When we were young...

Okay, not really but I was just looking through some pictures of when Robby and I were first dating, just about 3 years ago! We have had some fun adventures!

This was our ward Christmas Party in 2008... 2 months after we started dating.

At the Jazz game...Winter 2009.

Opening our Easter Package from my mom and grandma... April 2009

After lunch on the day we parted ways for a whole summer! We said goodbye so fast we didn't realize what was happening. 

But it's okay because I went to visit him... May 2009

And then he came to visit me...July 2009

Then we were reunited in Provo... Sept 2009

We went on some fun dates...Oct 2009

And then we got engaged! Oct 2009

All this in honor of next month being 3 years since our very first date. 

I love you Robby!

Labor Day Weekend

We wanted to escape the heat for Labor Day weekend, so we went to Las Vegas...haha! It was just as hot there as it was in Phoenix, but we were with family so it was bearable. We had a really fun weekend and it was nice to have a little getaway.

We spent one evening on the strip with Danielle. We walked around and ended up eating at PF Changs outside, where we could enjoy the "entertainment".  People watching in Vegas is so much fun.

We went to the Las Vegas temple...since I had never even seen it before! It is really beautiful! 

Oh and the temple and I are the same age...cool, huh?

We also ate yummy treats!

And now we are back to normal life! I just started my 2nd internship rotation at Chandler Unified School District. I will be with them until around December 22. They have the most amazing food and nutrition program! I love being part of all the new and exciting things they are doing, related to nutrition and school meals. I have spent some time in a few classrooms teaching about nutrition. Something exciting coming up for me is the School Nutrition Association of Arizona conference this weekend. I'm bummed that I can't be in San Diego at FNCE  this weekend, but this little conference will be like a mini-FNCE. The school district is paying for me to go, so I just get to show up, learn amazing things and sample new food products. Lucky me! I love being an almost-RD!

Something that bugged me today...

I don't normally blog about nutrition, but today I just wanted to put something out there. Something that I saw and really bugged me, as a future RD.  I was at the gym today and Dr. Oz was on  TV. It is hard to change the channels so I kept watching, even though Dr. Oz isn't my favorite. He has said a few things related to nutrition that I don't agree with and that are not backed up by good science, which we rely heavily on in dietetics.

This particular episode was called "Slowing Aging and Preventing Disease". Part of the segment involved what Dr. Oz called his four "superfoods". They were salmon, sweet potatoes, white kidney (cannellini) beans and kale. Now don't get me wrong, there are great things about each of those foods and I would encourage anyone to include them in their normal diet. However, the way Dr. Oz portrayed it was "Add these foods to your diet to age slowly and prevent disease". This bothers me because these four foods are not magic answers to nutrition-related health problems. Simply adding these four foods to an already poor diet won't do very much. For these foods to make a difference, they need to be combined with a balanced diet, exercise, no smoking and many other factors. The key to disease prevention is lifestyle change and what we refer to as "maintenance". That is the ability to practice those healthy lifestyle habits on a daily basis. In my opinion, it isn't enough to just add those four foods.

Part of the problem with nutrition in this country is the millions of messages we get from the media every single day related to food and what we should be putting into our bodies. What people like Dr. Oz need to promote are not just "superfoods" but an overall healthy lifestyle, including foods from all of the food groups.  Just for fun, here is the new MyPlate icon, that I love so much.

PS For the few of you that read this, thanks for letting me vent.