Category: Lifestyle Medicine
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You don’t need more willpower to lose weight
Dietitian Lucy Carey explains how healing your relationship with food may be the ultimate weight loss hack. Imagine a time when food was simply a part of life. What you ate said nothing about you as a person. It was not a moral choice. Eating was simply guided by hunger and availability. Guilt wasn’t an…
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Mind over meals
Did you know that how you feel about what you eat can change your body’s response to it? Dietitian Lucy Carey dives into this phenomenon with strategies to guide clients from yoyo dieting to intuitive eating. Join the free masterclass for more insights! “It’s just so frustrating because I feel like I’m doing everything right…
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15 comments you need to stop making about your body
The way you speak about your body matters. It shapes your mindset, affects your self-esteem, and can influence how you treat yourself. You’re looking in the mirror and you don’t like the wrinkles you see. You think, “I look too old.” You’re walking and you don’t like how your thighs rub together. You think, “My…
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A good cry
Is crying cathartic? Dietitian Lucy Carey explores the role of emotional crying in health, and how it can help with disordered eating. “It’s grief for me,” he said, voice trembling slightly. “It’s the grief that stops me sleeping. I lost my wife, and now I’ve lost my dog, too.” He was an elderly gentleman, skinny…
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The optimal diet for diabetes
Health professionals always want to know what the best diet is for type 2 diabetes, but dietitian Lucy Carey says they are asking the wrong question. No matter who I talk to — whether it’s a doctor, nurse or health coach — there seems to be one burning question they all ask… What’s the optimal…
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Can sleep deprivation cause an eating disorder?
Dietitian Lucy Carey explores the relationship between sleep and health. Can poor quality sleep contribute to eating disorders? My eyelids were drooping but I was behind on my studies. Surely I didn’t actually need 8 hours of sleep… 6 hours would be fine… I could make it up on the weekend, right? I found my…
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Breaking free from food guilt
Tune in to a podcast episode that will change your relationship with food forever. Dietitian Lucy Carey speaks all about finding food freedom. Something a little different for you this week! I was interviewed by the lovely Abigail Gagnon on the Beyoutiful Legacy Podcast a few days ago. We spoke about all things food freedom,…
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Finding joy in movement: exercising beyond weight loss
Exercise is often seen as a tool for weight loss, but Dietitian Lucy Carey argues that this mindset often backfires. “Do you actually want to go to the gym?” I asked her. She was looking at the floor and I had a feeling I already knew the answer. She had an energy about her that…
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Nature’s therapy: forest bathing
The answer to stress, burn-out and low energy might not be in the doctor’s office, but in the trees of the forest. “I just feel like I need to go off-grid or something. Like, hike into the forest and just camp out for few days, you know? I always feel better when I’m in the…
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Stop saying “listen to your body”
When we’ve spent years ignoring our bodies, intuitive eating doesn’t come quite so intuitively… But there’s a way to get past this. The mouse clicked in a steady rhythm as I flicked through a presentation I’d given to a group of nurses years earlier. It wasn’t very pretty and the images definitely needed updating, but…