One of the trickiest meals to plan with gestational diabetes is breakfast. You may be dealing with high morning blood sugars and wondering what in the world you can eat. In today’s post, I’m providing some breakfast ideas for gestational diabetes that can help you add variety to your meal…
Sick of restrictive diets and binge eating on the weekend? Did you go on a “cheat day” only to find yourself unable to stop eating? This is typical diet culture behavior. Restrict, ignore hunger, binge, ignore fullness, all based on external cues, like weight or calorie/macro count. You may feel…
What does the “intuitive eating before and after” look like? If you’ve spent any time dieting, you’ve looked at those Google images for inspiration. The before and afters. What we usually don’t get to see is the after-after. You know, 6 months or more down the road—when the weight is…
Have you recently been diagnosed with gestational diabetes? Wondering what to do next? No need to panic! Today, I’ll be breaking down the basics of gestational diabetes, and sharing what you need to do in order to have a healthy delivery. It’s a test most women dread. I can’t tell…
Diet, exercise, medications, reduce complications. Those are the main things that come to mind when considering diabetes. Eating disorders may not be on your healthcare provider’s radar. However, the coexistence of eating disorders and diabetes happens. Eating disorders are on the rise. Interestingly, as we learn more about nutrition and…
Fasting is a popular weight-loss method. Whether you are fasting for days at a time or intermittent fasting, the health benefits are undeniable. But what does an anti-diet dietitian think about fasting? Today, I’m talking about binging after fasting, and reasons to fast besides weight loss. Proponents of fasting claim…
A chronic dieter is someone who is constantly jumping from one restrictive diet to the next. Is that you? Maybe you started with an innocent calorie-counting diet. Then, seeking improved health, you jumped on the low-carb bandwagon. After a while, paleo or clean eating sounded like a better option. Perhaps…
I often get asked which diet is best for diabetes and diabetes prevention. Most often, I recommend intuitive eating for diabetes. But I don’t want to ignore science and new discoveries. Today, I’m answering the question, “Is the carnivore diet diabetes-friendly?”. The carnivore diet is a fad diet that has…
Intuitive eating and weight gain sometimes go hand-in-hand. You are no longer restricting and you are finally allowing yourself to eat the foods you love. So you gain weight. In a body-obsessed culture, weight gain is often hard to take. How do you handle it? Anyone alive has dealt with…
Do you eat lunch while checking your emails? Frequently munch on popcorn while you watch TV? Are you regularly eating and scrolling on social media? We are busy and constantly multi-tasking. Today I’m giving you some mindful eating exercises so you can be fully in tune with your body’s fullness…
