Nutrition is the last principle of intuitive eating for a reason!! If you focus on nutrition too soon, making peace with food and removing good and bad labels from different food groups will be SO much harder. In fact, it'll probably be pretty impossible. But if you put nutrition on the back-burner and just wait it out, you can give yourself the space and time to really investigate how you … [Read more...] about Put Nutrition on the Back-burner to Make Peace with Food
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Doing Intuitive Eating When You Still Want Weight Loss
"Fears of weight gain lead some people to turn intuitive eating into another diet." - Erica Leon Written by Ashley Seruya, B.A. Desire for weight loss is SO normal in our society, and fear of weight gain is completely understandable. We're steeped in fatphobia, and we live in a culture where people are systemically discriminated against because of their size. It makes sense that you don't … [Read more...] about Doing Intuitive Eating When You Still Want Weight Loss
3 Steps to Making Peace With Weight Gain
Written by Ashley Seruya, B.A. The intuitive eating process brings about a lot of change, some of which can be downright terrifying. Enter: weight gain. It should be noted that weight gain is a possible side effect of making peace with food, but it isn’t necessarily inevitable. Some people lose weight on their intuitive eating journey, others maintain, and still others gain. Which camp you … [Read more...] about 3 Steps to Making Peace With Weight Gain
Intuitive Eating is Not a Hunger & Fullness Diet! 3 Things to Remember
Written by Ashley Seruya, B.A. Are you noticing yourself placing diet rules and restrictions on your intuitive eating journey? Leave diets behind once and for all and avoid these 3 diet mentality traps. For many of us, intuitive eating is something we come to when we finally give in and seek refuge from diet culture. We’ve likely been battered for so long, the rules and restrictions hammered … [Read more...] about Intuitive Eating is Not a Hunger & Fullness Diet! 3 Things to Remember
Why I Won’t Be Going Vegan… Like, Ever…Ashley Blogs
Though the Grapefruit Diet and the like may finally have been condemned, there are other pseudo diets that lurk in the mainstream, masquerading as the key to optimal health while continuing to promote restriction, fear of foods, and disordered eating. For many of us who have dealt with disordered eating or eating disorders, vegetarianism, veganism, a gluten free lifestyle, and so forth can be a … [Read more...] about Why I Won’t Be Going Vegan… Like, Ever…Ashley Blogs