Healing My Relationship With Food
For many people, healing their relationship with food is an ongoing journey filled with challenges, self-discovery, and ultimately, self-acceptance. As slow and frustrating as this journey can feel sometimes, it does gradually fall into place and I recently experienced that “a-ha” moment when I realized just how far I had come with healing my relationship […]
Eating Disorders in Middle Age
Caution: This blog refers openly to eating disorders, which can be triggering for many. If it’s triggering for you, take care of your needs and get some support before you dive in. When we talk about eating disorders and disordered eating, many of us automatically think of adolescents, teenagers, and young adults. The images that […]
Can intuitive eating help heal eating disorders?
A listener recently got in touch to ask me if intuitive eating can play a role in the treatment of eating disorders. The short answer: yes, it absolutely does. Intuitive eating is an evidence-based approach to treating eating disorders. However, as with any complex issue, there are nuances and caveats to consider. In this blog […]
Challenging the War on Ob*esity
The prevailing belief in our society equates weight with health. This weight-centric health paradigm not only oversimplifies a complex issue but also perpetuates a harmful narrative that thinness equates to worthiness and respect. Driven by good intentions, proponents of this paradigm often overlook the harm it causes. The problem is that this paradigm is not […]
“Self-care” is not what we think…
Over the past six months, I’ve been working on shifting my focus away from weight loss, and away from trying to mold my body to fit into the definition of beauty that the culture I live in has defined for me. Previously, I believed my desire to lose weight stemmed from health concerns, finding well-fitting […]
Weight Loss Isn’t Always The Answer
Amanda Mittman is a registered dietitian, nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and body image coach who beautifully embodies my new direction of health at every size. She owns a group private practice of registered dietitians supporting people with disordered eating and eating disorders and teaches providers how to incorporate body image counseling skills into their […]
The Minnesota Starvation Study
The Minnesota Starvation Study, led by Ancel Keys in 1944-1945 during World War II, is a fascinating study, which is constantly referred to in weight loss and obesity medicine circles. Keys rounded up 36 healthy male volunteers to study the physical and mental effects of what he called “semi-starvation” because of the soldiers and civilians […]
Introducing Intuitive Eating
Over the past year or so, I have been quite committed to learning and living the principles of intuitive eating, which has made a huge difference for me. Has it had an impact on my weight? A little bit, but more in the sense that I am no longer stressing out about food. I am […]
My body is not an apology
In a world inundated with societal expectations and a seemingly constant barrage of body-related messages, the concept of self-love can seem quite foreign. A book that has been gathering dust on my bookshelf recently caught my attention—“The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-love” by Sonya Renee Taylor. While the term “body […]
Food Matching
I had no idea you could actually sit down and have an argument with your body, but it’s something I find myself doing a lot of the time. The reason for this is the external diet rules that continue to float around in my head – the “shoulds” and the “shouldn’ts” that can dictate my […]