Real Mom Nutrition
A no-judgments zone about feeding a family.
Last year, I took a cue from some favorite bloggers (like InspiredRD and Danielle Omar) and chose a word for the year to guide me. My word for 2015 was FOCUS. I spent the year trying to reduce distractions, be leaner and meaner with my workday, and limit technology during family time. How did I do? …
I’m taking a quick detour from all things kids, food, and eating to talk books. Reading fiction is something I’ve been able to rediscover as my kids get older and I’m gifted with slivers of leisure time. It also helps that I’m well rested enough to manage more than a paragraph before falling asleep. Sometimes I post about …
Is holiday stress getting you down? Feeling grinchy instead of joyful? Cut stress and save time (and even some money) at the holidays with these 35 ideas. I hit a wall on Sunday. A wall made of Christmas cookies, Target receipts, gift bags, and those ornament hooks that get snagged in your sweater. Instead of …
The school year just started, and I’m already putting up the white flag. I’ve got two kids at two schools with two start times and two end times. There are after-school clubs and evening events, soccer practices and music lessons. There’s homework to check, lunch boxes to pack, permission slips to sign, and lost worksheets to recover from …
This is a book excerpt from No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness by Michelle Segar, Ph.D., a book about finding ways to stay active that are sustainable. It provides a four-point program for discovering what really motivates you and what kind of movement really makes you happy. When I …
My children don’t have food allergies but several of their friends do–and from those children and their parents, I have learned a lot about the day-to-day concerns (and fears) that food allergies involve. I reached out to some of those parents for a recent blog post I did for Parents magazine, “What Parents of Kids With Food Allergies Want You …
Lately I’ve been having the same conversation over and over again with my friends who, like me, are in their 40s. It goes something like this: “I’ve gained a little bit of weight this year and ohmygod no matter what I do I just. can’t. lose. it.” Dear reader, if you are in your 30s or …
When people learn that I’m a dietitian, they usually assume a) that I am silently judging them in the grocery store and b) that I have squeaky-clean eating habits at all times. Oh, and c) that I am constantly eating kale. For the record, I am NOT looking in your grocery cart (I’m too busy watching …
While reading my Facebook newsfeed one day, I came across a blog post responding to the recent media dialogue about singer Kelly Clarkson’s weight. A fellow dietitian, Rebecca Scritchfield, left a comment on the thread that I found so insightful and spot-on, I asked if she would expand on her comment in a guest post here. …
I don’t put much stock in New Year’s resolutions, but I love the concept of choosing one word for the year. I first read about it on the blog InspiredRD, where Alysa Bajenaru links to a site called One Word 365 that encourages people to choose a word they can focus on every day, all year long. According the site, the …
I try very hard to make this blog a no-judgments zone. Except when it comes to food marketers. I have no patience for junk food marketing that tries to lure kids with cartoon characters, video games, and thinly veiled promises of being cool. But a funny thing happens whenever I gripe about this: Some readers immediately jump to …
When I began this blog nearly six years ago, I wasn’t exactly sure where it was going. But I knew this: I wanted to keep it real. I had read too much on the internet that made feeding kids sound so easy. But it’s not always easy. I wanted to be honest about that. Since then, my …
