Here’s a great PCOS-friendly egg dish that’s perfect for Sunday brunch or weekend meal prep (4 breakfasts for the week). This easy-to-make frittata only has 5 ingredients, proving once again that eating a PCOS-friendly diet doesn’t have to be time-consuming or difficult. Kale and Onion Frittata Ingredients 8 eggs 2 cups chopped kale 1 sweet onion, chopped 1 teaspoon dried...
Instead of traditional, carb-laden pasta noodles, this recipe uses mineral-rich kelp noodles that come pre-cooked and ready-to-eat. That’s a double-win: a healthy, PCOS-friendly food that’s fast to prepare! Cozy Winter Pasta Ingredients 1 lb cooked shrimp* 1 medium head of broccoli ½ cup extra virgin olive oil 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 package of kelp noodles ½ teaspoon red pepper...
When I stumbled upon this recipe from Ask The Dentist my first thought was OMG—this dessert recipe is PCOS perfection! Seriously—it’s low glycemic, has minimal carbs, and is full of healthy fats. Plus, it’s sweet enough to satisfy your sweet tooth, but not loaded with processed sugars that will spike (and crash) your blood sugar. That means that this dessert...
Sugar and Its Not-So-Sweet Health Problems Irritable. Unproductive. Unmotivated. Sleepy. If this sounds like you during the middle of the day, you’re not alone. Many of my clients complain of these exact same feelings that leave them with little energy to do nothing more than scroll mindlessly through Facebook each afternoon. Also common among my clients is their desire to...
Tips for a Healthier Holiday In just a few weeks we’ll gather together with family and friends to enjoy the festive of the holiday. You know what I mean: nature, prosperity, love, faith and an incredible planet that provides so much to us. Wouldn’t it be a shame to upset the balance of it all by overeating on the big...
Why is the glycemic index important for PCOS women? What is the glycemic index? The glycemic index, or GI, is a system of assigning a number to carbohydrate-containing foods according to how much each food increases blood sugar. The glycemic index itself is not a diet plan but one of various tools—such as calorie counting or carbohydrate counting—for guiding food...
Whether you agree that breakfast is the most important meal of the day or not, there’s one thing we can all agree on: cupcakes aren’t a healthy breakfast option. Sometimes, though, cupcakes are just disguised as muffins: Little breakfast cakes so high in calories, sugar, and processed white flour that you might as well call them dessert. And while me...
It’s something I say often: Having PCOS is stressful enough; eating a PCOS-friendly diet doesn’t have to be. Below, I share with you 5 easy steps that will make adopting a PCOS-friendly diet easier and less stressful for you. 1. Plan Your Meals and Go Shopping for Healthy, PCOS-Friendly Food If you don’t know what to cook, check out the...
This butternut squash soup is great for PCOS women because it’s dairy-free and low in fat, cholesterol, and sodium; but high in healthy fats, folate, calcium, magnesium, and vitamins A, C, and B6. All these vitamins and minerals make the soup a perfect immune-boosting meal on a cool fall evening! This soup serves 8, so you’ll have plenty of leftovers...
It’s fall, and you know what that means: warm sweaters and fuzzy socks, spiced candles that smell good enough to eat, and pumpkin…everything pumpkin. From pies to puddings to pancakes, we can find pumpkin in all of our favorite cold-weather comfort foods. However, if you’re a woman with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), a disorder that is the leading cause of female...
