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.