When I know I’m meeting people for lunch/dinner and thus my meal time is ‘set’ but my hunger kicks in before I leave the house, I know that having a full ‘meal’ or good sized snack will leave me too full for when I get to the restaurant, and so I keep light ‘filler’ food …
I often get asked this question – and it’s very valid , because if Intuitive Eating is all about honouring your hunger/fullness, then what if you don’t feel hungry when you wake up? I am always careful how I respond to this queries because given my history with food/eating and my understanding of eating disorders …
I talk about obsession vs. commitment often in regards to exercise (watch my video here); however, recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how this relates to Intuitive Eating as well. First let’s break it down ob·ses·sion: The state of being obsessed with someone or something. An idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes …
First of all, I would like to thank all of you for your comments on my last post. The support I felt from this community was unbelievable and I am so grateful for all of you! Thank-you 🙂 Now onto the topic at hand… I was recently talking with someone about discipline and I realized …
Hi Everyone, I know it has been awhile since I have updated this blog and I apologize – I was needing to take some time off; however, in hindsight I realize that it is very likely I was taking time off from the very things that could be the most help to what I am …
Here’s a paper I wrote in February 2012 for my Computing for Communications class on Photoshop and ethical boundaries. The use of Photoshop to edit and ‘enhance’ images is controversial to say the least. As activists hold a magnifying glass (sometimes literally) against these images in order to investigate how and to what extent reality …
I know it has been a long time since I made a post and I apologize, but I’m back! Now, without further ado, onto my post… This week I learned the importance of keeping your fridge stocked. And no, I don’t mean just making sure there is food in it (though that also is highly …
Recently I was asked for my Social Psychology class to spend 12 hours ‘not conforming’. We discussed what conforming is and what some examples of not conforming would be. Thanks to a quick Google search, I found this definition: Conforming: Behave according to socially acceptable conventions or standards For our assignment, we were asked to …
I came across this today while skimming through an old Geneen Roth book (“When Food is Love”) and it seemed worthy of sharing… Being loved in the present brings up all the ways in which we were not loved in the past. No amount of love in the present, not a single person, not ten …
Your journey back to Intuitive Eating depends on how long you’ve been dieting, how strongly entrenched your diet thinking is, how long you’ve been using food to cope with life, how willing you are to trust yourself, and how willing you are to trust yourself, and how willing you are to make weight loss a …
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