The Unconventional Dietitian Blog
Personal stories and tips about food, health and wellness.
Making Sense of Your Cravings, Mood, and Menstrual Cycle
Cycle. By definition a cycle is “a complete round of occurrences that is repeated.” Cycles occur all around us. A day is a 24 hour cycle. A week, month, and year all have specific days in the cycle and you can expect certain things to happen throughout each cycle....
Emotional Eating
Emotional eating. We are all familiar with it. Emotional eating is broadly defined as food consumption that occurs due to your emotional state or cues such as boredom, loneliness, or anxiety. It happens in a time of heightened emotions. Sometimes it occurs with...
The Scoop on Protein Powder
In the nutrition industry we focus on three different macronutrients - carbohydrates, fat, and protein. Carbs and fat have gotten a lot of attention with the dieting industry. The push is to limit or eliminate carbohydrates and increase fat, leaving protein as the...
Yogurt – Healthy or Not?
I get so many questions about yogurt – is it healthy or not? Here’s the Yogurt Showdown… everything you want to know (and maybe some things you did not even know you want to know) about choosing yogurt. While we all know what yogurt is, do you really know what yogurt...
What You Can Learn From Continuous Glucose Monitors
When I was in college my dad was diagnosed with diabetes. This led to me taking a deep dive into better understanding blood sugar. There are a multitude of ways blood sugar impacts your health, even without a diagnosis of diabetes. This includes hormone fluctuations...
Creating Your Nutrition Principles
At any given time, there are at least 5 mainstream diets that have their own nutrition principles of how to be successful within that program. In part, that is what makes these diets work for the people who partake in them. The guidelines are clear, and when you are...
Breaking Down Nutrition Bars
Nutrition bars have been around for a while and the variety of them is steadily increasing. They serve as a means for providing the sense of sweetness and decadence without feeling like you’ve completely strayed away from your eating plan. Despite their savvy...
The Impact of Alcohol on Hormones
In an ideal world, our hormones work together to keep us healthy and our body functioning at its best. But, when our hormones are out of balance or are not communicating well with each other, it can lead to both physical and mental health problems. According to recent...
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