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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Nothing ever felt more defeating to me than when I would eat so good throughout the day only to mess it up with uncontrolled nighttime eating. It’s been years since I’ve experienced that, but I still remember how it felt in those moments when I was still always on a diet and had a terrible
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Some days it can just take forever to figure out what you want to eat. Maybe you don’t know what you want to eat because genuinely nothing sounds good, or perhaps you just don’t think you should be eating the food you really want. When you’re always on a diet, that constant plan can make
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Creating food freedom can sound like a pipe dream after years of dieting, but it may be more realistic than you think. A peaceful relationship with food is something we were all born into. Our life experiences may have complicated our relationship with food, but it’s possible to regain trust in your body to create
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Maybe you’ve heard of intuitive eating, but what about intuitive movement? Exercise and daily movement helps the human body feel better, and moving regularly doesn’t need to feel like a challenge. It usually feels harder to exercise up to their physical ability because of a negative relationship towards exercise. That’s where moving away from thinking
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After years of learning the number of calories in all foods, it can be hard to turn the food math off. I remember checking my calorie counters multiple times a day just to make sure I got it “right” and trying to stay on track. And that habit is challenging to stop. But it is
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It’s natural after years of dieting and diet culture influence to find it difficult to trust yourself around food and your body. As an intuitive eating coach and when learning intuitive eating myself, I found self-trust to be the most important piece to healing your relationship with food. How to start trusting your body more
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A bad body image day can impact your entire day because it becomes so easy to judge yourself for everything when feeling bad. So what do you do to make a bad body image day a little better? Read on for tips. Can you get rid of bad body image days? Bad days are always
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What does it mean to eat normally? Well, that depends on how you look at it. In this post, I’ll talk about how I viewed normal eating when I was dieting and how I view it now as an intuitive eater. What I used to think was normal eating? I spent years reading magazines with
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