Category: Intuitive Eating
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Challenging your food rules
“You can’t give him ice cream in the morning!” He shot me an incredulous look. “Why not?” I replied with a shrug of my shoulders. I kept my cool on the outside but my insides were already starting to heat up. Here we go again, I thought to myself. Another ridiculous food rule. “Because ice…
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Is your body your business card?
“What would you know about it though? You’re skinny as can be!” She brushed me away with a fleeting wave of her arm. “Yeah but that’s a good thing,” her friend countered. “You wouldn’t want to take nutrition advice from someone who was fat, would you?” The two friends seemed to forget about me as…
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Are we the biggest losers for watching The Biggest Loser?
We called it “The Ad Game”. My younger brother and sister and I invented it while watching a weight loss show on TV. (There were quite a few of those kinds of shows during the early 2000’s, and I don’t actually remember which one it was that we were watching). During the commercial breaks of…
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Reverse dieting: what is it and does it work?
Okay, I admit it: I was scrolling. And I came across a curious question from a personal trainer. “My client is only eating 1200 calories per day, but she’s still gaining weight. Should I really tell her to cut it down even further?” The question had elicited hundreds of responses, the most popular of which…
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Meals plans aren’t the answer
It’s what everyone wants. At least, it’s what they think they want. A written plan that tells them exactly what to eat, when to eat it, and how much of it to eat. Sounds perfect, right? No need to think about what you’re packing in your lunch or making for dinner. You just follow the…
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The 3 most common nutrition coaching mistakes
Let’s dive right in, shall we? In my opinion, these are the 3 most common nutrition coaching mistakes that coaches of all levels of experience make. I’ve made them all myself, so I’m not judging. But I do think reflection is key to becoming a better nutrition coach. Let’s go! Focusing on what clients eat,…
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Weight loss is beneficial, but focusing on it is detrimental
“I know you keep saying that the weight isn’t what this is about but…” She was agitated, her blonde hair flicking into her eyes as she spoke. She had clearly steeled herself to ask the most important question to her and my heart sank because I already knew what it was before she could finish…
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Why nobody sticks to their diet
The first real diet I tried was the lemon detox diet. It is just as terrible as the name suggests. You basically consume nothing but a lemon-flavoured beverage for a week or so. No solid food. Like, at all. I had heard some celebrity on the radio (Beyonce maybe?) saying that she lost close to…
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You don’t earn food with exercise
We called it the ‘Exercise Park’. It was just a big field with a playground and some exercise machines. I don’t know if this is like, a Kiwi thing perhaps? But it’s not uncommon for there to be these outdoor exercise machines in parks. There’s usually a ski walker thing, and a cycle one, and…
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Mindful eating this festive season
He was giving me the side-eye. My six-year-old was unimpressed that I was reading emails off my phone at the breakfast table. He was perhaps too polite to point it out verbally, but he was definitely giving me ‘the look’. And he was right, of course. I clicked my phone off, stood up and put…