Intuitive Eating Principle 8: Respect Your Body
It is hard to reject the diet mentality if we are overly critical of our body size or shape. If you are a size eight shoe, would you feel shame if you needed to size up in a particular brand?…
Intuitive Eating Principle 7: Cope with Your Emotions Without (or with!) Using Food
Intuitive Eating Principle 7: Cope with Your Emotions Without (or with!) Using Food Introduction This principle is all about learning to cope with emotions that may lead us to find food as comfort. Emotions such as anxiety, sadness can often…
Intuitive Eating Principle 6: Discover the Satisfaction Factor
Intuitive Eating Principle 6: Discover the Satisfaction Factor Introduction What is satisfaction? Satisfaction is defined as “fulfillment of one’s wishes.” However, when it comes to food, that can be so hard to actually nail down. Why Finding…
Intuitive Eating Principle 5: Feel the Fullness
Intuitive Eating Principle 5: Feel the Fullness Introduction As we slowly allow full permission to eat, food can be really exciting. Some misconceptions around Intuitive Eating are that you can eat whatever you want, whenever you want. That simply…
The Racist Origins of BMI (Body Mass Index)
The Racist Origins of BMI (Body Mass Index) Introduction I want to interrupt our regular scheduled (Intuitive Eating) program to discuss BMI. BMI stands for “body mass index” and is widely used in the medical field to quantify “health.” It…
Intuitive Eating part 4: Ditching the Food Police
Intuitive Eating part 4: Ditching the Food Police Introduction Picture this: you’re on a warm, sunny vacation and get an ice cream sundae after a long day at the beach. The rest of the night you can’t stop thinking how…
Intuitive Eating Principle 3: Making Peace with Food
Intuitive Eating Principle 3: Making Peace with Food Introduction Think about the last time you went on a diet and restricted an entire food group. In grad school (during the height of my nutrition education) I thought I’d try going…
Intuitive Eating Principle 2: Honor Your Hunger
Intuitive Eating Principle 2: Honor Your Hunger Intro First, let me start by saying that you deserve to eat. Yes, that means every single day no matter what or how much you ate last night. Diet culture and other experiences…
Hunger Fullness Scale
Hunger Fullness Scale Read about Honoring Hunger in my blog post here. Use this tool to measure how hungry and full you are before, during, and after meals. Intro Often people delay eating to the point where hunger levels…
Intuitive Eating Principle 1: Rejecting Diet Mentality
Intuitive Eating Principle 1: Rejecting Diet Mentality The first principle of intuitive eating is assessing and rejecting diet mentality. But what is diet mentality? It’s something that you are probably far more familiar with than you realize. You’ve heard it…
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