Tag: mental-health
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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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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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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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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…
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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…
Nina Kaufmann 