Meal prep can minimize the daily “aw hell, what’s for lunch today” in your everyday life. And you can save money, too!!! But please, for the love of sanity, stop making it a diet plan. If you’re dutifully packing rows of Tupperware so you can stay “on track,” “control your portions,” and “resist temptation” throughout…
Category: intuitive eating
How my love of budgeting helped me redefine my relationship with food
Like so many dieters and disordered eaters, I’ve had a long and twisted relationship with food. When I had a bad day, I’d comfort myself with eating. When I did something good, I’d reward myself with a treat. On my worst days, I’d plan a binge as a reward for surviving another week and drop…
Surprise! Not all cupcakes are delicious.
This was the craziest thing I came to realize during my six-month reset. All those trigger foods I was so afraid of? Some of them aren’t even that good! Just because I like cupcakes doesn’t mean I like all of them. Some cupcakes are just not delicious. Some are dry and tasteless and kinda gross….
How can you stop binge eating in one day?
Eating vs. binge eating. How can they feel so incredibly different? Both involve consuming food. Both are driven by the same state of need: hunger. Both are irrevocably complicated by the messages of diet culture. So let’s get back to basics. At a core level, eating is defined by the action: “I am consuming food. When…
Six months — and then what?
So you finished your six-month reset. a.) CONGRATS!!! You are freaking awesome and I am so happy for you. b.) What’s next? Well…it’s time to move into Phase 2, aka the rest of your life. It’s time to live your life without an eating plan. How freeing! But also: terrifying. That’s what so seductive about dieting:…
You’re still you
I wrote a post recently about how different life is before and after a six-month reset. But some things stay with you. I’m still me. You’ll still be you. I don’t view them as weaknesses per se, because I don’t like that connotation, but I can see in retrospect how some of my innate qualities…
six months to sanity 