By Lolly Steuart     About 15-25 percent of couples are unable to achieve pregnancy after 12 months of trying to conceive. If this is you, you are not alone. The question I want to answer for you today is whether nutrition can help to improve those odds and increase the chances of conception. The good news is that a growing body of research suggests that, yes, nutrition may play a few key roles in improving fertility for both women and men. That’s why I am sharing with you these tips about the fertility diet.  It may not be surprising to know that sub-optimal lifestyles, like eating a poor diet and…

By Marysa Cardwell Parent’s everywhere may be at their breaking point right now with everyone at home and the stress of feeding kids, homeschooling, and working. Feeding kids balanced and healthy meals are always a challenge but more so now than ever. We had a great child nutrition class (link) where we discussed several tips and tricks for feeding everyone well. I love www.kidseatright.org and www.choosemyplate.gov websites. They are great resources for meal planning and have a lot of resources and recipes. Many of my tips and tricks come from these two websites. I think the first thing to understand is how much a child should be eating. I used…

By Marysa Cardwell       Intuitive Eating, written by Registered Dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, is a book written to be a tool and a guideline to help people improve their relationship with their bodies and with food as well as teach people on how to nurture their bodies. The book is broken down by 10 key principles.  I have outlined the principles below from this groundbreaking book. As someone who has struggled with an eating disorder in the past, this book and the principles truly changed my life. “I believed that intuitive eating is one of the keys to a better relationship with food and your body”…

By Marysa Cardwell      Another year has come and gone! Did you accomplish everything that you wanted to during 2019? Was eating healthier one of your goals? How did you do? Do you want to do a little better this upcoming year? If you are like most people, nourishing yourself with food may be one of your goals in 2020. But where do you even start?  Here are some of my tips for improving health and becoming the best version of ourselves in 2020! Water, water, water: First, drink lots of water. I always start with this one because it is usually the easiest for people to do and…

By Marysa Cardwell Sugar has gotten a bad rap lately. Did you know that the average American eats 128 pounds of sugar per year? Think of 128 one pound bags of sugar if you like visuals. That is a lot of sugar! Excess sugar intake has been linked to several health conditions from obesity to type 2 diabetes. The general advice is to reduce sugar, but it is difficult when sugar seems to be in everything. We know that sugar is delicious. We believe that sweet treats are perfectly ok to have in your diet. We want you to have your treats and enjoy it- we certainly do! However, it’s…

By Marysa Cardwell My job as an eating coach or eating cheerleader is to help you to have a more positive relationship with food. Many times, this means making nutrient or supplementation recommendations to improve the quality of your intake. More often though, I am helping people untangle the web of nutrition information they are bombarded with every day. Nutrition information is can be helpful and I think it’s useful to become educated about how to take care of your body. That being said, I often see people getting so tangled up in the weeds of all the information that they become almost paralyzed. When you are following the ONE-TWO…