How to develop healthy eating habits without giving up the foods you love is a question I wish more clients asked me. The reason is that oftentimes clients and prospective clients come to me looking to "eat healthier" when in reality they just want to eat without guilt. This...

Have you found yourself struggling to make healthy eating work with your busy schedule? Or, maybe you want to enjoy home-cooked meals without you being the person that actually cooks them? If so, it’s time for you to outsource your meal planning and preparation. 

Before you start...

What is mindful eating and how do you get started with creating mindful eating habits? If you've ever found yourself battling with the voice in your head over what you should or should not eat, then one of the most powerful practices you can implement is mindful eating. 

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How do you practice mindful eating when you're working from home? If you're one of the millions of people who started working remotely in 2020, you know all-too-well that the massive transition to remote work resulted in highs, such as better work-life balance and lows, like an increase...

What is a mindful eating exercise you can do to measure your progress beyond the scale? This is the question I'll be answering in Part 3 of my 3-Part Mini-Series on the simple steps you can take to stop calorie counting and start mindful eating.

In Part 1, I covered the four mindful eating...

What are the benefits of mindful eating beyond weight loss? This is the question I'll be answering in Part 2 of my 3-Part Mini-Series on the simple steps you can take to stop calorie counting and start mindful eating.

In Part 1, I covered the four mindful eating techniques you can do instead...

What can you do instead of calorie counting? That is a question that sparked the idea for me to create a 3-Part Mini-Series on the simple steps you can take to stop calorie counting and start mindful eating.

Whether you've been counting calories for years or just want to learn how to eat...

My friend, Natasha Mills and I are back for Part 2 of our 2-Part Mind Your Own Plate series for her Let Me Touch That Podcast.

In Part 1, Natasha and I covered:

• What nutrition is, why it's so important, and what it is that I do with nutrition (on Al Gore's Internet?!)
• The most common...

After six years of following a calorie-restrictive diet, reverse dieting was exactly what I needed to start eating normally again. After ending my service in the United States Marine Corps (USMC), I was struck by the realization for the first time in six years I didn't have to...

I got the opportunity to be a guest on my friend, Natasha Mill's, Let Me Touch That Podcast. I met Natasha back in 2015 when we both worked at the embassy in Bahrain and we have been friends ever since. 

When Natasha reached out to invite me on her podcast to share the hard...

It wasn't until my last weigh-in in the United States Marine Corps that I was willing to accept that I had a very unhealthy relationship with food and my body. It was the summer of 2015 and I had just arrived back at my military duty station in Bahrain after a weeklong vacation to visit...

While I've talked openly about my rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis in 2018, what I haven't talked about so openly is the fact that I spent six years ignoring my 'invisible' illness. In 2012, I had just reenlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was preparing to start my...