Exercise should not be punishment, it should be an activity we look forward to doing because of the way it makes our body feel. Our bodies were made to move.... Continue Reading
Blog Category: Intuitive Eating
INTUITIVE EATING PRINCIPLE #4: CHALLENGE THE FOOD POLICE Scream a loud “No” to thoughts in your head that declare you’re “good” for eating minimal calories or “bad” because you... Continue Reading
INTUITIVE EATING PRINCIPLE #2: HONOR YOUR HUNGER Keep your body biologically fed with adequate energy and carbohydrates. Otherwise you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Once you reach... Continue Reading
INTUITIVE EATING PRINCIPLE #3: MAKE PEACE WITH FOOD Call a truce, stop the food fight! Give yourself unconditional permission to eat. If you tell yourself that you can’t or... Continue Reading
INTUITIVE EATING PRINCIPLE #1: REJECT THE DIET MENTALITY Rejecting the diet mentality is a crucial, yet very challenging step. Throw out the diet books and articles that offer you false... Continue Reading
In a weight-centric society, we assume that improvements to health and happiness that happen to be accompanied by weight loss must be the result of the lost weight. But are... Continue Reading
Finding comfort in food is completely normal. I mean, it’s literally one of the first things we do when we’re born. Food can be so many wonderful things, including comforting.... Continue Reading
Carbohydrates are not the devil. They aren’t unhealthy. They don’t make you fat. Cutting them out isn’t the “magic” cure for weight loss. I’m all fired up about carbs these... Continue Reading
Did you know that the Body Mass Index (BMI) was never meant to be a proxy for health? It was created in the 1830s by a Belgian mathematician named Adolphe... Continue Reading
I’ll never forget… When I first started out, as a health coach… I was with a client & she said, “I just wish I never got hungry because then I... Continue Reading