Nutrition Psychology

Diet challenges are usually all about what you can’t eat. But what if you could see huge results from a self-experiment that doesn’t make any foods off-limits? Instead of focusing on what you eat, our 30-day eating challenge emphasizes how you eat. And the results? They could be transformational. ++++ “You want the next level stuff?”...

We first envisioned an article about trauma a few years ago. Over and over, we’d seen clients who checked out when they ate. Or shut down during workouts. Or who raged when we made a relatively innocuous nutritional suggestion. (Like, “Consider eating slowly today.”) Or who panicked. Disappeared. Became distressed. Got paralyzed. Or seemed unable to cope with overwhelming...

Six-pack abs. Tight butts. Lean, glistening beach bodies and vibrant health. That’s what the fitness industry is selling, but have you ever considered the true costs of achieving this “look?” In this short video, Dr. John Berardi lays out all the benefits and tradeoffs, so you can make an informed decision about what’s truly right...

Every six months, we get to celebrate the folks who have had the most incredible body transformations in Precision Nutrition Coaching. They’ve spent 12 months with a personal nutrition coach, completely changing how they eat, move, look, and feel. They’ve lost weight, gained strength, boosted their health, and inspired their friends and families. No extreme diets or crazy...

By the time Tina Cox-Vega hit her highest weight ever, she had a terrifying thought: “I was killing myself with food.” Here’s how she lost 100 pounds—and got her life back. ++++ Tina Cox-Vega stepped on the scale. “265,” the doctor said. Tina’s heart sank. At the time, she was 44. Her weight had been creeping up for years....

Jon McLernon’s heart was racing. “Go to the hospital,” a voice screamed inside his head. “You’re dying.” But he wasn’t dying, and he knew it. Years of career changes, international moves, extreme diet and exercise plans, injuries, and trauma from a violent incident overseas were all taking their toll. He was having yet another panic attack. He longed for...

Special operations selection courses are designed to weed people out. In the Navy, the screening test to just qualify for these courses has about a 90 percent failure rate. From there, anywhere between 60 to 90 percent of candidates don’t make it through the course itself. Those who do make it, more than anything else, display the ability...

“How do I get my kid to eat vegetables?” As nutrition coaches, we get this question a lot from frustrated parents. And because we’re parents, too, we totally get it. (Geez, do we get it.) After all, it’s your job to help your children practice good nutrition. Yet you can’t make kids like their vegetables. Or embrace new foods....

More than 60 percent of our incoming clients say they struggle with emotional or stress eating. And that was before the global pandemic. Whether out of stress, anxiety, sadness, boredom, or grief, it’s understandable why we turn to food for comfort. Food offers a pretty great—if very temporary—solution to our suffering. Eating feels good. It sets off a cascade of...

A healthy lifestyle is never effortless. Only for many of us, it feels unusually hard right now. Shockingly so, perhaps. Yes, stress, overwhelm, and depression may all be contributing factors. But there’s also a good chance something else happened: The pandemic just broke your “system.” We know: That sounds like a plot twist from Westworld. Stick with us, though, because it’s about...