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 | 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 | 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 […]
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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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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating
I just enjoyed a lovely slice of lemon syrup cake, baked by yours-truly… for my husband on Father’s Day – yum! I love all things lemon… Oh! And chocolate! All things chocolate too 😉 And it’s taken years as a nutritionist to get my food loves and my love of healthy eating straight in my […]
Continue readingBy jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating
Confused! That’s how most of my new clients feel. Which diet should I be following? What food groups should I be eating? Which foods are the best? Is Paleo best? Or Keto? Or the Mediterranean diet? Or should I do Weight Watchers? As a registered nutritionist I feel it’s my duty to tell you […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck
I was really skinny when I was a teenager. And I hated it. People would tease me about it. “Has she got an eating disorder?” they’d ask behind my back. I was embarrassed. I just wanted some curves. Girls were meant to have curves, right? I desperately tried to put weight on. Decades later, people […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating
Nutritionists aren’t perfect. Including me. I know… shocking right? My journey from food-horrors to food-happiness has been quite spectacular (if I do say so myself, ahem). At my lowest point I would binge on sugary foods, hide chocolate wrappers in rubbish bins, put food in the freezer to stop myself eating it, throw food in […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck
“Wow I feel amazing today! I think I’ll go on a diet.” Now THAT… is a phrase you’ll never hear a dieter say. Why? Because dieting is ALWAYS preceded by dissatisfaction with your body or life. It’s more a case of – argh! I hate the way I look, I hate my thighs – I’m […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Diets Suck , Intuitive Eating
My biggest regret in my career is a four letter word. DIET. It’s right up there next to the ‘F’ word in my vocabulary. I spit the word out now. Dirty, lying, life-thieving, deceiving, diet. Deceiving? Yes, deceiving. Because this is what I now know for a fact about diets: 1. CHRONIC DIETING TEACHES YOUR […]
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