If so, rest assured you are in good company! Our schedules are a mix of slower mornings and trying to cram in all those projects that won’t fit into a week day. Plus, we just want to relax and a big bowl of chips or ice cream can be calming. Read more…
It’s not a new topic, but it’s one that seems to creep up fairly frequently. Some healthy choices are simple and low-cost: swapping brown rice in for white or drinking more water. Others require quite a bit more investment in time or money: joining a gym or CSA (community supported Read more…
All or nothing doesn’t work. I’ve beaten my head on that wall way too many times…please learn from my (and millions of others) mistakes and don’t go there. If we could abstain from food, ensure we’d always get 8 hours of sleep and were active every day then ‘all or Read more…
We hear a lot about ‘whole foods,’ there’s even a grocery store named after them…but what ARE they? After a term has been out there for a while…and we’re still not sure what it means…admitting our ignorance can feel like those situations where we’ve asked somewhat their name is. And Read more…
One of the lessons my 1-on-1 clients do is called the ‘Meal of Meaning.’ Basically, everyone in your family (or circle of friends) gets to bring a dish with sentimental value to a shared meal. No rules…the dish doesn’t have to be ‘healthy’ or fit any nutritional guidelines. Our family Read more…
Spring has FINALLY arrived up here in Iowa and the world is waking up…along with dandelions, crab grass and lots of other weedy plants. Thankfully, there are also tulips, irises, rhubarb and asparagus! The trick is to keep the stuff we don’t want away from the stuff we do want. Read more…
Ummm…NO. Obvious, right? Because we all know the dangers of smoking and alcohol and we wouldn’t expose our little kids to them. But there was a time when those dangers were not as widely understood and social norms were different. We know better now, so we (hopefully!) do better. But Read more…
Some change is fast (cut back on coffee and lose the jitters) and some is painfully slow (frequently, weight loss). If you’re paying attention to most magazines, blogs, podcasts or daytime TV there seem to be countless ‘hacks’ to cut corners to make change fast…but how much of it is Read more…
How many times have you wondered how a ‘fit’ mom got in shape? Part of why I got certified as a nutrition coach was to finally answer those questions…I was tired of wondering if the new ‘it’ thing on every podcast or best-selling book was real. Maybe it was. Or Read more…
As I read the info gathered from each state I was struck by list of struggles that are now considered ‘normal’: obesity, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, cancer. The list of causes was equally discouraging…not because they’re insurmountable or unavoidable, but precisely because they AREN’T. For Read more…