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08/29/2025

📣🚨 No Feelings This Weekend, Just Ribs 🚨📣

Hey friends! Normally I’d be here with another Feed Your Feelings post where I gently guide you through the emotional minefield of food with the grace of a kale-wrapped therapist.

But not today.

Today, I’m taking a break. Why?
Because it’s a HOLIDAY WEEKEND and I’m too busy eating my body weight in potato salad.

💥 That’s right. This weekend’s meal plan?

Brisket

Burgers

Buns (plural)

Maybe a vegetable, if it’s hiding under ranch

Look, I love mindful eating. I love emotional awareness. I love helping you figure out why you cry into your cereal.

But I also love pulled pork like it wronged my family and I’m out for revenge.

So this weekend, I want you to do one thing:

👉 EAT. THE. FOOD.
The BBQ chicken? YES.
That suspicious-looking jello salad? ALSO YES.
A 4th hot dog at 9 p.m.? BABY YOU DESERVE IT.

Let’s all take a collective deep breath, unclench our butts, and remember that food is joy, especially when it’s served on a paper plate next to someone’s aunt who says “I don’t usually eat gluten but today doesn’t count.”

🥳 Have a safe, happy, sauce-covered holiday weekend.
💋 Feed Your Feelings will be back next week (with extra celery to atone for our sins).

Now pass the damn corn.

(on pause)

08/18/2025

📣 WEEK TWO DROP! 🧠🥑
Welcome back to Feed Your Feelings: A Dietitian Gets Real About Food, Feelings & Figuring It Out aka the only series where we talk about mental health and snacks in the same sentence and nobody gets judged for crying into a quesadilla. 🌯💅

This week’s spicy little truth bomb:

Intuitive Eating Isn’t Just Eating Cake with Your Eyes Closed 🎂🙈

Let’s talk about the term “intuitive eating.”
Because I know some of y’all heard that and immediately thought:
“So... just eat whatever I want and call it self-care?”
And to that, I say: kinda yes... but also, stop it.

Look, intuitive eating isn’t just vibing with a muffin and hoping for the best.
It’s about rebuilding trust with your body after diet culture made you feel like you couldn’t be alone with a baguette without adult supervision.

Here’s what it actually means:
🥑 Listening to your hunger and fullness cues (like, actually listening not gaslighting them because your fitness tracker told you it’s not lunchtime yet)
🧠 Honoring cravings without spiraling into guilt or Googling “how to undo eating 3 cookies” like it’s a crime
🚫 Not turning food into a morality test (“Good girl for eating a salad,” vs. “Bad girl for eating fries” we’re done with that energy, Susan)

The real kicker?
Most of us have spent so long dieting, restricting, bingeing, or mentally negotiating with toast that we don’t even know what our hunger cues sound like anymore.
(Spoiler: they’re not supposed to scream.)

Because here’s the truth:
You were born knowing how to eat. Diet culture just came in like an unqualified ex and messed everything up.

I hope this helps some of you out there DM me with any questions. Have a fab food filled week and see you next week!

08/10/2025

🍋 Lemonade Stand Tomorrow in Marblehead! 🍋

Exciting news, friends! My sweet neighbor will be running her lemonade stand tomorrow, Monday, August 11th from 4–5 PM at the Eveleth School in Marblehead, MA! 🏫

She’ll be serving up fresh-squeezed homemade lemonade made from real lemons (truly delicious I can confirm! 💛) along with some tasty snacks.

Such a fun way to support a young entrepreneur and enjoy a refreshing summer treat! ☀️

Swipe through to see:
📸 A pic of her at her stand a couple weeks ago
📸 Me holding one of her amazing lemonades!

Come by and show her some love and bring your thirst!

08/05/2025

🧠🍕 FEED YOUR FEELINGS: EPISODE 1 (ish)
“Is It Emotional Eating… or Are You Just a Human Being?”

Let’s clear something up real quick:
Emotional eating is not a personal failure.
It’s not a moral issue.
And it definitely doesn’t mean you need to go on a juice cleanse and find yourself in the woods. (Unless you're into that. In which case, pack snacks.)

Here’s the deal, backed by science and sarcasm:

👉 Your brain is hardwired to seek comfort.
👉 Food provides comfort.
👉 Therefore: sometimes, your brain + a cookie = survival, not sabotage.

Yes, emotional eating can be a sign that something deeper’s going on (hi, burnout, loneliness, diet culture trauma), but it can also just mean... you're feeling things and your body’s doing its best. Wild, right?

🍫 Eating chocolate after a stressful meeting? Normal.
🍿 Mindlessly snacking while doom-scrolling? Also normal.
🍟 Using food as your only coping tool? That’s where we get curious, not shamey.

Because here’s what we’re not doing anymore:
❌ Labeling food as “bad”
❌ Calling ourselves “bad” for eating
❌ Pretending we’re robots who only eat when physically hungry (cute in theory, not how real life works)

So before you spiral about that snack you had “for no reason,” ask yourself:
💬 “What was I feeling?”
💬 “What did I really need?”
💬 “Was that peanut butter straight from the jar actually kind of perfect?”

You’re not failing.
You’re not “addicted to sugar.”
You’re not a lost cause.
You’re human, with emotions and taste buds; both are valid.

This is your invitation to get curious, not critical.
Welcome to the series where we feed ourselves with compassion, not guilt. 💜

08/05/2025

📣 NEW SERIES DROP! 🍕🧠
"Feed Your Feelings: A Dietitian Gets Real About Food, Feelings & Figuring It Out"

So, real talk, we just wrapped up my last series, “Food Rules & Other BS We Were Taught,” where we politely (okay, not that politely) dragged diet culture through the mud. If you missed it, it was like a breakup letter to every food myth we were fed in the 90s yes, Susan, fat-free cookies were never the vibe. 🙄

But now that we've kicked those bogus rules to the curb like expired almond milk, it’s time to move on... to the real stuff.

Introducing: “Feed Your Feelings”, a fresh, no-filter series where we get into the messy, hilarious, and healing intersection of food + mental health.

Because let’s be honest:
🧠 Sometimes your "craving" is just anxiety in a cute outfit
🍷 Emotional eating isn’t a character flaw, it’s a coping strategy (just not always a great one)
🍕And if you’ve ever cried into pizza while googling “What is intuitive eating?”This is for you

We’ll cover:
✅ Why your brain loves snacks more than compliments
✅ How eating disorders and mental health hold hands like clingy exes
✅ Mindful eating without the BS (no kale haikus required)

Oh, and it’ll be funny. Like, laugh while healing your food trauma funny. Expect tears, carbs, and a few moments where you’ll go, “Wait... is this therapy?”

🎥 First episode lands this week!
So grab your snacks (ALL snacks welcome), follow along, and tag a friend who needs this.

Because healing your relationship with food doesn’t have to feel like punishment, it can feel like freedom. With a side of fries.

Send a message to learn more

07/31/2025

🎉 BREAKING NEWS 🎉

I now officially accept Wellsense Health Plans, which means if that’s your insurance, we’re basically in a committed relationship now. 💍 (Kidding. Sort of.)

If you've got Wellsense, congrats you're covered to work with me. No dramatic paperwork montages. No tears. Just insurance that actually works for nutrition.

Just wanted to share the update — now back to your regularly scheduled scrolling. 😎🥦

07/25/2025

Week Three: “Clean Eating” & Other Dirty Lies 🚿🍽️
Alright, class welcome back to Food Rules & Other BS We Were Taught, where we respectfully (ok, not always) take a blowtorch to diet culture and roast it like a marshmallow at a girl scout bonfire.

This week? Oh, baby, we’re coming for “clean eating.”

Yeah. That phrase your coworker says right before judging your sandwich. That label on the $12 juice that tastes like lawn clippings. That thing you tried to do for three days before waking up spoon-deep in Nutella and shame.

Spoiler alert: Food doesn’t have a moral compass. You're not a better person for eating quinoa, and you're not a trash goblin for loving pizza rolls.

Let’s get this straight:
🧼 Food isn’t dirty.
🧼 You’re not toxic.
🧼 And if a salad makes you feel superior to others? Congrats—you’ve got kale and a god complex.

This week, we’re breaking down:

Where the "clean eating" trend came from (hint: Instagram and Goop),

Why it’s sneaky diet culture in a wellness hoodie,

And how to eat a freakin’ cookie without spiraling into existential dread.

Because real health? It includes satisfaction. It includes flexibility. It includes carbs that weren’t “blessed” by a wellness influencer in Bali.

So let’s laugh, rage a little, and maybe throw out that $18 bag of chickpea puffs that taste like sadness.

✨ If you’ve ever whispered “I’m being so bad” while eating pasta… honey, it’s time we talk.

Until next time, remember:
You’re not a walking Whole30.
You don’t need to earn your food.
And you're allowed to eat a sandwich without needing to confess it to your therapist.

Have a FABULOUS weekend, you beautiful, emotionally stable carb-lovers.
Eat what you love. Hydrate. And please, for the love of fiber, stop pretending cauliflower is pizza.

See you next week. We’re not done yet. 🔥

07/18/2025

🚨 LEMONADE EMERGENCY! 🚨
There’s a super sweet entrepreneur at the Evelyth School RIGHT NOW with the best homemade lemonade in town – and she only has 20 minutes left before she packs up!

👟 Swing by Evelyth School and help her SELL OUT before she goes home! Let’s show her how a community supports its young dreamers! 💪

📍 Evelyth School
🕐 Only 20 minutes left – hurry!

07/17/2025

🚨PAUSE ON THE FOOD RULES RANT WE NEED TO TALK KETO & MENTAL HEALTH 🧠🥑

Okay, folks, I’m hitting the pause button on my weekly series “Food Rules & Other BS We Were Taught” (back next week, swear on my oat milk latte ☕) because this article? 👇
Yeah. It’s kind of a big deal.

👉 Read: https://med.stanford.edu/news/insights/2025/04/keto-diet-ketogenic-therapy-mental-illness-bipolar.html

Here’s the tea:
Stanford’s Dr. Shebani Sethi is out here doing real-deal science showing how a ketogenic diet might improve both metabolic health and symptoms in people with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression.
Translation: The connection between what’s on your plate and what’s happening in your brain? It’s real. It’s growing. And it’s not just a “maybe your blood sugar’s low” kind of thing.

🧠 Mental illness + metabolic dysfunction = a nasty little duo.
Turns out over 40% of folks with serious mental illness also have metabolic syndrome. And anti-psychotic meds? Yeah, they can seriously mess with weight and blood sugar. But this pilot study found that after just 4 months on a medically guided keto plan, patients had fewer psych symptoms and improved their metabolic health.

A few thoughts (and snark) from your favorite food & feelings nerd:

🔍 Critique time!

This isn’t your cousin’s crash keto diet with bacon grease and Pinterest macros. This is clinical, guided, and used as an adjunct to therapy, not a magic bullet.

Also? Let’s not forget: Access to this kind of treatment isn’t equal. Not everyone can afford a Stanford-trained psychiatrist with a keto meal plan. Let’s keep pushing for inclusion and access in mental health nutrition.

But big picture? This is HUGE. People are finally waking up to what we dietitians have known: Mental health lives in your whole body, not just your head. And food is a tool, not a villain. (Looking at you, 90s SnackWell cookies.)

💥 So yeah, I’m fired up. Not “keto solves everything” fired up. But “damn, this could really help some people” fired up.

Back next week with your regularly scheduled takedown of diet culture B.S. Until then, take care of your body, your mind, and for the love of serotonin, don’t fear carbs unless your psychiatrist says so.

XO

As ketogenic therapy gains momentum in treating neuropsychiatric disorders, we asked Stanford Medicine's expert Shebani Sethi for the key takeaways.

07/08/2025

📣 FOOD RULES & OTHER BS WE WERE TAUGHT: WEEK TWO
🧠 BS Rule: “Carbs Are the Enemy.”

Ah yes, the villain of every 2000s diet commercial and your aunt Linda’s Facebook posts: carbohydrates.

Because obviously, bread is out here plotting your downfall like it's the Regina George of your pantry. 🙄

Reality check:
Carbs are not out to destroy your life. They are not hiding in your closet waiting to give you muffin top trauma. They’re literally your body’s preferred source of energy.
Like, your brain runs on carbs. Without them? You're basically a phone on 1% with 18 tabs open.

Let’s break it down:
👉 Bread? Not evil.
👉 Pasta? Not a crime.
👉 Potatoes? A damn gift.
👉 Bagels? Round joy circles.

The only “bad” carbs are the ones that come with a side of shame, guilt, and Susan from Pilates whispering, “I don’t eat white flour.” (Cool Susan, I don’t eat guilt for breakfast.)

Also, fun fact: diets that demonize carbs usually sneakily sell you expensive “keto” cookies made of sadness and coconut flour.

So let’s reframe:
✔ Carbs give you energy.
✔ Carbs taste amazing.
✔ Carbs help regulate mood (serotonin, baby!).
✔ You’re allowed to have toast without repenting like you just sinned at a bakery altar.

What to do instead of fearing carbs?
✨ Eat the damn bagel.
✨ Notice how it feels to eat without guilt.
✨ Remind yourself you're a grown adult and choosing rice does not make you weak.
✨ Laugh in the face of cauliflower crust (unless you genuinely like it…then carry on, sweet cauliflower freak).

Come back next week for another myth diet culture tried to sell us like it was on QVC in 2004.

Until then:
🍝 Praise the pasta.
🙅‍♀️ Block the carb slander.
💃 Eat like you’re free, because you are.

07/02/2025

📣 FOOD RULES & OTHER BS WE WERE TAUGHT: WEEK ONE
🧠 BS Rule: “You’re Not Really Hungry You’re Just Bored.”

Ah yes, the classic gaslight-your-own-stomach diet advice.
Because apparently, your body; a complex, intelligent system that kept humans alive for 200,000 years suddenly forgot what hunger is. 🙃

NEWSFLASH: Boredom hunger is still hunger. Emotional eating is still eating. And eating? Still... legal.

Here’s the real deal:
👉 Sometimes you're hungry because you're hungry.
👉 Sometimes you're hungry because you're bored, sad, anxious, happy, celebrating, lonely, or you just remembered Oreos exist.
👉 And ALL of that is valid.

You are not a broken robot because you eat when you’re not physically starving. You’re a human with emotions, and food has always been emotional. Even cavemen probably shared mammoth meat over a fire and trauma bonded about saber-tooth tigers.

Instead of asking, “Am I really hungry?” try asking:
✔ “What do I need right now?”
✔ “Would food feel supportive or soothing?”
✔ “Can I offer myself kindness, not judgment?”
✔ “Did I just scroll past three reels of gooey cinnamon rolls?” (visual hunger is real too, babe)

✨ Permission to eat? Granted.
✨ Permission to feel? Also granted.
✨ Permission to be bored and snack anyway? You already know.

Come back next week for another lie diet culture told us. Until then:
🥖 Eat the bread.
🙃 Question the nonsense.
💥 Punch guilt in the face (metaphorically, unless guilt is personified by your old Weight Watchers leader, in which case, let’s talk).