When people are introduced to the topic of intuitive eating and hear “all foods are equal,” it’s so common their first reaction is to reject the idea. Dieting and health information teach us all the differences in food, so how could it be equal? What we really mean in the intuitive eating space is all […]
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Don’t want big accomplishments to feel good and celebrate your progress, especially when you’re working towards healing your relationship with food. At the beginning of my intuitive eating journey, it all felt very vague because I had shifted away from a weight goal. This led to embracing non-scale victories to bring more celebration and focus
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Working on your beliefs is an important part of healing your relationship with food. Over years of dieting, you’ll have picked up a few unhelpful beliefs about food. Intuitive eating affirmations can help you adjust those beliefs over time to help you create food freedom. They’re a useful tool that can help you adopt beliefs
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It’s exhausting to be a chronic dieter. It leads to always thinking about food and planning your next meal to align with your meal plan. And the worst part, it usually won’t even create the results you want. You’re going to eat for the rest of your life, so you might as well learn to
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Affirmations can be a useful tool on your body image healing journey. I know they helped me to grow my relationship with my body and food when I first started my food freedom journey. So here’s a list of some of my favorite affirmations for body image and how to create your own. Why use
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If you’ve been practicing intuitive eating for a while and find yourself still overeating, then this post is for you. Intuitive eating is not a quick fix, and unfortunately, you won’t fully heal your relationship with food overnight. It took years to create the current relationship with food that you started your intuitive eating journey
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Often when dieting, and after years of chronic dieting it’s no surprise you may be concerned about what will happen to your weight once you start intuitive eating. So let’s get into what could happen with your body and weight with intuitive eating. Will you gain weight with intuitive eating? There’s no cut-and-dry answer to
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One of the biggest challenges I had in healing my relationship with food was emotional eating. The unstructured approach and freedom that comes with intuitive eating can be overwhelming, especially for someone who is stuck in the habit of emotional eating. Here’s how to heal emotional eating while learning intuitive eating. Common challenges with intuitive
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I used to treat holidays as one big cheat day. A day where I could finally eat everything I wanted to because it was a special occasion. And the day always ended with me feeling so uncomfortably full and bloated that my pants were uncomfortable to keep buttoned. But looking back that wasn’t the worst
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If you’re like most people, you’ve tried at least 1 diet. By this point, it probably feels like hundreds of diets and weight loss attempts. I remember first hearing about intuitive eating assuming it’d be like everything else. Another diet and “sustainable lifestyle change” I’d fail to make sustainable. Because even though I’m a registered dietitian,
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