As the holiday season quickly approaches, with Halloween already behind us, this can be a stressful time for eating disorders/disordered eating recovery. Cue the big focus on food, potential body comments, food judgements, and discussions of future New Year’s resolutions such as dieting and exercise...
Intuitive Eating, coined by two dietitians who wanted to encourage individual body cues for guiding eating practices, was not meant to be a diet by another name. However, like the majority of eating regimens, the big multi-billion dollar diet industry dug its claws in to...
Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to eat without an external diet plan? As a dietitian who preaches body attunement and food autonomy, I can speak from experience, personally and professionally, that there is another way. A well known term for this is intuitive...
In an earlier blog post, I reviewed simple carbohydrates and why sugar is ideal for our health. There are several reasons why it is easy to forget that carbohydrates are the preferred source of fuel for our body: a lot of research claims that excess...