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NIGHT SHIFT NUTRITION: YOU DON’T NEED TO LOSE SLEEP OVER YOUR FOOD, TOO
Working the night shift has been a notoriously difficult challenge for individuals pursuing changes in their nutrition. But that doesn't mean that progress can't be made with nutrition, even on the longest of nights. Here are six tips to help you as a night shift worker in your food.
Strategies for Managing Low Appetite (Because Nutrition is Self-Care!)
Our ability to stay reasonable when feeling incredibly stressed or emotional tends to be most challenging. And unsurprisingly, ensuring we're well fed is a significant helper and factor with us thinking (and acting) reasonably. Here are a few ideas that may be helpful to ensure you're eating enough, especially when with significant time demands and stressors.
Making Nutrition Easy During Big Life Changes: Navigating Divorce, Death, Moves and More
You might be faced with some big life events throughout the year - the ones we don't anticipate and that aren't always celebrations. These are often complex, emotional, challenging, and demanding situations that can make our nutrition seem especially overwhelming. Looking at these significant life events, there are three key things I learned that I think would benefit your nutrition should you find yourself amid these big life events and life changes.
Fat Loss and Mental Health: Why Weight Loss is Not Therapy
Many of us believe that the smaller we are the more acceptable we are. And the smaller we are the happier we are. But here’s the thing: Weight loss isn't therapy. Therapy with a licensed mental health practitioner is therapy.
Make Food Choices Easier: Incorporating Convenience Foods During Stressful Times
Nutrition and healthy eating may not feel like it’s even in the realm of your top five or ten priorities. It doesn't have to be! But that also doesn’t mean you can’t see progress just because you have other priorities that come first. By taking some small actions, you can still feel like your nutrition is important to you, and actually supporting the life you’re currently living.
(Healthy) Hot Girl Summer Starts Now: Creating Sustainable Summer Fat Loss Goals
What if we acknowledged that you can still have your “hot girl (or guy) summer” WHILE starting to initiate the changes you may desire to make starting NOW? And what if I told you that as you begin those changes NOW, you may be able to develop multiple hot girl summers in a row without a quick fix?
Understanding How Medications Affect Fat Loss and Weight Management
One of the best things we can do for ourselves is to eliminate the fixed mindset that medication means weight gain, and to instead shift our focus to prioritizing our mental health so that our physical health can follow. We need to reprioritize and recognize that the benefits of stable mental health outweigh the desire to lose weight.
Understanding and Managing Bad Body Image Days
Despite the body confidence we might have, we're bound to have days where we pick ourselves apart - where we feel insecure, believe we're "feeling fat" or "bloated," or we don't feel comfortable. Generally, I find it's easy to blame our bodies for those feelings when so many other aspects might actually be at play.