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A Balanced Plate

by Amy Helms | Mar 27, 2020 | intuitive eating, non-diet

How to Create a Nutritionally Dense Meal When working with clients, my goal is to help them break away from the idea of designing meals around what they think will help them manage their weight. Planning meals around the fear of gaining weight is unhealthy and...

7 Common Food Myths Busted

by Amy Helms | Mar 9, 2020 | intuitive eating, non-diet

While many food and nutrition myths start with some string of truth attached (maybe one small and poorly designed study led someone to shout a “truth” from the mountain top) some have no scientific backing at all, but have made their way around as fact....

Disordered Eating: When to get help

by Amy Helms | Feb 24, 2020 | intuitive eating, non-diet

National Eating Disorder Week is a time to bring awareness to what eating disorders are, what they do, and the stories that people have about the trials and triumphs over their ED. But what if you don’t have an eating disorder? Are you automatically a...

Stop the Shame and Learn to Love Your Mom Body

by Amy Helms | Feb 16, 2020 | intuitive eating, non-diet

Open a magazine and you will see celebs bragging about fitting into pre baby jeans, or flip open facebook and your neighbor has their before and after swimsuit pics up (thanks to the AMAZING shakes they are drinking that you just HAVE to message them about!). Here are...

Choosing Your Next Diet? Ask Yourself These Questions

by Amy Helms | Feb 10, 2020 | intuitive eating, non-diet

The term “How to lose weight” has almost 500,000 searches each month. If you are among on of these half a million people choosing your next diet to shed some pounds, asking yourself these questions will help you in your search. What Do You Hope Your Next...

What is Set Point Theory?

by Amy Helms | Jan 27, 2020 | intuitive eating, non-diet

Do you ever feel like no matter what you do, your weight stays within the same 10-15 pounds? Or you diet and lose weight, but your weight always goes back to where you started (or a bit higher)? This isn’t some flaw or glitch in your system. Set point theory...