Does life feel a bit more challenging these days?

Join us for a FREE masterclass titled “Weight Loss is NOT a Health Goal” on October 4th at 12pm EST

Heidi Karner, MS, RDN was a guest on the TV Show Getting Healthy Without Rules to discuss weight loss medications.

In order to have a healthy relationship with joyful movement, we’ve outlined a few steps for you to take. But first, remember that joyful movement is what you would do if you were moving your body simply for fun, and not to change its size or shape.

We are so excited to announce our collaboration with My Health Matters Fitness, an anti-diet, fat-positive, weight-inclusive personal training group.

Want to know more about Insulin Resistance and Insulin Sensitivity. You won’t have to cut out sugar OR carbs, we promise!

Amanda Mittman, MS, RDN, LDN was featured in an article on CNN about leaving diet culture.

I wanted to take a moment to send lots of love to you however you choose to celebrate the holiday and New Year! Happy Valley Nutrition has some incredible stuff planned for 2023 and we cannot wait to share with you. Think more classes, groups, videos and newsletters for you. Yay!

In my last blog I talked about how the holidays can be a difficult time for some. 

We don’t live in a cheesy Hallmark movie where life gets tied up in a nice, neat bow. For many of us, the holidays can be downright messy.

Today I want to give you permission to be however you need to be and to feel however you need to feel, during this topsy-turvy time.

It’s OK that you feel anxious, exhausted, and a bit melancholy. 

It’s OK that you feel badly that people around you love this time of year, yet you don’t. And it’s also OK if you love this time of year and that it brings you so much joy, and that you’re the first one to get your decorations up.

When it comes to supplements, there are usually two nutritionist camps: 

• Those who say supplements aren’t necessary because we get all we need from food

• Those who believe that they are needed for specific reasons.

I fall into the latter—I definitely think that supplementation has its place and purpose. Personally, I have benefitted from taking certain herbs, vitamins and minerals and noticed a difference, for example when taking vitamin B12 when deficient or taking herbs to support my Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis (read: managing stress levels).

One of the biggies I recommend is vitamin D3, especially during the colder months and for those of us who live far from the equator (most of us). I would say that around 90% of the women I see in my practice have very low vitamin D status, myself included (I just found out my D is low, too)! 

There are so many apps these days to track everything you do: calorie counting apps, sleeping apps, meditating apps, and even pooping apps (I’ll be getting to that one later, it’s seriously one of my fave!).  Yet Intuitive Eating as a practice doesn’t require you to track your calories or even the foods you eat like most diets do.  In fact I have seen so many people get obsessed with the tracking their foods, calories and exercise that it can lead to unhealthy behaviors.

There are so many things wrong with our worship of tracking our intake.