Intuitive Eating Basics

When you leave the world of dieting it can be quite daunting to know how to decide what to eat. When I work with clients to help them take the leap from dieting and attempts at control (of food intake and weight) into the realm of trusting their own bodies to guide them, there's often a sense of overwhelm....

Change is something I think about quite a lot - since I'm in the business of helping people to change. Our focus is on changing eating behaviour - but as clients quickly learn - it's not so much about the food, or the weight - it's about how you relate to yourself, to others and to life... we simply...

Have you been hard on yourself lately? Have you been putting pressure on yourself to 'get it right'? Get what right, you might be asking. Well, anything, really: your recovery from dieting, your journey towards body acceptance, your attunement to your needs... A few years ago I ran a Facebook Group...

The biggest reasons I see people struggling with Intuitive Eating is: fear of gaining weight, accepting that they have gained weight or fear that they won't lose any weight. In a world that is fatphobic, in a society where weight stigma is a very real (and very harmful) thing, in a system...

With diet culture screaming from the rooftops about what, when and how much to eat, we can completely lose touch with our own appetites, preferences and sense of satisfaction. When you've internalised so many messages about what's healthy and good for you (and what will control your weight) and what's...

If two things are mutually exclusive, it means they can't occur simultaneously. This is often the accusation levelled at Intuitive Eating practitioners - that we're steering people away from health. This is absolutely not the case. First and foremost, we steer people towards what matters to...