Emily Fonnesbeck, Registered Dietitian
Stories and perspective to help your food life thrive.
Eating doesn’t have the be complicated or intimidating.
Becoming Foodtuitive means embracing a healthier perspective and embarking on a journey to unlock freedom and care for your body in a natural and healthy way. This is a place to find advice, inspiration and tools to make positive changes in your life, starting today.
“Hi, I’m Emily, When I’m not busy working with clients, I enjoy spending time with my family. I am married to my biggest supporter and mom to four fun and busy kids. We enjoy sports, being outdoors and getting creative in the kitchen.”
Protein: Recommended Amounts, Balanced Meals and Challenging Diet Culture and Disordered Eating
We all know how much I love carbohydrates, and I often encourage people to eat more of them.
What Is Body Positivity?
It’s really easy to think that a positive body image means looking in the mirror and liking what you see.
How To Find Peace With Food and Your Body: A Day At a Time
Making peace with food or finding a more positive (or at least less negative) body image can feel so overwhelming.
Disordered Eating and Digestive Symptoms
In order to give my clients the best care possible, I need to help them understand the association between what they eat and how they feel (digestive issues or otherwise).
Health Happens on a Continuum – A few observations about Diabetes (and other metabolic issues)
Two mornings a week I see patients at an Internal Medicine office. The majority of patients I see have been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
Bradyisms OR How To Not Take Food (and yourself) Too Seriously
Meet Brady. He’s my husband of 14.5 years and the father of our two children.
10 Things I want My Kids To Know
Last week I took my 6 year old to the doctor. He had been climbing a fence 3 days earlier and fell back on his wrist/arm.
Loving Lately
We were back to school shopping a few weekends ago and 3 out of 4 of us needed new lunch boxes.
Freeing Yourself of What’s Not Real
Over the past few years, my level of awareness for dysfunctional relationships with food has increased.
How Eating Sugar Made Me Healthier
Sugar gets a lot of hate. Commentary can range from “trying to cut back” to comparing it to Crystal Meth and calling in an addiction.
Maple Peanut Butter with Brazil Nuts
A few weeks ago, I woke up one Saturday morning to an empty peanut butter jar.
Metabolism Part 2
A little while ago, I wrote a blog post called Metabolism 101. The feedback was phenomenal and I am so glad so many of you have found it helpful.
Food Label Makeover – What Has Changed?
At the end of May, many of you may have heard the FDA announce new food labels for packaged foods.
Intuitive Eating: What Exactly IS Intuition?
I talk a lot about Intuitive Eating, but what exactly is intuition? It’s not as hard to grasp – especially when it comes to eating – as some might assume.
On Managing Anxiety: Operation Peace
Anxiety and I are old friends. And I do mean friends, because it has taught me a lot.
4 Tips For Body Positivity and Food Peace
Most of my blog content is inspired by client sessions.
Returning to Exercise after Exercise Addiction and/or Disordered Eating
I’ve been rolling this blog post around in my mind for months now.
Nutrition Information: A tool or a weapon?
As I’ve mentioned many times before, I fully support the idea of giving yourself unconditional permission to eat anything you want.
Abnormally Content
I just recently heard the term “normative discontent”, coined in the 1980s by researchers who found widespread negative body image, particularly among women, in the United States.
Positive Affirmations
Since thoughts and beliefs influence behavior, it makes sense to restructure our thoughts and beliefs to lead to more effective behaviors.