Fabulous with Fibro

Health Coaching for Professional Women

What’s Up With Supps?

  What’s Up With Supps?   Just like diet and nutrition, dietary supplements are a topic that many find mystifying. Some folks will flat out wonder if supplements are even necessary. Spoiler alert: if you live on this planet, and have a human body, then yes. The main argument I hear against supplements is this one:  I’d rather get my nutrients from healthy food. Oh, where to begin? First, … [Read more...]

Spring Clean Your Post-Pandemic Health

This has been one heck of a year, with many of us cooped up inside due to Covid-19. For some that has meant “falling off the wagon” as far as eating, exercising and minding our self-care. As a result you may have picked up a few unwanted pounds, and noticed bothersome symptoms worsening. Many of us also have struggled to adapt to the mental strain that comes with not being able to socialize as freely as we … [Read more...]

Guilty Pleasures?

Today I was on a networking conference, virtual of course, and one of the ice breaker questions posed to us during break out sessions was, “What is your guilty pleasure?” Not surprisingly, since so many of us have been spending lots more time at home, many of us said binge-watching TV shows was a guilty pleasure. Now, I’m not here to tell you to stop watching those Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime faves but … [Read more...]

Negative Self-Talk Making You Sick?

  Why did you eat that dessert? You are such a pig! You know sugar is bad for you and you ate it anyway. Wow, you really must be stupid! How can you go to that party? You are so fat and gross!   Would you say any of the above to a beloved friend? Most of us would not even say those words to someone we don’t particularly like, much less someone we love. But we do something much worse—we think … [Read more...]

Food Fiasco

  Are whole foods really better for you than packaged? Spoiler alert: yes. By a lot. And there are several reasons that I will get into in a moment, but let’s start with this: why would I even pose this question? Isn’t this common knowledge? Well, life happens. People are shorter on time than ever before. I sometimes hear from folks who are trying to fix chronic symptoms and either can’t, or … [Read more...]