Food Cravings Vs. Desire
So how do we know the difference between a craving and a desire? I think of them as the same and I think of them as body and brain messages. Don’t forget, our brain is part of our body. Why does it matter unless we are demonizing and/or elevating a particular food or food group?
Will Acupuncture Help Me Lose Weight?
Diet culture wants us to believe that staying small makes us more attractive. Diet culture also wants us to believe that attractiveness is all that matters. Let’s connect those dots. Smaller is more attractive…do you want to be powerful or do you want to be attractive to a society that values thinness over everything else?
10 Principles of Intuitive Eating Series, Principle 4: Challenging the Food Police
As we have grown up, we have been taught that we have a symbolic angel on one side of the shoulder and a little devil on the other. But what if I told you that there was a third entity that we need to worry about? In the form of voices in our head that tear us down whenever food or eating is in question? These voices are called the Food Police. The Food Police also comes with a few other voices that do not help us on our journey through Intuitive Eating, and we will go more in-depth on these voices later in the post. These extras are the Nutrition Informant and the Diet Rebel.