We are now two weeks into 2024 and you may already feel busier than you were last year! In our last blog, we discussed improving your mental motivation for sustaining new year’s resolutions and long-term goals. But, how do you actually put this into action? We chose using the example of how using small frequent meals to improve your motivation and are giving you some easy meal prepping ideas for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner to help get you started! All of these meal or snack examples are quick, simple, and delicious. We hope you love them this new year as much as we do.

We all have created a New Year’s resolution that lasted for 1-2 months and did not stick. At Katie Chapmon Nutrition, we aren’t just interested in your short-term success over the first few months of the year, but aim to assist in sustaining long-term goals of improving gut health, weight loss, hormone balance, and other individualized goals. Wondering how we work with clients to help them achieve long-term success? Look no further!

I think we can all agree the holidays are a joyous, yet stressful time. Although we put all the pieces in place with nutrition and lifestyle, sometimes we need an extra stress reduction boost to further support weight loss goals. This is where supplementation and an extra emphasis on mental health step in. We aim to outline actionable items for stress reduction as it plays an integral role in health, inflammation, weight, and chronic disease.

Have you ever heard “you need to reduce your stress” or “you are too stressed out”, but never been given tangible tools for stress reduction? If this is your experience, look no further. We aim to outline actionable items for stress reduction as they play an integral role in health, inflammation, weight, and chronic disease.

You may have heard that increased stress in your life can contribute to the development of chronic diseases, but have you ever considered how stress may be affecting your weight? If your weight loss has slowed or halted, you may want to consider how chronic stress may be playing a role in your weight loss journey.

Like weight gain, inflammation has been identified as a common contributing factor to many chronic diseases. In our last blog, we discussed the connection between inflammation and increased weight plus foods to be added to promote an anti-inflammatory effect on the body. Today, we wanted to share an anti-inflammatory breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipe to help promote lowering inflammation and weight loss.

Like weight gain, inflammation has been identified as a common contributing factor to many chronic diseases. But how are the two interconnected?

Nutrition could be the missing link for yourself or the youth athlete in your life to take sports performance to the next level. Our body needs nutrients to provide sustained energy for training and performance, which is why proper nutrition sets athletes up for success for preparation, training, and recovery. Today’s outline of a nutrition day in the life of a youth athlete is an example, not to be taken as a one size fits all but can be a great outline for how different nutrients and nutrient timing should be supported throughout the day.

Doesn’t it just seem like in the blink of an eye, May turns into September? Amidst shopping for notebooks, backpacks, and clothes; nutrition can sometimes be the last thing on our minds. To feel confident you can attack the new school year with a fueled mind, body, and spirit, here are our favorite tips and tricks for back-to-school nutrition.

Did you know the last point of hormone breakdown is in your digestive tract? This is why hormone health and gut health play such a balancing act within the body. Oftentimes, we can get distracted by one or the other in terms of symptoms, frustrations, and treatment, so why not add nutrition to your diet for both?!

Female hormonal balance and weight - what do they have in common? When approaching weight loss, balancing sex hormones may be a missing link for weight loss.

Does the general term of “gut health” confuse you? With so much information on the internet, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed when looking to improve your digestive function. Let’s break down some of these hot topic terms into digestible bites.