133 | Releasing Food Restrictions and Understanding Nutrition with Cara Clark

The Optimal Body

Struggling to release food restrictions? Wanting to commit to a challenge to kickstart your journey, but feel like you can’t commit? Curious about simple nutritional guidelines to consider? Cara deciphers nutrition and provides insight into changing the focus around food restriction, yet appealing to the control food restrictors desire. After a dive into Cara’s passion, her motivations, education, and what motivated her to pursue nutrition, Cara provides simple nutrition principles and explains the typical structure of her challenges. Through an elimination and reintroduction phase, Cara presents an efficient technique to understand the types of foods that are optimal for you. Furthermore, Cara re-defines success, as her challenges follow a no-fail system, and the benefits of food-logging, Moreover, she discusses season diet and two factors that make eating according to season advantageous, providing examples and tips to introducing higher vegetable intakes to children. Let’s dive in!

Starting September 7th is the Fall Back To Health challenge with certified nutritionist, Cara Clark, and functional medicine expert. Dr. Kaisa Coppola, DC. If you're feeling the need to re-commit or tired of feeling the way you're feeling with "winging" your meals, feeling bloated or fatigued after meals, or unable to fit in nutritious meals and keep with your routine with kids, this challenge is for you. With an overarching focus on hormone health, You can take a quick assessment to have the team tailor the challenge for you and will be getting meal plans, meal ideas, food exchange ideas and grocery lists, community, structure, logging systems, and education on optimizing your nutrition and hormone health. Join the Fall Back To Health challenge here!

What You Will Learn In This Interview with Cara Clark

3:43 – What drove Cara to her expertise?

6:31 – What motivated Cara to pursue nutrition

13:25 – How can we begin education earlier

15:56 – Clara’s nutrition guidelines

19:39 – Cara’s challenges

25:15 – Food Logging

26:04 – Clara’s fall back to health challenges

28:45 – How to address not feeling so great when making a change

32:35 – How to get yourself to start a challenge

34:31 – Seasonal Diet

37:31 – Key foods for different vegetables

40:02 – Ho to teach kids why we need to eat colors

43:35 – Learn more with Cara

About Cara Clark

Cara Clark is the owner and primary Certified Nutritionist of Cara Clark Nutrition. Cara works with individuals and groups to promote overall health and to manage a wide range of nutrition-related issues. With a ‘non-dieting approach, she has helped clients manage weight, energy, performance, diabetes, thyroid-related disease, allergies, eating disorders, and more. Her goal is to expose as many people as possible to optimal health for elite performance, and she is very sensitive to the needs of each individual client as a mother to four daughters.

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