7 Ways to Celebrate Small Wins – and Why it Matters
One of the things I like most about mindful eating is that it’s about making small, incremental changes. You don’t have to do everything...
3 Steps for How to Feed More Than Your Body
One of the challenging parts of eating mindfully is that many other things can disguise themselves as hunger, or at least make you want...
7 Non-Weight-Related Reasons to Exercise
When I was in my teens, whenever my mom brought up my weight, it was inevitable that she also talked about exercise. The implication, of...
5 Ways Food Marketing May Negatively Impact You
Did you know that estimates indicate that the average person is exposed to 6,000 to 10,000 ads per day? That’s double the amount from...
11 Tips to Improve Mental Health
Like many people, I’ve been thinking a lot about Simone Biles recently and her decision to withdraw from some of the Olympics...
Reflections on “Hunger” by Roxane Gay
I recently read Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay, an excellent if a sometimes difficult book about her experience in a larger...
Why Diet Myths Are So Hard to Shake
Note: the following is based on my understanding and interpretation of what I read in The Believing Brain – the author did not discuss...
5 Tips on Mindful Eating from the Cats
Like many people, I’ve spent a lot of time with my pets during this past year of the pandemic, and it’s highlighted even more how...
On Not Taking Food for Granted
For many people in our society, it’s very easy to take food for granted. We have access to so much all the time that it’s a shock when we...
Appreciating Feet and Ankles
It’s amazing how easy it is to take our bodies for granted - until something goes wrong. I don't have this happen often, but when I do, I...
