Unconditional permission to eat is vital for making peace with food and putting yourself back in charge of your food choices. It’s also the part of Intuitive Eating that feels most overwhelming. And it would! If you’re going from rigid meal plans and...
I hear this a lot, “My problem is that I just love food too much!”. I understand the concern in that statement.. but I disagree! I don’t think loving food and enjoying eating experiences is ever a problem. In fact, maybe the goal is to love food...
For years, health professionals have tried to boil nutrition down to calories in and calories out, particularly when discussing concerns about weight. It seems appealing to make it that black and white, but is it an accurate theory? In reality, it’s a gross...
Determining healthy weight is a complicated issue. We can observe the variability in just looking around us; obviously, we come in many different shapes and sizes. Regulation of body weight seems to be a mix of a variety of factors, most notably genetics and...
As a weight-neutral, non-diet dietitian, I believe strongly that weight is not a reliable predictor of health and am not one to measure the success of nutrition interventions based on changes in body weight. I’d love to take the opportunity to explain why I feel...
“I’m totally on board with letting go of diets and food rules and love the idea of becoming a confident eater, but where do I even start?” That might be a question I get more than any other. It’s a really great question and I’ve thought a lot about...
