Our Blog: Recipes, Research, and Resources
Our Blog: Recipes, Research, and Resources
Should You Avoid Lectins?
Did you catch Jennifer’s recent Instagram post about lectins? (No? Why not give her a follow?!?). To recap, Jennifer spoke last week with a client at a corporate event who was considering removing all beans, some veggies, & whole-grains from her diet. The client...
Workout Weight Gain
How is it possible? You've been consistently exercising, but instead of weight loss, you are are experiencing workout weight gain? It’s understandable that you’re both frustrated and surprised with the lack of results. You’ve increased your exercise, so why aren’t...
Mistakes in the Making: Letting Go of Perfectionism in the Kitchen
Mistakes in the Making... I was recently advised to start making more mistakes, on purpose. Why would a therapist encourage me to set up mini failures, not only for myself, but for my kids as well? I’ll explain. About three years ago, my husband and I noticed our...
Help Your Employees be More Healthy with Body Fat Testing
Of the many corporate wellness services we offer at MNT, one of our most popular is body fat testing using a technique called bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). That may sound a bit foreign and scary, but BIA is a quick, easy, painless snapshot of certain...
Five Healthy Lunch Box Ideas!
Time to dust off those brown bags or bento boxes. School's back in session. Are you on the hunt for healthy lunch box ideas? I'm kind of lucky, I guess. My son wants the SAME lunch day after day. But in August, not only do we celebrate back to school, we also...
My Morning Routine – A Key to Health and Happiness
Five am to 6:30 am is the time of my morning routine. It’s my favorite 90 minutes of the day. PERIOD. To be fair, I’m a morning person. It’s easier for this to be the golden hour of my life because I’m wired for it. My morning routine was born after the birth of my...
Sheet Pan Curried Tofu with Vegetables
I love a good sheet pan meal and this curried tofu with vegetables is one of my favorites. It tastes delicious and cooks so quickly, enabling me to get dinner on the table in under 30 minutes. Sheet pan meals are ideal for those nights when the kids have sporting...
Carrot and Coconut Curry Soup
This carrot and coconut curry soup was the first recipe I prepared after getting back from our summer vacation. I couldn’t WAIT to put a healthy meal into my belly, and I also wanted to recreate some flavors from vacation – hence the coconut. (I might have had a pina...
Dining Out? 5 Tips for a Healthy Restaurant Meal
Last Saturday night I went out to dinner with a wonderful old friend. (Side note - it was my first trip to an Indian restaurant... What in the world took me so long!? Everything was amazingly delicious! I'm definitely heading back with my husband very soon!) We sat at...
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