What is Intuitive Eating? It’s exciting to see Intuitive Eating growing in popularity both in the media and in the research. But it’s also frustrating to see the co-opting of our work by diet culture in social media and beyond. So I thought I would address are a couple of Read more…
After creating the Intuitive Eater’s Holiday Bill of Rights, I thought about the collective wisdom of Intuitive Eating Professionals on LinkedIn, (which consists of over 800 allied health professionals). And so I posed the following question to the group: What additional Intuitive Eater “right” would you add to help foster inner peace during Read more…
What if peace on earth could begin at the dinner table? Imagine experiencing an inner peace, free from incessant worry about what to eat. It’s hard to enjoy the holidays when you are preoccupied with eating or worried about what to say to relatives who have an annual tradition of Read more…
There has been a lot of media attention on food addiction research. Scientists are curious about this possibility because the brain region (and neurochemicals) involved with substance abuse, are also implicated in overeating. But there are a lot of reasons, other than addiction, that can explain the rewarding aspect of Read more…
There seems to be a common perception that mindless eating is a condition in which you have no idea that you just ate, akin to “eating amnesia”. Many of my clients eat while distracted—but don’t consider themselves mindless eaters, because they are aware that they are eating while engaging in Read more…
My patients often express difficulty being around enthusiastic friends, who incessantly talk about their new weight loss diet. The friends are usually well meaning, with no intent to harm. Yet, this diet talk stirs up a bunch of mixed feelings, such as: Envy of the quick weight loss Fantasies of Read more…
I often get asked, “What is the difference between Intuitive Eating and mindful eating?” It can be a bit confusing since the terms seem to be used interchangeably [1,2]. To my knowledge, the first time the concept of mindful eating was introduced to the public was in 1990, in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s best-selling book, Full Castrophe Read more…