Challenging Your Food Rules
It can be extremely hard to acknowledge our food rules and rituals as disordered, however with time, patience, and practice we can slowly begin to challenge our food rules one-by-one on our path to food freedom.
Category Food Freedom
Getting Started with Intuitive Eating: Rejecting the Diet Mentality
Getting Started with Intuitive Eating: Rejecting the Diet Mentality Introduction If you have been following us for a while now, you know that the Food Ease Team is all about learning to eat intuitively and ditching diet culture. Months back we…
Declaring Your Independence from Diet Culture
Declaring Your Independence from Diet Culture Introduction Happy Independence Day, also known as the day that the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence on this day, 246 years ago in 1776. Today and every day I challenge you to…
Eating Intuitively on Vacation
Eating Intuitively on Vacation Introduction Summer has officially started and in honor of warmer weather and vacation season, I thought it would be the perfect time to write a blog post with gentle reminders for eating intuitively while on vacation.…
Navigating Nutrition Facts Labels
**Disclaimer: the intention of this blog post is to provide a brief overview of what is on a nutrition facts label and what it all means. The intention of this blog post is NOT to cause anxiety around feeling the…
Intuitive Eating Principle 10: Honor Your Health with Gentle Nutrition
Intuitive Eating Principle 10: Honor Your Health with Gentle Nutrition Introduction We have finally come to the end of the Intuitive Eating Principle series. Honoring your health with gentle nutrition means healing your relationship with your food, mind, and body…
Intuitive Eating Principle 9: Exercise – Feel the Difference
Intuitive Eating Principle 9: Exercise – Feel the Difference Introduction Not only does Intuitive Eating help you to find satisfaction in food/eating it also helps you to find satisfaction in movement again. To move your body in a way that…
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…