Holiday Eating – Do You Have A Plan?

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I know this post may seem early to you…but is it just me or did this month fly by??  Today is the 28th, which means that this Friday is Halloween, which means that next month is the highly anticipated grand kick-off of the Holiday season….all starting with that glorious day of shoveling as much food as humanly possible down your throat…Thanksgiving!  Craziness.  So I think it’s time to start prepping ourselves now.

I don’t know about you, but every year (up until the last two years) I left Thanksgiving (and Christmas….and New Years) feeling like a gross puffed up blow fish version of myself.  I’m pretty sure I left every year waddling and struggle breathing my way back to my car.  I bet it was a super attractive sight too..anyways, the point is that I always overate.  Every year.   Read More

Gluten Free Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

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Based on popular request, you guys get TWO posts this week!  🙂  I’ll keep this short and sweet and get right to the point….the recipe!  These end up being slightly on the denser side (which is what I think makes them awesome), but because of that I find it’s best if you place them in the microwave for a few seconds before enjoying.  Let me know what you think!

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The Power of Transition Time (A.K.A. How To NOT Stuff Your Face When You Get Home)

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If you are like most Americans, I am guessing your first 10-15 minutes home from work in the afternoons are quite chaotic and, on most days, lead to an even busier evening blur of events in which you don’t “come to” until sometime around 8:00 or 9:00PM.  A lot of people I work with struggle with this – coming straight home from a stressful day and being thrust into an even busier night and never being able to “come down” from that work stress “high” we Americans spend far too much time operating in.

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The ONE Simple Thing That Changed My Relationship With Food….For Good.

 

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I often get asked how I changed my relationship with food once and for all. While the full answer to this question would be best answered with quite a long list of things, I am going to share with you today the one thing that I believe had the BIGGEST impact on changing that relationship for good. And that one thing is actually a pretty basic thing – a journal. I touched on this briefly in this post, but today I’m going to go a little deeper and let you know just how this journal changed not only my relationship with food, but ultimately with my life and myself.

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Pumpkin Maple Pecan Oats (Gluten Free)

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I don’t know about you, but Fall is my absolute FAVORITE season.  I’m obsessed with pretty much everything about it.  The colors, the smells, the crispness in the air, the lazy Sunday’s, the boots, the sweaters, the comfort foods and the delicious produce – apples, squash and PUMPKIN…pumpkin everything!  Yes, I am one of those people who are obsessed with all things Pumpkin Spice.  It’s ok if you want to judge me, I’m fully confident in that aspect of my life.  😉  But with that being said, it just wouldn’t be right to not share a favorite pumpkin recipe of mine with you all this season….so today, I’m doing just that.

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I Graduated! – What I Learned This Year…

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I Graduated!!

I’ts hard to believe that my year at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition is already over! Seems like just yesterday that I tuned in to my first lecture. I have learned so much this year about nutrition, coaching, business and unpardonably, MYSELF. I think that was the biggest shock for me this year – the amount of self-growth I underwent. Sure, I assumed there would be some self-growth along with all of the amazing lectures and speakers I was blessed to be apart of, but man did I learn a lot! While there were many lessons learned this year, I think the one that stood out to me the most was the importance of learning to live inwardly out instead of outwardly in.

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So You Binged – Now What?

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So a piece of pizza turned into an entire pizza which led to a bag of M&M’s which were washed down with a pint of ice cream and topped off with a bag of chips just for good measure.  You feel disgusting, bloated, stuffed, uncomfortable, angry, upset, confused, annoyed, sad, but mostly, out of control.  If you’re a chronic dieter, you are all too familiar with the instance I just outlined.  Heck, you may have even lived it last night.  Each binge looks different, if this isn’t you, maybe your binge looks like overeating (or never stopping eating) at family parties, or every time you go out to dinner with friends, or eating all the leftover cookies and snacks in the break room.  I don’t know about you, but in my dieting days, any sort of binge would have immediately been followed up by a “clean eating day”, no carbs, a little extra cardio and strict food rules.  Read More

3 Easy Hacks for Learning to Eat “Just Enough”

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Let’s face it.  The name of the game when trying to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight comes down to not stuffing your face with excess food.  In my own experience (and through working with my clients) I’ve come to realize that the main reason it seems so tough to stop eating before we’ve gone too far is because we have NO idea how to listen to our bodies anymore.  We literally have no idea how much food our bodies need. 

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Leftover BBQ Rib Skillet

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Hi!  How was your Holiday weekend?  Did you do something super fun?  I was able to escape for a couple of days to a Lake House with some friends and also got to celebrate one of my nephews’ 1st Birthday’s!  It was such a re-energizing and amazing weekend!

You guys gave the picture of my leftover rib creation a lot of love last week – so today I’m going to share the recipe with you!  I also figured that since Labor Day is known for grilling and BBQ’ing some of you may just have some leftover ribs in your fridge right now!  🙂

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Why Diets Suck

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I thought that was a fun and appropriate title to catch your attention on this Monday morning.  🙂 Speaking of Monday mornings, how many times in your life have you “started over” again with your relationship to food on a Monday?  Or began that diet that was going to change you life once and for all on a Monday?  Or “hopped back on” the clean eating train on a Monday?  I don’t know about you, but that number is all too high for me.  Why Monday’s anyway?  I mean, Monday’s are awful enough by themselves and then for some reason we think it’d be a good idea to add food deprivation and crazy exercise routines in the mix too. Yuck!

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