The relationship we have with our food can impact our lives in different ways. The poorer the relationship, the harder it is to turn behaviors around in your favor.

I am going to be telling you my favorite ways to gradually implement IF in your life so that you can finally start experiencing things like increased energy, weight loss, clarity, and overall vitality!

When it comes to losing weight, maintaining a healthy weight, and improving our overall health so that we can feel our best, our diet is the first thing we work at changing.  And rightfully so.

The holiday season is my family’s favorite time of year! With three young kids, you can bet we have a lot of baking and decorating going on in our house.

Is our world slowly becoming a lonelier place? I’ve been thinking so much about social media, phones, the internet, and all the screen time that has quickly moved into our lives.

Did you know that when you eat carbohydrates in any form, whether it’s refined sugar, processed foods, grains, natural sweeteners, or even fruits and starchy vegetables such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips, and cassava your body turns them into sugar?

The idea of detoxing is all around us. Every health clinic, health magazine, health blog, and even social media is talking about why you need to detox and cleanse your body.

What I see in my practice is so many people that are tired, have brain fog, have unstable moods, and they want to know what to eat for more energy, what supplements to take for better performance, what foods to eliminate to lose weight, and they make all these changes but don’t see the results.

I had a shocking discovery several years ago when I found out that I was insulin resistant. I was not your ‘typical’ insulin-resistant-looking person.

We all can say that we have too much stress in our lives. Whenever I meet up with a friend that I haven’t seen in a while, the first thing they say is how busy they are, how crazy life is, and how it is hard to fit everything in.

Before we get into the how-tos let’s do a quick review of what exactly the Ketogenic diet is…. we know that the Ketogenic diet, or Keto, is a type of low-carb diet that differs from all other diets.

Awesome news for Valentine’s Day….. chocolate is not only healthy for you, but it can also be included on a low carb Paleo and Ketogenic diet.

Today I’m flipping the pages and looking at food prep. I talk a lot about which foods we should all be eating and which ones to avoid, but what about preparation? Did you know we can actually destroy our food with the way we prepare it?

We’ve all heard the astonishing statistics: more than two-thirds of American adults are overweight, with more than one-third considered to be clinically obese. But how did we get here?

Here it is already the holiday season again, and for most of us, there is usually a sharp increase in the number of carbohydrates we eat this time of year. I’m talking carbohydrates from holiday sweets and treats.

Choosing which sweetener to use can be a daunting task especially when the mainstream media disguises refined and processed sugars as natural, raw, low caloric, or organic. An organic sugar, while pesticide-free, has no less of an impact on your blood sugar, carbohydrate load, or your waistline.

This is the ever-popular concern many people have when starting on a high-fat diet and is exactly what kept most of us in a fatphobic state for decades. There is so much information in the literature now regarding the essential role cholesterol plays in a healthy body.

GAPS stands for both Gut and Psychology Syndrome and Gut and Physiology Syndrome.  The term coined by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride is to describe the connection between the state of our digestive system and the function of our brains and bodies.

Your small intestine has a very thin layer of cells constructing its walls and creating its border. These are called epithelial cells and they are equipped with tight junctions that allow them to stay tightly connected with each other…..

Even though a grain-free diet offers amazing and delicious meals why would you want to try it? Going grain-free would mean nothing to you if it did not change the way you feel and give you real health results.