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Hi, I'm Alexis!
Introducing our newest team member! Welcome registered dietitian Alexis Dawn Salima Gonzalez.

Alexis Dawn Salima Gonzalez
Jun 23, 20233 min read


Intuitive Eating Principle One: Ditch the Diet Mentality
“If dieting programs had to stand up to the same scrutiny as medication, they would never be allowed for public consumption.”

Stephanie Fiorentino
Nov 18, 20226 min read


Intuitive Eating: Principles and Practical Tips
In today’s post I’ll take you through an overview of the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating and offer a few practical tips to get you started

Stephanie Fiorentino
Oct 21, 20226 min read


Intuitive Eating: Diet Backlash and Eating Styles
What are the symptoms of diet backlash? And could your style of eating conflict with intuitive eating, even if you're not on a diet?

Stephanie Fiorentino
Oct 7, 20225 min read


Why Intuitive Eating? It Works!
Intuitive eating works where diets fail. So maybe it’s not another diet that we need, but something entirely different.

Stephanie Fiorentino
Sep 16, 20225 min read


Why Intuitive Eating? Diets Don't Work.
Eating more intuitively offers countless physical and mental health benefits . . . but we have to give up dieting first.

Stephanie Fiorentino
Sep 1, 20224 min read


Double, Double, Toil and . . . Halloween Candy
It’s that time of year again. Leaves falling, weather turning crisp, holidays just around the corner. Ahhh . . . so lovely! It’s also...

Stephanie Fiorentino
Oct 27, 20215 min read


What if I kinda wish I had an eating disorder?
If you've ever thought to yourself, "I wish I had a little bit of an eating disorder" . . .

Stephanie Fiorentino
Jul 17, 20213 min read


The Science of Diet Failure
95% of diet fail. A look at sixty years of evidence supporting diet failure.

Stephanie Fiorentino
Apr 25, 20214 min read


Cheese! An Intuitive Eating Story.
The other day I was writing out my grocery list and noticed I needed a lot of cheese. Cream cheese for bagels, blue cheese for salads,...

Stephanie Fiorentino
Apr 6, 20213 min read


Set Point Theory & The Limits of Weight Loss
Each of us has a different weight at which our bodies function optimally. This naturally easy-to-maintain weight is our set point.

Stephanie Fiorentino
Jun 25, 20204 min read


An Open Letter to the Fitness Industry
How could this thin-obsessed, hypersexualized, elitist culture align itself with health and wellness?

Stephanie Fiorentino
Jun 19, 20202 min read


Grocery Shopping in the Age of Social Distancing
With more than three quarters of the United States under mandatory stay at home orders, even grocery shopping is getting more complicated!

Stephanie Fiorentino
Apr 2, 20203 min read


Let Them Eat Carbs
Carbs: The much-vilified macronutrient that went from being the foundation of the food pyramid to the supposed cause of all our nutrition...

Stephanie Fiorentino
Jan 26, 20193 min read


The New Year
2019 is here and there's no shortage of resolution talk flooding the media. But the reality is, most resolutions fail before the end of...

Stephanie Fiorentino
Jan 8, 20194 min read


AWW NUTS!
As a kid I remember that my dad (who was always very health conscious) really enjoyed nuts but was cautious about eating too many. He...

Stephanie Fiorentino
Dec 5, 20183 min read


The Calorie Count
Have you ever really tracked your daily food intake? I mean weighed or measured every single thing you ate for the day then logged it in...

Stephanie Fiorentino
Nov 4, 20183 min read


The Weekday/Weekend
Of all the non-diet but actually-a-diet diets I’ve reviewed over the last few weeks, this one is by far the easiest for me to write about...

Stephanie Fiorentino
Sep 29, 20183 min read


The Fast
One of the most popular trends in dieting over the past few years is intermittent fasting. And let’s be clear hear, this is definitely a...

Stephanie Fiorentino
Sep 14, 20184 min read
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