New Motivation – For Me and You!

As your coach, I don’t have your answers; but I can make sure you are empowered with the reality (not the fads!) of nutrition, exercise, and health and I can lead you in a direction that helps you discover your answers.

Your best weight may be heavier than all those experts tell you it should be. Don’t listen to them. Your BEST weight is the one that maximizes your health both physically AND emotionally. It is determined by YOU – your body, your medical labs – and not from some chart. (Spoiler Alert – excess weight does not CAUSE diabetes and heart disease… association is not causation… lots of “skinny” people have these conditions too!)

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Willpower – Psssshaw.

On average, I talk to about 30-40 people every week who are working on reaching their health goals using food and nutrition. Sure, we talk about food and calories and all that fun dietitian-stuff; but more often than not, the issue is not what or how to eat. Google yourself a nutrition question and you’ll…

Diet / Dietitian / Food / hunger / Snacks / weight loss

If Hunger is the Problem, Food is the Solution

Yesterday I was so hungry. I wanted to snack my way through my afternoon. I am working on weight loss so how much I eat is a factor. I try to eat enough food to fuel my body without eating more than I need at any one time. Here’s the question – a person is working…

Diet / Dietitian / health / weight / weight loss

Weight Loss: A Long and Winding Road

Expectation: Once I can finally decide to make the changes to lose weight, I should lose weight every week! If it were a line graph it should look like this one: Notice that pesky word “should.” Take that word out of your vocabulary. Should according to whom? THEM??? Who are they? YOU?? Where did you get…

Dietitian / Food / research / splenda / sugar

Another Study on Splenda: Mice, Cancer, and Ridiculous Advice

I just came across a blog titled Splenda Possibly Linked to Cancer, New Study Finds. I use Splenda. Daily. So I checked this out. Turns out the study was released in January, six months ago; but it was worth investigating since if it popped up in my Facebook feed, it was probably popping up in…

The Secrets of My Success

I recently wrote, “Change your body or don’t – we are all works in progress – but please start from a place of self-love and body-acceptance.” (Blog here). Today, I share some of my journey. My weight fluctuates. I remember being 13 and thinking I was too fat (at 115 lbs!). I also remember being…

Meal Plan Yumminess

It’s been a while since I posted a meal plan and I’m back with a delicious week of meals to share with you. I’ve been faithfully planning and prepping and have started to get a little bored with the same old meals. This week, I added a few new recipes. Do as much prep as…

Overnight Oats

“Getting what you want is simple, but not easy.” – Mel Robbins. I believe this is true when applied to nutrition. I think many of us know WHAT to do – nutrition is really simple once you get away from the hype of the media and uneducated bloggers. We just struggle with ACTUALLY DOING IT…

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Are You Healthy?

Is overweight the new healthy? The answer might surprise you. Let’s start with the definition of healthy. How do you define healthy? There are many aspects of health – there is body size (BMI, body fat) or metabolic health (lab results) or cardiovascular health (resting heart rate, ability to perform daily living tasks or purposeful…

No More Excuses for Fast Food!

I get it. You’re busy, you’re tired, you don’t have time for meal planning, grocery shopping, meal prepping. You think your only option is that fast food drive through or the quick convenience restaurants. I completely disagree. We are ALL busy, tired, and don’t have free time to do all that planning and preparation. You have…

Happy New Meal Planning!

I returned to work today and the majority of people are focusing on meal planning as their current focus with their renewed enthusiasm of a new year. Meal planning and preparing foods ahead of time is a wonderful way to have a successful week in terms of meeting your nutrition goals. Two quotes come to…

A New Direction: More Personal, Less Business

Before I write about the new direction for my blog, I want to start off with some exciting news. I am officially a published author of a really-for-real BOOK! Okay, let me slow down… I’m a co-author but it is just as exciting! I wrote a few sections for 200 Surefire Ways to Eat Well…

Alexia Lewis R.D.

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