Blogs

With the arrival of the new edition of our workbook Transformative Nutrition, I'm thinking it's time for me to jump in and go through the 8 week course again. And I'm excited for the reminder of what matters, of what helped me lose 70 lbs. Because I am not a nutrition expert or weight-loss master here, though I teach and coach people, I am more accurately a practitioner, in on-going practice. Read more

I took my 2-year old daughter, Olive, to a lab the other day to have some blood drawn for some standard testing.  As soon as we walked in the smell of latex gloves, alcohol swabs and the universal smell of sterility made my anxiety rise (even though I was not going to be stuck with any needles). Read more

 When I start working with people and ask what it is they want to change about their relationship with food, it's always interesting to hear people express their desire to not care about it. They are sick of being obsessed, of thinking about food so much. What I've found though is that thinking about something that affects me as much as food is not a bad thing. Read more

I subscribe to Time Magazine for the waiting room at my Wellness Center.  A few weeks ago the Time magazine came with a cover that had me skip a breath.  The tagline: “Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin” (by John Cloud). Read more

Hello.  A few words.  There are two of us contributing to this blog (the co-creators of Redefining Diet and authors of Transformative Nutrition).  We (Yiska or Sarah) will be authoring with our different voices and points of view.  You will be able to see who is speaking at the bottom of each post.     Read more