by Cathy Leman | Apr 10, 2024 | Breast Cancer, Cancer
“It’s exhausting trying to eat perfectly all the time!” On a recent coaching call, one of my client’s spoke in-depth about how striving for perfection in her eating left her worn out and forever struggling to “do the right thing”. I hear this often. Eating...
by Cathy Leman | Mar 27, 2024 | Breast Cancer, Cancer
My mission is to serve as a trusted nutrition resource for the hormone-driven breast cancer community. I consider it my professional and ethical duty to call out potentially harmful nutrition information (miracle nutrition) targeting the vulnerable among us. ...
by Cathy Leman | Mar 14, 2024 | Breast Cancer, Cancer
Your breast cancer diagnosis left you reeling. The emotions and feelings accompanying the words “It is cancer” can’t be explained to anyone who’s not heard them. Breast cancer emotions and feelings are intense. Powerful. Icky. What the hell are you supposed to...
by Cathy Leman | Feb 29, 2024 | Breast Cancer, Cancer
Every year I get all sorts of giddy when March arrives. Volatile, unpredictable, raw March Chicago weather notwithstanding, this month ushers in celebrations and observances of a number of things I’m fierce about: Women’s History Month National Nutrition Month...
by Cathy Leman | Feb 12, 2024 | Breast Cancer, Cancer
The work that I do has one purpose; helping food-panicked survivors of hormone-positive breast cancer eat with peace and enjoy their food again after treatment ends. Sounds like that would be pretty simple, doesn’t it? Give clients a few handouts, teach them what’s...
by Cathy Leman | Feb 1, 2024 | Breast Cancer, Cancer
After treatment ends, it’s common to want to “do your diet differently”. You feel like your nutrition needs have changed, so why wouldn’t you want to shake things up? The problem is, you’re not sure where to start. That’s challenging enough on its own, but in my...
by Cathy Leman | Jan 17, 2024 | Breast Cancer, Cancer
There’s a lot to be said for examining the way you “think” about food. I don’t mean think about food as in, “What will I make for dinner?”, “What SHOULD I eat for dinner?”, or “Is what I ate for dinner okay for me to eat for dinner?” Those are “thoughts” about food,...
by Cathy Leman | Jan 1, 2024 | Breast Cancer, Cancer
Happy 2024! It’s been 2024 for five days. How you doing? If, like millions of other Americans, you made a resolution to completely overhaul your eating and drinking habits when the clock struck midnight on December 31, five days can feel like a lifetime....
by Cathy Leman | Dec 19, 2023 | Breast Cancer, Cancer
How you do anything, is how you do everything. That includes your post-treatment diet, which somewhere around Thanksgiving may have shifted drastically from what you’d LIKE to be doing. Now that we’re in the thick of the season for holiday eating, you may...
by Cathy Leman | Dec 5, 2023 | Breast Cancer, Cancer
No matter how you spin it, holiday cookies aren’t broccoli. Let’s talk about that holiday cookie platter. Groaning under the weight of sugary, buttery, floury bites of treasured tradition, it will soon make its annual appearance. And completely freak you out....
