Intuitive Eating Basics

A woman messaged me recently. She'd been dieting for thirty years. She'd tried lifting all restrictions, read the Lindo Bacon book, paid a small fortune to a coach who told her to release all restrictions. She gained weight, felt out of control, and ended up dieting again to lose it. She wanted to know...

You’ve heard about intuitive eating, eating with attunement, or mindful eating. You might even be practising it - trying to listen to your body’s signals, honouring hunger and fullness, trusting yourself to choose what feels good. But here’s the catch: what if it doesn’t seem to be working?...

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...