Emotional eating is a common complaint I hear. Folks may believe that they’re eating to cope with emotions, often uncontrollably, and that it’s not good for them. Emotional eating doesn’t look just one way. In this blog post you’ll learn that emotional eating can come in many different ways and ... READ the POST
8 Strategies for an Anti-Diet New Year
Tune out the noise of New Year dieting and weight loss programs with these 10 tips! Imagine a January without food rules, an extreme exercise regimen or weigh-ins. You can honor your health and care for your whole self without dieting or trying to change your body! Many people feel a sense of ... READ the POST
How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Food as a Vegan
Having a healthy relationship with food as a vegan allows you to nourish yourself without stress and fuel your animal rights activism. Here are specific action items for keeping veganism about the animals and not turning it into a restrictive diet! First let’s talk about what a healthy ... READ the POST
Hunger and Fullness with an Eating Disorder
This post was written by Jessica Steinbach, MPH, RD. The hunger/fullness scale is a commonly used intuitive eating tool that is intended to help folks connect to their internal cues related to hunger and satiety. This tool can be complicated for those recovering from an eating disorder, ... READ the POST
7 Reasons to Scrap the Scale
Do you feel dread when you think about stepping on a scale? Does seeing how much you weigh impact your mood for the rest of the day? If so, you’re not alone. Lots of people have a complicated relationship with their body and weighing themselves only makes it worse! Consider these reasons why it’s ... READ the POST
Want to Get Healthy? Here’s What to Focus on Instead of Weight Loss
So, you care about your health? Neat! I’m a registered dietitian and I’m here to help you take care of your health without focusing on your weight. Unfortunately, we’ve been misled into believing that thin equals healthy and that fat equals unhealthy and that we need to do whatever it takes to get ... READ the POST
10 Gentle Nutrition Strategies for Vegans
Gentle nutrition is the final principle of intuitive eating and a compassionate way to honor your health without dieting, restriction or obsessing about food. The reason gentle nutrition is the last principle of intuitive eating is because when we focus on nutrition too early in the intuitive ... READ the POST
How Does Alcohol Fit into Intuitive Eating?
Have you ever wondered how alcohol fits into intuitive eating? You’re not alone. Alcohol isn’t biologically necessary like food and it can be abused. Alcohol can also be a fun and pleasurable part of a perfectly balanced lifestyle. So do the ten principles of intuitive eating apply to booze? Let’s ... READ the POST
How to Balance Ethics and Intuitive Eating
This is a topic that is especially near and dear to me as I’ve been an ethical vegan for over a decade and am passionate about embracing intuitive eating and fighting back against diet culture. But isn’t veganism restrictive? Doesn’t that go against the principles of intuitive eating? How can you ... READ the POST
How to Discover the Satisfaction and Joy of Eating
Eating is about more than hunger and fullness. It’s about more than nutrition. Not only is it OK to actually enjoy and receive pleasure from eating, it’s a good thing! So many people feel ashamed when they enjoy eating. They think, “If it’s not green and I don’t hate it, then it can’t be healthy ... READ the POST
How to Respect Your Fullness
If you haven’t already, I highly recommend reading the How to Honor Your Hunger post before reading this one. Respecting your fullness is intuitive eating principle 5 of 10. It’s all about tuning in with your body while eating and listening to those signals that are saying “I’ve had enough to ... READ the POST
Introduction to Intuitive Eating and Health At Every Size®
If you're confused on what exactly "intuitive eating," "mindful eating," and "health at every size" mean and want to learn more, you're in the right place. Below is a quick intro to these approaches along with lots of links to helpful resources. My practice is grounded in these approaches which are ... READ the POST
How to Honor Your Hunger
When you hear “intuitive eating,” what do you think? For a lot of people, they think about eating when they’re hungry and giving their body what it wants. But what if you don’t know what hunger feels like? And you can't tell what your body wants? Unfortunately, this is the case for far too many ... READ the POST
What it Means to be a Non-Diet Dietitian
When you think of a dietitian, your mind might jump to diets. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “So, you do meals plans?” when someone finds out what I do. Well, believe it or not, my 6 years of university and 1200+ hours of supervised practice to become a dietitian were not all about ... READ the POST
Intuitive Eating for Busy Professionals
Have you ever read those flowery self-care posts that make you feel all warm and fuzzy and then think about how it’s not at all compatible with your lifestyle so why even try? In order for self-care and intuitive eating to be effective, they have to be realistic and sustainable. The beauty of ... READ the POST
