Can’t Get No Satisfaction? We live in a world of diet culture that focuses so much on the pursuit of thinness that it overlooks a super important aspect of healthy living: pleasure and satisfaction. That’s right - eating what satisfies us can improve our health. When we don’t eat foods that satisfy us, it creates […]
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Intuitive Eating Principle #3: Make Peace With Food
Let’s sign a peace treaty with food. Do you ever feel like you are at war with food? I’ve had many new clients tell me that food is their enemy and brings them a huge amount of stress. But what if we could call off the war with food and find a way to not […]
Intuitive Eating Principle #2: Honor Your Hunger
Hunger is not the enemy; it’s a sign of life. When it comes to eating to nourish our bodies, the first priority is making sure we eat enough to fuel our body. Keeping our bodies adequately fed with energy and carbs, fat, and protein prevents a physiological drive to overeat. Unfortunately hunger has been treated […]
What Is Intuitive Eating?
Intuitive Eating is an approach to nutrition that has become much more well known among health care professionals in recent years. It’s a non-diet approach to health that aims to foster healthy relationships with food and break cycles of chronic dieting. Intuitive Eating has a health behavior focus rather than using restrictive rules to guide […]
Dropping the Judgements at the Door with Health at Every Size®
Respecting the body with a Health at Every Size® (HAES) Approach iLiveWell Nutrition has some exciting news to share! Two of our dietitians will be starting a Health at Every Size® (HAES) FREE Support group. This weekly free support group is kicking off Tuesday, October 2nd, at 6:00 pm, and we wanted to share more […]