In the long term, improving your relationship with food makes food-centric celebrations easier to navigate and more pleasurable. The challenge with changing your relationship with food is it doesn’t happen quickly. However, if you are reading this just weeks or days before the holidays, all is not lost. There are some simple things you can do now that increase your short-term pleasure in holiday foods and lay the groundwork for deeper work in the future.
Read MoreSocial media is a hot topic these days. It is both blamed for the downfall of humanity while at the same time providing life-affirming connections for those who may be otherwise isolated.
My decision to quit social media took a few years and a good amount of personal reflection. For me, I found the toll it took on my mental and emotional health was greater than the benefits I gained from being on it.
Read MoreIntuitive Eating is not a random list of rules. The principles were developed to help you better sense, understand, and respond to your body’s internal cues. They help you improve your body awareness or remove obstacles that make it harder to have body awareness.
Strengthening interoceptive awareness will make it easier to notice and respond appropriately to your body’s internal signals, including hunger, fullness, and tricky emotions.
Read MoreThe long and short of it is that intuitive eating is not a diet. Not even a non-diet diet. Or an anti-diet diet. Diets are about changing your physical body, usually to make it smaller. Focusing on weight will make it impossible to truly eat intuitively.
Intuitive eating is about changing your relationship with food and your body; it is not about changing your body size.
Read MoreFrom a young age, all of us have been lied to about diets and nutrition. Most of us believe, without question, that if you just find the right foods and the right diet, your body and your life will magically transform into something better. The details might change, but the societal pressure to get it right doesn’t.
Despite what we have been taught, there is another way, a better way, to think about food without restriction, elimination, guilt, or shame: Gentle Nutrition.
Read MoreTo change my relationship with exercise, I had to first decouple the idea that exercise was only for weight loss. Second, I had to find physical activities that I actually liked doing. One of those activities happens to be hiking.
Read MoreBinge eating is consuming a large amount of food quickly and mindlessly without regard to hunger, fullness, or physical comfort.
Dieting taught me how to binge eat.
It started with calorie counting…
Read MoreIntuitive Eating is a framework of 10 principles that support self-care and can help you improve your relationship with food and your body. It helps you relearn how to listen to and trust internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction rather than relying on strict external diet rules.
Read MoreWhat we eat does impact how we feel. If we skip regular meals and prop ourselves up with caffeine, sugar, and refined snack foods, we are not only missing important nutrients, but we are also causing blood sugar, our brain’s preferred energy source, to erratically spike and drop throughout the day, which is very stressful on the body.
Read MoreReclaiming the joy of baking helped me make peace with food (dare I say, bake peace with food?), and maybe it can help you too.
Read MoreIf you have been around here for a while you may have noticed a change in the language used to describe Whole You Nutrition. In the past few months, I have updated business materials including the website to explicitly state “anti-diet gentle nutrition.” You might be wondering, what exactly does anti-diet gentle nutrition mean?
Read MoreConsidered by some to be an “easy fix,” these drugs have to potential to exacerbate anti-fat bias. The affordability, spotty insurance coverage, and the fact it won’t work for everyone (either because it simple doesn’t work or the side effects are untenable), or someone simply doesn’t care to take a medication, means these biases will unduly impact those with marginalized identities including those in larger bodies, POC, trans folks, and those with lower socioeconomic status.
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