Change How You Eat
Perfectly Healthy
Whenever I’m scrolling through Instagram, I invariably come across an influencer who’s promoting a healthy lifestyle. Most of her photos consist of some variation of her with perfectly toned abs and a glass of green juice – or some other kind of liquid meal – in her hand. (Inevitably followed by a picture of her…
Read MoreIt’s All Good
This summer I moved into a new townhouse with my two girls, and I have the cutest new neighbor. We’d been talking for several weeks about getting together, and we finally made our plan a few months after I moved in. We went to a Mexican restaurant around the corner with our kids, and it…
Read MoreGive Yourself an Out
In your quest to lose weight, how many times have you thought, “I’m not going to . . .”? I’m not going to order fries at dinner. I’m not going to drink wine tonight. I’m not going to binge on chocolate today. I’m not going to skip my workout tomorrow morning. I spent at least…
Read MoreOn a Binge
If you have a tendency to binge eat, it’s likely you “binge” in other areas of your life. We live in a binge culture. We constantly work and become workaholics. We are bombarded with advertisements that create voids to be filled, which creates shopaholics. We’re stressed to the max and need to release, and so…
Read MoreFeeding the Beast
The other morning, I was packing the girls’ lunches. I was putting some Milano cookies in a snack bag when everyone started melting down. One of them couldn’t find the shirt she wanted to wear, and the other didn’t like the ponytail I had just done. People were crying and whining and freaking out —…
Read MoreTake 30
Don’t do it. You do not need those cookies. They’re not even that good. [Eats cookies.] Why did I just do that? What is the matter with me? Why do I always do this? Sound familiar?
Read MoreLet’s Talk About Carbs
Oh my gosh, y’all, I am SO over it: the crucifixion of carbs. The very first question I usually get when someone finds out I’m a dietitian is, “What do you think about carbs?” And it’s clear from the way the question is asked that my answer will dictate whether the person asking will overdose…
Read MoreDrinking and Eating
It’s the holidays . . . woo hoo! Ready to eat, drink, and be merry? I used to totally blow it out during the holidays. What about you? Most of us eat too much, drink too much, and let it all hang out because it’s “that time of year.” But eating, drinking, and being merry…
Read MoreFestive Free-For-All
Is there anything better than loading up a huge plate of food, shoving it down, and feeling like crap after? And then drinking heavily to console yourself? No, not really. But sadly, this is exactly what we do during the holidays. We actually look forward to the holidays precisely for that reason. We get to…
Read MoreBad Taste
When I got my first real job out of college, I lived in Atlanta with one of my best friends. We would slave away all week (at least we thought we did) and then blow it out on Friday night. So a greasy fast-food breakfast on Saturday morning — usually a bacon-egg-and-cheese biscuit with hash…
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