This holiday season, I keep hearing the word “binge” tossed around really casually, online and in conversation. Like: “How to recover after your Thanksgiving binge”-type stuff. This is a ludicrous misuse of the word. And pretty reckless, too: are we seriously teaching our kids that big family meals are binges? Imagine a typical holiday meal. You’re…
Category: intuitive eating
Sneaky little diet triggers
It’s not easy to detox your life of diet culture. Even after you’ve stopped counting calories and weighing in, you might be surprised at the diet detritus lingering around. If you are still feeling guilt about who you are, how you look, or how you’re living your life, it’s time to dig a little deeper and…
5 mantras to make it through the holidays
The holidays are a fraught time of year for anyone with food issues. Are you worrying about facing your fear foods? Wondering how to stay “on track”? Afraid that if you start eating you won’t be able to stop? It doesn’t have to be this way. There is a cure for binge eating, and it…
What does “kinda full” feel like?
The only full I ever really knew was “so full I’m gonna die” full. But intuitive eating lets you experience another kind of full: kinda full. “Kinda full” is magic. This simple little feeling was one of the most empowering things I’d ever felt. For so many years before, I could never stop my eating, even…
You don’t get a goal height
And you don’t get a goal weight either. You never got a vote in how tall you grew, right? Of course not, or I’d be tall enough to buy regular jeans. My goal height never materialized, and surprise surprise: neither did my goal weight. Here’s the bad news: you don’t get a vote in how…
You can survive Halloween candy
So it’s the day after Halloween, and you’re surrounded with candy. Now what? First things first: Candy isn’t bad. And you aren’t a bad person for wanting to enjoy candy! Applying moral values of goodness and badness to food is a sign of disordered eating and an old standby from the diet-guilt playbook. Now that that’s out of the…
six months to sanity 