By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Intuitive Eating
My hate list was long. And it was written on a nice white piece of A4 refill paper from high school. In a lovely logical fashion too, as you’d expect from a Type A personality like me. On the left-hand side were listed all the things that I hated about my body. While on the […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Intuitive Eating
Even from the dark depths of the freezer, the packet of peppermint-chocolate cookies would call to Alison… “In the past, I couldn’t even keep them in the house,” explains Alison. Who felt out of control around those cookies. But things are totally different now. “Today, I can eat one and then leave the rest in […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Intuitive Eating
I arrive at my GPs office and announce, “I have three health problems that are not real, and one issue that I think might be real…” My GP kindly giggles with me, because he knows, and I know, that my brain is in the habit of making up problems. I have a generalised anxiety disorder […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Hunger & Fullness , Intuitive Eating
“Mummy? Why is that lady so big?” “Mummy, sugar is bad for us, isn’t it?” “Mummy, icecream isn’t a healthy food, is it?” The things that come out of my son’s mouth some days, make me cringe as a non-diet nutritionist. But I know they come from a place of innocence. Because while I’m trying […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Intuitive Eating
I pull the bedcovers over my head and try to ignore the sound of my kids and husband getting ready for the school day. I don’t want to get out of bed today, or yesterday, or tomorrow. I want to care, but I just can’t summon enough energy to care about anything. My bedside clock […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Gentle Nutrition
If an alien arrived from another planet and asked me which food was the best superfood, I know what my answer would be. And it wouldn’t be kale, or chia seeds, or coconut oil, or kefir, or turmeric, or…. (the list of NOT-superfoods could go on). Nope as the spaceship slowly hovered down to earth […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating
“You’ll need to stop eating at 1pm until your procedure the next day….” “What?! This is NOT good news… I like eating, hang on no, I LOVE eating!” As I scanned down the letter and read all the other instructions to prepare for a colonoscopy (you know, the ole camera up the rear end) I […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diet Rules , Intuitive Eating
Dieting felt like a way to be in control of your life and eating. A framework or boundaries for your day to day life; one that left you feeling stable – just follow the rules about what to eat and everything would be okay… Of course it wasn’t okay, but that’s another story. And yes […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Intuitive Eating , Willpower
“Sugar is like cocaine to the brain…” “Sugar lights up the same part of the brain that cocaine does in brain scan studies…” “Sugar acts like a drug in the brain and is addictive…” The ole’ interweb is awash with claims that sugar is addictive and acts like a drug in our brain. Argh! It […]
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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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