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.

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.

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.

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.

Do you believe it’s too expensive to eat healthily?

If so, let me show you that eating healthy is very affordable and not an excuse to hold you back.

When you become Fat Adapted, healthy fats become your main source of fuel. Our bodies are more efficient at turning fat into energy than glucose (glucose generates free radicals in the cell as a byproduct) making fat the preferred source of fuel, especially for the brain, heart, and muscles.