SoCal Nutrition & Wellness

03/25/2026

Recently, I’ve had several new clients reveal they’d come to me after realizing they could NOT AI their nutrition counseling. AI might be helpful for some things, but it certainly can’t replace the interaction and nuance that unfolds from nutrition counseling with a real, human Registered Dietitian.

AI might spit out some regurgitated nutrition information, but here’s what it won’t do:

- simplify complex topics with examples, metaphors, and specific ties to real life considering the age, stage, and foundations of knowledge present.
- counsel, guide, and collaborate to support realistic and practical ways to nourish the body
- Understand whether there are nutritional deficiencies to correct, which only a thorough personal nutrition assessment can reveal
- Integrate the hard and soft sciences to help people find a way of eating that supports their needs. This means considering biology, physiology and nutrition science alongside psychology and human behavior because humans are not robots.
- Interpret growth charts and lab results
- support positive body image
- model skills for self-care and nervous system regulation
- provide essential resources to navigate the ever-changing healthcare and food access systems
- hold space, give tissues and provide a compassionate ear because taking care of a body can be HARD
➕So much more

Fellow RDs, what else do you do that AI will never be able to match?

Happy National Nutrition Month! Now, go schedule with a Registered Dietitian and please don’t ever let AI fool you into thinking it’s anything like the experience of working with an educated, compassionate, and skilled human!

08/22/2025

If you’ve read or are interested in reading Intuitive Eating for Diabetes, join our 9-week group to connect and reflect on the content in a small, supportive community.

Group starts September 4th and there are a few spots left. Learn more and sign up here:

https://www.intuitiveeatingfordiabetes.com/supportgroup

07/11/2025

I had the pleasure of speaking with Ashely and Sam on the “All Bodies. All Foods.” Renfrew Center Podcast a couple months ago. We talked about intuitive eating, how humans are wired to eat intuitively from the start, diet culture, intuitive eating with medical diagnoses, and much more. Give it a listen on your favorite podcast app (link in stories).

06/02/2025

Today, June 2, is ! Urge your Rep to back the Nutrition CARE Act & your Senators to support the Kids Online Safety Act. Help to expand care & build a safer world for those with eating disorders. Click the link in ‘s bio to take action now!

You can join the in driving policy change by taking two simple actions:
1. Email Your Representative and Senators: Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the Nutrition CARE Act (H.R. 2495). The legislation would expand insurance coverage for medical nutrition therapy, ensuring individuals with eating disorders have access to the nutritional counseling and support they need for recovery.

2. Urge your Senators to co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act (S.1748). The legislation is designed to protect children and teens from harmful online content—including material that promotes eating disorders or unhealthy body image—by requiring online platforms to create safer digital environments for youth.

05/29/2025

I recently connected with Wendy Lopez, MS, RD, CDCES and Jessica Jones, MS, RD, CDCES on their podcast Diabetes Digital. It was a great conversation; I hope you'll give it a listen!

We covered:
-The harm of “just cut carbs” advice for people with diabetes/prediabetes
-How food restriction harms the body
-How to make space for all foods, including cultural foods
-Intuitive Eating for people with Type 1 Diabetes or on insulin
-Root causes of diabetes
-Shifting from fear to curiosity
-Gentle nutrition
-Small changes that lead to great benefit, such as "exercise snacks"
-and more!

Is diet culture making your diabetes worse? We talk with Janice Dada about the diabetes advice diet culture gives and the harm it can cause in managing it.

02/26/2025

Are you an Intuitive Eater?

Tracy Tylka and colleagues at Ohio State have developed an assessment tool that can help you answer that question.

Take the assessment here: https://www.socalnw.com/intuitive-eating-assessment-scale

02/11/2025

INTRODUCING…
Intuitive Eating for Diabetes: The No Shame, No Blame, Non-Diet Approach to Managing Your Blood Sugar!

Over the past 2+ years, I’ve been researching, writing, editing, collaborating, and interviewing in order to bring this much-needed resource into the world and it’s finally almost here!

As the title attests, this book is for people with diabetes, but it’s also for anyone who has ever been concerned about their risk for diabetes. In addition, this book will serve loved ones of those with diabetes and healthcare professionals looking to learn a new approach.

This book will be the FIRST weight-inclusive, non-diet, intuitive eating based resource for diabetes. I’m grateful to Intuitive Eating co-authors, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch for putting their trust in me to apply their 10 principle construct to diabetes care.

Please support this book by preordering it! Preorders let book retailers know the level of interest in a title and allow them to keep more in stock, which means more people will get exposed to this valuable resource.

This book will be published by New Harbinger Publications on April 1st and is available everywhere books are sold in print, e-book, and audiobook formations. Thanks in advance for supporting inclusive diabetes care!

Learn more and Preorder here: www.socalnw.com/book