How To Eat for Energy - Step 1: Balance Your blood sugar
You know that 3pm crash? The one where you want to put your head down on your keyboard and mainline coffee and fiend for peanut butter cups? It’s not necessarily normal, and it doesn’t have to happen every day although it might be right now. I know because that used to be me.
I knew that what food I put into my body had an impact on how I felt in general, but I mostly focused on how to eat to maintain or lose weight rather than fuel my body. I had never known any other way. It wasn’t until I learned how to eat for energy and fuel that I finally turned things around.
How to Deal With Conflicting Dietary Advice
There is SO much information out there which is great. But depending on what you read and who you speak to, you will get a different answer for how to improve your symptoms and feel better. So how do you know what’s best? The short answer: listen to your body.
Demystifying Confusing Food Labels
Does going to the grocery store ever feel like a big, confusing quiz in label reading? Gluten free? Hormone free? Organic? Grass-fed? I was in the poultry and meat section over the weekend and my head was spinning. I was in that aisle for a solid 20 minutes trying to choose the best protein!
How to Build a Delicious Lunch Bowl (AIP)
The way to get out of a boring, healthy eating rut is to get inspired and think outside the box. Next up in the list of inspired lunches is my all time favorite: The Lunch Bowl. Bowls are the best way to get variety and create satisfying, filling, nourishing lunches that you can take on the go. This week's guide is in line with the Autoimmune Paleo Diet. Depending on your needs and preferences you can add or subtract different proteins, nuts, seeds, gluten-free grains etc. It's up to you! This AIP lunch bowl serves as a great base balanced with protein, good fats, fiber and carbohydrates from veggies for you to customize to your liking.