Your Guide to Nutrition, Wellness & Balanced Living

Intuitive eating can have a place in an active lifestyle. It can seem counterintuitive to set aside the calorie counting apps and fitness trackers when looking to achieve our goals in the gym. However, meticulous tracking and calculating is not necessary in the world of health and fitness. In fact, simply listening to your body, […]

Health at Every Size, Non-Diet Nutrition, Sports Nutrition, Women's Health

January 31, 2022

Active Women and Intuitive Eating

What motivates you to exercise? Depending on your reasons, it may be time to adjust your mindset. Intuitive exercise is engaging in a workout based on what your body needs and enjoys. You may have heard of intuitive eating. Intuitive exercise follows the same principles of connecting and listening to your mind and body to […]

ACTIVE WOMEN & FEMALE ATHLETES, Non-Diet Nutrition, Sports Nutrition

December 15, 2021

Are You Practicing Intuitive Exercise?

Two women sitting on yoga mats practicing yoga. The women are facing away from the camera, are seated crosslegged, and have their hands in prayer behind their backs.

Bone health is often something we don’t pay much attention to when we’re young. We don’t typically think about the importance of it until we age and the consequences become our reality. Unfortunately, in contrast, the majority of the impact that we have on our bone health occurs at a much younger age. In fact, […]

Eating Disorders, Men's Health, Non-Diet Nutrition, Sports Nutrition, Women's Health

November 29, 2021

Bone Health and Injury Prevention

Fad diets and social media have popularized the low-fat diet and often support avoiding fats wherever we can. You may have also heard terms like “healthy fat” and are unsure if you’re meeting the recommendations for a healthy diet. In today’s blog, we break down the myths about dietary fat and how much fat active […]

Eating Disorders, Men's Health, Non-Diet Nutrition, Sports Nutrition, Women's Health

November 1, 2021

Dietary Fat Myths and How Much You Really Need in Your Diet

image of various healthy fats in a heart shaped bowl including avocado, olives, nuts, seeds, and salmon

By Matt Luongo, MAEd, RDN, CSSD, CDN Many have begun to question if intuitive eating for athletes is appropriate. Proper nutrition for athletes is one of the most crucial pieces to success in sport. Good nutrition provides more energy to the active individual and can help the Olympic athlete finish first in their event. No […]

Health at Every Size, Sports Nutrition

September 27, 2021

Intuitive Eating for Athletes: Building The Plate That Works for You

Eating for Athletes

By Ashley Dimon, Dietitian & Sports Nutrition Volunteer Is there a chance that you are over-training and under-eating? Consider the following. Are you constantly thinking about food? Do you often feel tired or irritable? Do you often have stress fractures or injuries that won’t heal? Hair loss? Irregular or loss of your menstrual cycle? These […]

Men's Health, Non-Diet Nutrition, Sports Nutrition, Women's Health

June 29, 2021

Signs You Are Over-Training and Under-Eating

A combination of overtraining and underfueling is the most common cause of low energy availability.

By Lexi Moriarty, MS, RD, CSSD & Ashley Dimon, Sports Nutrition Volunteer Depending on your circles, you may’ve heard low energy availability (LEA) RED-s (relative energy deficiency in sport), but you may not be sure exactly what they mean. So, I want to take a few minutes to break it down for you here! Here […]

Sports Nutrition, Women's Health

March 2, 2021

What Every Person Should Know about Low Energy Availability & RED-S