If you struggle with IBS, before cutting out or eliminating foods (especially ones you love!) read this blog post to learn non-diet approaches that can help manage your symptoms.
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Google what to eat for IBS and you’ll find most of the recommendations are all about eliminating certain foods or elimination diets. But these common recommendations for IBS can sometimes make things worse and not better, especially if you struggle with disordered eating. This post on intuitive eating and IBS shares how non-diet approaches can help manage your symptoms.
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The way we discuss health in our culture centers food and fitness. While how we feed and move our body certainly has an impact on health and wellbeing, but that’s just a small piece of the puzzle. This blog post shares ideas for taking a holistic approach to health with seven tips for improving health outside of diet and exercise.
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In intuitive eating, you hear a lot about hunger. But did you know there are more ways to experience hunger than just physical hunger? This post explores the four types of hunger in intuitive eating - physical, emotional, taste and practical - and how to respond to each.
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Because dieting is so normalized in our culture, sometimes it can be hard to know if your struggles with food are enough to need treatment for disordered eating or an eating disorder. This blog post shares 5 signs that you are sick enough for treatment.
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Set point weight theory is a helpful concept for understanding weight science, the fluctuations you experience in weight, “healthy weight,” and why diets don’t work. This blog post explains what set point weight range is and answers commonly asked questions about it.
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With all the fearmongering about overeating, it’s easy to minimize the risk of not eating enough. Food is our body’s source of fuel, and undereating is dangerous. This blog post details 10 symptoms of undereating to help make sure you’re eating enough.
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Food freedom is liberating, but you're still surrounded by diet culture. Diet talk can strain your relationships, and your own sanity as you try to maintain a healthy relationship with food. This post shares two of my favorite strategies for helping my clients deal with unwanted diet talk.
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For most people, part of the intuitive eating process is accepting that your body may be bigger than the body you have spent a good chunk of your life working towards. For understandable reasons, that can trigger some pretty intense emotions through a process called body grief. This blog post explains the stages of body grief, and ideas for processing through each.
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Are you trying to eat intuitively, but worried that diet mentality might be influencing your food choices? This blog post shares a simple question you can ask yourself to eat more intuitively.
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A few weeks ago I had the honor of attending a farm tour in Monterey, CA with the Alliance for Food and Farming. I learned all about safe and sustainable agriculture in the region, and am excited to share what I learned with you all!
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In mainstream discourse about food and nutrition, food is often put into binary categories of good and bad, healthy and unhealthy. This blog discusses why you should stop labelling food good and bad and the harms of binary thinking around food.
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Health is often thought of as the outcome of food and fitness, but mental health is health too. If your behaviors around food and fitness are damaging to your mental health, then it's not actually healthy.
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For many people, running is an essential tool for stress relief. But did you know that running is actually a stressor on the body? Read this blog post to understand the relationship between running and cortisol, and how you can run in a safe way.
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Thanks to the diet industry co-opting wellness, it can be hard to distinguish if a food choice is stemming from gentle nutrition or diet mentality. Read this blog post to explore the difference.
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As a non-diet approach, intuitive eating might seem like it’s not for people with diabetes, a chronic condition that (supposedly) must be managed with a strict diet. While intuitive eating for diabetes might look a little different, it’s still a tool you can use to take some stress out of managing diabetes and to help control blood sugar levels.
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Confused by the glycemic index? Originally developed as a tool to help people choose foods that are better for their blood sugar, the glycemic index may seem to make intuitive sense. Unfortunately, it’s based on pretty bad science. Read this blog post to debunk the glycemic index.
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We’ve all heard breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But what do you do when you’re not hungry? This blog post explores the reasons you might have no appetite in the morning, and gives ideas for what to eat when you have no appetite.
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