When working with my clients, it is often hard for them to identify what comfortable satiety feels like.  This is truly understandable. If you have been eating mindlessly and/or cleaning the plate without consideration if you’ve even had enough (“how can I leave food over, I’m entitled to eat this amount on my diet?”), then…

A comment I hear often when discussing eating healthy and living a healthy lifestyle is “it’s expensive”.  Whether it’s that “healthy” food costs more, spices and high quality oils for cooking rings up a higher supermarket bill, or the gym membership is too pricey — these thoughts can often be a roadblock to achieving your…

This week’s blog post will be a bit different.  I am sharing with you a story told to me by a very close friend who happens to also assist me in my office.  For anonymity, I will call her Mary.  Mary was instrumental in helping me launch my iEat Mindfully™ Intuitive Eating Program.  At the…

Have you ever had a day where you saw something that inspired you?  Or maybe you read something that immediately caused you to say “yes, I’m in”! Something about it caught your attention and made you want to be better, or do better.  So, you jump on board without too much thought.  But then what…

In our culture, the word perfect is rarely seen as anything other than a compliment.  Despite it being quite possibly the highest form of flattery, you still tell your children something to the effect, “There is no such thing as being perfect.  You always have to strive for the best you can be, and that…

Here we are again!  Mid January, the start of a new year and the media bombardment of promises to help you fulfill your weight loss goals for this year. Click here to watch and listen, or read below. You can’t read a magazine, listen to the radio or watch TV without a commercial or advertisement…

We live in a society that places such a strong focus on weight and looks, often giving the impression that there is no such thing as too pretty or too thin.  This false belief has caused millions of women and men to obsess over their body weight and fall into the debilitating cycle of chronic…

This time of the year can seem like the hardest time for an intuitive eater.  You can’t go anywhere without being bombarded with headlines like, “Lose 30 pounds in 30 days!” or “The Hottest Diet Secret Nobody Ever Told You About!”   It can be easy to start your year off getting swept up in…

Around this time at the start of the New Year, you often see lists coming out reviewing everything that has happened in the past 365 days.  Whether they are best and worst of fashion, a list that chronicles important moments in the news or other media outlets, it is a nice way to take stock…

It is a time of year for family.  While that should mean love and gratefulness to be with loved ones during the holidays, family time can often bring about a lot of stress.  Along with the stress come plates, upon platters, upon trays of traditional holiday foods that are served.  Between these two things, it…

Over the many years I have been counseling clients, I have come across those who simply want me to give them a menu to follow, be it a 7 day, 14 day or a month of menus.  Or when I am giving a presentation, someone will raise their hand and ask, “how many calories should…

If you have ever tried dieting in the past, it is likely you have attempted at some point to keep a food journal.  In theory, this is a good way to hold yourself accountable for the food you’re eating, to notice when you may overeat, and to gauge any other patterns and habits that perhaps…

Given my profession, I spend a lot of time speaking and thinking about food and how it relates to the lives of my clients.  However, what I have noticed when meeting with new clients who are coming to me from a place of chronic dieting, they too speak and think about food all the time,…

If you have been following my iEat Mindfully™ blog, you have probably seen me use the terminology “honor your hunger” and “respect your fullness.”  You may read these phrases and think that it sounds nice, but do you know what it actual means?  Do you think you’re doing this but aren’t exactly sure?  I want…

Food, especially food that is truly worth eating, can be enjoyed by so much more than just your taste buds.  A beautiful presentation, a smell that just makes you melt or the manner in which you eat certain foods can truly elevate the experience.  You can easily lose all this as you fly through a…

Halloween—it’s probably one of the least likely times of the year that you want to interact with a nutrition professional.  But if you’ve been traveling down the mindful eating road with me, I can guarantee you that you can handle this holiday AND enjoy some candy too! Halloween can be tricky because let’s be honest,…

Over the years, we have seen the USDA food graphic evolve.  The evolution of this graphic speaks a lot to living an intuitive eating lifestyle.  The old graphic used to break down the food groups into how many servings of each group you should eat each day.  Servings were not defined, so you were forced…

We live in a world that unfortunately tends to judge us based on how much we have.  Whether it’s having the most money, the most property, the nicest car, or the most possessions, having a lot is usually a reflection of success in our culture.  Interestingly enough, excess in your life may have translated into…

Have you heard of the concept of portion distortion?   Research strongly suggests that increasing rates of overweight and obesity are in direct correlation with the increased portion sizes we have experienced since the early 1980s. Individuals are frequently unaware of how much food they actually consume in a single sitting. This lack of awareness…

As I sat down today to write my post for the iEat Mindfully™ blog, I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to write about.  But then it came to me.  Earlier today, I was told for about the 10th time this week, how bubbly and happy I am.  “Am I always like that, my…