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09/09/2025

🍎Parents get to decide what kids eat for lunches. Not a lunch monitor. Not a (well-meaning) EA or teacher.

If you hear that your child’s lunch box is being policed e.g. they are being asked to eat X first or aren’t allow to eat THIS before THAT. Do some digging.

Who is monitoring the lunch? In our school it was grade 7 kids. In yours, it could be someone else. Then find out if there is flexibility in the lunch monitoring, is this a classroom policy? Or is it flexible? Which we can learn more about with a quick chat with the teacher or a short email.

If your lunch monitor changes often parents can also put in a handy “Lunchbox Card” to ask the person supervising lunch to please let their child eat any foods in their lunchbox in ANY order and include their name and phone number for any questions.

📌Don’t forget to SAVE THIS POST and print out the lunchbox card to use if/when you need it! Have you noticed any lunchbox policing at your schoolWhat did you do? Comment below! 👇👇👇
This lunchbox card is adapted from one created by and

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09/02/2025

Annual lunchbox “cheat sheet” 📚🍎
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School is here we all need a little “cheat sheet” to help remind us of what school safe items we can pack in the lunchboxes!!!

So check out my master list (I actually print this and put it on the fridge) to remind you of easy ideas to stack a lunch box!
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📌Don’t forget to SAVE THIS POST for easy reference so you never have to look blankly in the fridge and wonder what on earth you should pack! Tag or share if you think others could use it too! ⁠

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08/26/2025

Despite what you may have heard. perimen can start as early as your late 30’s.

For most women it starts between 41-44 and can last for 2-10 years. The average age of menopause (or the time when you haven’t had a period for 1 year) is about 52.

Some signs and symptoms of peri:
🩸Shortening (or lengthening) of days between your menstrual cycle
🌊 Heavier menstrual flow (“flooding”)
💤 Insomnia
🤬 Increased irritability and PMS (aka ‘menorage’)
😞 Increased anxiety and/or depression
⚕️Increases in cholesterol or blood sugars
🙍‍♀️Weight changes or increases in abdominal weight accumulation

If you are concerned about your hormonal health speak with your MD.

Here are just a few things that I have found that work to support hormonal changes
🌱Soy products: they contain phytoestrogens which weakly bind to estrogen receptors and can decrease symptoms over time
🥜 Eating regularly and adding protein helps stabilize blood sugars, cravings, and supports muscle formation. This also supports mood stability.
🛌 Sleep is undervalued but lack of sleep increases cravings for carbohydrates, can increase appetite ans worsens mood.

Which of these do you try to do more often? 1,2,3 or 4? Comment below 👇

📌 SAVE to remind yourself of the signs and symptoms and some strategies to support you

What do you want to know about nutrition and perimenopause? Comment below 👇

08/25/2025

Anyone else feel like this should be in EVERY single doctor’s office in the world? Especially pediatrician’s offices?

I know for myself one of my earlier body shaming moments came from a (well-meaning) doctor asking if I had been “eating too many Christmas cookies”. That has stayed with me for over 30 years.

What do you think of this sign? Comment 👇 below
↗️SHARE if you think we need more signs like this! 💕
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08/19/2025

She is so much more than pretty 💫

Here are some ideas to compliment our daughters (and the daughters of others) that have nothing to do with their appearance.

What would you add? Comment below 👇

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08/09/2025

Back to school means casual conversations with people we don’t hang out with regularly. And sometimes you need to SHUT DOWN the diet culture talk to set a boundary!
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The causal remarks about their new plan, protocol, reset, cleanse, diet....whatever. They are all harmful especially if you are trying to move away from diet culture and heal your relationship with food & your body. ⁠
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Easier said than done? ⁠
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Here is what you can say: “hey, I am really trying hard to heal my relationship with food and my body, could we skip the food and body talk. Is that ok?”

Or just awkwardly change the subject. “My zucchinis are a foot long this year” - trust me they will get the message!
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What do you do when this stuff comes up? Comment below 👇

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07/31/2025

This can’t get more accurate, don’t you think?

“What is diet culture?” I often get asked in the dms. This is the definition I like best from

Diet culture is a system of beliefs that:

⚕️Worships thinness and equates it to health and moral virtue
🏃‍♀️Promotes weight loss as a means of attaining higher status
🥦Demonizes certain ways of eating while elevating others
👩‍🦽Oppresses people who don’t match up with its supposed picture of “health,” which disproportionately harms women, femmes, trans folks, people in larger bodies, people of color, and people with disabilities

So basically it’s the “life ruiner” and once you can see diet culture for what it is, you can’t unsee it. So pull the curtain back and take a peek…

How has diet culture shown up for you? Comment below 👇

Ps this movie is over 20 years old 🤯

07/23/2025

⚠️We can’t shelter them from every diet culture message in the world ⚠️
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What we CAN do is build resilience to it. ⁠We can also reinforce that what is most important to us (as their parent) is not what a person looks like or the size of their body.
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If a (well-meaning) grandparent talks about someone gaining or losing weight in front of your kids we can reinforce that we aren’t “keeping track” of others and refocus to what we actually love about that person that has nothing to do with their weight.

Later we can also try to set boundaries with our family and help explain WHY we don’t want our kids to have this kind of messaging instilled into to them.
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📌SAVE THIS POST so you don’t forget these key scripts.

Let’s raise our kids to have a healthier relationship with food than WE had! Have you ever encountered challenges messages from well meaning family members? How did you respond? Comment below 👇⁠
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07/11/2025

“Mommy am I fat?” ⁠
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The most common and instinctual response here is “no honey, you are beautiful”. But this reinforces the message that fat is NOT beautiful, which is just plain wrong!⁠
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But rather than dismiss this comment “of course not!” let’s try to understand more about WHY they are asking? ⁠
🌈”Why do you ask?”⁠
⚽”Where did you hear this from?”⁠
🥦”What makes you ask this?”⁠
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First start by NORMALIZING the natural diversity in body shapes and sizes “everyone is growing at a different rate, some are bigger and some are smaller, some are taller and some are shorter. Both of these is normal and healthy.” You can also add that “having fat on your body (or being fat whichever feels more comfortable) isn’t a bad thing either”.
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Kids need to hear YOU say that you are ok with their body JUST THE WAY IT IS.

Then foster some critical thinking skills “there are so many different messages that suggest bodies should only look one way, why do you think that is?”

Finally reinforce that the MOST important thing about their body is what it DOES not what it looks it. ⁠
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📌Don’t forget to SAVE THIS POST so you are prepared if/when this question pops up in your home! You got this mama 💕⁠

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06/21/2025

Can you imagine if we heard this from our moms growing up? 🥹

And yet, I know that they were doing the best they could.

We can hold deep space for the wounds our moms had about their own bodies without holding them for ourselves.

Healing means reparenting ourselves to meet our own emotional or physical needs that went unmet in childhood.

What do you wish your mom had told you about your body as a child? Comment below 👇

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Thank you to for this inspiring post
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