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Best Way to Meal Plan Without Dieting
Meal planning is often a big hit in dieting communities, and it’s easy to see why – it offers structure and frees your mental energy from the endless “what should we eat for dinner” question.With having a tangible plan, you go get the grocieries from the list, prepare your meals and suddenly, your week should…
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Feel Calm Around Food Again: Mindful Eating for Beginners
If you will, take a moment to reflect on your usual eating experiences. Do you rush through your meals? Do you mostly eat while watching Netflix or doom scrolling? What are you thinking about while eating? About next thing you have to do? About how you “really shouldn’t eat this,” eating your fries with a…
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You Won’t Believe What I Eat in a Day as a Nutritionist…
“What I eat in a day” is the kind of catchy phrase that gets you hooked instantly, right? Sounds like a promise that what I offer might finally be the “right” way to eat. And it makes sense, I totally understand you – there is something comforting and reassuring about seeing what someone else eats.…
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50 Ways to Get 30 Grams of Fiber a Day
Without calling it fibermaxxing, because taking care of your health isn’t a social media trend, it’s a long term game.– Nutritionist side note: also, if you do “fibermax” after not being used to large amounts of fiber in your diet, it will not be fun. Prepare for bloating, cramps, gas and all the inconvenience that…
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If You’re Constantly Craving Food, Read This
I’ve just published a new article all about food cravings and why they happen. In it, I explain why cravings are so often a response to restriction (both physical and mental), why fighting them usually backfires, and how an intuitive eating approach creates real relief over time. If cravings feel loud, urgent, or confusing for…
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How to Stop Feeling Guilty After Eating: 3 Perspective Shifts You Need
How many times have you berated yourself for eating a slice of cake “you really shouldn’t have”, wondering why you “can’t control yourself around food” (and if you’re anything like my clients, assuming that everyone else can and only you have these issues – I see you!)? How many times have you felt that uncomfortable…
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5 Mindset Shifts to Let Go of Diet Mentality
Harmful diet mentality is so prevalent in our culture we take it for granted. It includes the pattern of starting new diets (or “lifestyles”) over and over again, “falling off track”, feeling guilty and like a failure, then starting again – founded on the belief that you need to be thin or achieve a certain…
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How to Stop Eating When You’re Bored (Without Dieting)
One of the things I’m asked about the most is definitely boredom eating. We’ve all been there. Sitting at home, scrolling on your phone or working on some boring project, and suddenly you’ find you’re in the kitchen, grazing. You’re not really hungry, but opening kitchen cabinets, trying a few cookies, some chocolate, handful of…
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What Is Food Noise And How to Quiet It
So you just ate a delicious lunch. Yet, the moment your plate is empty, or even while eating lunch, you start thinking about your next meal, or when will you be able to eat again. Or how you shouldn’t have eaten carbs or “that much.” Sounds familiar? What you’re experiencing is known as food noise.…
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Side Effects Of Binge Eating And Overeating
Before saying anything else, let me be clear: everyone overeats sometimes. Occasional situations where we eat past our fullness are a part of normal eating, and when you have a healthy relationship with food these situations aren’t a big deal, because you’re able to easily move on without engaging in catastrophic thinking or, worse, purging…