Happy Calories Don't Count - Happy Calories Don't Count

Ah Seattle – this place is a mecca for alternative health. I am surrounded by holistic, integrative health therapy practitioners, and a question I am commonly asked is “How is Happy Calories® different than Intuitive/Mindful Eating?”
First off, I need “intuitive” and “mindful” eating defined. Those ideas can mean a lot of different things to different people. Once that is taken care of, the differences basically come down to 1) the perspective from which the practitioner and client...

I often start my keynotes with a story about my first professional acting audition. I totally blew the callback because I couldn’t bring myself to take a bite out of a burrito shell filled with lettuce. I didn’t know how many calories were in a lettuce...

“So… what’s your story?” I get asked this a lot.
I’ve always found sharing “my story” difficult – mostly because I’m never sure what exactly to share or where to begin. I wrote a condensed version of my struggles with diet, exercise, my body and my weight in the first chapter of Happy Calories Don...

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “body positivity?”
For most women I’ve met, body positivity means “love your body” or “feel good about your body.”
I see this as a problem.