Thank you to my intern, Ashley for creating this piece!

What and how you eat can increase your stress and stress can increase what and how you eat. In order to minimize this stress, it’s important to “Plate It Out” – a strategy for meals that improves your resiliency. Plate It Out and eating resiliently affect not only your...

By Ashley Lemke

Stress is an inevitable part of being alive. Your job, relationships, and responsibilities will only continue to demand more of you as time goes on, and you need to be prepared. Stress is not going to go away anytime soon, and the only logical solution is to build your resilience...

The long-term success rate of dieting is 5-10% [1]. That is dismal. All the deprivation, all the stress, all the struggle, and it won’t work for most of us.

It’s not that we lack self-discipline or willpower to be successful. The problem is that dieting couldn’t be more opposite...

We had a RIDICULOUS amount of chocolate in the house over the holidays and it was fast becoming a major food group for me. It didn’t seem to matter how much I told myself not to eat it, that I was going to regret it later and tried to resist it, I couldn’t stop eating it.

I could not...