By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Gentle Nutrition , Intuitive Eating
Dear Keto-Dieter, no I don’t want to hear about your ‘keto success story’. And no I don’t want to hear about your friend’s success story either. It’s not that I don’t believe you lost XX kilograms of weight on keto. It’s just that I don’t agree with your definition of success. I personally don’t think […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Cravings , Gentle Nutrition , Intuitive Eating
The worst part of dieting? Aside from the gnawing hunger every day, that’s gotta be missing your favourite foods right? And then the guilt when you cave in and eat your fave foods. Sigh. Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. But it truly doesn’t have to be that way. You CAN have your […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Gentle Nutrition , Intuitive Eating
You know that feeling you get when you’ve just vacuumed your house and tidied everything up? When you’ve fluffed the cushions on your couch, the dishes are done, washing folded (and put away) and you feel like all is right with your home? I love that feeling. It’s this amazing mix of satisfaction, feeling relaxed, […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating
“I would have my life together if I was thinner….” “Then I’d buy new clothes that fit, book the beach holiday, have my photo taken with the kids, be loved more and feel fabulous.” Only after years of struggling to stay at your goal weight you finally realise your life is far from “together”. And […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Cravings , Diet Rules , Willpower
Carrying the empty milk bottles, my older sister and I would make the trek each weekend to our local dairy on Melrose Road in Hillsborough, Auckland where I grew up. Spurred on by the promise of a packet of sweets. We’d lug the empty milk bottles to the dairy and then return home with the […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating
“The Diet Is Dead, Long Live The Diet!” Paleo? So yesterday. Like bike shorts for high fashion. (Ugh. Why did the Kardashians do it?) Today. Keto, of course, has ascended the diet throne. Crowned the King. Everyone is keto-ing. #keto #ketodiet #ketorecipe #ketomealplan Cafe menus. Work lunches. Oily breakfasts (Constipated bottoms). Keto is totally 2019. […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Body Image , Cravings , Emotional Eating , Hunger & Fullness
It was Christmas Day 1970s style – think sunny days, pavlova and backyard cricket… the stuff of my childhood. And like most other Christmas days, I would end this one feeling over-full and still wanting to eat more. But in that child-like way, unable to make myself eat more than my body needed. And so […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Body Image
You truly want to love and embrace your body, just the way it is, without trying to force it into a too-small pair of jeans while sucking your breath in sharply, or worrying about your slightly wobbly-bat-wing-arms…. but that nagging, annoying voice in your head keeps telling you that you need to be smaller, thinner, […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Body Image , Intuitive Eating
“My friend took photos of us together the other day and showed them to me on her phone. And all I could see were my fat arms. Now all I want to do is diet and exercise to make them look better, ugh!” Body dissatisfaction is widespread among women in western countries. So much so […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Cravings , Faith and Food Freedom , Intuitive Eating
Our back door was the scene for Easter every year as kids. Because, of course, the Easter bunny used to leave our chocolate eggs or bunnies on the back door step. So, my sister and I would excitedly wake up, and tip toe to that back door – I still remember that door, because the […]
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