How to Navigate: Emotional Eating, Stress Eating, & Boredom Eating
Emotional eating, stress eating, and boredom eating are a big struggle that we see our clients deal with. Get the help you need to find new ways to cope!
How to Feed Your Family When Everyone Wants Something Different
It can be a challenge to feed your family no matter the age of the kids! Toddlers are preferential and finicky by nature. Teenagers are seeking out fast food and saying “Not THAT again!” Usually, when given a choice, everyone wants something different. It is human nature to be very “independent” and want a choice …
10 Quick Breakfast Ideas for Busy People That Feels Great
And when we say “quick” breakfast, we mean quick! If you’re like many of our clients, you’re constantly on-the-go and really don’t have time to put breakfast together. Many times you may end up skipping a meal or purchasing a drive-thru breakfast sandwich. You may then struggle with the 4:00 crash or the nighttime hunger. …
High Fiber Foods
Fiber is often a forgotten, but important nutrient. It is found in almost everything we eat. From fruits and vegetables to grains, nuts, dried beans, and peas, we eat servings from these foods daily. If you eat these foods daily, you should be getting fiber. But the problem with fiber is that we don’t eat …
Mindful Eating
If I could give one of my top tips for a healthy lifestyle, I would say to eat mindfully. Mindful eating makes eating an experience, rather than a routine. Have you ever had a time where you were eating and didn’t realize you had finished? This can happen a lot with foods like chips or M&M’s. …
Simple Food Swaps
Simple Food Swaps to Help you Reach your Health Goals Faster Did you know there are several easy and simple ways of changing up your diet right now? These things will give a bit of an edge on reaching your health goals faster. It’s simple: switch some everyday food items with something else that is …
Making Breakfast Simple
Breakfast or not? It is common to hear that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Most of us may agree because breakfast gets us fueled for our busy day. However, a shocking 1 out of every 3 adult Americans actually take the time to eat a meal in the morning, with the …
Eating Out on the Main Line
As a registered dietitian, one thing many of my patients and I discuss is limiting going out to eat. As a general rule, we know that restaurant foods are often less healthy (high in calories, sodium, and fat with little fiber). Many times, restaurants serve huge portion sizes. I promote a balanced, realistic healthy lifestyle …
Eating Out
What a Registered Dietitian Recommends I enjoy eating out on occasion, especially to spend time with my husband or to get a chance to catch up with friends and/or family! When you are health-conscious or trying to lose weight, eating out can be challenging. It can be difficult to make healthy food choices, especially if …
Setting and Sticking to Your SMART Goals
You’re taking off to a place you haven’t been before. How do you navigate there? Chances are, you use a GPS system or Google Maps on your phone. Just like you need a map to navigate to a foreign location, you need a roadmap to achieve goals you maybe haven’t achieved before. Or maybe you …
Is a Plant-Based Diet Right for Me?
This is a hot topic these days, right? We’ve been seeing and hearing about plant-based diets on social media, TV, magazines, cocktail parties, at the gym, etc. So what are the benefits of a plant-based diet? Is it really all it’s cracked up to be? This dietitian thinks that it is! Let’s jump in and …
Managing Stress
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. -Hans Selye Stress is common! Everyone has some sort of stress in his or her life. Seventy five percent of Americans report experiencing at least one symptom of stress such as depression, sadness, anxiety, fatigue and irritability. Common stressors include money, work, the …