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Nutrition resources to help you undiet your life. Find strategies, podcasts, and inspiration to reclaim your health from diet culture with intuitive eating practices.
How to find more satisfaction in life after 40
What if enough isn’t enough? What if you DO want more satisfaction in life after 40? How do you get out of the midlife grind?
How much exercise do you need to be healthy?
You spent years earning and burning calories in the guise of exercise and health. Now your body doesn’t move like it used to. What now?
How to tell if you’re mindful eating or dieting
Episode 66: If your head is swimming with healthy eating, wellness lifestyle, and exercise advice this month, this episode will help you cut through the noise with mindful eating.
How to make holiday baking healthier
Episode 59: Baking is the one area of cooking that takes the biggest hit from diet culture. During my disordered eating days, I had piles of recipes with scratched-out ingredients. After MANY batches of hockey puck cookies, crumbly brick-like cranberry bread, and sad, soggy pumpkin pie, I realized that trying to make holiday baking healthier doesn’t work. Here’s why.
How to avoid weight gain over the holidays
Episode 101: If the fear of holiday weight gain stresses you out, here are 4 tips to help you undiet your holidays and savor more of what matters most – delicious food shared with friends and family.
Nutrition and Body Positive Resources
HEALTHY AT EVERY SIZE
Nobody EVER deserves to be objectified
Wolf-whistles, cat-calls, shouted come-ons... I object! Here's how my morning started...minding my own business, packing groceries into my backpack to bike home and behind me, I hear two guys making cat-call-type comments. It took me a minute to realize they were...
INTUITIVE EATING
Carbs and insulin resistance for women over 40: busting myths
What women over 40 need to know about carbs and insulin resistance. Which are the good carbs? Are there any bad carbs? Let’s busts some myths
The Surprising Truth About Healthy Eating: Debunking Common Myths About Nuts, Beans, and Whole Grains
Episode 11: How do you make healthy food choices? What makes food healthy? If you don't know me well enough by now, you should know that I'm a firm believer in the "all foods fit" model of eating. But I wasn't always. I graduated from grad school with a degree in...
PODCASTS
The Best Diet for Women Over 40 Has No Restrictions
Episode 100: The best diet for women over 40 is one that gets you through the “messy middle” of intuitive eating using an expansive mindset.
Women’s Fitness After 40, How to Go Beyond Before and After Photos
Episode 99: Go beyond before and after photos to shift your mindset from ” you should” to you want to exercise to improve your fitness after 40.