Episode #109: 5 Things To Keep In Mind When You Start Intuitive Eating

You may have hit diet rockbottom and refuse to go on another diet again. Or, you’re just frustrated with your relationship with food and you’re ready for something different and new. Or, you stumbled upon intuitive eating and are curious. 

In this episode, Tara shares six things (she added one at the end) to keep in mind while you’re starting your intuitive eating practice. They include some of the challenges you may encounter when you reject the diet mentality, learn about diet culture, practice tuning into your body, want to know if you’re doing it right and feel alone because so many people around you are still dieting. 

This journey is worth it and my hope this episode will leave you feeling better equipped to take these steps in a new direction. 

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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.