Beat Your PCOS Carb Cravings

One of the biggest complaints I hear from my patients with PCOS is their uncontrollable carb cravings! If bread, pasta or chocolate calls your name, you’re not alone. And once you start in on these foods, it may be hard to stop. There are many reasons for these cravings. Insulin, inadequate sleep, altered appetite hormones,…

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14 Reasons Why Sleep is Important for PCOS

why sleep is important for PCOS

I find that most of my patients with PCOS spend a great deal of energy focusing on their diet and exercise regimen, but tend to neglect one of the most important aspects of health when it comes to PCOS – sleep. What percentage of the time do you wake up feeling totally well-rested? Probably not…

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Free PCOS Meal Plans and Recipes

FREE PCOS Meal Plans and Recipes | Martha McKittrick Nutrition

If you have PCOS, you know how confusing it can be to know what to eat! Not only is the internet is loaded with conflicting information, but who has time to plan meals and find recipes? My patients with PCOS always ask “what should I eat”?  While there no one-size-fits-all diet for women with PCOS,…

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How to Handle Holiday Sweets in the Office

How to Handle Holiday Sweets

It’s that time of the year! If your office is anything like mine, the holiday treats are piling up everywhere. My nutrition office is in a large medical practice and patients send in tempting gifts of food every holiday season. It’s like navigating a land mine of sugar. Boxes of chocolate near the fax machine,…

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Why Is It So Hard To Lose Weight With PCOS?

why is it so hard to lose weight with PCOS

If you have PCOS and are having difficulty losing weight, you aren’t alone! This is the most common complaint I hear from my patients with PCOS.  It can be so frustrating to try diet after diet, along with exercise, and get minimal results while you see others around you losing weight on the same program.…

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How to Handle Holiday Sweets in the Office

It’s that time of the year! If your office is anything like mine, the holiday sweet are piling up everywhere. My nutrition office is in a large medical practice and patients send in tempting gifts of food every holiday season. It’s like navigating a land mine of sugar! Boxes of chocolate near the fax machine,…

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9 Tricks to Tame Your Carb Cravings

If bread, pasta or chocolate calls your name, you’re not alone. Carb cravings are one of most common complaints I hear from my patients.. There are many reasons for these cravings. Some studies are suggesting certain foods, often carbs, light up hedonic centers in your brain, causing more cravings. And there are a host of…

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23 Strategies to Control Nighttime Eating

23 strategies to control night-time eating

“I’m so good during day … but at night I can’t stay out of the kitchen”.  Sound familiar? I frequently hear this from my clients. It happens to me as well.  So why is it that we are able to watch what we eat during the day but night time brings out the food demons?…

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5 Nutrition Tips for Women on Mother’s Day

Whether you’re a mother or not, most of the women I know have hectic schedules and don’t take enough time for themselves. Family and work obligations often come first. Who has time to plan healthy meals and snacks, fit in exercise or get enough sleep? This takes a toll on our energy levels, weight and…

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Does Eating Breakfast Make You Hungry?

why does eating breakfast make you hungry

We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But what if eating breakfast makes you HUNGRIER than if you ate nothing? You try to do the right thing and pour yourself a bowl of healthy cereal topped with a banana but an hour later you are ravenous! Why does eating breakfast…

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