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Aug 27

Forget Keto, Not-Dieting Is The New Healthy Eating Trend

By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Body Image , Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating

Nutrition isn’t really ‘that’ important. Which might sound odd, coming from a registered nutritionist like me. Nutritionists are everywhere, giving their clients nutrition tips and creating healthy eating plans… Surely nutrition is the most important thing in my profession, right? Wrong. It took me years and years of working as a nutritionist to truly recognise […]

Jul 09

4 Lessons I Learnt From ‘Fasting’ As An Intuitive Eater

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 […]

Jun 18

The Truth About That ‘Keto Success Story’

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 […]

May 28

The Biggest Lie We Tell Ourselves – And 8 Tips To Boost Your Happiness Now

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 […]

May 14

Is Keto Better Than Other Diets?

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. […]

Feb 27

There Are Hundreds Of Things Wrong With My Eating – Where Do I Start?

By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating

“I eat piles of food even when I’m not hungry, I eat anything and everything, I have bad cravings, I have no willpower, I have literally hundreds of things wrong with my eating…” Does that sound familiar? You don’t know where to start in fixing things – which problem should you focus on first? What […]

Feb 03

6 Ways Intuitive Eating Beats Diets In Improving Your Health & Wellbeing

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… […]

Nov 28

Detox Teas And Other Diet Lies

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 […]

Oct 09

Overeating… “Oops I did it again!”

By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating

“Why did I eat so much… again?” You have goals – goals to eat better, to stop fighting with food, to stop being controlled by food, to get to your natural weight, to maintain it effortlessly, to stop the yo-yo cycle of restricting and over-eating. And you’re sitting down for dinner, you feel good because […]

Sep 13

Screw healthy eating! Let’s try Happy Eating…

By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating

I’ve been hard at work behind the scenes to create something new, awesome and TOTALLY free for you… It’s a new video series called The HAPPY Eating Toolkit — and video 1 is available for you to watch for free, right now! The focus of The Happy Eating Toolkit is about helping you […]

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