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4 Steps to Eating Intuitively on Vacation

Chronic dieters are familiar with the all-or-nothing mindset. Either they are following all the guidelines laid out by the diet perfectly, or they don’t. When it comes to vacations, dieters who promise themselves they won’t eat anything they “shouldn’t” miss out on all the delectable foods that this new destination has to offer. Or, more commonly, they adopt the “nothing” mindset and just eat mindlessly thinking, “I will resume my diet when I get home.”

 

I have heard many of my clients vent their frustration that they know they will inevitably gain weight on vacation because they will be eating differently. Often, I hear the terms “good food” and “bad food” thrown around. Clients eat too much of the “bad food” and feel guilty for days when they return home, or even while on vacation.

 

With all that money spent on vacation, it should be enjoyed without guilt. That is one of the reasons I encourage chronic dieters to begin to reject the diet mentality and embrace intuitive eating. When you listen to your body’s hunger and fullness cues and needs, you can nourish your body anywhere without guilt. Your dieting habits are inevitably going to change in a new place; however, your mindset doesn’t need to.

 

Trust your body and enjoy yourself while you are away. Vacation should not be stressful. That is why I have come up with a few ideas that you can keep in mind while you’re away.

 

Here are the 4 Steps to Eating Intuitively While on Vacation:

 

  1. Tune in to your body

 

If you are looking through the menu at a local restaurant and something catches your eye, go for it! Or perhaps you want to end your meal with dessert. If you are truly listening to your body, you won’t overindulge, and you’ll be able to stop eating or drinking when you want to. Some of these cuisines you may not have the opportunity to try again.

 

  1. Trust your body.

 

Trusting your body and the intuitive eating process will help you enjoy your vacation even more. You will most likely eat more than you used to because you’re trying new foods, but you need to trust that your body will respond intuitively and tell you when you’ve had enough. Don’t forget to put your fork down between bites so you can stay attuned to your body’s needs.

 

  1. Make time for breakfast and lunch.

 

Vacations often mean sleeping late, missing breakfast, and an overall erratic eating schedule. You may be the type of person who has a full schedule even while on vacation. If that is the case, your body needs fuel to keep it going. Make it a priority to start your day off with breakfast and pack a lunch to take with you, or plan a lunch stop in your itinerary. It’s easy to get caught up in all the activities, but if you skip a meal, you’re more likely to eat past satiety at dinner.

 

  1. Pack your favorite snacks for a busy day.

 

It can be easy to forget to pack snacks when you’re busy with activities, but it’s important. Your body will need to use the food as energy to do all the activities you have planned. Take the few extra minutes before you leave to pack a goodie bag of snacks. Be sure to include at least 2 food groups for your snacks. Your body will thank you when you’re not starving heading into lunch or dinner.

 

Your vacation is a time for relaxation and happy times and should not coincide with “giving up” your intuitive eating practice. Be mindful and always listen to your body and your vacation will become even more enjoyable.

4 Tips to Cooking (and Eating) Intuitively During Passover and Easter

This weekend, people all over the world will be celebrating Passover and Easter. And as per usual, with the holidays comes an abundance of food. For some people, this is exciting and something they look forward to. After all, most holidays have traditional foods that only come around this time of year.

 

But for so many others, the holidays with all the food favorites cause quite a bit of worry, and maybe even fear. Why the fear, you might ask?

 

Unfortunately, the diet industry has taught you to not trust yourself with food. So you have so much doubt as to whether you will be able to enjoy eating without the guilt. This is magnified when there are so many options on the table, it gets downright overwhelming. Oftentimes, even one bite of a food you think is “forbidden” will lead to a “throwing in the towel” and “I’ll start again after the holiday” mentality.

 

Every year I tell myself that next year I will prepare less food, and yet that never seems to happen. As a hostess, I want to be sure everyone has the foods they love and look forward to. But as I begin cooking for this holiday, I am keeping 4 things in mind that I hope will be helpful for you as well.

 

  1. Listen to My “Gut” Instinct

 

I’m pretty good at “going with my gut”. And my gut tells me that I absolutely do not need 3 mains, 4 salads, 5 sides, and 3 desserts. So, I have written my initial menu, reviewed it, and asked myself which dishes my guests, and myself, will really love this holiday. And then I cut down the menu.

 

Items that I can make all year round don’t need to be on this holiday menu! Take roasted red potatoes for example. We love them, but we eat them all year round. So instead of potatoes as a side dish, we will have Matzo Farfel Ring (recipe on page 69 of my book Passover the Healthy Way) which is a traditional Passover recipe for my family (reminds me of my grandma. I can still picture her standing at my stove making the farfel).

 

  1. Trust My Family

 

I want my family and guests to enjoy the holiday food. But that doesn’t mean that they expect an entire smorgasbord. My son will often tell me “mom, there’s no room on the table anymore.” So, I am taking this to heart and will trust that whatever I make, will be enough.

 

  1. Trust Myself

 

A challenge for many people is staying fully present when eating socially, especially when there’s a lot of people and the meals stretch on and on. I get this!

 

My best suggestion is to set an intention before going into the holiday meal. Reminding yourself that you will check in with yourself and your hunger/fullness signals, without judgement.

 

Listen, there are times that I walk away from a holiday meal feeling a bit overfull. Yes, this happens to seasoned Intuitive Eaters as well. Sometimes it’s a conscious decision to want to eat a bit more, and sometimes it’s not.

 

At the end of the day, remember, there’s no perfection in Intuitive Eating. Trust that you will do the best that you can in the moment. I do.

 

  1. Make Intuitive Decisions Around Eating

 

While food is an important part of many celebrations, it’s not the reason for the celebration.

 

This year, the Passover Seder starts quite late (since we changed the clocks), which means by the time we get up to the “eating the meal” part of the Haggadah, it will be late. I have cut down my menu drastically because intuitively, I know that I (and the rest of my family) don’t prefer to eat heavy meals so late at night. It just doesn’t sit right in my/our gut.

 

This decision is allowing me to focus on the reason we are coming together for the Passover holiday. It’s not about the food at all.

 

Wishing you a wonderful Passover and Easter Holiday!

 

Please share with me your biggest takeaway in the comments below.

 

3 Reasons to Say Yes to Intuitive Eating

Every week I receive dozens of phone calls asking me for a meal plan to help them lose weight. Most of my clients have tried the most popular diets on the market with little success. Instead of giving them another meal plan with strict rules to follow, I will instead point them in the direction of Intuitive Eating.

 

Intuitive Eating is not a weight loss program. Unlike diets, the focus is not on weight loss. It’s on creating a healthy relationship with food as you work towards regaining trust in yourself and food choices. Intuitive Eating is the opposite of a diet. You will not follow a set of rules set forth by a money-making corporation but instead, you will learn to listen to your body’s natural hunger and fullness signals.

 

Your relationship with your body is affected by many years of dieting. Marketing campaigns are centered around the theory that everyone needs to look a certain way. However, everyone’s body is different, and we aren’t all going to look the same.

 

Intuitive Eating embraces that idea that everyone is different and that all bodies aren’t meant to look the same. That is why Intuitive Eating does not come with a set of rules and instead, focuses on restoring your relationship with your body.

 

Losing weight may make you happy short term. But when you gain that weight back, you are the opposite of happy. You can find inner peace and restore your relationship with food and your body through Intuitive Eating.

 

Here are 3 reasons to say yes to Intuitive Eating:

 

1. You are in charge

 

After years of dieting, you aren’t listening to your hunger and fullness signals as a guide to your eating, you’ve been listening to external rules. Intuitive Eating reminds you that you are in charge of your food choices and your body. You have the inner wisdom to know when you are hungry and when you are full, when you should start eating and when to stop.

 

2. You will live life guilt-free

 

Every diet has a list of restrictions with the food you can and cannot eat. But what if you happen to want to eat a food that’s on the “avoid” list? You can deny your desire for only so long. So, you indulge, and the guilty feelings and harsh self-talk start. With Intuitive Eating, you learn to enjoy the foods you love without guilt, and without the worry of overeating.

 

3. You will restore trust in yourself 

 

Marketing campaigns for diets want you to think that everything you have done before you start their diet was wrong. Diets will make you think that you have been choosing the “wrong” foods for years or doing the incorrect workout regimen. However, you are in charge of your body and what it needs. The diets have stripped you of trust. But Intuitive Eating can help you regain that trust!

 

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No Food Guilt this Holiday Season

You love the holiday season, but you also fear the holiday season. You know what I mean. You love the get-togethers, and you love the food! But you are also worried about all the food that will be around.

 

One of the most common pitfalls I see around the holiday season is the idea of EXTREMES!

It goes like this:

 

You promise yourself …

 

“I’m not going to eat anything I shouldn’t eat”.

OR

“Forget it, I’m just going to enjoy and eat what I want, and I’ll start again in January!”

 

Neither one of these extremes will support you on your Intuitive Eating journey through the holidays.

 

What would it feel like to actually enjoy your favorite holiday food without the food guilt?

 

Join me in my upcoming LIVE Workshop How to Enjoy the Holiday Season Without Overwhelm and Overeating where you will learn to Feed Your Mind, Body, and Spirit. Feel Healthy, Happy and Strong.

 

Monday, November 15, 2021. Register HERE!

A Closer Look at What Intuitive Eating Is—and What it is Not!

Have you ever taken a deep dive into understanding what Intuitive Eating really is? There are many misconceptions around the concepts and lessons promoted within Intuitive Eating—but the confusion stops here.

Intuitive eating is a self-care eating framework that helps you attune to your internal body signals, break the cycle of chronic dieting, and heal your relationship with food and your body.

Intuitive Eating is NOT a diet, it is NOT a meal plan, and it is certainly NOT “for weight loss”.

Benefits of Intuitive Eating

There are currently over 120 studies that show Intuitive Eating:

  • Increases body appreciation
  • Improves life satisfaction
  • Increases motivation for movement
  • Increases intake of nourishing foods
  • Improves overall health
  • Decreases disordered eating behaviors (i.e., bingeing)

But What Exactly is Intuitive Eating?

Intuitive Eating was developed by two registered dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. It “integrates instinct, emotion and rational thought”. (www.intuitiveeating.org)

It is a process that enables you to attune to what your body needs and allows you to trust what your body is telling you.

With Intuitive Eating, there is no diet plan, counting calories, macros, weight check-ins, or “off limit” foods—it’s exactly the opposite!

Intuitive Eating instead focuses on teaching you to eat and think OUTSIDE of the diet mentality and diet culture messages.

The focus is on internal cues like your hunger, fullness, and satisfaction, while helping you to move away from the external cues you are so accustomed to using to guide your eating, such as food rules and restriction.

In other words, Intuitive Eating…

 …4 Things that Intuitive Eating Helps You Achieve

(1) Encourages you to become the expert of your own body.

 Believe it or not, we are ALL born Intuitive Eaters! We are all born knowing how much we need to eat, when to eat, and what we would like to eat, yet unfortunately, as we grow up, this ability is clouded by the messages of diet culture and the environment in which we grow up in.

Does this sound familiar?

  • Having to finish your plate at dinner time in order to watch TV or get dessert.
  • Hearing the messages that “thin is best” or “to be thin is to be healthy”
  • Feeling that choosing “good” vs “bad” foods is a direct reflection of how you should feel about yourself.

All these messages, both from your caregivers and diet culture, teaches you to ignore your internal cues and not trust your body.

As you grow older, you often find yourself feeding into these messages, rules and regulations set forth by diet culture.

You are led to believe that in order to “be healthy”, you must follow a diet and/or restrict your foods, but this is not true at all. Your body knows what is needs and wants, it’s just time to listen to its messages.

(2) Helps develop trust in your body and gives you the confidence to make food choices based on your needs.

The diets have stripped the trust you had in your body when you were born. That might sound distressing, but the good news is that you can regain that trust in yourself again!

When you fully ditch the diet rules and give up dieting for good, you will learn to trust your body again, and you will be amazed at what your body is capable of telling you!

 

(3) Allows you to develop a healthy relationship with food.

Intuitive Eating takes the focus off weight loss, the scale, diet plans, cleanses, and everything that has to do with “diet culture” and instead focuses on developing a better relationship with your food choices and your body.

Intuitive Eating is rooted in ten principles to help move you away from the rules and regulations of dieting. These 10 principles help you attune to your thoughts, feelings, and signals, while learning to integrate health recommendations from the outside world.

 

What Intuitive Eating is NOT

Now that you know a little bit about what Intuitive Eating is all about, let’s discuss what Intuitive Eating is NOT!

4 Things Intuitive eating is NOT…

(1) A diet.

With Intuitive Eating, there is no counting calories, daily weigh-ins, lists of foods to eat vs not eat—in fact all of these things are discouraged when practicing Intuitive Eating.

(2) The hunger/fullness diet.

While Intuitive Eaters do check in regularly with their hunger and fullness signals—there is SO MUCH more to it than this!

Intuitive Eaters approach every meal with curiosity—they ask themselves questions such as:

  • How hungry am I today?
  • Do I want a second serving?
  • How will I feel after I eat ____?

Approaching a meal with curiosity versus judgement (like many dieters do) allows you to learn from situations, like getting to a place of overfullness after a meal or allowing yourself to get too hungry at the end of a long day. Important lessons are learned from these experiences.

(3) A non-dieting weight loss approach.

Intuitive Eating places NO emphasis or pressure on losing weight. The conversation around body weight is instead from a weight-neutral lens. In other words, it promotes physical and mental well-being regardless of one’s body size.

Intuitive Eating does not promise weight loss or any expectation of losing weight.

(4) The “eat whatever I want, whenever I want” mindset.

Yes, Intuitive Eating does promote giving yourself unconditional permission to eat and promotes eating in a way that makes you feel your best—but this doesn’t mean it is a free for all.

At the beginning of your Intuitive Eating journey it is very common for people to eat a lot of foods they had previous restricted, however the drive to eat in this way decreases over time.

Over time, you will normalize these once “forbidden foods” and view them (and all foods) as neutral. All the foods you’ve been dying to have will soon become a part of your normal eating pattern in a way that feels great (and not fearful!)

There you have it!

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Busting through 5 Common Myths about Intuitive Eating

By now, the concept of Intuitive Eating is not new. More and more people are hearing about it, but quite a few really don’t know what it’s all about. There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about Intuitive Eating and today, I’d like to bust through some of them.

 

5 Myths about Intuitive Eating

1. Intuitive Eating will help you lose weight if you eat when hungry and stop when full.

Not necessarily! Intuitive Eating is NOT a weight loss program. Unfortunately, some of the Intuitive Eating language had been co-opted by diet culture and is being used to sell weight loss programs! Ideas such as eat when hungry and stop when full, or eat mindfully is framed in a way to promise weight loss.

Intuitive eating is a self-care eating framework to help you heal your relationship with food, mind and body. Focusing on weight loss interferes with mending this relationship. Therefore, it’s in your best interest to ignore those messages of diet culture and using Intuitive Eating for weight loss if you truly want to find true peace with food.

2. The main focus of Intuitive eating is on instinct and your gut.

False! I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “trust your gut”. And I do believe in trusting your gut instinct in many things, including eating. But Intuitive Eating isn’t ONLY about trusting your instinct. Intuitive Eating also interconnects emotion and cognition.

For example, if you want to eat ice cream but you have thoughts swirling around in your mind that is shaming you for wanting this ice cream, this is a product of diet culture. What you want to do is challenge these distorted thoughts while honoring your desire to eat the ice cream.

Thanks to diet culture, there are a boatload of cognitive distortions running rampant in your mind. Part of the Intuitive Eating work I help my clients with is to learn how to reframe these irrational thoughts into more rational, realistic thoughts and beliefs.

3. Intuitive eating means you can eat whatever you want, whenever you want.

Not at all. I always tell people that Intuitive Eating is NOT instant gratification. See it, want it, eat it! Nope! One of the principles of Intuitive Eating that often gets misconstrued is—”giving yourself unconditional permission to eat”. People often assume this concept means to eat anything and everything at any time. However, this is far from the truth!

When you first start the Intuitive Eating journey, this concept of “unconditional permission to eat” can often cause you to have intense cravings and feel “out of control”. But this is quite expected as you’ve been depriving yourself of these foods for so long.

Intuitive Eating encourages you to stop and ask yourself questions before choosing and eating a food. “Am I hungry? Tired? How did this food make me feel last time I ate it”, etc.

This is far from see it, want it, eat it.

4. Weight gain is expected with Intuitive eating.

False! No one knows what your body will do once you give up dieting and embrace Intuitive Eating. Only your body knows this!

Some people gain some weight (generally if they came in to this process at a weight below their set point and/or with an eating disorder); some people lose weight, and some people stabilize their weight, meaning they are no longer weight cycling.

Weight is not a factor in Intuitive Eating. While I know this might be hard for some people to accept, it is important to come to terms with it. It’s impossible to create a healthy, neutral relationship with food AND focus on weight loss. The goal and focus are COMPLETELY opposite.

5. There is no structure to eating with Intuitive Eating.

No way! The truth is there is structure, but that structure is determined by your inner wisdom NOT by dieting.

With traditional dieting there is a “rigid structure”. Someone, or something is telling you what to eat, when to eat and how much to eat. Follow this structure, and you will lose weight (their promise – but as we know, that’s a false promise because the results are short-lived).

While there is no rule book with Intuitive Eating in regards to when, what and how much to eat, it is important to consistently nourish yourself as part of your self-care. For people new to the Intuitive Eating journey, putting a nourishing flexible plan in place might be needed to ensure you are meeting your body’s basic needs. Note the key work there – flexible!  This flexible structure will allow the natural rhythm of your body to shine through, and you will find your “natural structure” for eating will form.

Want to learn about more Intuitive Eating myths? Join me today at 12:15 pm EST for a Facebook Live training where I will unveil even more myths. And, you will have an opportunity to ask me anything about Intuitive Eating! Join me HERE.

3 Signs You’re Ready to Stop Dieting (and What to do Next)

“I’m planning to start a diet again after the holidays, but something in me is resisting. I’m not sure what to do, I’m so confused.”

This is a question I got recently from a woman who reached out to speak with me.

As the end of the year approaches and a New Year begins, it’s not uncommon to start thinking of the new diet you will start on January 1st. But there might be that little voice inside you that is saying “no, not again. I don’t have it in me to do this AGAIN!”.

This is actually a good sign! It’s a sign that you’ve hit “diet bottom” where you don’t have the bandwidth or energy to track another calorie, count another point, measure another morsel of food etc.

You want OUT of this diet game.

But you don’t know what to do instead.

In the video below, I’ve laid out the 3 signs that you’re ready to stop dieting, and 3 steps to take to start creating a healthier relationship with food and your body.

Click the video below to watch now.

 

If you’ve been dieting for years, and even decades, please know that you CAN learn to trust yourself, your body, and your decisions around food.

After watching the video, pop your name and email below to Break the Spell of Diets in 3 Days. It’s free, and you will have clarity of your next steps.

If you’d like to set up a consultation to discuss further, email me at Bonnie@DietFreeRadiantMe.com 

 

 

What Does it Feel Like to Have WholeBody Trust™?

What does it feel like to trust yourself around food? To sit down to the table for dinner and trust that you will stop eating when you feel comfortably satisfied? To look at a menu and know that your body is giving you a message as to what it really wants to eat in that moment? To look at the chocolate on the counter and not be afraid that you will devour it and then feel guilt and shame?

This trust is something you were born with. So where is it now? It was stolen from you from all the years of dieting. You see, when you stop listening to yourself and start listening to the rules of the diets and the diet gurus telling you what, when and how much to eat, that body trust that you were born with gets silenced.

But there is good news!

You CAN regain this trust in yourself, your body and your food! I promise you, you can!

How?

By committing to stop dieting and work through the steps to reclaim WholeBody Trust™.

WholeBody Trust™ is a philosophy I created that is build on 3 Pillars: Mind Trust™, Hunger Trust™ and Food Trust™.

Click the video below to learn more about these 3 Pillars of WholeBody Trust™.

 

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What it Feels Like to Not Diet

Imagine getting up in the morning and your first thought is “I am really looking forward to today”, and NOT “I am going to be really good today”.

Imagine getting dressed for the day and feeling confident in the clothes you put on (the first outfit, NOT the tenth).

Imagine walking into the kitchen to prepare breakfast and knowing intuitively what you want to eat to fuel your body for the start of the day, and NOT skip breakfast so you save your calories for later.

Imagine going out with co-workers for lunch and choosing what YOU want to eat, NOT a choice based on what someone else thinks you should eat (i.e. ordering the burger because that’s what YOU want and not the salad because you’re expected to eat a salad).

Imagine coming home after a long day’s work and taking 20 minutes to unwind and care for yourself, and NOT heading to the kitchen and mindlessly look in the fridge for something to throw in your mouth.

Imagine going out to dinner with your partner and enjoying the conversation and time together, and NOT stressing about what you’re eating.

THIS is how it feels to not diet!

This is …

FREEDOM to eat WITHOUT GUILT.

FREEDOM to be you!

FREEDOM to live your life unapologetically.

FREEDOM to respect all the wonders your body does for you

…instead of trying to shrink it over and over and over again.

This is what it feels like to never diet again.

To really learn to trust yourself that you are fully capable of making food choices to honor your health and your body.

Regaining Trust

Regaining trust in your body and yourself doesn’t happen overnight. But with each positive eating and body experience, you build another thread of trust, and soon, that trust becomes a rope and ultimately a bridge to regaining WholeBody Trust™.

Now’s Your Chance

You can start the process right now by …

…making the decision to stop dieting

…making the decision to take a leap of faith

…and making the decision to say yes to my offer of investing in yourself with the Freedom to Eat Forever™ Intuitive Eating Program.

Freedom to Eat Forever™ is my signature online program that will walk you through 5 steps towards becoming an Intuitive Eater and leaving dieting behind for good.

This program is now 75% off and won’t be available EVER after August 31st because I will be releasing a brand-new Intuitive Eating Program shortly.

You might think “great, I’ll wait for the new program”. Well, of course you can, but that program will launch at a much higher investment. But it will be yours FREE when you purchase Freedom to Eat Forever™ now.

Why am I offering this? Because I want you to get started on your journey now. I don’t want you to waste another minute of your life dieting and being disappointed, again.

Support is Waiting

Freedom to Eat Forever is a self-paced online program. However, because I know how important support is, I have started a WhatsApp Support Community. This is a group of amazing people who are on the same intuitive eating journey, and its where you can get your questions answered. I, of course, am in that group every day commenting and supporting everyone as well.

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How to Free Yourself from Food Fear

If you’re like me, the last few months have been filled with anxiety regarding the uncertainty of the pandemic. It seems like every day the news is reporting something more unnerving than the day before. With everything going on in the world, you are likely experiencing a lot of stress.

You’re not going to be able to control all of the stressors in your life, however you can take charge of some of them. Weight loss companies are aware of how stressed and anxious you are and use this to fuel your insecurities. You may have been hearing more weight loss advertisements on the radio and television lately.

Try not to let these companies take up any headspace, they are just added stress to your life. Instead, think about how wonderful your body has been over the past few months, it has helped you survive a global pandemic. Your body deserves to be celebrated!

Celebrating Your Body through Building Trust

I was thinking about ways you could celebrate your body, and I thought National Macaroni Day would be the perfect time to show your body that you DO trust it. You may not have realized it, but yesterday we celebrated this Macaroni-shaped pasta.

Let’s face it. If you’ve dieted, then more than likely you realize that pasta has been demonized as an “unhealthy” food because it’s a high carbohydrate food. This is unfortunate because you need carbohydrate, it’s the main energy source for your body. And because pasta is delicious!

Macaroni, and other pastas, are chock full of fiber, especially whole-grain varieties. Getting sufficient dietary fiber in your meals throughout the day is an act of self-care!

Fiber keeps your bowel movements regular and helps with satiety. It keeps you fuller for longer, so you aren’t rummaging through the cabinets searching for food throughout the day.

Demonizing Foods

The definition of “demonizing” is to portray as wicked and threatening.

Before I started teaching intuitive eating, it had not occurred to me that there were foods that were being demonized by the diet industry. But as I got knee deep into learning about diet culture and its sneaky ways, I came to find out that there’s a long list of foods that people are afraid to eat.

Yes, afraid! People have a ton of food fear!

“Oh no, I can’t eat _____ (fill in the blank). It’s bad for me.”
“I’m scared to eat _____ (fill in the blank), I will gain weight.”
“I’d love to eat _____ (fill in the blank), but I won’t fit into my pants tomorrow.”

Most of this fear is around weight gain. Yes, sometimes it’s about health. But often even that is under the guise of weight loss.

No one, and I mean no one, no matter what shape or size, should be afraid of food and made to feel that they are wrong or “bad” for eating certain food.

Freedom from Food Fear

One of the ways to get rid of food fear is to learn to build trust around that food. That means that you eat that food, see that nothing “terrible” happened (i.e. you didn’t gain 5 pounds over night), and then eat it again.

I am not talking about binge eating on these foods. Nor am I speaking about “see it, want it, eat it” without any thought given to eat.

That is a BIG misconception about Intuitive Eating. Those who are hesitant to begin this journey think they will “lose control” (their words) around foods. I’ve said this multiple times but it is worth repeating:

Intuitive Eating is NOT about instant gratification!

When you embark on the journey towards giving up dieting to reclaim WholeBody Trust™ through intuitive eating, you are learning to be rid of the food fear and body worry that has plagued you for so many years and decades. It’s a feeling of freedom of not being bound to the chains of dieting! It’s about having pleasure and satisfaction in your meals, without guilt. It’s about learning to tune inward to listen to what your body needs and wants. And to be able to trust it.

For how many more years will you be at war with food and your body? Isn’t it time you gave yourself the gift of peace around food?

Click HERE to schedule a complementary call with me and let’s figure out the best way for you to start this journey.