These tips are centered around the basics of human digestion and metabolism. Carbohydrate restriction is not sustainable. It is well established that dietary restraint is unsuccessful and more harmful than helpful. My overall philosophy when working with my clients is to empower them with knowledge and understanding of their own unique body. My hope is that the following information will inform you on how to eat, instead of what not to eat for both diabetes management and prevention.

What is healthy eating? How do we even define this? The idea of “healthy eating” for many people has been constructed and influenced by the ebbs and flows of diet culture, which often embody feelings of rigidity, restriction and lack of pleasure. This raises an important question: Is eating on these terms even healthy at all? Here you will read about the true qualities that are embodied by healthy eaters - they are quite different than you might think!

I am officially certified as an Intuitive Eating Counselor! Intuitive Eating is truly the most ethical, sustainable and health promoting approach to nutrition and well-being. Here you’ll read about what intuitive eating is about, how it started, why it started and hopefully clear up some confusion around what intuitive eating is and what it isn’t.

An important first step in healing your relationship with food through the Intuitive Eating framework is to Reject the Diet Mentality, but what is diet mentality? This term isn’t part of our common vernacular, and many of my clients feel understandably confused to learn that what they’ve thought to be the “right” way to think about food, may actually be harming their mental and physical well-being.

Eating is habitual. It’s so easy to fall into a routine and feel weary about straying from familiar foods. I get it. As humans, we like what we like! But in the discussion around health and wellness, switching it up can be one of the simplest and most effective things you can do to optimize your nutritional health.

Exploration and self-awareness around your current eating behaviors, and how they might be harming you is an initial first step to healing your relationship with food. The following eating mentalities might be interfering with your ability to eat Intuitively, and likely give reason for why you struggle with unconsciously eating past the point of fullness.

The relationship you have with your body is one of the most important relationships you’ll have throughout your lifetime. If you think about it, body perception is a driving force for so many aspects of whole health: eating behaviors, social life, intimacy with partners, confidence level, stress state and overall happiness. Body image is powerful and can have great impacts on health and well-being.

I’m not a recipe developer, but I developed a recipe! Sharing some things from my own personal cooking journey and the very first recipe I developed on my own. It is meat free and packed with flavor, texture and color. There is also enough protein and fiber to satisfy your meal time hunger. I hope you like it!