Ep. #60: Holiday Intuitive Eating Hacks with Claire Chewning

This interview was so fun! Claire Chewning is a registered dietitian, and she also helps women with intuitive eating. She has some great tips and holiday intuitive eating hacks we can all use. Our conversation included thoughts on how to handle comments from family and friends, the so-called “sugar addiction”, and ways to implement self-care. […]
Ep. #59: 12 Days of Healthy Christmas

Happy Healthy Christmas! As a really neat way of giving back, this month I’m featuring an amazing group called The Breasties. Some of you may know that my own mom passed away from breast cancer. While I was being tested for the BRCA gene (which I don’t have), I had to consider what action I would […]
Why You Should Stop Trying to “Be Good” This Holiday Season

♫ It’s the holiday season {the holiday season} ♫ It all starts with Turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie (for my fellow Americans), and continues with Christmas cookies, mulled wine, eggnog, a whole lotta cheese, dips, bread, and meats galore. Pretty tasty, right? Darn right! But if you are one of those people that are […]
Healthy Buckeyes

I’ve never met so many people that don’t like peanut butter, until I moved to Europe. It seems that the rest of the world didn’t grow up eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches like I did. Thus, many people don’t have the taste for it and find it disgusting. But, that doesn’t stop me from […]
All Natural Detox Tea

Two nights ago, I had a rather large steak and pommes frites for dinner. And then I came home to eat my favorite homemade toffee that just arrived in the mail from my good friend. This was preceded by testing out all the different food vendors at the Christmas market over the weekend, which I […]
One Thing You Actually Need This Christmas

Last week, we talked all about staying on sugar’s good side throughout the holidays, which will definitely help make this month more enjoyable. Today, I want to continue on this topic, of how to keep the holidays as enjoyable as possible without going overboard on all the food, and how to fight the overwhelm that […]
