What happens if you like a food that’s a diet food? You might be wondering if you can eat a diet food while practicing intuitive eating. This post explores the nuance in that question so you can eat with confidence.
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Catching yourself going back and forth to the kitchen when you’re feeling bored? Boredom eating is a common eating behavior people struggle with. This blog post discusses what boredom eating is and shares tips for how to stop eating when you’re bored.
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Feeling anxious? You might be hungry! While hunger is typically felt in the stomach, for some people, anxiety can be a signal that their body needs food. This post explains more…
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Body image feeling kind of ick? Body checking is a common behavior that people engage in, especially when they struggle with an eating disorder or disordered eating, and it can fuel negative body image. Read this post to learn what body checking is, and how you can stop it.
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Feel like you can’t stop eating sweets? If so, you might be wondering if sugar addiction is real. Here's a look at the research around food addiction, and another reason for why you might feel out of control around food.
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Scared to eat conventional produce after reading about the Dirty Dozen? You’re not alone. The Environmental Working Group’s annual list of fruits and vegetables with the highest and lowest amounts of pesticide is shared in a way that breeds fear and anxiety. Read this post to understand the many problems with the Dirty Dozen.
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Thanks to diet culture, most of us have learned meal planning centered around eating as little as possible without keeling over. Rarely are we taught how to plan a satisfying meal. This post shares one of my favorite tools to teach clients for meal planning for satisfaction.
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Trapped in a pattern of restricting and binging? The dieting pendulum analogy will help you understand the restrict-binge cycle, and give you tools for how to break free.
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Let’s face it - our cultural relationship with exercise is pretty messed up. With no pain, no gain as a mantra, we often overlook more pleasurable types of movement, or shorter exercise sessions we don’t think will count. This post teaches one of our favorite tools for building a more intuitive relationship with movement - how to build a movement menu!
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Building a mindfulness practice is incredibly helpful in healing your relationship with food, but mindfulness meditation can be intimidating, especially for beginners. Before jumping in, read this post to learn how to start a mindfulness meditation practice.
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With the popularity of macro counting, people are more aware than ever of what macronutrients are, yet there is still a lot of misunderstanding about carbs, fat and protein that can make eating stressful. This post answers the question “what are macronutrients” and will hopefully help you feel less stressed knowing how to feed yourself!
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If this is your first New Year not setting a weight loss resolution, you might be experiencing some mixed feelings about it. While there can be a sense of loss in stepping away from diet culture, it’s helpful to think about what you are making room for.
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With an emphasis on fresh, minimally processed foods, clean eating might be an approach to eating that seems to make logical sense. But when you dig beneath the surface, there’s a lot of problems with clean eating that might not be evident upon first glance. This post discusses how clean eating can go wrong, and what to focus on instead.
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Planning to read Gentle Nutrition as part of a book club? This blog post contains guiding questions for discussion, so you can make the most out of your read.
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With intuitive eating growing in popularity and becoming, dare I say it, trendy, so has the number of providers co-opting intuitive eating to promote dieting. This post is for dietitians to learn more about why intuitive eating should NOT be used in weight loss counseling, and how doing so causes harm to the people intuitive eating was designed to help.
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Intuitive eating isn’t impulsive eating. This blog post explores how you can listen to your body and brain knowledge together in intuitive eating to make intentional choices with food that help you feel good physically and mentally.
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If you started exercising to lose weight, you may have learned to disconnect from your body to cope with harsh and punishing levels of physically activity. Mindful movement, which brings the art of mindfulness to your workout, can help you find joy in moving your body and do it in a safer and more intuitive way. This post includes one of my favorite exercises for bringing mindfulness to physical activity.
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Intuitive eating teaches you how to eat when you’re hungry and stop when satisfied, but it’s much more nuanced than that! Learn why it’s OK to eat when you’re not hungry in this post on the role of practical hunger in intuitive eating.
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