What the Heck is Intuitive Eating?

What the Heck is Intuitive Eating?

Intuitive Eating is a weight neutral, evidenced based approach to health that helps people develop body awareness and learn to honor their health by listening and responding to the internal needs of their body. Studies on Intuitive Eating have shown improvement in HDL cholesterol, enjoyment of food, self compassion, quality of life, coping skills and self esteem and linked to reduced rates of eating disorders, disordered eating, cardiovascular risk and triglyceride levels, body dissatisfaction, and body shame.

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What the Heck is Diet Culture?

What the Heck is Diet Culture?

This is the time of year where Diet Culture THRIVES! It finds life feeding on the insecurities of “indulgent” eating during the holidays, the idea that we need to “cleanse” our body of the “toxic” foods consumed, the old saying “New Year, New You,” often meaning let’s lose weight because we aren’t good enough the way we are. January hits and diet culture is stocked up on new products and diets, headlines of said celebrity losing “X” pounds doing this one simple thing and are barely recognizable, or whatever. It’s not even the end of the month and I’ve already had my fair share of eye roll moments.

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