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You are literally holding your eyelids open on the drive home from a long day at work. Your stomach starts churning, you might even need to pull over and it dawns on you - can lack of sleep cause nausea? You are stuck in the daily grind, the constant hustle of commuting, working full time and doing all the things for everyone! It’s not like you don’t WANT to sleep but there just isn’t enough time in the day. When your head actually does hit the pillow, your mind can’t settle and it’s still RACING while you lie down in the quiet. This isn’t something to feel guilty about. Our hustle culture and value for productivity can make it really hard to give yourself a break, let alone find the space...

Have you felt judged for your size? Do you alway wonder if that person you haven’t seen in a long time is looking at you now, thinking you “let yourself go” or you don’t care about your health, solely based on how you look? Are you worried that they think you binge or have some sort of emotional eating concern because of your size? Whether or not it's true, these thoughts can make you feel so vulnerable and exposed! It’s made you question your size AND your health - maybe even wondering if “Is obesity an eating disorder?” Is it? The fact that you’ve been taught to ask yourself that question is not only unfair, it’s wrong.  Health is not a size! Nor is disordered eating a size! Perhaps...

Your body has experienced some changes in the last couple of years. You’ve gained some weight, especially over the pandemic, and now you have serious body insecurities.  You’re struggling with trying to accept these changes BUT at the same time, you want to look and feel “put together.” My mother always told me that if I looked put together, society would assume good things about me and treat me with respect. This was especially important to her when I went after jobs, or, went with her to family parties. She wanted me to look the part! Did you hear that growing up, too? I heard this message from a very young age, and it impacted my own sense of body insecurities growing up. ...

When you go out to eat with friends, you are SUPER careful with what you order and you ALWAYS make note of the nearest bathroom. You don’t know which IBS symptom it’ll be today. It’s not just the symptoms you’re worrying about, you have this voice in your head - “Can IBS cause weight loss or will I gain weight?” You can’t help it - you’ve been brought up thinking you had to have a certain body size. At the same time, going on a diet right now feels impossible with all the restrictions you already have with your IBS. Ugh! Your gut’s a mess, you’re not happy with your body and you just want to be happy and healthy like everyone else!  Hi! I’m Melissa! As a registered dietitian and...

All you heard your doctor say was that you have PCOS and high cholesterol and your ears shut off. Your mind is going a mile a minute. Your period has been a little wonky, and you're worried what that would mean for your ability to conceive. You were dismissed at first by your doctors and told to lose weight. You’ve been trying so hard to watch what you're eating and “be better” with your nutrition. Every time you try to diet, it backfires (like it always does). This has left you guilt-ridden and deep into your binge-restrict cycle extremes.  At last, your doctor finally started investigating the causes. Since it’s one of the most common causes of female infertility, your doctors...