From a young age, all of us have been lied to about diets and nutrition. Most of us believe, without question, that if you just find the right foods and the right diet, your body and your life will magically transform into something better. The details might change, but the societal pressure to get it right doesn’t.
Despite what we have been taught, there is another way, a better way, to think about food without restriction, elimination, guilt, or shame: Gentle Nutrition.
Read MoreTo change my relationship with exercise, I had to first decouple the idea that exercise was only for weight loss. Second, I had to find physical activities that I actually liked doing. One of those activities happens to be hiking.
Read MoreBinge eating is consuming a large amount of food quickly and mindlessly without regard to hunger, fullness, or physical comfort.
Dieting taught me how to binge eat.
It started with calorie counting…
Read MoreIntuitive Eating is a framework of 10 principles that support self-care and can help you improve your relationship with food and your body. It helps you relearn how to listen to and trust internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction rather than relying on strict external diet rules.
Read MoreReclaiming the joy of baking helped me make peace with food (dare I say, bake peace with food?), and maybe it can help you too.
Read MoreIf you have been around here for a while you may have noticed a change in the language used to describe Whole You Nutrition. In the past few months, I have updated business materials including the website to explicitly state “anti-diet gentle nutrition.” You might be wondering, what exactly does anti-diet gentle nutrition mean?
Read MoreConsidered by some to be an “easy fix,” these drugs have to potential to exacerbate anti-fat bias. The affordability, spotty insurance coverage, and the fact it won’t work for everyone (either because it simple doesn’t work or the side effects are untenable), or someone simply doesn’t care to take a medication, means these biases will unduly impact those with marginalized identities including those in larger bodies, POC, trans folks, and those with lower socioeconomic status.
Read MoreHave you considered working with a nutritionist but aren’t quite sure if it makes sense for you? Read on to learn 4 reasons why you might want to add a licensed nutritionist to your care team.
Read MoreIt can take 15 or more exposures to a food before it is accepted. Try serving it in different ways too – roasted, sautéed, raw (for things like veggies and fruit), shredded, cubed, etc. Flavors and textures of food change depending on how they are prepared. Just keep serving it! You can also introduce foods during non-mealtimes to take some of the pressure off from eating it. Talk about foods you see while prepping, grocery shopping, in a garden, on the counter. Let kids touch and play with food to get more familiar with it.
Read MoreLooking back now I think of all of the things I could have done instead of focusing all my time and attention on memorizing or tallying calories. I could have written a book, or learned to play the piano, or invented some revolutionary product. Who knows? My mind was otherwise occupied with thoughts of food and calories.
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