Let’s face it, sometimes our meal and snack choices are severely limited by what’s accessible. Most folks have taken a trip at some point...

Ever wonder what an RD keeps in her kitchen? This week I’m sharing an example of the items our house typically keeps stocked, both in the...

This is the final post in a series of three focusing on how to fuel around a workout. Now that we’ve taken a look at how to fuel before...

Not too long ago Special K ran a commercial which involved people stepping on a scale that revealed to them not their weight but rather ...

This is the second post in a series of three focusing on how to fuel around a workout. Last week I talked about pre-workout fueling –...

Trying to figure out how to fuel surrounding workouts can sometimes feel like falling down the rabbit hole: just when you think you’ve...

In case you haven’t heard, fat isn’t a four-letter word. In fact, fats are an irreplaceable part of a balanced diet. They provide: 1) ...

We all have some sort of concept of what is normal or typical eating for ourselves. This includes the thoughts that run through our...

This question, which would have seemed fairly simple a decade ago, has turned jaunts through the grocery store dairy aisle for a quick...

Last year at an Ironman I watched someone chomp down a sweet potato coming out of T2. A sweet potato. The interest in using “regular”...

The purpose of post-workout fueling is to aid recovery and provide an appropriate setting for training adaptations to occur. And to have...

For many, busy lives make it tough just to be able to get in a workout, let alone endurance athletes hoping to train 10-20 hours per...

I remember back to my pre-dietitian, heavy triathlon training days and one of the most memorable things that pops into my mind...

For most endurance athletes the winter time is a somewhat dormant or off-season period of training. Some may focus on building a base...

Oh, the dreaded setbacks: weight plateaus, having one (or ten) more cookies than intended at a party, following a plan all week only to...

Last weekend during the barrage of football games on TV, and in a post-Thanksgiving dish-washing abstention, our family decided to have...

It’s been a good year for those brown cows. Churning out chocolate milk to meet the ever-increasing demand for a workout recovery...

Squash are the darlings of the fall and winter season. Chock full of fiber, potassium, Vitamin A, and Vitamin C, butternut squash are a...

It’s that time of year where endurance athletes are starting to enter the “off-season”. And with a reduction in training comes a...

The list of possible ergogenic aids for athletic performance is endless (as always, the critical word being “possible”.) One commonly...