Violet Reveira, Psychologist
4226 Saint Jean Blvd Suite 408 H9G1X5 Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC, Canada

Are you feeling like you are doing everything right on keto but you still aren't losing weight? Why would that be happening? Often it is because we have done some research and have some understanding of what we are trying to accomplish but we do not have a deeper understanding of what our body is actually doing. Woo, wow, Violet, ... What are you trying to imply. Don't be hurt or insulted by that first paragraph. All I'm trying to say is that if you have just begun to do a ...Continue reading

Your body has several ways that it gives you feedback. Temperature, orientation, visual, and pain, just to name a few. Do you listen to your body? Weirdly enough, most of us misinterpret the information that we are receiving regularly from our body. Your body wants to be healthy. Every process that occurs is towards using the building blocks we give it to build and repair. The question is, what quality of building blocks do you provide? Very often, we are eating processed jun...Continue reading

Should you be eating nightshade vegetable? On a keto diet we often avoid eating potatoes but allow bell peppers, egg plant, and other nightshade vegetable on our plates. Would you be surprised to learn that all nightshade vegetable actually contain solanine, a known toxin. And yet nightshades are presented as healthy vegetables that we should all eat. When people with arthritis report having negative reactions to nightshade vegetable and question if there is an inflammotory...Continue reading

How do you treat your body? Are you acting like it is an old junker car that you can run into the ground or are you investing in the care of your body like an expensive luxuary car. How you treat your body matters! I have spoken to so many people who knowingly eat junk, with the belief that their body will be ok because they are not seeing any signs of damage right now. But yet, these same people are fully aware that you need to maintain your car to ensure that it does not br...Continue reading

Is keto a fad? What would make something a fad diet? In reality, we've had several fad diets that lead to weight loss but were not sustainable. What makes a diet sustainable? Well in reality, it is not just my ability to commit to a diet but it is the diets ability to support health longterm. There are many people who are able to stick to diets that are attrocious, the standard American diet is a great example of that. But that does not make the actual diet sustainable for h...Continue reading

We need to address the harsh truth about cheat days on keto. For some reason, people have been mislead into believing that if you do not see an immediate physical repercussion to eating poorly, it is harmless. Have we not learned, over the past few years, that insulin resistance is in the making upward of 10 years before our blood sugar has any negative signs? Doesn't that automatically mean that we can be damaging our body with food, even if we look fine in the moment. It ...Continue reading