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…
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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…
You do not have to be on a diet to earn your place on this planet
You do not have to feel guilty about every diet trend you don’t try, or every food you do or don’t eat. That’s diet culture nonsense, and you don’t have to buy into it anymore. As a young girl obsessed with all the things that were wrong with my body, I internalized every single message…
When you don’t know where to start, start with your words
Break free of the diet mentality with some simple ways to change your self-talk. At its heart, intuitive eating boils down to one thing: a change in perspective. So how do you make that happen? It all begins with your thoughts, which become your words, which become your actions, which become your habits. Here’s how you can get…
six months to sanity 