Episode #108: Want to Avoid Halloween Candy? A Common Sense (and possibly unconventional) Approach

With Halloween around the corner, the idea of being around so much candy may be giving you a real fright (sorry, I couldn’t help it). And I get it. There was a time when being around candy felt so conflicting to me. I wanted to eat it, but not eat too much of it. I wanted to enjoy my favorites, but more often than not, when I started to eat one Snickers bar, it would turn into far too many. 

The common advice that we get from diet culture is to not have candy in the house and get rid of it as soon as we can. Or, to just buy the candy we don’t like so we won’t be tempted. Wouldn’t it be nice to just feel relaxed around candy and trust yourself enough to know that you can eat it if you’d like it and leave it when you’re not wanting it? I want to guide you to that place. 

On the podcast, I’m going to share with you why the conventional advice around avoiding Halloween candy doesn’t work. And offer you a common sense approach using intuitive eating principles. I’ll share what to do this year, if you haven’t started practicing intuitive eating yet and what to do if you’ve been practicing intuitive eating for a while but want to feel even more free around all foods, including Halloween Candy. 

Episode #107: Explaining Intuitive Eating to Skeptical Loved Ones

Have you started eating intuitively, but are having a hard time explaining what you’re doing to your friends and family? 

Are you feeling self-conscious about your food choices because now you’re eating foods that your family are not used to seeing you eat? 

Are loved ones concerned because they think you’re not being “healthy”? 

Navigating intuitive eating when others are dieting or are expecting you to diet can be really hard. On the podcast, Tara shares her perspective on what’s going on, how to get your feet underneath you so you can have some conversations around this (if you choose to) and how to continue to practice intuitive eating with more confidence. 

Episode #106: What is Overeating?

I got this question from a friend and I knew it was time to go back to basics. I use the term “overeating” so often, but it’s important that you have a clear understanding of what overeating is and why you may be doing it. 

On the podcast, I share why we’ve been conditioned to believe that overeating is wrong and bad. We don’t worry if we haven’t had enough water to drink or if we’ve over-hydrated!  

I offer a concrete way to know if you’ve eaten past a comfortable fullness, as opposed to believing you’ve overeaten if you eat more than a portion size that’s been determined by a diet. I also offer four reasons why people typically overeat. It’s not surprising that three of these reasons have to do with dieting!

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