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 7: Cope with Your Emotions with Kindness
Every time food is introduced through a cultural or life event, the emotional bond with food strengthens. This can be through the presence of wedding cake at the reception, cupcakes at a child’s birthday party, turkey for Thanksgiving, and my fondest memory was my Poppop’s baklava at Christmas. When food is introduced to help us cope with life or comfort us, it deepens our emotional bond with food. Food symbolizes different things in our lives; food can be our comfort when we feel a sense of homesickness or loss. Food can be celebratory. Lastly, food can also be our friend because we can rely on food.
10 Principles of Intuitive Eating Series, Principle 2: Honor Your Hunger
In this post, we will learn more about how to honor your hunger. Honoring our hunger can be considered a way to rebuild trust between us, our bodies, and the hunger signals we have lost touch with. It can also be a way to start rebuilding your trust in food.
10 Principles of Intuitive Eating Series, Principle 1: Rejecting Diet Mentality
Rejecting the diet mentality means to stop thinking about losing weight and dieting. This is a big step in your journey of intuitive eating, especially if you have been dieting for a long period of time. It is not expected of you to stop your dieting habits cold turkey, it is something that you have to ween off. Especially when it comes to counting calories, points, microproteins. Diet mentality most harshly affects those who do not fit with the stereotype that the media presents for us to look like.