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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 […]
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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 | 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 […]
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