Posts by Sara Best

I’ve spent a decade now as a Nutritionist helping women lose weight by changing their relationship with food and rewiring their habits.   Because weight loss is such a massive industry these days it means we’re constantly bombarded with conflicting and confusing information about it from individuals and companies driven solely by their own financial…

“I have no willpower around carbs.” “It’s sweets! I absolutely cannot have them in the house!” “I was good all week and then I ruined it all this weekend at a friend’s birthday party.” I hear these things all the time when I’m talking to new clients.  People (naturally) assume that their overeating is the…

I used to feel like, all at once, I was too broken and not broken enough.    Not broken in the right ways; the cool ways. The ways that become the fertilizer for a bestselling memoir or movie.   Alcoholics and drug addicts, these people are broken in the right way. They have gritty and…

It’s a story I’ve heard so many times. Someone loses a ton of weight and is so delighted and proud of themselves and all the hard work they put in. But then, life happens, and the weight comes back and they find themselves standing in front of their bedroom mirror feeling like a failure and…

It’s the middle of the afternoon and you feel like you just need a little something. A cookie would be delicious, but those raspberries in the fridge also look pretty good. Are you truly hungry, or are you just craving something sweet? How can you tell? It’s important to learn how to distinguish between true…

I stood in front of the painting, utterly spellbound. The complexity of the brush strokes. The creative combination of colour elements. The subtle use of light and dark. It made me feel all the feels. I was in the National Gallery of Canada and it was one of Lawren Harris’ famous icebergs that I couldn’t…

There’s an experiment that’s been conducted hundreds of times in hundreds of labs around the globe. Sometimes it’s done with rats, sometimes with dogs, sometimes with broke college students. When this particular experiment is done with rats, scientists take one rat and put it in what they call a “shuttle box.” This is a box…

Tell me if you can relate to this… Part of you wants to make healthier eating choices, but you continually find yourself falling back into old habits and eating things that you know aren’t going to serve you. And every time you tell yourself that you just need more willpower or motivation to stay on…