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We all experience food cravings and struggle with how to manage them.  Creating mindful eating habits can establish healthier ways to eat as well has help you learn how to handle your cravings with a higher sense of awareness and intention.  A quick mindful meditation created by Jamie Zimmerman, M.D. uses the acronym STOP.  

I think this might be the reason I’ve been struggling this week and it’s only Tuesday. You see, I make some version of my LYB everyday because it’s one of my favorite things to eat and it only takes perhaps three minutes to whip up. That is as long as I have all the key ingredients.

The crucial base layer is missing from my refrigerator right now. So is the back-up freezer supply. I’ve officially run out of my favorite Super SHER-ro muffins (recipe here) and when that happens, there is no LYB. This causes me to…

Mindful and intuitive eating is without a doubt, the most important yet underutilized health strategy available. Everyday people struggle mindless eating: eating because they are bored, depressed, lonely, stressed, or for any reason other than true physical hunger. But there is hope!

If you battle with an unbalanced relationship with food and/or your body, this is the therapeutic approach to explore and heal any irregular eating habits, beliefs, patterns and thoughts as well as disordered eating behaviors (binge-eating, purging, restricting).

Mindfulness is this concept of paying attention to what’s going on internally + externally in the present moment to help you understand why you do what you do with food. This awareness enables you to delete or edit any eating behaviors, in the moment, instead of hitting repeat on old habits that seem hard to change. Intuitive eating is a way of nourishing the body by connecting to your innate belly wisdom while listening to your true hunger and fullness cues.

It’s Monday… The day most people start their diet. Did you know that 45M, that’s 45 MILLION Americans go on a diet every year according to the Washington Post 2018 stats. Yikes. Let’s break down the math shall we? If there are 52 weeks in a year then there is approximately 52 Monday’s a year. Fair enough?

That means that today, it’s possible that over 865,000 people started a diet today….

Have I got a recipe to share with YOU that is shamefully overdue! If you love peppers and walnuts, I promise that this will become your default dip to serve to house guests or any gathering where you bring a dish. It elicits an instant “ohmiGAWD what is this” type of…

Happy Labor Day Weekend! I hope you had some down time to recharge for fall. We invited the neighbors over last night for a movie night on the lawn. Essentially we set up a projector on the garage door and watched…

We’ve all heard the expression that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? This is especially true when it comes to your kids as they head back to school and require food to fuel their energy needs and learning abilities.   

But for some working moms, creating a healthy breakfast in the morning can feel like additional stress to get ready, walk the dog, whip up many meals and get the crew out the door on time. With a pinch of planning, breakfast can jumpstart your kids day with

Hiya Nutrition Atlanta fans… I’m still trying to process my trek out west and its shocking that it was three weeks ago.  I lived in North Hollywood when I was a wee tot and have always had a strong affinity for the West Coast.  Give me sand, salt water, and sunsets to make my soul happy on a cellular, very primal level.