Category: Intuitive Eating
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Screen-free eating, step by step
Screens have become a frequent meal-time companion. But how we break the habit of eating with our phones and move toward mindful eating? Meals as a family are a treasure-trove of health benefits and building connections – a ritual I adore. But there’s one thing that can ruin it for me, and that’s my phone.…
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Do your clients need a dopamine detox?
Quick dopamine fixes of ultra-processed food, social media, and binge watching TV shows can leave clients feeling ‘addicted’. How do we break the cycle? “There’s something wrong with me,” she said, her eyes pleading with me to help her. “I think I must be addicted to food.” She went on to describe eating while working,…
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“I’m not dieting anymore” … Or are you?
Clients may say they’ve given up dieting but they still have a dieting mindset. How do you recognize this and what do you do about it? One of the keys to healing your client’s relationship with food is for them to give up dieting. There’s really no two ways around it. To exit the restrict-binge…
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Why your clients keep ‘failing’ at intuitive eating
You give them all the intuitive eating info but they just eat junk food non-stop then give it all up… Dietitian Lucy Carey explains why So you had a jam-packed first session with a new client, where you downloaded the 10 principles of intuitive eating on to them and really pumped them up for this…
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3 hidden ways diet culture shows up in your practice (and what to do about it)
Diet culture is more weighing clients. Dietitian Lucy Carey reveals the subtle ways diet culture may be lurking in your practice. “Most of the people you’ll see in the clinic will be coming for weight loss,” the tutor told us. We swarmed around him, our new Student Dietitian badges shining with naivety. “We’ll go over…
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Healing the deeper wounds of dieting
Healing from dieting goes beyond quitting that weight loss group. Dietitian Lucy Carey walks through healing from common dieting wounds. Getting off the dieting hamster wheel is a monumental step towards food freedom and body peace, but you may find that years of restriction and diet culture has left deeper wounds behind. Whether it’s grief…
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The role of joy in a balanced diet
Ditch diet culture guilt and embrace joyful eating these holidays. You’ll be surprised how eating with joy can benefit both body and spirit. The lights of the Christmas tree twinkle merrily as the smoky aroma of the barbeque (manned by a full battalion of dads), mixes with the sweet tang of fruit mince pies on…
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Dealing with almond moms this Christmas
The dreaded Almond Mom is on the warpath at Christmas. Dietitian Lucy Carey has strategies to protect yourself from diet culture this season. It’s Christmas Day and the table is laden with delicious food. As you reach for another fruit mince pie, your mother cocks one eyebrow at you. Guilt rises rapidly and you hastily…
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10 ways to celebrate the holidays that have nothing to do with food
Dietitian Lucy Carey shares 10 simple ways to focus on building memories, instead of struggling with food pressures these holidays. The holiday season can feel like a minefield when you’re trying so hard to reject diet culture and heal your relationship with food. Everywhere you look, there’s pressure to indulge or restrict, and there’s a…
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Mealtimes made mindful
Dietitian Lucy Carey gives 5 simple mealtime habits to turn any meal or snack into a mindful eating experience. You have a fork in one hand and a phone in the other. Your mind is reading emails and scrolling socials while your body is eating lunch. In a few moments time, you will glance down…