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Negative Body Image: How to Respect Your Body

April 9, 2019 By jaclyn Leave a Comment

Diet culture is all around us and it is something that has been so ingrained in our minds subconsciously for a long time. It’s the sight of watching our mom’s diet throughout our adolescence, watching how society treats those who are overweight (on TV, magazines and in real life) and the ads all around us that tell us we aren’t good enough until we look like someone else. All of these scenarios (and so many more) tell us we need to do better. So we compare ourselves to others, like those we see in the media, colleagues, friends, family, strangers and even ourselves. This all results in a negative body image. How can we let go of the need to compare and be embrace and respect our bodies?

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Hunger and Fullness Scale: How to Make it Work for You

April 2, 2019 By jaclyn Leave a Comment

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One of the most well known components of intuitive eating (IE) is the hunger and fullness scale. In fact, I find that if you aren’t careful, sometimes focusing on this exclusively can result in looking at IE as just another diet. So it is important to be aware of the hunger and fullness aspects but not to turn it into another way to measure success or failure. And if you find that you’ve been dieting for quite some time now, or restricting foods, you may not be in tune with your own hunger and fullness. So let’s learn a few simple tips to help you get in tune with your body more.

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How the Binge Restrict Cycle Keeps You At War With Your Body

March 1, 2019 By jaclyn 2 Comments

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Have you ever heard about someone being happy on the current diet they are on? Chances are slim that if you’ve ever been on a diet or restricting foods in some way that you felt happy doing so. I can remember back to my first diet at age 15, I felt miserable. I was restricting my calories to 1100-1200 a day, working out more and more and I was miserable. Being so miserable about my body and food made me miss out on life way to much. Plus it kept me stuck in the binge restrict cycle for years without even realizing it. Today I want to share with you how restriction and food deprivation makes you miserable and what to focus on instead, because there is so much more to focus on, trust me!

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Can you be a Healthy Intuitive Eater?

January 25, 2018 By jaclyn 3 Comments

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As someone who identifies as an intuitive eater and a Holistic Nutritionist, I have struggled with the idea that the two cannot exist together. Can you be a healthy intuitive eater? If you are immersed in the anti-diet culture and involved in the intuitive eating space, I am sure you have come across numerous posts that talk about eating whatever you want followed by pictures of candy and anything else not labeled as “healthy.” So if I happen not to partake in a lot of this food, does that also mean that I am still immersed in diet culture in some way? I don’t think so, but it can be really confusing to talk about intuitive eating and then only show pictures of smoothie bowls, salads and healthy desserts. So can you be a healthy intuitive eater? Let’s discuss… …

How to Stop Emotional Eating & Why You’re Doing It

January 19, 2018 By jaclyn 6 Comments

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If there is one thing I know, it’s that our relationship to food can often be defined as “it’s complicated,” and so many are searching for how to stop emotional eating. Women especially have a hard time with food, dieting and our relationship to ourselves and how we treat ourselves. It shouldn’t be surprising though, we are bombarded by societal standards of what beauty is (and isn’t) on a daily basis and we are constantly receiving messages on what/how to eat via diet culture. For all of these reasons and so many more, we can often times eat emotionally. …