It was a hard decision when I decided to resign from my job last January. The year since has been full of ups and downs, with plenty of adventures in between. Certainly, it has opened me up to a lot of new and interesting opportunities. As I am working to transition from the for-profit health tech realm into something more benevolent and meaningful, I thought I would start sharing some of my experiences here. I will also throw in a few articles I have written from my previous life as a healthy lifestyle coach, and anything else that seems worth sharing as it comes up.

Bringing Simple Back was a name I came up with when working as a Healthy Lifestyle coach short of 20 years ago. I have owned the URL since then and never wanted to let it go because I love how it sounds and what it stands for. It was born out of the notion that we are flooded with food, diet, and exercise advice – everyone searching for that silver bullet to make them thin and happy and beautiful – when, in reality, the best answers are always simple and back to the basics.

Keep It Simple (Stupid), or in a twist of the lyrics of Justin Timberlake’s hit song “SexyBack”, I’m Bringing Simple Back. To quote Michael Pollan, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” And “Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”

Along with cutting out ultra-processed foods and increasing intake of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, nuts and seeds, I think the other most important (and not always as simple) step is to address the our self-talk and the conversations that many of us have in our heads regarding food and what to eat vs what we want to eat. More on this topic to come.

Details of my education and past professional life can be found on LinkedIn. This space will be dedicated to Version 2.0 of this developing story. Who knows where it will lead me? I won’t know until I try.