goal-setting

I’ve always loved the beginning of the year — the whole blank slate, fresh start vibe. Catharine Utzschneider, a professor at the Boston College Sports Leadership Center compared midlife to “a book without any structure, without sentences, periods, commas, paragraphs, chapters, with no punctuation,” as opposed to young adulthood, when milestones are…

Since returning from vacation, I’ve been hearing lots of comments like “I fell off the wagon,” or “My old habits are creeping back.” Between the endless pandemic, our awfully short summer, and well, life, it’s natural to need to recommit every so often. Where to start? Get clear on exactly…

I know, New Year’s Resolutions aren’t cool, and trust me, I hate the “new year, new you” silliness too. I like the old you! But like many people, I do feel like reflecting and planning at this time of year, and sometimes the results look suspiciously like resolutions, no matter…

With Nutrition Month in the rearview mirror, dietitians across Canada are sharing some great tips for a critical aspect of healthy eating: making it stick! I’d like to focus on one of my favourite tools for maintaining a new healthy habit, a simple app called Way of Life .  Way of Life allows you to identify a…

With Nutrition Month starting tomorrow, I have two questions for you: How would you rate your eating habits, on a scale from 1 to 10? What is one thing you could do to move that score one point in the right direction? Where we dietitians really make a difference is in…