By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Intuitive Eating
Keep only those things that speak to your heart.” So you don’t have to keep the unwanted Christmas gifts, the kitsch ornaments you were given by Aunt Gladys, or the faded old t-shirts that have seen better days. Instead keep only those things that “spark joy” in the words of Japanese decluttering expert Marie Kondo […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating
Back in the 1980s, when spiral perms and shoulder pads were all the rage, I was repairing and testing torpedo systems in frigates at the Devonport dockyards. Who would have thought then, standing in my greasy white overalls in the bowels of a frigate, that in 2019 I’d be writing this blog about intuitive eating… […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diet Rules , Intuitive Eating
“You can’t have it.” My brain told me. “Nope. You cannot have thousand island salad dressing.” So there I was standing in the supermarket aisle, scratching my head, pondering this new diet rule I’d discovered buried in my subconscious, while my two boys continued to argue about who would push the shopping trolley. “Mum! Mum! […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Willpower
Ugh… where is my willpower? Why can’t I stick to my goal? Why can’t I just say no to the cake/chocolate/icecream/chips? What is wrong with me?! Nothing girlfriend, nothing is wrong with you. What is wrong is that we’ve been led to believe that willpower is the answer (spoiler alert: willpower research was wrong it […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Faith and Food Freedom , Intuitive Eating
Christmas, New Year, work do’s, summer holidays, long weekends, barbecues, birthdays, the parties come thick and fast at this time of year and if we’re not mindful we can end up literally stumbling from one overstuffed dinner to the next. So, what the heck do we do then? 1. Relax Around Food Please try […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | 4 Pillars of Happy+Healthy Eating , Cravings
“I eat healthy for a while, usually a week, and then I start over-indulging, eating lots of desserts and sweets…” “I binge on chocolate whenever I allow myself to eat it, which is usually only once a week…” “I struggle to stick to my healthy food options because I’m craving something sweet…” Three totally different […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck
Jameela has been so open and honest about her personal struggles with disordered eating, with hating her body, with feeling the need to diet to perfection… you know, all that shirt that most of us women have subjected ourselves to in the name of ‘beauty’. I love that a celebrity, an actress, is actually talking […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Intuitive Eating
Do you worry that if you give yourself permission to eat anything, you’ll eat, like, EVERYthing? I hear you and I raise you that bet. I figured the same. And in all honesty when I gave myself freedom to eat anything – after years of ‘good’ rule-following, nutritionist-sanctioned, healthy eating – I did indeed eat […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Faith and Food Freedom
“That’s not me,” I’d smugly reassure myself as I sat at church on Sundays, listening to our pastor reminding us not to be Sunday Christians. He encouraged us to have our faith guiding us every day of the week. “I’m doing that,” I’d say to myself, “I pray every day, read my bible every day.” […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Intuitive Eating
You know those sneaky little secrets you like to keep hidden in your life (or pantry)? Well I’m about to reveal 5 of my secrets to you… so hang onto your tea cup, here we go…. 1. My School Lunches Are Totally Boring Like. Really. Boring. My 7 year old son wants peanut butter sandwiches […]
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