5 Tools To Help You Ditch Diet Culture For Good
Diet culture is all around us. It influences how we speak and exercise, what we eat and wear, and even how we feel about and talk to ourselves. We are living and breathing diet culture every day, yet most people don’t even know it exists. That’s because it is so deeply embedded into our lives read more
Intuitive Eating: Myths and Realities
Due to intuitive eating’s rise in popularity over the last few years, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of it before. Perhaps you’ve seen a personal trainer dismiss intuitive eating as an excuse to gorge on junk food and never exercise. Or maybe you’ve read a blog post from a nutrition coach heralding intuitive eating read more
Why I’m A Weight-Inclusive Coach
When I describe myself as a weight-inclusive coach who doesn’t focus on weight loss, I get a lot of confused looks and questions. This makes sense in a culture that insists that: What we put in our mouths is a moral issue and will either cure us or kill us. Exercise exists for us to read more
Our Unhealthy Obsession With Superfoods
I have a laundry list of foods that I know I’m “supposed to” eat because they’re “good for me” but that I just can’t bring myself to actually eat. Many of these are so-called “superfoods,” a clever marketing term for foods rich in nutrients that are supposed to be beneficial for our health and wellbeing, read more
What You Can Learn From Eating Past Fullness
Earlier this week I bought, opened, and finished a full-size bag of Zapp’s Voodoo flavor potato chips all on the same day. While I didn’t eat the chips in one fell swoop (it was two fell swoops, actually), I definitely ate past a level of comfortable fullness for me that day. The chips were so read more