Blog by Kristen
As we understand the roles emotion plays in our relationship with food, we become empowered. We have new opportunities to create strong habits that aren’t weighed down by guilt, confusion, and frustration. Time to start taking back your life!
Standing up through emotional eating -
Tip #1: Who’s ...
Most people don’t realize just how much emotion gets tied into food. Food is essential for life, and therefore comes with a sense of security, and therefore- when it is threatened, it gets personal very quickly. Learning the ways your emotions are worked into your eating habits is a surprisingly hel...
Remember, Open Eating is aligning your body, mind, and hunger. It is eating for YOUR health, YOUR way - not diet style and with restrictions and guilt-ridden requirements. Eating what you want, and being healthier because of it.
Nothing busts motivation more than failing over and over again. How many...
Open eating is where you get to tune in with your body and your own creativity to determine the healthiest way to eat for a healthy weight, a clear mind, and a full life!
Support your creative energy!
As you begin your journey with open eating, you will discover that you have more creative energy. Foo...
Ok, we’ve talked A LOT the past several weeks about Open Eating and how it can really create a collaboration between your mind, body, and spirit. Now let’s practice!
Over the next 10 days, I want you to try to incorporate these foods into your diet, and see how your body responds. No judgment z...
Today I’m sitting at an airport, traveling home for two days to see my family for two days before heading out on another work assignment. All of this airport time gets me thinking about my relationship with open eating. I face many of the struggles of the working parent, whether at home or on the ro...
As the fall crispness is now officially in the air, I’ve been thinking a lot about the holidays coming up. I'm truly just getting that little girl feeling of anticipation. We’ve got Halloween where all of the sweets tantalize at every angle. Less than a month after is all of the baking and butt...
We’ve talked about open eating and mindfulness and how they can be such a huge benefit to life. It not only reduces the amount of time we are fretting about our food, but it also makes us feel better and more energetic, and we can think more clearly about who we are now, and who we want to be. And w...
As a human race, we live in the most amazing times. There is so much by way of technology, communication, services, and friendship - right at our fingertips. We can be anybody we want to be at any given time. When is the last time you took a moment and asked yourself… What do I want to be today? Bet...
Did you know that as of today, there is NOT A SINGLE weight loss program that has resulted in long-term weight loss maintenance or even significant weight loss within the majority of participants? Yet, as of February 2019, the U.S. weight loss industry was reported as a 72 BILLION dollar market! Whe...
I remember the first time I realized just how big an impact food has on us emotionally and psychologically. Believe it or not- I was only about 4–5 years old. I know, you’re probably thinking… nobody is that aware at that age- and you’re right. I wasn’t aware at all. But I’ll tell you what happened ...
For decades now, diets and weight loss have been marketed as a “healthy” way of life. Yet, they rely on key nutrient elimination, body chemistry manipulation, and caloric deficiencies. The traditional approach to weight loss is fascinating because the approach tends to involve some sort of physiolog...
I am a Registered Dietitian with a Master's in Nutrition and Dietetics.
Like you, I found myself lost in a sea of contradictory and confusing ideas about what it means to be healthy. As a result, I spent my life sorting through the mess.
Unlike most of who and what is already out there, I’...