Clarity Wellness

We’ve already talked about the three questions to ask yourself when you’re eating .   Those were all about the mindfulness  side of eating.  Here are three ways to make sure you’re regulating your blood sugar and nourishing your body--in other words, the physiological side of what goes in your mouth.   Both are incredibly important, and often overlap.   Do these things and your inflammation levels will go down, your cravings will subside, your hormone levels will regulate, and you might even lose weight! Number one: Control your carbs. Carbohydrates are the one macronutrient that we really don’t need.   If we don’t ingest glucose, our bodies will make it.   If we don’t have enough glucose in our bloodstreams, our bodies will learn to run on ketones made from fatty acids.   That said, there are a lot of good things about vegetables and fruits that we can’t deny—they provide fiber and vitamins, and help our bodies detox.   Just try to ...

Are you ready?  Here are the questions to ask yourself every time you head to the kitchen or sit down to a meal: Am I really hungry? Have I had enough? What's my plan? That's all there is to it.  Those three questions will change your relationship with food, your health, and maybe even your weight. Am I really hungry? It all comes down to listening to your body and recognizing when you're eating out of some other need that has nothing to do with physical hunger.  The problem is that many of us have lost touch with our hunger and substitute it for something else.  That's where awareness comes in: taking the moment to notice, breathe, and create some space between the urge to eat and the action of eating.   You may be hungry for human connection.  You may be hungry for self-actualization (yes—I know that’s a big one.  I’ll let you and your journal or therapist work on that!)  You may be tired, thirsty, or honestly, just bored....

You may have heard a a lot about intermittent fasting lately. It sounds a little scary and it goes against a lot of the nutrition advice we've been told all our lives: breakfast is the most important meal of the day, you need to eat 5-6 small meals a day to stoke your metabolism, if you don't eat you will slow down your metabolism, and on and on. I'm here to dispel the myths, and help you get started on a habit that might help you get your blood sugar under control, regenerate your worn out cells, improve your relationship with food, and maybe even lose a little weight in the process. First myth: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Ok, so yes, eating is important. Our bodies need nutrients and energy, but those nutrients don't necessarily need to be ingested first thing in the morning. If you're not hungry when you first wake up, then don't eat. Whenever you "break your fast" can be considered breakfast. Push your first meal of the ...