Can you be healthy and not regularly exercise? To me this goes along with can you be healthy and overweight? The answer is not really. Health is a continuum. One end we have Optimal Health when everything is operating as smoothly as possible, we are eating right, getting in plenty of activity sleeping enough, in […]
When I think back to my college diet of gummi bears, bagels and gallons of Diet Coke, a few things come to mind 1 why was I perplexed I was overweight ? 2 How was I able to concentrate in class? Let’s put the high sugar & artificial sweetener connection with my weight to the […]
“The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.” – Mark Hyman, M.D. A few years ago, I stumbled upon the Netflix documentary “forks over knives” and could not stop talking about the findings to my friends and […]
Erin Wathen is a food addiction counselor and author of “Why Can’t I Stick to My Diet?: How To End the Food Drama.” As a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) and a Food Addiction Counselor (INFACT), Erin understand the science behind health. Erin has several group exercise certifications and understand the mechanics of […]
When I was in Health Coaching School at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the concept of primary vs. secondary food was introduced to me. At first, I didn’t get it. After I gave it some thought, I realized how much it resonated with me and that primary food is the true Nourishment. What if we […]
As a Holistic Health Coach, it is Erin’s big hairy audacious goal is to change the dialogue around how we look at weight loss. It is not a matter of being it Ketosis or Food Swaps but the feelings we have that we are avoiding by overeating. Why are so many of us not tackling the real issues we have? It is easier and safer to obsess over the latest diet fad. Whether it be with our job, or our Mom, boyfriend, politics… until we address how we manage our feelings in the world, we are not going to.
