Intuitive Eating

Let’s come home to our bodies when it comes to nourishing!  Make peace with food by practicing food neutrality.  Explore what it really means to be hungry and full and the sensations that come along with that.  Draft your own intuitive eating hunger scale to help you tune into your bodies cues and needs. Practice food exploration strategies to help the young people in your life develop a healthy relationship with food.

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I Don’t Eat Anything White

If you’ve spent any time around diet culture, you’ve likely heard someone proudly proclaim:“I don’t eat anything white.” Rice?Bread?Pasta?Potatoes?Sugar?Flour?Cauliflower (except no one actually bans cauliflower because diet culture gets confused here)? The “no white foods” rule shows up everywhere. According to diet cultures standards, you might as well just translate the word “refined” to “completely […]

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I Wish I Had More Control With Food

I Feel Out Of Control With Food Let me say this loud and clear:Western culture is obsessed with control. Our culture glorifies the “controlled person” and label them as: Let me make it clear- eating according to someone else’s standards and rules actually makes you NONE of these things. It actually doesn’t change anything about

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Letting Go of The Fear of Wasting Food

You might have grown up hearing messages like “clean your plate” or “don’t waste food when others are going hungry.” While well intended, these lessons can cause a fear of fasting food, leading to difficulty tuning into your body’s hunger and fullness cues. While it seems logical, your anxiety around food waste can lead to

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Gentle Nutrition Explained By A Dietitian

Gentle nutrition combines the process of giving yourself unconditional permission to eat with optimizing nutrient rich foods in your body. Gentle nutrition is the nutrition behaviors that focus on adding nutrient rich foods, not taking foods away. The core of gentle nutrition is that: Gentle nutrition capitalizes on the fact that every food on the

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Zero Calorie Foods Explained By A Dietitian

When it comes to weight loss or mindful eating, the term “zero-calorie food” sounds almost magical. Zero calorie food means the food provides no energy value. Foods you can eat without worrying about the calorie count? Yes, please. But what does “zero-calorie” really mean—and can any food truly be calorie-free? In this post, we’ll explore

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10 Tips To Stop Snacking Constantly From A Dietitian

Are you finding yourself reaching for snacks all day—whether you’re hungry or not? You’re not alone. Constant snacking can feel like it’s happening on autopilot, driven by boredom, stress, or habit rather than actual hunger. While occasional snacks are totally normal (and sometimes necessary), mindless grazing throughout the day can leave you feeling sluggish, unfulfilled,

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Switch Witch: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The switch witch is a relatively modern halloween tradition that has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. The basic concept behind the switch witch is swapping halloween candy for desired non-food items on halloween night. Advocates of switch witch propose:  Along with its popularity, there has also been equal amounts of scrutiny of

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