Enjoying the abundance of food centered holiday celebrations can be tough, especially if you’ve struggled with an eating disorder, emotional eating or have gotten caught up in the dieting > restrictive eating cycle before. Any sort of real or perceived overindulgence can lead to feelings of guilt or shame, which can only lead to more stress eating, restricting or unhealthy dieting tactics. So how can we approach the season without getting too caught up in the food?

As humans, eating is an essential part of our experience. It keeps us alive and provides nourishment for the things that mean the most to us.  As non-diet Registered Dietitians we have clients come to us all the time looking for the answers to simply being able to “eat when I’m hungry and stop when […]

When you sit down at the Thanksgiving table and the aromas of freshly baked bread, an oven-roasted turkey, or a sweet apple pie fill your nose, what do you feel?  Is the vision of the food on the table overwhelming?  Does the notion of feeling full after a meal make your heart race? If so, […]

As a parent, it can be overwhelming trying to manage all of the facets that contribute to your child’s health. We all want our kids to be healthy, but what does that really mean and how do we ensure they’re on the right track? Unfortunately, it feels that sometimes a child’s health is reduced to […]

Our world is saturated with curated images and societal expectations about “the perfect” body. We are constantly bombarded with messages about what we should look like, as if this is something we can easily control (spoiler alert – it’s not!).  It’s all too easy to fall into a bad body image day after relentless negative […]