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Should You Be Taking Collagen?

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Should you Take a Greens Powder?

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Pregnancy After Loss: My Pregnancy Journey

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Do You Need to Drink Protein Shakes After a Workout?

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What is the Best Fish to Eat?

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How to Navigate Trader Joe’s in 2020 & A Grocery Haul

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What Happens When You Have a Miscarriage

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How To Manage Stress Eating Without Stressing Out

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10 Tips for Working from Home & Staying Healthy

The Game Changers Review

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Cut the B.S.: The Game Changers Review

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Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail & What to Do About It

Holiday Gift Guide

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Sassy’s Last Minute Gift Guide 2019

Laura Ligos Cookbook

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I Wrote a Cookbook! The Complete Clean Eating Cookbook

Herbalife Nutrition Clubs

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Cut the B.S.: Herbalife Nutrition Clubs

The Best Trader Joe's Pumpkin Products

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The Best Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Products 2019

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Sassy’s Favorite Food & Fitness Products (August 2019 Finds)

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CrossFit vs. Dietitians

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Why I Started The Sassy Dietitian

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Sassy’s Local Bites: Proctors 2019-2020 Announcement Bash

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Fad or Fact? J.Lo’s 10 Day Challenge

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Make Mistakes in the Kitchen & My Own Kitchen Mistakes

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Nine Pin Cider 26er Status

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What Are Macros Anyway?! (aka Macronutrients)

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How to Manage Stress

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Weekly Meal Plan 1/6/2019

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5 WAYS TO STAY MOTIVATED & STICK TO YOUR FITNESS ROUTINE

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2018 Favorite Christmas Presents

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Just Because You Eat…

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2018 Reflections & 2019 Resolutions

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16 Resources for Sports & Fitness Nutrition Information

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Set Your Theme for 2019 Focus & Connection

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iCryo & Self-Care

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Snowshoeing at Stratton Mountain, Vermont

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Presence for Christmas

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15 Gluten-Free Casserole Recipes that are #dietitianapproved

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Sassy’s Sample Week Meal Plan

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Chew Your Food! (& Put Your Fork Down)

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Sassy’s 12 Days of Nutrition

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Should You Go Gluten-Free?

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DIY Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses

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12 Days of Kettlebells Workout

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Friday Food Favorites December 2018

how much do you need to hydrate

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How Much Do You Need to Hydrate?

how to stay on track during the holidays

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How to Stay on Track During the Holidays

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Weekly Meal Plan & Workouts

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More Ways to Love Plant-Based Choices with Nestlé

diet as a noun not a verb

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Treating Diet as a Noun Instead of a Verb

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20+ Gift Ideas for the Entertainer

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Week of 11/26 Meal Plan & Grocery Haul

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How To Be Authentic

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20+ Gift Ideas for the Fitness Enthusiast

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Giving YOU Thanks on Thanksgiving

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20+ Gift Ideas for the Health Newbie (Sassy’s Holiday Gift Guide 2018)

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20+ Gifts for the Coffee Lover (Sassy’s Holiday Gift Guide 2018)

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20+ Gift Ideas for Foodies (Sassy’s Holiday Gift Guide 2018)

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Protein Powders 101

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Un-stuffed Butternut Squash Skillet

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15 Reasons to See A Dietitian

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Healthy Thanksgiving Swaps

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Where to Find Recipe Inspiration

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Sassy’s Trader Joe’s Favorite Finds

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All About the Ketogenic (Keto) Diet

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7 Ways to Deal with Negativity

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How To Throw a Wine Party

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FNCE 2018 Recap + Do’s & Don’ts

No Shame November

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#NOSHAMENOVEMBER2018

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Trick or Treat? Are We Sabotaging Our Own Health?

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How to “Get Back on Track” After Traveling

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What to Eat in Washington, DC

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20+ Delicious & Nutritious Pumpkin Products & Recipes for National Pumpkin Day 2018

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Should You Be Tracking Your Food Intake?!

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How To Snack Healthy While Traveling

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Real Talk with Dana Podcast featuring Yours Truly

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#SassyApproved (Healthier) Halloween Treats

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Do You Need a Pre-Workout?! (Part 1)

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The Nutrition Expert Epidemic

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Have Your Cake & Enjoy it Too (National Dessert Day 2018)

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My Weekly Workout Routine

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My Balanced Real Food Approach

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A Random What I Ate in a Day

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A Guide to Fall Brew Fests

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Whatever Happened to Designed To Fit Nutrition Meal Plans?

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Friday Favorites: Girls Gone WOD Podcast

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What You Need to Know About Intermittent Fasting

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Being Relentless (& a CrossFit L-2 Review)

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Apple Picking at Indian Ladder Farms

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National Coffee Day 2018

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Expo East 2018: A Dietitian’s Perspective

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Stop Asking Permission

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100 Days of…

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What To Eat, Drink, Do in Richmond, VA

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Weekly Workouts + How to Stay Motivated

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This Is A Judgment-Free Zone

macros

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Why You Cannot (& Should NOT) Macro Harder

Healthy Weight Loss

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Lose the Weight of Losing Weight

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Friday Favorites: Road Trip Essentials

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Friday Favorites: Meal Planning

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Summer Meal Prep: Tips, Tricks, & Essentials

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Nine Pin Cider 26er Club: Halfway There!

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Friday Favorites: Hiking Snacks & Food

@thesassydietitian

We’ve made it over a week together and it feels We’ve made it over a week together and it feels like it’s always been this way.

Motherhood is a wild ride & it’s only getting started. I have never been so tired & simultaneously so fulfilled in my life. That’s not to say it’s not filled with tears, worries and doubts but what fun would it be if it were all sunshine and roses anyway?

Going into this all I have felt so supported by friends going through this with me BUT I felt so unsupported by the general public. It seems like we want to fear and shame moms because misery loves company, right?!

The focus quickly shifts from mom to baby (still shocked that I only have an appointment at 6 weeks even though my body went through the biggest event of its life) and there also seems to be this shift from joy to shame & guilt.

Here’s some of what I heard from people:

😕Sleep when baby sleeps. You’ll never sleep again.
😕Don’t let baby sleep in a car seat, or a bouncer, or anywhere but their crib EVER. 
😕You’ll never have time to shower again, enjoy it now. 
😕Cry it out is cruel and harmful to the baby. 
😕Get baby on a schedule/never put baby on a schedule.

These are all things I heard and that truly led me to believe I was going to lose all sense of who I was and my life as I knew it.

What I wish people had said instead were:

🥰Your heart will grow bigger than you could imagine.
🥰You’ll cry the happiest tears you’ve ever cried.
🥰You’ll feel like a giant hole was filled that you didn’t even know was there.
🥰You won’t feel guilty about cleaning your house, it just won’t matter anymore.
🥰Babies pooping will make you laugh so hard you will feel like a kid again.
🥰You will have time to eat and shower and you don’t have to neglect yourself.

We need to do a better job of building each other up, supporting one another and our decisions while refraining from offering unsolicited advice and opinions. 

So for all you future mamas and new mamas out there, I see you, I’m proud of you and I cannot wait to share our stories with one another and the world.

Let’s stop fear mongering (just like the diet world) and start building one another up.

Xoxo,
Sassy & lil sassy man
🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s b 🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s been a long year of loss, unknowns and worry but it’s all been worth it to get to meet my lil man🥰
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Now time to introduce this sassy human who is already so well loved to the world...
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Introducing 

💙 Connor James Ligos 💙
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After an almost 24 hour labor, Connor joined us over a week past his due date on 2/12/21 at a whopping 9lb2oz & 22.5 inches long with a full head of hair and lungs to scream hello to us with.
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We are so in love already and cannot wait to share him with the world. Thank you for all the love and support from friends and family and to all those that helped us in the hospital. Holy cow labor & delivery teams are truly magical and I cannot imagine doing it without all of their support.
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Now back to snuggling this human of mine and trying not to cry at every last thing he does 🥰 
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Mom, Dad & Bode are all doing well!
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#babyboy #pregnancyafterloss #rainbowbaby #birthdayboy #birthannouncement
I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk t I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk to others about what worked for us. That's great!
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What's not great is when we push our nutrition and eating behaviors onto others ESPECIALLY when we are not qualified to do so.
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So often when people meet me for the first time they are worried to eat around me and/or buy groceries around me. My friends can attest I am not judgemental around food and will gladly eat that cake, queso dip or sip on that glass of wine right alongside of you. I am not the food police and do not offer unsolicited nutrition advice unless it's a client who is paying for my help OR on Instagram and other social media platforms where my goal is to educate.
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Why do I share this? 
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Because I see far too many people diving down diet rabbit holes, finding success & then claiming to be nutrition experts purely because something worked for them. 
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I've also seen this alot being pregnant, everyone wants to tell you what worked for them. IF you use that stipulation of "this worked for me" then fine, share away but if you start doleing out advice please pause, take a breath and think about NOT doing it.
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People are OVERWHELMED by diet culture and some so badly want to change but YOUR way is not the only way and it most likely is not what will work for your friend/coworker/cousin/neighbor so please, stop trying to be an expert in something you aren't.
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Got it!?! 
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Ok, carry on.
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xoxo,
Sassy
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#nutrition #nutritiontips #nutritionist #dietitianapproved #rdapproved #rdchat #dietitiansofinstagram #dietitian #dietitiansofig #albanyny #albanynutrition #albanynutrition
Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. I'm not saying you have to find perfect balance (does that even exist?) but I am saying that we shouldn't feel like either we have to eat perfectly or that we might as well give up.
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Instead we should look to the grey area in between for our nutrition guidance. 
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What do I mean?
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I mean that we need to realize that we can still eat cookies but we probably should throw some veggies in there. 
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We can have a glass or 2 of wine but we should probably also drink some water. 
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We can take rest days but we should also find ways to move our bodies regularly.
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And the list goes on.
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It's not about all or nothing it's about doing something daily to help your health and nutrition without it feeling like a set of rules or a free for all.
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How do we find that grey area in between?
👉🏻 stop hopping on and off fad diets
👉🏻listen and trust your self, not your coworkers and cousins 
👉🏻focus on the simple things (ie drinking water instead of worrying about supplements)
👉🏻work to remove guilt and shame around food & body
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Where do you currently fall Right now?!
🤪 all
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🙅🏻‍♀️ nothing 
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Xoxo,
Sassy
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#dietitian #dietitiansofig #dietitiansofinstagram #nutrition #nutritionist #nutritiontips #thesassydietitian #rdchat #realtalk

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