Gentle Nutrition The last principle of Intuitive Eating is last for a reason. ‘Honor your health’ encompasses something we call gentle nutrition. It’s the idea that we can make changes to the way we eat to support our health, while still maintaining a healthy relationship with food. It’s difficult to make long lasting changes that […]
Intuitive Eating Principle #9: Exercise – Feel the Difference
Feel the difference when you find JOY in your movement! The focus on Intuitive Eating is mostly on food and eating, but having a healthy relationship with exercise is important too and can impact our nutritional needs! Regular movement has a ton of health benefits, including: Improving and maintaining cognitive abilities and memory Increases energy […]
Intuitive Eating Principle #8: Respect Your Body
All Bodies Are Good Bodies This principle is all about respecting your genetic blueprint you were born with. So often I hear clients say something along the lines of “I eat _____ and exercise _____. I don’t see why I shouldn’t be able to have the body I want.” There is this idea in our […]
Intuitive Eating Principle #7: Honor Your Feelings Without Using Food
Emotional Eating 101 It may surprise you that emotional eating is actually a part of normal eating. Most of us have all eaten for comfort at some point. Eating in response to emotions only becomes problematic when we are relying on it as our primary way of dealing with feelings. When food is our go-to […]
Intuitive Eating Principle #6: Discover the Satisfaction Factor
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 […]