Tag: Intuitive Eating
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Intuitive eating won’t work until you fix this first
Dietitian Lucy Cary explains why intuitive eating isn’t something you teach your clients, but the natural end result of healing instead. “Intuitive eating doesn’t work for me. If I listened to my body I’d be eating Tim Tams for every meal!” If you work with clients who have been restricting, binge eating, or yoyo dieting,…
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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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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…
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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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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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What’s the difference between an eating disorder and disordered eating?
Disordered eating is not well defined. Dietitian Lucy Carey explains the difference between eating disorders and disordered eating. Eating disorders are basically a disturbance in eating that is so bad and so persistent that it affects physical and mental health. Each kind of eating disorder has a set criteria that need to be met for…
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No big deal
One of the most powerful reminders that diet culture has affected you, is witnessing an unaffected child select their food. “What do you want, darling? We could get popcorn, Malteasers, chippies… We could get it all! Anything you want, you choose.” I was so excited. This teacher-only day was a special day together for my…
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Designed to fail
“Weight Watchers definitely works though, because I lost weight when I did it,” she earnestly told me. “And then what happened?” I asked her, although I already knew the answer. It was the same answer every yo-yo dieting client has ever given me. “Well, I did put the weight back on but that’s only because…
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Healing your relationship with food
No matter what my clients come to see me about, more often than not we end up talking about their relationship with food. I liken it to a scale: a perfectly healthy relationship with food is at one end and a full-blown eating disorder at the other. I work in the grey area in the…