It’s Thursday afternoon, approaching 5 o’clock. You just got everyone home from work and school, and the kids are whining, reaching for cookies and asking, “what’s for dinnerrrrr??” You’re frantically looking in the fridge. You have some random bell peppers that looked fun at one point. Some yogurt, some string cheese. You look in the…
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FREE Meal Planning Workshop in La Jolla
Are the moments before dinner filled with a frazzled run to the grocery store, scrambling to figure out what to feed all the crying humans, and tearing your hair out? Or…do you default to take out and delivery more often than you’d like because cooking just isn’t going to happen? If you’re wondering if cooking…
FREE Weight Loss Workshop in La Jolla
Have you been struggling for years, or decades, trying to figure out which diet will help you achieve your weight loss goals? Has the cycle of starting a diet, having initial results, and then plateauing/ending the diet/regaining weight got you feeling hopeless and discouraged? Is all this confusing and conflicting nutrition information out there starting…
Should I eat nuts? Don’t they have a lot of fat?
Nuts are one of the easiest, healthiest, yummiest snacks you can choose. Someone recently complained to me about how much fat is in nuts. This is NOT a problem. You should not avoid nuts because they are fatty. Here’s why: 1. The fats in nuts are mostly unsaturated fats, which your body NEEDS for lots…
The best book on gut health
If you’re looking for the best book to learn about gut health, this is it, folks. Fiber Fueled by Will Bulsiewicz, MD When I was working on my PhD, I learned ALL about how to have a healthy gut. My research was literally on probiotics and fiber supplements and all of the great things they…
The best nutrition advice ever
If you’re on a journey to have a healthier gut, body, and lifestyle, I have ONE piece of advice for you. Just one. But here’s the catch… It’s so boring. Like sooooo 🙄 boring. So it gets overlooked. We think we need something more thrilling than this, something we never thought of that will finally…
Easy snacks and foods for traveling with kids
When you fly with your kids, do you scramble to get everything packed, and then scramble to get to the airport on time, and then scramble to the nearest airport restaurant to buy some overpriced junk food that your toddler is screaming at you for? Here’s an easier, MUCH less expensive, and healthier idea. Good…
Which foods have the most fiber?
So you just found out you’re supposed to be eating more fiber. Not just drinking a scoop of Metamucil every day (that’s great too), but actually eating more foods that naturally have fiber in them. Then you look up lettuce (’cause salads have fiber, right?) and you see that a serving only has 0.5 grams. …