How To Make Peace With Food

Now that we’ve talked about letting go of diet culture and honoring hunger, it’s time to get into the third principle of Intuitive Eating; making peace with food. As humans, when we tell ourselves that we can’t have something, we tend…

Honor Your Hunger

The second principle of Intuitive Eating is, honor your hunger. The first principle was all about letting go of diet mentality. Now it is time to tune into your hunger, learn what that feels like, and honor it. Learning to honor this biological…

5 Steps To Reject Diet Mentality

Reject the diet mentality is the first principle of Intuitive Eating. Holding onto hopes about dieting or finding the perfect diet will keep you from being able to eat intuitively. Diets do not work long-term. There is plenty of research…

Intuitive Eating Is Not The Hunger Fullness Diet...So What Is It?

Intuitive eating. Intuitive Eating is an evidenced-based, mind-body health approach, comprised of 10 principles (we’ll get to those soon) and created by two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch in 1995. It is a weight-neutral model…

Can you accept your body as it is?

We live in a world that makes it extremely difficult to accept our bodies as they are. Our society constantly bombards us with advertisements and information that tells us we need to change. We need to look smaller, thinner, stronger, younger,…

What Is Hangry And How Can You Prevent It?

Hangry is the clever combination of the words hungry and angry. It is a word used to describe being irritable due to hunger. Can you think of a time when you reacted to a situation abnormally due to being overly hungry? Not everybody experiences…

3 reasons you don’t need to do a detox cleanse and what to do instead!

January. The reset button for a lot of people and a time where everyone is starting a detox. Every year I get asked questions like, “what do you think of this cleanse?” “Should I go on a juice cleanse?” “How can I detox my body?”…