Many years ago, I saw a couple that I knew go through a particularly rough period. At the time, my understanding of their circumstances was from the perspective of only one of those two people. As a result, my opinion on the circumstances, how each person handled it and the way it affected them afterwards […]
I recently completed a course covering Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and the low FODMAP approach to working with IBS through Monash University. The course, designed for dietitians, was a wealth of information. Having recently acquired my Level 5 diploma in advanced nutrition through Mac-Nutrition University, I was granted access to the Monash course. One point […]
Last year, Marissa, Sebastian and I got off to Hocking Hills for a little getaway. While we were at our cabin, we noticed a checkerboard and thought it might be good to teach Sebastian how to play. I showed him how to move across the squares, how to jump, how to make a king and […]
-I have a client who’s not averse to counting calories and using a food tracking app. Her weight during our check-ins had plateaued and when I asked to see her food log over a week’s time, every day was “technically” in a deficit. In other words, she “should” have been seeing progress. I asked if […]
To My Sons, Some day I won’t be in this world to share it with you (and I hope that day is far into the future). When my father (your Opa) passed, he was far too young, and that left me with a lot of life left to live without his guidance. You are brothers […]
To provide some backstory on this post, I was recently reading a book that was a small collection of transcripts from a podcast. In this book, the hosts are making some small talk and the one host mentions that he’s eating grapes. His co-host says that compared to something like Cheerios, grapes are a good […]
A few weeks ago, I was at home, sick in bed and trying to recuperate. If you follow me on Instagram, you may know that I make a post on there every day. That’s little more than a marketing tactic. However, on this particular day, since I wasn’t feeling so hot, I thought: Maybe I […]
Over the last several years, I’ve made a few posts about my therapist, Collin. He has been of immeasurable help to me at times when I was in need. Last week, I found out that his heart no longer has the strength it needs to keep him with us beyond a year. In his words, […]
There’s hardly a week that goes by that I don’t talk about protein requirements with a client and I’m not sure that I’ve gone in to much detail about it on the site before. Before we get into the quantity, let’s cover a few areas of importance for those who may need the refresher: -Most […]
Throughout all the years of my (and his) life, I never heard my father speak an unkind word about or toward his mother, my Oma. This sentiment applies as well to my mother. Not once have I ever heard her speak an unkind word about or toward my grandmother. In saying this, it’s not that […]