Shohreh Davoodi
Approximately 2-3 times per year I get strong cravings for Dr. Pepper. Normally I’m not much of a soda drinker (kombucha gives me my fizzy fix). But when that soda desire strikes, instead of telling myself that it’s “bad” for me or trying to ignore it, I know I need to get myself a Dr. read more
It used to be the case that whenever I would sit down for a meal, I would run through a series of food rules in my head before choosing what to eat. I scanned nutrition labels, mining for information that would let me know if I was “allowed” to eat that particular food, refused to read more
Diet culture is all around us. It influences how we speak and exercise, what we eat and wear, and even how we feel about and talk to ourselves. We are living and breathing diet culture every day, yet most people don’t even know it exists. That’s because it is so deeply embedded into our lives read more
Due to intuitive eating’s rise in popularity over the last few years, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of it before. Perhaps you’ve seen a personal trainer dismiss intuitive eating as an excuse to gorge on junk food and never exercise. Or maybe you’ve read a blog post from a nutrition coach heralding intuitive eating read more
When I describe myself as a weight-inclusive coach who doesn’t focus on weight loss, I get a lot of confused looks and questions. This makes sense in a culture that insists that: What we put in our mouths is a moral issue and will either cure us or kill us. Exercise exists for us to read more
My one-year trapeze anniversary recently passed, and celebrating it made me reflect on how much embracing joyful movement has changed my view of exercise over the course of my life. As a child, I was very active and participated in karate, soccer, and basketball. But after I left organized sports behind and went through puberty, read more
I have a laundry list of foods that I know I’m “supposed to” eat because they’re “good for me” but that I just can’t bring myself to actually eat. Many of these are so-called “superfoods,” a clever marketing term for foods rich in nutrients that are supposed to be beneficial for our health and wellbeing, read more
There’s a good chance you’ve been on at least one diet in your lifetime, and you may even be dieting right now. While keto is the current heavyweight champ of the dieting world, past popular diets have included such gems as the grapefruit diet, WeightWatchers, SlimFast, Atkins, Paleo, and Keto. But diet marketers are also read more
Earlier this week I bought, opened, and finished a full-size bag of Zapp’s Voodoo flavor potato chips all on the same day. While I didn’t eat the chips in one fell swoop (it was two fell swoops, actually), I would definitely classify that volume of chips in a regular day as overeating for me. The chips read more
