This week I’m all about how stress affects our hormones, and how that can be linked to gut health and immune function.
One nutrient that just about always tops my list for combatting stress is magnesium.
That’s because Continue reading “Do You Have These Symptoms? (Why You Should Check Your Magnesium Intake)”
Okay, by “pulses” I mean legumes: beans, peas, and lentils. And by “check” I mean check to make sure
Why do you want to eat pulses? Continue reading “Check Your Pulses [Recipe Post]”
You read that right. Chocolate is encouraged in my programs.
Okay, that might not be a surprising reveal. But since it’s World Chocolate Day (yay!), why do I include chocolate when pulling together recipes for my clients and followers?
One major reason I’m into chocolate for health: Continue reading “Why Chocolate is Encouraged in My Programs (and a Recipe!)”
I’m tired. The heat, the stress, the burnout… I know so many of you also feel this way right now and it’s hard to know how to deal with it all on top of trying to make good food choices.
So let’s let go of the idea that all your choices need to be perfect. That’s too much pressure. Continue reading “How to Reframe Self-Talk to Make Space for Pleasure Foods”
I don’t talk about activism much in this space. I try to reserve this space for mostly talking about delicious food and practical lifestyle hacks, their benefits, and how to get those benefits for your health goals, mostly around hormonal conditions. During the pandemic I’ve also talked a lot about managing stress and preventing burnout, but what about activist burnout?
Like so many I’ve been angry and heartbroken with the state of the world Continue reading “LoveBites: Spell-Casting & Activist Burnout”
The last few weeks I’ve been talking a little more about stress and anxiety, since so many of us have been experiencing an uptick.
For some of us, anxiety and stress already seem elevated before our periods. If you have PCOS, PMS or PMDD, anxiety is among the symptoms we experience within the 2 weeks leading up to our periods, also known as the luteal phase, which would normally follow ovulation. I know this is true for me, with my symptoms affecting how I work, my image of myself, how I interact – or don’t – with other people.
But as our periods can affect our anxiety and stress levels, the inverse is also true. Being under chronic stress also affects our periods. And there is no short supply on stress or anxiety these days. Continue reading “Quarantine Stress Periods (Yup, That’s a Thing)”
Have you also been hearing the phrase “quarantine 15” going around?
Without mincing words – I hate it.
Tongue-in-cheek though it may be, it evokes
Continue reading “Adapting Food & Habits for Stress & Anxiety”
Let’s talk a little about emotional eating. This is a big topic that I see with my clients but also with my friends, family, and myself. And it’s been coming up a lot more since everything shut down.
The thing is, and I’m sure you’ve heard it from multiple sources for weeks now, but… Continue reading “Emotional Eating During Crisis”
It’s Heart Health Month! I talk a lot about hormones and blood sugar balance, so what does blood sugar balance have to do with heart health? Continue reading “LoveBites: Blood Sugar Balance and its Effect on Your Heart Health”
I love chocolate. If I had to live on one flavour forever, I feel like I’d be perfectly content choosing chocolate.
Loving chocolate and craving chocolate are not the same creature.
For the first week of World Vegan Month, I’ve been focusing on plant protein and how to get enough. Now I’m going to take a look at how protein intake is connected two-fold with chocolate cravings. Continue reading “The Protein-Hormone Connection and How It Involves Chocolate”
