The diet cycle is a vicious one. Fueled by restriction, shame and a fatphobic culture thats obsessed with thinness, the diet cycle can keep you trapped in a pattern of yo-yo dieting, restriction and binging. Read this post to learn how we get trapped in the diet cycle, and how to break free.
Read MoreThanks to diet culture, Thanksgiving - a holiday that’s supposed to be about gratitude, abundance, and let’s be honest, stuffing and pecan pie - has been taken over by food anxieties, “healthy” swaps and diet talk. Read this post to learn tips for how to eat intuitively on Thanksgiving.
Read MoreCooking at home doesn’t have to be a hassle. Having pre-made sauces and other condiments on hand makes it easy to throw together a satisfying meal quickly. Here’s what I think are the best condiments to have on hand for quick and easy meals, so you can be a more intuitive cook.
Read MoreBecause of the diet culture we live in, when someone says they want to get healthier, what they usually mean is they wan to lose weight. But more often than not, dieting harms health rather than promoting it. This post shares ways to get healthier without dieting.
Read MoreMy book, Gentle Nutrition, is now available for preorder! If you’d like to learn about what nutrition science and healthy eating looks like without a side of diet culture, I hope you’ll give it a read!
Read MoreIntuitive eating is an approach to eating that’s based on listening to your body signals. But what if you don’t feel hunger, fullness and other body cues? This post shares three exercises to build interoceptive awareness, or a connection to your body cues.
Read MoreIntuitive eating is a journey, one with plenty of ups and downs along the way. In this post, I discuss three common challenges in intuitive eating along with tips for how to move past them.
Read MoreWhen it comes to nutrition, don’t miss the forest for the trees. This food hierarchy of nutrition needs is a helpful way to frame nutrition in a way where you're not obsessing over the little things, or getting caught up in the diet fad of the day.
Read MoreStruggling 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.
Read MoreOne cool thing about the world moving everything online is that inclusive fitness classes are so much more available now, no matter where you live. Since quarantine started, I’ve been on the lookout for inclusive online fitness classes to recommend to my clients, so I thought I would share with you all too. Check out these resources!
Read MoreThe honeymoon period in intuitive eating is a very normal phase to experience when you are first making peace with food. This post discusses why the honeymoon period is an important phase to go through, and what skills to be working on when you are in the phase.
Read MoreAre you obsessed with healthy eating? How do you know whether you’re health conscious, or whether your eating is disordered. This post discusses what is orthorexia, and includes an orthorexia quiz to help you understand if your interest in nutrition could be harming your health.
Read MoreMindful eating is a phrase that gets thrown around quite a bit, and as with intuitive eating, there can be quite a bit of confusion about what it is. This mindful eating 101 post gives a comprehensive overview of what mindful eating is, as well as tips for eating with mindfulness for beginners.
Read MoreAre you someone who hates to workout? Try my simple trick of reframing movement vs. exercise to learn how to be more active without feeling miserable! It’s a simple trick to help nurture a healthier relationship with and habits around physical activity.
Read MoreIf you’ve got some extra time on your hands, I’m sharing some of my favorite resources for making peace with food. The podcasts, books and TV shows that can help you see food in a different light.
Read MoreClean eating has created a lot of fear around processed foods, but with the current pandemic, that might be what you need to eat for awhile. Don’t be afraid! Learn why processed foods can be part of a healthy diet.
Read MoreFinding the calorie content of your food has never been easier thanks to online calorie calculators. But it’s a waste of your time and mental energy. Read on to learn why you should delete your MyFitnessPal app.
Read MoreOne of the principles of intuitive eating is movement for pleasure. But if you have a fraught relationship with movement, it’s probably not that pleasurable to you! This post explores what joyful movement is, and gives tips for how to learn to like exercise.
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