Plant Based Eating Made Easy | Simple Strategies & Clear Nutrition Guidance to Transform Your Health | Dietitian, Plant-Based Diet

Would you love to drop some pounds but don’t want to diet? If so, have you considered how plant-based eating might help you BETTER reach your weight goals with less frustration and MORE success? Yes, a plant-based diet can be really effective in helping you lose weight and keep it off, but it’s more of a lifestyle than a ‘diet’, and it’s a specific kind of plant-based diet.

But how will eating plant-based help you reach your weig...

Are you plant-based curious or ready to get started with plant-based eating, but feel lost and confused by all the different terms you see? It doesn’t help either that terms like ‘vegan’ and ‘plant-based’ are often used interchangeably on social media, news media channels, in cookbooks, and by celebrities.  And what about the other terms you’ve seen - like vegetarian, pescatarian and whole food plant-based – are these one and the s...

It’s time to start packing for an exciting summer ahead, with an adventure planned by plane to another state or country. Yet you’ve recently begun plant-based eating, and now wonder how this will work with traveling. What will you eat in the air, and what can your family eat, now that you’re all embracing a vegan or plant-based diet lifestyle?

Let’s talk about this today. I want to help lower your stress and anxiety about that upco...

Are you curious about plant-based eating or have just begun your diet transition, but already feel overwhelmed with all the changes needed? Not only do you have to swap meats out from your plate, there’s the dairy, eggs and other animal-based food products too. There are also new terms to learn about, new plant-based ingredients and what seems to be a ton of different ways of cooking them…

Feel like giving up already? Well don’t....

Are you really wanting to improve your heart health, but feel lost on what to do? All you know is that you’ve been warned by your doctor to ‘change your diet’. But which one and how? There seem to be so many different ones out there, that it’s confusing and overwhelming. So can a vegan diet or a plant-based one really help drop blood lipids, lower your risk of a heart attack and give you more time with loved ones?

Let’s find out ...

Are your mornings a blur because they’re so busy? So much so that you often don’t even have time for breakfast. Yet, you know breakfast is important and can give your day a much needed energy boost. So what can you do?

Let’s talk about this today. In this episode, I’ll give you a fast yet easy plant-based option for breakfast – one that is super simple to put together but tastes delicious. You can then eat it immediately in the m...

My husband once told me that it’s getting too expensive to eat plant-based, mainly because he saw the rising prices of plant-based milks at our local grocery store. But then I started to list some of many other ways we were saving money eating this way. What I didn’t get to tell him, though, was this: there are also lots of strategies that can be used when buying plant-based foods to stay on budget, and smart hacks to help extend y...

Are you plant-based eating, but wonder if there are nutrients you need to be concerned about? You already know that protein, iron and calcium are important building blocks for the body. But what about micronutrients like iodine – do you need to worry about that?

That’s what we’re going to talk about today. In this episode, let’s look at the importance of iodine for our bodies and some practical ways you can ensure you’re meeting ...

Do you feel you’ve been on every diet under the sun, yet without any lasting results to show for it? Somehow, the weight loss never seems to stick and you end up gaining all of it back, and then some. That was my guest Lyana’s experience and it felt incredibly frustrating. Not only that, her health seemed to be headed in the wrong direction too, and it was a shock for her to receive new diagnoses like diabetes and Nonalcoholic Fatt...

My interview guest Lyana S. never wanted to go on prescription meds. Yet, health issues started piling up, one after another, from her late thirties onwards. First it was high blood pressure, then high cholesterol and pre-diabetes. Then finally diabetes and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Add to this a strong family history of medical issues, with her mother suffering from diabetes, kidney failure, then a severe stroke and paraly...

Did you know?  Just having recipes will not determine your success on a plant-based diet. That’s because this lifestyle is way more than just knowing a few good meals to make. What you need is a fuller, more wholistic approach to your diet transition, if you really want to thrive - long term – eating plant-based. And one key area that needs to be developed is this… your Mindset. You need a strong plant-powered mindset to accompany ...

Spring is a great time of year to begin enjoying a greater variety of vegetables. Like Bok Choy. Don’t know what this is? If you’re completely new to plant-based eating and just stepping into the world of green leafy vegetables, you might find the words ‘Bok choy’ not only foreign looking but also strange to pronounce. What IS this vegetable, how does it taste and what can you make with it?

Let’s look at that today. In this Ingre...

Are you trying to eating healthier but feel helpless watching your family and loved ones continue on a regular diet heavy in meats and processed convenience foods? You see the health issues they are facing and KNOW much of it can be improved with diet and lifestyle changes. So how do you get your family ‘unstuck’ in their set ways?

That’s what we’re going to be talking about today. In this episode, I want to give you a super simp...

Inflammation and pain. I think many of us deal with this on some level. But for some, it can be especially excruciating and debilitating, impacting many activities of daily living. And inflammation and pain often seem to go together, don’t they? Maybe that’s what you’re dealing with now, and why you’re exploring plant-based eating to see if it can help. So, can making a radical lifestyle shift from meats to plants really benefit ou...

Have a love-hate relationship with avocados? If so, I don’t blame you – I do too. Some days, I’m delighted to cut open an avocado and see a smooth blemish-free interior to enjoy. On other days, I’m utterly disappointed when I cut open one and find a blemished brown and ugly interior, and have to toss it away in disgust. Such a waste of money!

But with rising food and gas prices, it’s now even more important to know how to stretch...

When you move from a meat-heavy diet to a plant-based one, there will obviously be a shift in the kinds of foods you are eating. And since meats and other animal-based protein products are a source of iron, it’s natural to be worried about how you’ll get the iron you need, if you take these foods out of your diet. So, will you seriously lack iron and get anemic once you start eating plant-based? And to prevent that happening, do yo...

Have you come to plant-based eating, thinking and hoping that making this diet change will help those pounds melt off your body? Yet, you’ve already started your diet transition for a few weeks …and the scale seems to be the same. So now you’re wondering, “What does one need to do, to really lose the weight eating this way?”

Well, that’s what we’re going to talk about in this episode. While a big factor behind shedding the pounds...

What will it really take to improve one’s cholesterol, blood pressure and triglycerides? Have you wondered this? Well, that’s what my guest Susan wondered, after striving to maintain ‘healthy’ eating habits and staying active for most of her life. But her cholesterol eventually rose to 302 and her triglycerides skyrocketed, leaving her feeling discouraged and defeated.

As a last resort, she turned to plant-based eating, with rema...

Have you been frustrated because you have been eating pretty ‘healthy’ for most of your life, but still battle with cholesterol problems? That was exactly how my guest Susan felt. Along with vegetables, eggs and fruit, she made sure to consume only whole organic milk and organic meats. But her cholesterol levels only kept rising, her blood pressure started increasing and her triglycerides went off the charts!

Susan didn’t want to...