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How to Practice Intuitive Movement
Movement is an important aspect in our day-to-day lives and it makes up the 9th principle of intuitive eating. The philosophy behind intuitive eating is applied to intuitive movement (referred to within this post interchangeably as intuitive exercise): listen to your...
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Our Favorite Body Positive Instagram Accounts
One of the easiest things we can do for ourselves to change our perception of our bodies and be kinder to ourselves is to revamp who you are following on social media. Here's why changing who you follow on social media will help you improve your body image followed by...
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Intuitive Eating with Food Allergies or Sensitivies
When learning about intuitive eating you will often hear ‘listen to your body’, 'make peace with all foods' and 'all foods can fit'. These phrases may not resonate if you have food allergies, food intolerances or need to follow a medically-necessary diet. But there...
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What is Intuitive Eating?
Intuitive eating is an approach to health and food that has nothing to do with diets, meal plans, discipline or willpower. It teaches you how to get in touch with your body cues like hunger, fullness and satisfaction while learning to trust your body around food...
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Why I Finally Decided to Become a Dietitian
This is a guest blog post written by Katy Zanville, a nutrition intern with Alissa Rumsey Nutrition and Wellness and a soon-to-be HAES/intuitive eating dietitian. Check out her story about why she left the field of nutrition for over 10 years, and what finally brought...
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Banana Bread Oatmeal Recipe
I’ve been making a version of this Banana Bread Oatmeal recipe for years, and am finally getting it onto my blog! It tastes like fresh banana bread in a bowl (yes really!) and is one of my go-tos when I’m craving a warm breakfast. I’ve partnered up with The Quaker...
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How to Explain Intuitive Eating to a Friend
It’s one thing to apply the principles of intuitive eating and reject the diet mentality, but for many, sharing these ideas with friends and in social situations can be a major point of stress. If you feel this way too, you are not alone! Building a strong support...
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What is ‘Diet Culture’?
If you’ve been around here a while you’ve probably seen the term ‘diet culture’ thrown around, but it’s not always explained in detail. So, today I wanted to clear up any confusion and fill in the blanks by talking about what ‘diet culture’ actually is and what it...
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How to Apply Gentle Nutrition In Real Life
Today I’m sharing a few ways that you can apply the principle of gentle nutrition to intuitive eating, to help make nutritious meals easy and convenient. I’ve partnered up with the Florida Department of Citrus to bring you this post, meaning I was compensated for my...
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Intuitive Eating Q&A: Part 4
Intuitive Eating is gaining more and more popularity and recognition in the world of nutrition. With more awareness comes more questions and curiosity. Part 4 of this Q&A series addresses more intuitive eating questions about the different types of hunger, how to...
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Intuitive Eating Q&A: Part 3
Intuitive Eating can be hard to wrap your head around at first. If you are starting the Intuitive Eating journey and are feeling a bit lost you've come to the right place. In part 3 of this Q&A series, I'm answering some intuitive eating common questions, such as...
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How to Embrace Gentle Nutrition
Intuitive Eating is a non-diet approach to health that focuses on our internal cues around hunger, fullness and satiety, while also helping to heal our relationship with food and our bodies. The framework of intuitive eating is broken down into 10 pillars that can be...
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How to Shift Your Mindset From Scarcity to Abundance
A huge part of moving towards intuitive eating is shifting your mindset from one of restriction or scarcity to one of unconditional permission and abundance. In this post, I share more about ways that you can create an abundance mindset for yourself as you move...
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9 Non-Diet New Years Resolutions for 2019
It’s the beginning of January, so it’s natural to want to start planning ahead and thinking about what you want to accomplish over the next year. Unfortunately, this planning gets clouded with all the diet messages filling our social feeds. Which is why I’m here to...
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Meal Planning with Intuitive Eating: A How-To Guide
Meal prep food photos and "inspiration" can be found all over the internet, but so often these posts promote rigid, restrictive ways of eating that are reminiscent of dieting. Moving away from dieting and towards intuitive eating doesn't mean that there can't be any...
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How to Deal with Emotional Eating
We're constantly told that emotional eating – or eating to soothe, suppress or distract from negative or positive emotions including stress, boredom, sadness, anger, excitement or happiness – is a problem and in order to be healthy or have a good relationship with...
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7 Tools to Help You Stay Focused and Productive
As a nutrition entrepreneur, saying I have a lot on my plate would be an understatement. Over the past few years, I’ve relied on several different tools to keep me focused, efficient, and productive. If you’re looking for ways to better focus and produce more work, in...
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Eating for Fullness vs. Satisfaction – What’s the Difference?
A lot of attention is paid to paying attention to how full you feel, and how to stop eating when you feel that fullness. But by focusing only on fullness, we miss an important part of intuitive eating: satisfaction. Read on for the difference between fullness vs...
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Intuitive Eating Q&A: Part 2
Intuitive Eating can be a difficult process, especially in the beginning. There have been a few questions that came through in my private Intuitive Eating and Body Image Support Facebook group (please join if you haven't already!) that I want to address today. Read on...
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Simple Caprese Grain Bowl Recipe
This KAMUT® Caprese Grain Bowl recipe features all the flavors of your favorite salad in a simple grain bowl form. I’ve partnered up with Kamut International to bring you this post, meaning I was compensated for my time, but as always, all thoughts and opinions are my...
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