Your weekly(ish) dish of food freedom, midlife mindset shifts, and the occasional tail-wagging life lesson all served with a compassionate twist for living well beyond weight.
This week: a trail run, a scraped knee, and some observations about what happens when getting back into something doesn’t feel quite how we expected.
And don’t miss the note at the end: re: a summer hiatus ☀️
🍽 The Main Course: Bloody Knees & Other Evidence
A few weeks ago I decided to go for a ...
This week: explorations in guilt, suffering, and unproductive productivity.
Also, Benny launches a formal objection.
🍽 The Main Course: When One Brownie is Worse Than Half the Pan.
Women who feel the worst after overeating aren't always the women who ate the most.
That probably sounds obvious. ...
This week I'm talking about seed oils, wellness villains, and how quickly repeated messages can start sounding like facts.
Also, a reminder that while traveling is fun - nothing beats home.
🍽 The Main Course: Canola and Sunflower and Corn Oils, Oh My!
A couple weeks ago someone I was with at a ...
This week: the surprisingly aggressive advice we are often given when our bodies start changing in midlife.
Also, Benny hits his limit approximately 50 feet from home.
🍽 The Main Course: When Healthy Feels Mean
I’m not kidding when I say that every day I see versions of the same question:
“I’m do...
This week... a mountain biking story.
Also: a bittersweet goodbye.
🍽 The Main Course: In With The New
Last year, when I turned 60, my husband surprised me with a new mountain bike.
A really nice one.
Lighter. Better suspension. Electronic shifters. Better geometry. Better everything, honestly.
...
This week flows from last week's topic about answering questions. But now we're digging into questions so we can figure out what's really underneath.
And, we'll end with a hilariously wrong, but confident, answer. 🤣
🍽 The Main Course: Wanting to Want it.
A lot of the work I do with clients is ...
What’s most helpful? The answer… or something else?
This week’s issue is about that question — and a small shift I’m making in how I’ll be offering coaching support this summer.
🍽 The Main Course: When Helping Backfires
I used to think helping people meant giving them answers.
And for a long tim...
This week I’m sharing an eye-roll moment I had recently while watching TV.
Also don’t miss a new section I’m trying out in this issue: The Fine Print. It’ll show up every now and then…it’s about details that are easy to miss, but are definitely worth noticing.
🍽 The Main Course: There Had to be ...
We tend to focus a lot on what we eat when we think about our health.
But that’s only one part of what’s actually shaping how we feel day to day.
🍽 The Main Course: Didn't Eat Great. Felt Better Anyway.
A few weeks ago I had a long weekend away with some girlfriends. A few of us decided to hop ...
This week: processed food labels… what's being measured?And a couple of naughty canines making questionable decisions in the backyard.
🍽 The Main Course — What's Packaging Got Do With It?
You’re probably seeing headlines about ultra-processed foods everywhere lately.
It's confusing, right? Like...
Sometimes the first explanation we come up with is the one we run with.
This week we look what gets missed when we stop there...and a reminder that not everything needs to be finished, figured out, or fully explained.
🍽 The Main Course: Simple isn't Always Right
I stood up from the dinner table ...
I’ve thought a lot about “food noise” lately, especially with how much it’s come up around GLP-1s. It's become a part of mainstream conversation.
But, here's a piece of it that doesn't get talked about much...the different routes to quieting it.
🍽 The Main Course — When Food is Uncertain.
Food...
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