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    Your metabolism isn’t the problem…

    Your metabolism isn’t the problem…

    So now you’re probably saying, ‘ok…then what is?!’ It’s easy to look to your metabolism as the reason your body progress is slow. What if your metabolism isn’t the problem? First, let’s look at the things that likely aren’t keeping

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    Jess Spinner November 3, 2020November 4, 2020 Food Strategies + Meal Plans, Mindset + Goals No Comments Read more

    ABT Dancer Betsy Mcbride “Healthy at Home”

    ABT Dancer Betsy Mcbride “Healthy at Home”

    Healthy at Home with Betsy Mcbride Betsy Mcbride and I met at the Kaatsbaan Summer Intensive many years ago. She was still a teen but already dancing professionally with Texas Ballet Theatre, I was one of her RA’s. She was

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    Jess Spinner June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Dancer Features 1 Comment Read more

    How to Meal Prep for Healthy Eating Success

    How to Meal Prep for Healthy Eating Success

    Meal Prepping : A Key to Consistent Health Eating At the Whole Dancer, we love working towards goals that create a mentally and physically healthier version of yourself as a dancer. Some research suggests, it takes 30 days to establish

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    Jess Spinner March 21, 2019March 13, 2019 Food Strategies + Meal Plans No Comments Read more

    Yes, Breakfast is that important.

    breakfast for dancers

    Yes, Breakfast is that important. “The most important meal of the day.”  “Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.” Michael Pollan “It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel

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    Jess Spinner February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 Food Specifics and Recipes, Food Strategies + Meal Plans No Comments Read more

    Protein + Health Bar Review

    Protein + Health Bar Review

    Health Bar Review Health Bars, Protein Bars, Snack Bars are easy snacks to throw into your dance bag to give you fast easy fuel to dance. Dancers are constantly on the go and don’t always have time to home-make rehearsal

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    Jess Spinner November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 Food Specifics and Recipes 1 Comment Read more

    The Swan Lake Diet: Don’t fall into this trap.

    Swan Lake Diet

    If you’ve ever danced Swan Lake, you know that the entire ballet is quite an undertaking. There are very few parts that don’t require a ton of stamina and energy. Swan Lake requires you to really fuel  yourself well and

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    Jess Spinner September 10, 2018August 21, 2018 Food Strategies + Meal Plans No Comments Read more

    The great cake debate

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    Can Dancers Have their Cake and Eat It? Every time I present something on food or eating plans there are questions around sweets and treats. I know you enjoy sugar and maybe even the burst of energy it gives…before the

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    Jess Spinner August 22, 2018August 21, 2018 Food Strategies + Meal Plans No Comments Read more

    Make Banana Bread Balls with TippyToeGirl

    banana bread balls

    Natasha Sheehan, dancer with San Francisco Ballet, has created a beautiful online presence that demonstrates just how healthy and balanced professional ballerina’s can be. Her outlook is informed and lovely and worth emulating. She spent a lot of time learning

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    Jess Spinner June 20, 2018July 26, 2018 Food Specifics and Recipes No Comments Read more

    Herb Chicken and Asparagus : Dancer Recipe Inspiration with Adrianna de Svastich

    Herb Chicken and Asparagus : Dancer Recipe Inspiration with Adrianna de Svastich

    One of my absolute favorite concepts in nutrition is that of “bio-individuality”. It’s the idea that because we are all so very different from our genetic makeup to our lifestyles and physiology that there’s no one – size fits all

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    Jess Spinner May 16, 2018May 25, 2018 Food Specifics and Recipes No Comments Read more

    Recipe Resources for Dancers

    Recipe Resources for Dancers

    There are an abundance of recipe websites these days. Lately, I’ve been finding tons of inspiration from dancer food blogs. They’re smart and beautiful and prove that dancers do indeed eat AND eat well. While each of these dancers takes

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    Jess Spinner May 1, 2018May 1, 2018 Food Specifics and Recipes No Comments Read more
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