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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Emotional eating may get a bad rep, but food is one way of satisfying emotional hunger. The problem comes when it’s the only coping tool in your arsenal. Read this blog post to get more ideas for how to cope with intense emotions, with or without food.
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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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Struggling with emotional eating? It’s one of the most common challenges I hear from my clients. When you’re working through intuitive eating, the process teaches you how to cope with your emotions with other tools. That said, food can be ONE tool to cope with emotions! This post teaches you how to build a self care toolbox, one of my favorite strategies for dealing with emotional eating in intuitive eating.
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Are you stuck in an unhealthy relationship with the scale? Weighing yourself frequently can contributes to an unhealthy relationship with food and your body, create stress, and frankly, isn’t even that accurate. Learn why you should get rid of your scale and tips for how to stop obsessively weighing yourself. Remember, you are so much more than a number!
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Feeling guilty for emotional eating? Stop. Even though one principle of intuitive eating is coping with emotions without food, it’s still totally OK to emotionally eat. Learn why emotional eating isn’t bad for you, and can be a perfectly acceptable way to cope with strong emotions.
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Diet advice is all about restriction and willpower. It tells you to “just say no” to all the foods you love and enjoy - no wonder so many people are trapped in a cycle or restriction and binging! If you’re wondering how to make peace with food and become a more intuitive eater, it starts with giving yourself permission to eat the foods you love.
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One of the most important aspects of health is having strong social connections. Yet diets that are frequently prescribed, supposedly to improve health, lead to social isolation by making it challenging for you to be flexible and enjoy social events that involve food. In this post, learn how dieting affects your social life and harms your health, and why flexible, intuitive eating supports wellness and longevity.
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In todays achievement obsessed society, sleep is often thought of as a luxury, or just an afterthought. I used the think the biggest consequence of inadequate sleep was feeling cranky and wasting too much money at Starbucks. It wasn’t until I started working at the VA with many veterans who had a difficult time sleeping due to PTSD, when I started to dig into the research and understand the importance of sleep.
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The numbers that count can't be measured on a scale. Your weight is the least important part of who you are, and of who other people are. Instead of focusing on the scale, focus on what makes you, you. In this post, I'm sharing the numbers that matter to me. Add yours to the comments!
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Dieting steals time and energy, our two most precious resources, and puts them towards a futile pursuit, trying to temporarily force our bodies into a smaller size. If everyone considered what they're giving up by dieting, I wonder if people would continue to try and lose weight? Here's 15 things you can do when you're not wasting time and energy dieting.
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Beating yourself up what or how much you ate? Isn't it odd how we are so much harder on ourselves than we are on others? Rather than motivating change, being hard on yourself creates feelings of shame that keep you trapped in the same cycle of behaviors. Read this post to learn about the power of self compassion.
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Intuitive Eating is not letting yourself go. Along with body acceptance, intuitive eating is one of the most powerful acts of self care. By letting go of what you can't control (your weight), it gives you space to focus on what you can control - creating sustainable, health-promoting behaviors that nourish your healthiest self.
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Hi guys!! Popping in with a guest post today because for the next couple weeks, I'll be in Japan with my mom! Follow my adventures on Instagram.
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In honor of Registered Dietitian Day, I'm sharing the best books by dietitians, highlighting RDs at the cutting edge of nutrition science.
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Mindful meditation isn't quite mainstream, at least not yet. With hordes of research showing the benefits, I hope this is a trend that sticks. Learn 15 benefits of mindful meditation and why you should incorporate mindfulness into your regular routine.
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