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How To Heal Your Relationship With Food In The Kitchen
Dieting and diet culture can make cooking a not-so-enjoyable experience. When you’re working to move away from diet culture, the kitchen offers a beautiful opportunity for healing and growth towards a healthy relationship with food. In this post, my intern (and incredible chef!) Callie Troutman shares practical ways you can incorporate intuitive eating into recipes,…
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How to Manage Eating and Body Image During Social Isolation
If you’re socially isolating for Coronavirus, you may notice a change in your eating behaviors, stress levels, and how you feel about your body. All of this is normal! Read on for tips on how to manage your food and eating behaviors during the quarantine. Change is inevitable – change in mood, change in behaviors,…
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How to Respond to Diet Talk
One of the most common conversations I’ve had with clients over the past month has been around navigating conversations around diets, dieting, weight in the height of diet culture - January. In this blog, I’m breaking down common situations where diet talk comes up and how you can respond.
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Tips for Practicing Intuitive Eating on a Budget
Intuitive eating is not reserved for people with unlimited funds to spend on groceries, restaurants, and late-night takeouts. Learn how to practice intuitive eating on a budget. I’ve partnered up with ALDI to bring you this post, meaning I was compensated for my time, but, as always, all thoughts and opinions are my own. …
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Intuitive Exercise Q&A
The principles you learn for intuitive eating can be helpful for practicing intuitive movement (also referred to as joyful movement, intuitive fitness, or intuitive exercise). That said, the exercise space presents challenges of its own in regards to overcoming diet language and culture. How can you step away from rigid, old exercise habits and move…
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13 Best Intuitive Eating Podcasts
Podcasts are a great way to dip into the world of intuitive eating, or to dig deeper into specific topics related to intuitive eating. Many of my colleagues who are experts in this area host fabulous podcasts. Here is a list of 13 of the best intuitive eating podcasts (IMO) to help you integrate the…
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Self-Care Holiday Gift Guide 2019
This holiday season give your loved ones the gift of self-care! I pulled together this self-care holiday gift guide: a list of my favorite clothing items, artwork, tools, and entertainment for starting the new year off in a healthy place physically and mentally. You may even decide to gift one of these to yourself! 🙂 …
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10 Books for Improving Your Relationship To Food
Taking the leap into intuitive eating can feel anything but intuitive at first. Consuming anti-diet content – like books and podcasts – that delve into intuitive eating and the non-diet approach can be really helpful. Here is a list of 10 of the best intuitive eating books to help you integrate the principles of intuitive…
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How to Find Body Positive Fitness Options
When we start to move again for reasons other than weight loss, we may find that we actually enjoy our old types of exercise, or we may find ourselves looking for something that inspires more joy. In this post we’ll talk about what body positive fitness is and tips for finding size-inclusive fitness options online…
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Intuitive Eating During the Holidays
Eating during the holidays can be a source of stress, anxiety, and tension for many. Practicing intuitive eating during the holidays can help ease the tension and help you find more peace and joy with food. Here are six tips for intuitive eating during the holiday season, so you feel more relaxed and at peace. …
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How Do Makeup & Beauty Products Relate to Body Image?
Having a positive body image doesn’t mean that you stop caring about your appearance. But what it means is that you have a choice about which beauty ideals you partake in, and which you don’t. Learn more about the history of body image and beauty ideals and how to redefine what beauty means to you. …
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What Does “Healthy Body Image” Mean?
Having a healthy or positive body image sounds great in theory, but if you’re not 100% clear on what that would actually look like for you, let alone how to get there, you’re not the only one. Before you can have a healthy body image you need to determine what this is for you. Body…
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How to Navigate Your Fear of Weight Gain
Recently I was talking with a new client about intuitive eating, when they said “This sounds great, but what will happen to my weight?” If this is one of your barriers to learning more about intuitive eating or healing your relationship with food, you are not alone. Having these fears about change in weight or…
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What is Body Respect?
If you struggle with the idea of loving your body and find that it feels like a foreign and unattainable concept, we get it. The true goal is that you start to move from a place of body hatred to a place of body respect so that you can take care of your body both…
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24 Benefits of Intuitive Eating
Food freedom and a better relationship with food are two of the benefits of intuitive eating…but what do those things mean exactly? Read on for 24 (relatable!) intuitive eating benefits that you can see as you move through this process. Unlike dieting, learning how to eat intuitively is not measured by pounds lost or inches…
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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 body’s cues to figure out what kind of movement or exercise would make you…
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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 a list of some of our…
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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 are ways in which you can practice and incorporate intuitive eating…
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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 again. Here’s an overview of intuitive eating including the…
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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 her back to this career. Over a decade ago, I…
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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 system is important, so today we’re talking…
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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 means for you and the intuitive eating,…
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How to Apply Gentle Nutrition In Real Life
Today I’m sharing a few practical ways that you can apply the principle of gentle nutrition to intuitive eating, to help make nutritious meals easy and convenient. Breakfast used to be my favorite meal of the day. I’d wake up hungry and excited, anticipating what was in store for my first meal. Over the past…
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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 continue to be successful in your intuitive eating journey, and where exercise fits…
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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 where does nutrition fit into intuitive eating?…
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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 explored in any order, depending on your experience and history…
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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 through your intuitive eating journey. Your mindset plays a huge role as…
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9 Non-Diet New Years Resolutions
Heading into January, it’s natural to want to start planning ahead and thinking about what you want to accomplish over the next year. If you’re looking to incorporate more of the non-diet approach into your life, check out the non-diet New Years resolution ideas below for some inspiration. A new year brings a fresh start,…
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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 structure around meals and eating – but there’s a way to…
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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 food, we need to stop doing it. But in reality, emotional eating…
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