Alyson Roux Nutrition

Oh my heart, this is gorgeously written and so important.

Fat People With Eating Disorders Deserve to Be Believed There's no one way people with eating disorders look.

Unless your performing arts professors are also Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses, and/or Medical Doctors, they have no place giving you such advice.
Text: “Theater, dance, and opera professors are not qualified to give diet and weight management advice to their students.”

Where to Buy Plus Size Face Masks | Fabric Masks for Cute Fat Folks! - The Huntswoman In the course of making face masks from patterns found online, a new issue popped up out of left field. Plus size people often have bigger (super fabulous) faces, and the patterns didn’t take this into account. Fuller cheeks, double chins, etc. This presented a design and inclusivity issue. Seeing...

Here's a list of more than 85 black-owned food businesses in L.A. A list of black-owned restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, food trucks and pop-ups in the Los Angeles area.

Who else needs this today?

Free mindfulness resources for this time of chaos...

Pandemic Care Resources - Tara Brach Dear Friends ~ During this global crisis we all need pathways to calm, clarity and openheartedness. While it’s natural to feel fear during times of great collective crisis, our challenge is that fear easily takes over our lives. Mindfulness and compassion practices can help us find an inner refuge...

Broth is kinda unappealing looking but we all live in the now, so I’m using to freeze pressure cooker made for the bones of a pastured chicken from . Amongst this chaos, some days we have the capacity and bandwidth to make something for our future selves, a kindness present in our freezer for a day we need it. I don’t have the capacity to do this all the time, but today I have the privilege of being able to do so. What you can handle today is enough. Today this feels kind.

My love made me a cake! Happy Quarantine Birthday to me!

Pandemic cooking practice- Instant pot black beans success! Fast, cheap, easy, shelf stable. Some other flavor friends for this rice bowl will include lime pickled red onion, cilantro and parsley, and I’m frying an egg to top it all off... doesn’t need to be pretty, but I sure do like having all these colors and textures together. Feeling lucky and grateful for this lunch.

My garden! Wasn’t sure how well this would work. Green onion tops clipped with some scissors makes food taste just a bit happier to me... little ways to connect to pleasure with food right now can help us feel a bit more grounded.

And why we need patience, flexibility, and compassion around food and our bodies...

'Allostatic Load' is the Psychological Reason for Our Pandemic Brain Fog This is why you're exhausted just from being alone.

This totally blown out photo of a curry is a freezer pantry meal success!! Frozen veggies, peas, a can of coconut milk, and a loving helping of curry powder... oh my goodness my kitchen smells so good!!!

Loved this Lisa Linke interview on diet culture and working as an actor...

Podcast 131: Actress Lisa Linke on Diet Culture, Fatphobia in Entertainment and Healing Her Body Relationship - Body Kindness® Actress and comedian Lisa Linke (Bless the Mess on ABC) joins me to talk about the intersections of diet culture and entertainment. We discuss how social media continues to help her on her relationship with her body. Plus she dishes on her podcast Go Help Yourself and a free way you can coax her int...

Need groceries? Want to support local restaurants? Here's a community-sourced google doc list of which LA area restaurants are offering general store items. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1PUnnQeNmqJiXbnUle5NzsDgxJzDfbRfMwE8ehasOmk4/htmlview?fbclid=IwAR1-lJeENvXIRTn2E7_Mmpz8Z--UwcyOKutBJQ2kiKJOe73KKL9wGh36anc

L.A. Restaurant GENERAL STORES

Have you found any helpful resources for ordering groceries from small businesses lately? Putting together a resource to share. Also looking forward to the case of Banza pasta coming in the mail... https://www.eatbanza.com/collections/pasta

Banza Chickpea Pasta

Your body

Yes, Your Body Will Probably Change During Quarantine Some tips for dealing with how stress affects you from the inside out.

Thanks for sharing Alisha!

Pandemic Care Resources - Tara Brach Dear Friends ~ During this global crisis we all need pathways to calm, clarity and openheartedness. While it’s natural to feel fear during times of great collective crisis, our challenge is that fear easily takes over our lives. Mindfulness and compassion practices can help us find an inner refuge...

Excited to start Acceptance and Commitment Therapy training on Monday hosted by EDRDPro! Hoping to build up my nutrition counseling toolbox while social distancing... https://edrdpro.com/2020-act-symposium//

Need some HAES-aligned virtual workouts? Free option (donation suggested) via: https://www.fitragamuffin.com/bookgroupfitness

Smart home cooking guidance from Bon Appetite! Thanks to Barb Sobel for sharing.

Cooking at Home in the Time of Coronavirus The recipes and cooking resources to help get you through.

Local info updated throughout the day:

Your No-Panic Guide To The Coronavirus In LA COVID-19 is officially a pandemic. Here's what you need to know.

Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty AFSP Share26.4KTweetShare By Doreen Marshall, Ph.D. Human beings like certainty. We are hard-wired to want to know what is happening when and to notice things that feel threatening to us. When things feel uncertain or when we don’t gener...

College students and others in recovery, who are finding themselves spending more time at home because of recent public health events... feeling like you need some extra support and connection? Pasting links to free online group therapy below! Led by actual credentialed mental health professionals... Center for Discovery has several different online groups open to the public for those in recovery and loved ones supporting someone in recovery. Renfrew has an online group, as well. I'll keep updating this post as I find more online low cost/free group options.

Support in Recovery - Center For Discovery BEVERLY HILLS, CA | DEL MAR, CA | GLENDALE, CA | LOS ALAMITOS, CA | NEWPORT BEACH, CA | PLEASANTON, CA | SOUTHBAY, CA | WOODLAND HILLS, CA | GREENWICH, CT | NEW HAVEN, CT | BRIDGEWATER, CT | PARAMUS, NJ |

Very excited to announce that I'm *officially* a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. While I've been deeply connected to and inspired by IE work for years, it was time to submit the paperwork and make it official!

Alyson Roux, MS, CNS, Author at Intuitive Eating Alyson Roux, MS, CNSTitle: Nutritionist, Health Educator [email protected] https://www.alysonroux.com/ Phone: 323-454-3624 Fax: 877-992-7059 Address: 3171 Los Feliz Blvd. Suite 209 Los Angeles, CA, 90039 United States Alyson is a clinical nutritionist who specializes in working with clients supp...

You’ve been conditioned by years of body shaming to believe that you’re not worthy of auditioning for romantic/sexy/heroic roles. You’ve been coerced into believing that going in for those parts is wasting the casting director’s time.
That ends in 2020. You’re going to take up space, you’re going to advocate for talents in your body as it is. You will make yourself seen and heard!
#2020

If you've ever benefitted from the Actor's Fund healthcare fund, financial wellness and career workshops, or any of their other community programing then today is a lovely day to give back.

Help our nation's performing arts and entertainment professionals in need. - The Actors Fund Your contribution will go right to work to help support our organization's much-needed programs to help our nation's performing arts and entertainment community in times of need, crisis or transition.

“I’m not asking you to quit paleo or boycott your local SoulCycle. I’m simply asking you to question your motives and your impact—to consider what it could mean to eat intuitively instead of restrictively, to move joyfully instead of punishingly, and to rediscover what a relationship with food looks like without guilt or shame.”

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/is-your-wellness-practice-just-a-diet-in-disguise?fbclid=IwAR166u7T8KHXlQSqSOzVvCSWDrYmnDCmBJhamwV9H3p4mwHTUR7GP2HQ_nU