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What to Eat Before a Triathlon to Perform Your Best
You’ve been crushing your training and are ready to experience the celebration of putting together your swim, bike, and run into an amazing race. The lingering question is: what to eat before your triathlon to perform your best? Nutrition is often referred to as the...
Healthy Foods for Time-Crunched Athletes from a Sports Dietitian
Does it sometimes feel hard to figure out what constitutes a “healthy” food these days? It’s not just you; this feels confusing for everyone! It is one of the most common questions I hear when working with clients. With social media and diet advice just about...
Top 10 Most Delicious Recovery Foods for Athletes
Are you gearing up for a big race this season and logging some tough training hours? Or maybe you are beginning a new journey with exercise. Either way, you might be looking for convenient (and delicious) ways to use food to help you recover faster and help prevent...
Athletes: Experience Better Performance without Tracking Macros
In this blog post, I’ll walk you through an introduction to macros, why tracking them leads to problems, and what to focus on instead so that you are able perform your best.
Fueling 150 Miles
When my friend Josie Vitale mentioned that she was going to attempt a fastest known time on 150-miles of the Great Allegany Passage, I knew she could do it. When she asked if I could help with her nutrition plan, I whole-heartedly said yes and immediately began doing...
Mediterranean-Style Eating
Happy National Mediterranean Diet Month everyone! I am feeling more celebratory of this beautiful style of eating this year more than ever. In the throes of low carbohydrate, ketogenic and food elimination diets that seem to be having their moment, the simplicity and...
Fueling for a Half-Ironman
On New Year’s Eve of 2015 I decided I was going to do a Half Ironman triathlon. It had been an idea swirling around in my head for a while, but I always created a very long list of reasons why this was a crazy idea. For starters, 1.2 miles of open water swimming,...
Intuitive Exercise
I was very excited to carve out a little time for a spinning class the other day. Cycling and sweating to fun music with the camaraderie of my gym buddies was just what I needed to beat the stress of the holidays. As I walked in to the cycling room, a very perky,...
Why Having an Exercise Support Group Matters
Over two years ago, I sat in the goodbye circle at Diabetes Training Camp and nervously awaited my turn to speak. Our instructions in the circle were to share what we learned at camp and what things we were going to take away from camp to implement in our lives back...