Discover Your Postpartum Fitness Goals
When you’re ready to return to exercise after having a baby, it can be helpful to define your goals and priorities and to discover your true WHY. Too often we stop at a high level ‘why’ which doesn’t …
7 Tips to Successfully Hit Macros When Eating Out
Of all the misconceptions in the dieting world, one of the most painful is that eating healthy and eating out are mutually exclusive. My experience with teaching hundreds of clients the principles of …
Why Meal Plans Don’t Always Work and What to Do Instead
“Can’t you just write me a meal plan?” As the saying goes, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard this during a nutrition consultation I’d be rich! But I’d also be not very helpful if I had given …
How to Know if You’re Ready to Exercise After Having a Baby
The term “exercise” and “workout” are such broad terms that it is no surprise so many new moms are confused about returning to their fitness routine after having a baby. So how …
Tracking Macros While Traveling
When it comes to working towards specific nutrition goals, I talk a lot about creating habits and routines; unfortunately, travel can wreak destruction on our routine, leaving us feeling like we …
What Causes Water Weight, Water Retention, and Weight Fluctuation?
My macro coaching clients often send me frantic messages saying they are upset because it seems like they gained two pounds overnight. I reassure them that such dramatic weight fluctuations are caused …
Tracking Macros When Eating Out
One of the best things about flexible dieting and IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros) is that it gives you the freedom to eat what you want and where you want! No longer do you have to avoid certain …
How to Track Alcohol While Counting Macros
One of the very first things I do when I want to clean up my nutrition, regardless of whether I’m working towards performance or fat loss goals, is take inventory of my alcohol consumption. Alcohol is …
Out of a Macro for the Day? Here’s What to Eat
It’s 7:30 pm and you’re staring at the fridge, starving. You check your food logging app and see that you have 6 grams of carbs, 40 grams of protein, and 1 gram of fat left for the day. You’re gunning …