Are you focusing on the numbers on the scale, or are you focused on your total health? Being healthy is not definedby losing weight I have been coaching people on healthy eating options for over 20 years, and everyone that I work with has different individual concerns. I can't tell you how many...

When purchasing produce, the biggest question is often: “When is ______ ripe?”.  A better question to ask is: “Should I buy it before it’s ripe or when it’s ripe?” Sometimes buying foods before they are ripe can be a good strategy, if you ask this question first: “When am I going to prepare it, a...

It's Spring break season, so that means a lot of people are ready to take a trip after a long winter. One of the biggest concerns for travelers is often how to maintain the healthy diet and keep off the pounds they may have shed before going on vacation.  A little bit of planning ahead can go a l...

What’s the problem with nutritional advice for athletes? There’s just so much information out there, and we just don’t know where to start, and if we have started, we’ve hopped around from one plan to another because of a lot of conflicting information… but there is a reason for that!   When it ...

If you’re like most people, the grocery store isn’t your favorite place, but it’s something that we have to do. Grocery shopping can be a chore, budgets can be tight, and we have a tendency to reach for convenience foods (which tend to cost more). Here are 10 tips to help balance it out without h...

When we are trying to start eating healthy, we can feel like we are in uncharted territory. The thing is, we tend to approach it from the wrong angle. We start cutting out a lot of ssour favorite foods, and replacing them with unfamiliar and often expensive products. The focus tends to be on the ...