation. And that didn’t feel like ...
Food Freedom 2: Feel In Control, Not Controlled By Food – Insatiable Season 10, Episode 3
Download the transcript (PDF) Season 10 Theme: Research-Based Weight Loss: Rebuild Your Biology + Psychology Feedback Loop “I’m scrolling through my Instagram feed and I see that Intuitive Eating (IE) meme about “Should I eat the cookie?”, where there’s a straight line to “yes”, eat ...
Well-Rounded: Smash the patriarchy with weight loss?
Happy New Year and new decade! I’m writing this the morning after Eça slept through the night for the first time...I am rested, caffeinated and feeling great about 2020 8-) While I know we will have many more sleepless nights and this might be a fluke, I’m finally starting to trust I will sleep ...