Anytime you are faced with a health choice, making sure you are asking the right question is equally as important as the answer. When it comes to sunscreen versus going au naturale (or using something like coconut oil) because sunscreen blocks vitamin D and is loaded with chemicals, there's a ...
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Maybe the most important summer detox you can do.
Thank you all so much for the outpouring of admiration for my Grandma and sharing how touched you were by my celebration and tribute to her. I cried reading each of your emails. I showed my Mom the beautiful replies and she cried too. Each response was like an essential oil drop on our wounded ...
Panicked over your spring wardrobe fitting?
My previous struggle with food was enmeshed in my weight. I couldn’t figure it out because inside I was very confident in my professional abilities and success. I also knew I was a good daughter, friend and partner. As winter turned to spring, the panic over if I’d fit into the previous spring ...
Why “eating until you’re 80% full” doesn’t work (hint: hunger isn’t always in your stomach)
In my dieting days, I tried everything. Even charcoal, a “2015 wellness trend.” I tried that in 1999 (hat tip to my maternal lineage who gifted me with being ahead of one’s time!). Being on the other side of that hell, it’s clear what I was doing wrong. I thought I was trying “everything” but ...
How to stop a downward eating spiral
Did Halloween (candy) send you in a downward spiral? Have you ever had one of those days where you told yourself “just one” homemade chocolate chip cookie wouldn’t matter? Yet it led to eating the leftover Halloween Reese's Cups in the work kitchen to munching on pretzels all afternoon? A ...
The difference between nutrition experts and weight loss programs (Part 2).
On Tuesday, I shared the first two of five questions I suggested you use when evaluating the type of nutritional guidance to seek. Today I’m offering three more. Truce with Food answers all five of these questions and more. I created it, because it is what I wish had been available when I finally ...
The Sustainable Weight Loss Rate
The dieting bible preaches a healthy weight loss as one to two consistent pounds a week. But what if you want to keep your sanity and the weight off? That best weight loss rate, the one that preserves your metabolism and motivation depends upon how much weight you have to lose. If you ...
Aren’t Eating What You’re Supposed to Eat? Here’s Why
In last week’s post about being in a (not the) food story, you realize you didn’t come out of the birth canal counting carbs. Something happened along the way to make food a battle and you live in a culture eager to retell and glorify this story. With America more secular, Adam and Eve have been ...
What Your Relationship to Food Says About You
I always say how you eat is a metaphor for how you live. But what does that mean? Marcy's story will show you how your relationship with food reveals other patterns in your life. And if you've ever hesitated to spend money on your health, whether it's paying more for organic or hiring a health ...
How Battling Your Weight Sabotages You
Most Western medical institutions and industries, nutrition industry included, are based on a patriarchal, war model. Rarely (or barely) factored into these information silos and reductionist views are the emotional, intuitive and inter-connected realities of nutrition and life. In Taoism, an ...