Helpful Blogs

There is often confusion about whether fullness and satisfaction are the same thing. I've heard advice to eat until you're full or satisfied - as if the terms are interchangeable - but are they the same thing? Have you ever felt quite full - maybe in your dieting days - when you ate a massive salad...

How do you feel about wasting food? Is it easy or hard for you to do? I used to have a real issue with wasting food. I didn't grow up deprived. I always had enough food. My parents didn't worry about wasting food and they never made us eat our food because there were children starving in Africa....

My 15 year old daughter stayed home from school yesterday with an upset stomach. I did the right thing, and gave her boiled rice... all day. With one or two pieces of dry toast, and a little brown grated apple for good measure. She was not happy! When it was dinner time, I asked if she'd like...

In my last post I started the conversation about why weight loss isn't a helpful goal to focus on.  In this post I want to talk more about how weight loss as a goal can get in the way of becoming peaceful with food. It gets in the way of developing trust with your body If you're constantly worried...

Most people who come to me for help, want to lose weight. Or if they're at a weight they're comfortable with, they are terrified they'll put on weight. Yet they also want freedom from food: freedom from obsessive thinking about it; freedom to eat what, when and how much they want; freedom from the...