Struggling with emotional eating? It’s one of the most common challenges I hear from my clients. When you’re working through intuitive eating, the process teaches you how to cope with your emotions with other tools. That said, food can be ONE tool to cope with emotions! This post teaches you how to build a self care toolbox, one of my favorite strategies for dealing with emotional eating in intuitive eating.
Read MoreOne cool thing about the world moving everything online is that inclusive fitness classes are so much more available now, no matter where you live. Since quarantine started, I’ve been on the lookout for inclusive online fitness classes to recommend to my clients, so I thought I would share with you all too. Check out these resources!
Read MoreThe honeymoon period in intuitive eating is a very normal phase to experience when you are first making peace with food. This post discusses why the honeymoon period is an important phase to go through, and what skills to be working on when you are in the phase.
Read MoreAre you obsessed with healthy eating? How do you know whether you’re health conscious, or whether your eating is disordered. This post discusses what is orthorexia, and includes an orthorexia quiz to help you understand if your interest in nutrition could be harming your health.
Read MoreMindful eating is a phrase that gets thrown around quite a bit, and as with intuitive eating, there can be quite a bit of confusion about what it is. This mindful eating 101 post gives a comprehensive overview of what mindful eating is, as well as tips for eating with mindfulness for beginners.
Read MoreAre you someone who hates to workout? Try my simple trick of reframing movement vs. exercise to learn how to be more active without feeling miserable! It’s a simple trick to help nurture a healthier relationship with and habits around physical activity.
Read MoreIf you’ve got some extra time on your hands, I’m sharing some of my favorite resources for making peace with food. The podcasts, books and TV shows that can help you see food in a different light.
Read MoreClean eating has created a lot of fear around processed foods, but with the current pandemic, that might be what you need to eat for awhile. Don’t be afraid! Learn why processed foods can be part of a healthy diet.
Read MoreOne of the principles of intuitive eating is movement for pleasure. But if you have a fraught relationship with movement, it’s probably not that pleasurable to you! This post explores what joyful movement is, and gives tips for how to learn to like exercise.
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Read MoreIf you’re someone who has tried to diet, only to be foiled by intense hunger cues, you might be wondering why do I feel so hungry when I’m trying to stick to a diet? This post discusses the biological basis of how hunger cues work, and how intuitive eating can help normalize your hunger cues so you’re able to feed yourself adequately and appropriately throughout the day.
Read MoreIf you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, it might feel like you have to be on a super strict diet for life. In reality, “all food fits” is still true for you. This post explores intuitive eating for diabetes with non-diet nutrition for diabetes management.
Read MoreOne common question I get from readers and clients is should I take supplements? In this post, I’ll dive into the different kinds of supplements, potential risks and benefits, and how to know whether a supplement is helpful for you.
Read MoreA diagnosis of diabetes and intuitive eating may feel like they conflict, especially with all the rigid advice out there. In reality, intuitive eating for diabetes is possible. In this post, learn about why intuitive eating is a natural fit for diabetes management.
Read MoreWondering why am I feeling hungry after eating? Intuitive eating is all about using internal cues, like hunger and fullness, to guide eating. But sometimes Intuitive Eating is taught as a "hunger/fullness" diet, which overlooks the importance of satisfaction, which is an even more important cue to stop eating. Learn the difference between satisfaction and fullness in intuitive eating.
Read MorePretty much everyone who is interested in intuitive eating holds some desire for weight loss, because otherwise they’d already be a pretty intuitive eater. We live in a culture that is obsessed with dieting and thinness. So of course the question of can I diet to lose weight before starting intuitive eating is a common one. In this post, I dive into why you don’t have to lose weight before starting intuitive eating, and why you can start eating more intuitively today!
Read MoreWe all grow up steeped in diet culture, so of course we’re constantly battling diet mentality. Dealing with these thoughts can make eating really stressful! Read this post to learn tools for how to reframe diet mentality thoughts in intuitive eating.
Read MoreAre you stuck in an unhealthy relationship with the scale? Weighing yourself frequently can contributes to an unhealthy relationship with food and your body, create stress, and frankly, isn’t even that accurate. Learn why you should get rid of your scale and tips for how to stop obsessively weighing yourself. Remember, you are so much more than a number!
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