Tag: food
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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…
It’s the kind of title that pulls you in 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. Especially if it’s a nutritionist, dietitian, or…
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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 deeply ingrained in our culture. It encompasses 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 weight to be able to…
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How to Stop Eating When You’re Bored
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. Food…
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Romanticize Your Relationship With Food: Joyful Healing
If you happen to have worked with me, you know I love teaching about the importance of romanticizing life, in all areas. Romanticizing your life simply means intentionally finding joy, beauty, and presence in the everyday, and in ordinary activities and routines. It serves your health because it gently nudges you towards mindfulness – to…
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How to Build Satisfying And Filling Meals: The Intuitive Eating Guide
With the diet culture, most of us ever looked at creating “healthy” meals to be as small as possible, afraid of ever eating “too much” and barely paying attention to taste (or we try to gaslight ourselves that carnivore oreos taste EXACTLY like the real thing.. And no, I’m not making this up, you can’t…
Nina Kaufmann 