How your weight baggage affects your kids
The majority of my ideas for articles come from sessions that I have had with clients and the struggles that they have. These are struggles that I think a good majority of people experience. This past week, I saw a client that has always battled her weight. She grew...
Body Image. The power Mom’s have and the impact it has.
Body image is one of the most powerful things that will impact our daughters. Teaching our daughters a healthy body image means imparting on them that what their body can do, is far more important than what it looks like. How often do you think...
Brain Food
It seems like we are hearing more about brain food, foods that actually help our brain become healthier. The way society is today, there is such a focus only on the physical appearance and physical health of someone’s body. As I have discussed...
Trust
Trust. Somewhere along the way, that word has been taught to not go with our bodies. How you were brought up with food and the encouragement of listening to your body certainly shapes the way you trust your body. That is why I am so passionate...
Kids Eating- When Emotions and Permission Collide
As a dietitian working with young girls struggling with eating disorders and disordered eating (this is having an unhealthy relationship with food and can be eating too little or too much), I have seen how impactful parents are to a child’s...
Food Rules: Are you a follower or a breaker?
Somewhere along the way we have been taught we have to live “by the rules.” In my practice, I see many clients that like to be the food rules followers. These are the people that will be the “hard core” dieters, the ones that will only eat...
Healthy Kids: Helping Your Child’s Permission With Food
We all want to have healthy kids. However, when we think about healthy kids and food, we do not always think about the word, permission. In my article, Stop Dieting: Giving yourself permission to end deprivation, I spoke of how important the language of food is,...
Stop Dieting: Giving yourself the permission to end deprivation
Deprivation- it is a word that can tail spin so many people without them realizing that they are in it. Deprivation is what is felt when you have the list of the things you cannot have. It is what is felt when you have to wait “x” hours before you can eat again. It is...
Emotional Eating: Finding Your Way out of the Diet Craze
Our society has become so diet crazed, it’s almost an American obsession to talk about what latest diet someone is following. Just pick up one of the latest magazines on the newsstand and it will list what all the celebrities are following. The majority of them being...
A New Year- A NEW way to see things
The dreaded season of diet mania has approached us. The time everyone decides to refocus on their health with eating better and exercising more. The time when the latest diet and exercise trends are experimented with. The time when...
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