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Holiday Overindulgence Making You Feel Sick?
You may be someone who is SO booked with parties and Christmas prep that, despite your best attempts, this triggers you to eat and drink more than you’d like. You feel tired, puffy and bloated, and may gain 5 to 10 lbs by New Years. Worse yet, you always seem to get...
Emotional Eating and Dieting Through The Holidays
The Holidays Season is coming! Do you love this time of year? It’s a great time to connect with family and friends. It’s also a time that we may need a little bit more supportive self-care to get through the holidays HONOURING ourselves. You may be someone who...
Amber Approved Holiday Gift Guide 2019
With the holidays not far away, it's time to start thinking about gifts for those on your Christmas list. Are you unsure of what to get for loved ones, friends or co-workers? Especially if they are health conscious you may be wondering what would appeal. Spoil...
Confidence Struggles and Overspending Through the Holidays – Part 3
In part 2 of this blog series I talked about Holiday Overindulgence Making You Feel Sick which you can read here. You may be someone who struggles with confidence and in your desire to fit in with family and friends, you spend more on gifts and social events than your...
Holiday Overindulgence Making You Feel Sick? – Part 2
In part one of this blog series which you can read here I talked about Emotional Struggles and Holiday Eating and this week I wanted to talk more about how overindulging during the holidays can impact your health through the Christmas season. You may be someone who is...
Emotional Struggles & Holiday Eating Part 1
The Holiday Season is coming! Do you love this time of year? It’s a great time to connect with family and friends. It’s also a time that we may need a little bit more supportive self-care to get through the holidays HONOURING ourselves. You may be someone who...
What is it Really Costing You to Stay Stuck With Your Health
Are you aware of how much money you spend a month for food, mindless snacking, different sizes of clothing in your closet, fad diets and other modalities that aren't working for you on your health journey? Also are you aware of the obsession around food, weight,...
Don’t Let Your Health Symptoms Be Your Normal
Are you tired, bloated or struggling with your weight? Has your doctor or health care practitioner told you that you have to just accept these symptoms because it's "part of aging" or "you are just going to have to deal with this forever". These symptoms don't have to...
Skipping Meals and Blood Sugar Imbalances
Many people I know have a mentality that is "if I skip breakfast or eat less today maybe I will lose weight." Most people have been conditioned to think less calories in means more fat will be burned, when that is definitely not the case. Skipping meals can have a...
Diet Conditioning and Your Children
Did you know that more than 75% of women that I have talked to had one or both parents tell them they were fat or needed to go on a diet as a child? This triggered body image issues, emotional eating and negative self-talk as they grew up and may still be deeply...
Exploring Reasons Why Your Body is Hanging onto Protection
Do you feel like you are consistently struggling to lose weight or keep it off? Many people experience a weight-loss and weight-gain roller coaster that can have a huge impact on your emotions, hormones, health and relationship with food. The mentality is often to...
Emotional Eating and Cortisol Levels
Do you often emotionally eat when you are stressed, tired, bored or watching television? Do you find that no matter how much you sleep you are always tired? You may be struggling with a cortisol imbalance that is fueled by emotional eating. Cortisol is a stress...
Why Overcoming Your Body Insecurities Supports Your Success
Have you ever felt held back by your body image? Do you feel as though you've held yourself back from travel, love or even business opportunities because you feel embarrassed in your body? Often you are hanging onto a fear of being judged by others when you don't feel...
Why Skipping Your Lunch Break Can Trigger Emotional Eating
Do you take the time to stop and take your lunch break? If yes, do you eat and multi-task? I’d like to ask what stands in the way of you taking your lunch break? I often observe people who are skipping their lunch break or who are eating and multi-tasking, and they...
Looking for the Magic Quick Fix
Looking for the Magic Quick Fix I was having a conversation with a client the other day, and she said to me, “Nothing is changing, I thought something magical was going to happen and I would change overnight.” We have only been working together for several...
Instead of Resolutions
Instead of Resolutions Hello 2019, I hope you are enjoying the New Year. I wanted to take some time to talk about resolutions, and share a bit about why I don’t believe in setting them and have a different approach instead. As some of you may know (or...
Amber Approved Holiday Gift Guide 2018
It's beginning to look (and feel!) a lot like Christmas! Are you starting to think about what to get everyone on your list? Spoil your loved ones this Holiday Season with the gift of health, while supporting local stores in Calgary and...
Mindful Connections to Food
Mindful Connections to Food Food is everywhere, and there are many reasons why people eat. And I do see this all the time. I used to eat for many reasons other than physical hunger. Boredom, stress, self-sabotage, fear, pleasure, obsession, reward,...
Amber Approved Holiday Gift Guide 2017
Amber Approved Holiday Gift Guide 2017 The snow is beginning to fall and it's that time of year again! Amber Approved is excited to share all an all new, unique and healthy gift guide for...
Amber Approved Top 5 Healthy Back to School Snacks
Amber Approved Top 5 Healthy Back to School Snacks It’s that time of year. Summer is winding down and it’s time to start planning for back to school and work if you’ve been on vacation. So I’m excited to share with you my top 5 favorite healthy and...
Exploring The Highs and Lows of Sugar Addiction
Exploring The Highs and Lows of Sugar Addiction My Story At one time I had a full blown sugar addiction. I couldn’t stop eating it, had no control around it, and it gave me a high each and every time I ate it. That high ended in self-hate, disappointment...
Enjoy The Flavors of Summer: Amber Approved Camping Recipes
Enjoy The Flavors of Summer: Amber Approved Camping Recipes It is officially camping season. And let me tell you, camping food has always been some of my favorite food! Anything cooked over the fire or in the fire is always amazing. Don't you agree? So I...
What If You Gave Yourself a Year?
What If You Gave Yourself a Year? Have you ever noticed how society has a major lack of patience? Perhaps it comes from a misunderstanding of what hard work is and how essential hard work is to achieving our goals. Whether it be running a business,...
Don’t Like Your Diet? Neither Does Your Body
Don't Like Your Diet? Neither Does Your Body We will often choose a diet or eating style because someone has convinced us. Maybe it’s out of fear, desperation or not knowing what to give our own body. Someone we look up to has tried it and preaches about...
How to Define Your Self-Worth
How to Define Your Self-Worth If you are a listener of The No Sugarcoating Podcast, you might recall Episode 67, where I talk all about self-worth and how we define it. In this blog post, I want to talk about the dangers of letting the scale dictate our...
How to Shift from Self-Hate to Self-Love
How to Shift from Self-Hate to Self-Love Self-love and self-care are two things that used to be foreign to me. I never understood what self-care and self-love really were. They weren’t taught to me. And I participated in the opposite of them both. I...
Why Fad Diets Don’t Work & What To Do Instead
Why Fad Diets Don't Work & What To Do Instead Let’s talk about fad diets for a minute. There have been numerous fad diets that have permeated our culture in the past few decades. You may recognize some of them: South Beach, Atkins, Low-Carb, and Keto, to...