Tag: intuitive-eating
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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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7 Signs You’re Stuck in Diet Culture And 7 Ways to Break Free
We live in a world where being on a diet is almost seen as a rite of passage for women. In my experience, with clients and personal, it usually starts very small; I’ll just “watch what I eat,” or “lose 2 pounds to look like some other girl in the class.” With time, it progresses,…
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The Difference Between Mindful and Intuitive Eating And How They Work Together
Confused about the difference between mindful and intuitive eating? Learn how these two practices support each other, and why you don’t need to do them perfectly to build a peaceful relationship with food. Maybe you’ve been told to “eat mindfully” or to “listen to your body,” and now you’re trying to figure out what that…
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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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Breaking the Restrict-Binge Cycle With Intuitive Eating
Have you ever found yourself saying you’ll never eat carbs again on Monday, promising yourself that this time you’ll be “good for real,” only to find yourself raiding the kitchen by Friday night? If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. This experience is part of a pattern many people who diet fall into – a…
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5 Ways Intuitive Eating Changes Your Life – Beyond Just Food
When diets, food and weight obsession are running your life, it’s challenging to focus on anything else. I know first hand what such existence feels like; you wake up wondering how to “make up” for what you ate the day before, you meticulously plan every single meal, counting calories, weighing food, following rigid exercise plan,…
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How to Use the Hunger And Fullness Scale: A Simple Guide to Intuitive Eating
We live in a world full of external food rules—when to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. Count this, count that. If you’re hungry, chew a gum.But what if your body already knew how to eat? After all, eating, and feeling hunger are essential for our survival—it wouldn’t make any sense if Nature…
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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…
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What to Expect When Working with an Intuitive Eating Nutritionist
Through the years of working with clients as an intuitive eating nutritionist, I’ve often heard them say, “Well, this is not at all what I expected from working with a nutritionist. I thought you’d give me a list of foods I should and shouldn’t eat, but this works so much better!” Many of my clients…
Nina Kaufmann 