Tag: Dietitian
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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…
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Overcoming emotional eating
Emotional eating isn’t solved by willpower… We need to dig into the root cause: the emotions themselves. Food isn’t just food. Food is memories and pleasure and comfort… and yes, food can also be a way to cope with overwhelming emotions. Stress, anxiety and depression are running rampant in our fast-paced society, and alongside this…
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Body neutrality over body positivity
The body positivity movement encourages loving your body, but should you be aiming for body neutrality instead? “I thought doing this all body image work would help me to love my body.” She had been trying so hard, but she still looked in the mirror and saw all of her flaws. “I’m actually not so…
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Challenging your food rules
Everyone grows up with food rules. But some of them aren’t doing us any favours. Do you need to challenge any of 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…
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Is your body your business card?
If you work in the health and wellness industry, do you need to look a certain way for your clients to trust you? “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.…
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The Dutch Hunger Winter
During World War 2, a unique natural experiment took place in the Netherlands. What we can learn from the Dutch Hunger Winter? World War II. The Netherlands. A huge natural experiment took place over the winter of 1944-1945, and it changed how we view pregnancy and stress forever. In general, we think of women as…
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Why nobody sticks to their diet
If diets are the answer to weight loss, why does nobody stick to them? Dietitian Lucy Carey explains the diet trap. 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…
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You don’t earn food with exercise
Do you need to do burpees for every fry you consume? Dietitian Lucy Carey explains why you should not earn your 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…
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Mindful eating this festive season
Mindfulness has huge benefits to health and has exploded in popularity. So how can we transfer mindfulness to how we eat? 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…
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What NOT to bring to Christmas dinner
Comments about what someone is eating, or their body size and shape, are sadly common over Christmas dinner, but never appropriate. “You actually want some? I didn’t think you’d eat anything so unhealthy!” “It’s so good to see you tucking in.” “Go on, have some more. You need fattening up.” These are all things that…