With such specific guidelines and pressure to perform well, is it possible for athletes to practice intuitive eating? Is it beneficial for athletes to eat intuitively? Find out below! Sports Nutrition is a guideline for athletes to help with their athletic success by eating a nutritious diet. There is actually an entirely separate certification (certain amount of specialized practice hours, exam, and recertification every 5 years) for Registered Dietitians to become a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD). This group of certified dietitians are the true sports performance exper ..read more

Considering starting a new diet for the new year? I am here to validate, hear, and normalize your want to “change your lifestyle” with a new diet, BUT read below for some important information before you buy into the diet culture traps. Diet Culture Galore! It is the first Monday of the New Year and I feel like this is a holiday on its own for the $70+ billion diet industry. The first day where the new shiny diets try to capture you in their diet culture trap promising you so many lies. SO PLEASE!!!! Do not take “advantage” of these deals. Do not think this will be the diet that will change yo ..read more

There is no such thing as a perfect intuitive eater. The process of choosing, creating, and even ordering a meal can be a confusing and tough decision for some! Remember – every meal WILL NOT be perfect! There will be times when you do not have time to eat mindfully. There will be times when you are still hungry after a meal and need to eat more. There will be times that we eat past comfortable fullness. BUT go into these experiences with curiosity over judgement. What can we learn for the next time? Use these 5 steps to help you move through the process of choosing your meal as an intuitive e ..read more

Does grocery shopping ever seem overwhelming? Are there too many items, too many nutrition labels, and just too many decisions to make? Food shopping does not have to be like that! Follow along with these tips & tricks and get in touch with your inner Intuitive Eater for a new and improved grocery shopping experience. *** Check out my free download at the end of this post for a handy dandy copy of these tips & tricks as well as an area for meal planning and a grocery list! Tips & Tricks for Grocery Shopping Meal Plan: make a plan of what you want to cook this week. You don’t need ..read more

It’s time to have this very important discussion as one holiday ends and we dive right into the holiday season. How can we navigate conversations AWAY from diet culture? Some of my favorite intuitive eating dietitians have written helpful blog posts on ways to confront diet culture and change the conversation away from its harmful messages. I continuously learn from the many inspiring anti-diet dietitians that I follow and want to pass along their knowledge. What is Diet Culture? We are all surrounded by diet culture – whether we choose to notice it or not. It has sadly become a cultural norm ..read more

Friends and family are such important parts of your support system and sometimes make comments about your body or health out of love and concern. BUT – if these comments are not helping you, you have permission to set a boundary! Boundaries are Important for a Flourishing Support System I hear this quite frequently from clients that friends and family members will make comments about their body, health, motivation to exercise, etc, out of love and concern, which is so wonderful! It’s so nice to have a valuable and loving support system!! ⁠ BUT With that said, if those comments are not helping ..read more

In addition to the various physical health benefits that intuitive eating can provide, there are also a number of psychological benefits that can be seen when committing to intuitive eating. Let’s dive into some of those! Benefit #1: Decreased Anxiety Have you ever felt super anxious going to a gathering or party (good times pre-COVID) knowing there was going to be food there that you deemed “bad” but wanted? That is a feeling that unfortunately many people know too well. This increase in anxiety prevents you from truly being present and enjoying the people around you as well as yourself! As a ..read more

Time to chat – do you have a healthy relationship with exercise? Similar to what diet culture has done to our relationship with food, has society created an unrealistic view of what exercise really is? Continue reading and let me know! (P.S. this is all totally normal and understandable!) Benefits of Moving Generally speaking, exercise is an important activity we should try to incorporate into our schedule. We are all familiar with the health benefits of exercise that have been engrained into our minds – combating various diseases, promoting better sleep, relieving anxiety or stress, improving ..read more

As we start practicing intuitive eating, many find that they don’t know what their hunger and fullness cues actually feel like – THIS IS NORMAL! Check out the three tips below and discover why these cues are so important and how to get in touch with your own. Why are hunger and fullness cues so important? Hunger and fullness cues are our bodies’ natural way of telling us when it needs food for energy and when it has had enough. This is an incredibly important part of intuitive eating – yet these cues are often ignored! External cues like – the time of day, food advertisements, seeing others ea ..read more

Tired of weight focused compliments? I am too! Don’t really find them to actually be compliments? Me neither! There are so many other ways to greet and compliment people that can lift each other up, make people feel good, and aren’t all about our bodies. We are more than just a body! Do these comments sound familiar? Or maybe.. Make you a bit uncomfortable? “You’ve lost so much weight! You look aaaamazing!” “Wow, when did you become so skinny!” “That diet that you have been doing makes you look so much better!” These comments are likely genuine and heartfelt from the complementor’s point of vi ..read more