Entries by Bonnie R. Giller

How to STOP Thinking About Weight Loss

You’ve embarked on your intuitive eating journey because you are finally fed up with diets. After years of chasing weight loss, trying diet after diet, your body weight is back where you started. Or perhaps, like 1/3 – 2/3 of people who regain the weight they’ve lost, you weigh even more.   You are now […]

5 Ways to Slow Down Your Eating

In today’s fast paced society, it’s only natural that we rush around trying to get everything done before the day is over. You rush to work, school, and everywhere else you must go. You probably even rush through lunch to get back to your busy day at work.   While moving fast may be a […]

How Do I Learn to Trust Again?

It’s not easy. It’s just not easy to trust someone or something that has let you down time and time again.   You want to trust, you really do. But you can’t.   How do you regain that trust after you’ve been shamed, disappointed, and embarrassed – again!   I can be talking about anything […]

4 Tips to Best Handle Life’s Stressful Events

Life happens. Twists and turns appear out of nowhere and even as an intuitive eater, you may lose focus and fall back to some of your dieting ways.   The truth is that no matter where you are on your intuitive eating journey, stressful life events are bound to occur. It is okay to feel […]

Taking a Leap of Faith

When’s the last time you took a leap of faith?   I met with a new client last week. Let’s call her Lindsay.   Lindsay was referred to me by her friend’s husband, Bob. He had been a client of mine a few years ago, coming for medical nutrition therapy for diabetes management. While working […]

How to Help Your Friends Who Can’t Stop Dieting

I received an email from a young woman (let’s call her Susan) this week who follows my work in intuitive eating. She was sharing with me how thankful she is that she never fell prey to the dieting gimmicks and fads that so many of her friends have, and still do. She is also thankful […]

I’m Eating Sensibly and Not Losing Weight, Now What?

Every Wednesday is Intuitive Eating Wednesday! This is when I answer your questions and around intuitive eating and emotional eating.   This week’s Intuitive Eating Wednesday Question comes from Claudia, and it is: “What is the best approach to eating sensibly and lose weight when you are menopausal and on anti-depressant medication?”   Claudia goes […]

3 Powerful Approaches to Defying Diet Culture

Last week I called out the 3 biggest crimes of Diet Culture. If you didn’t read that blog yet, check it out here!   As a quick review, the 3 biggest crimes of Diet Culture are: Dishonesty, Disregard, and Destruction!   Any eating pattern that emphasizes how you look over your mental and physical well-being […]

The 3 Biggest Crimes of Diet Culture

How many times have you overheard a heated conversation about food or the latest diet? When I meet up with friends or family, the talk often ends up routed into diet gossip. This makes sense considering I’m a Registered Dietitian, yet my intuitive eating clients share similar stories. I’ve spent the last 7 years of […]

I Feel Broken

This is something that I hear so often from my clients. They feel broken. Not whole. They realize that something needs to change in their life, but it’s hard. They often know what it is, they just don’t know how to do it.   There are many different areas of one’s life where they may […]