By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Body Image , Intuitive Eating
“My friend took photos of us together the other day and showed them to me on her phone. And all I could see were my fat arms. Now all I want to do is diet and exercise to make them look better, ugh!” Body dissatisfaction is widespread among women in western countries. So much so […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Cravings , Faith and Food Freedom , Intuitive Eating
Our back door was the scene for Easter every year as kids. Because, of course, the Easter bunny used to leave our chocolate eggs or bunnies on the back door step. So, my sister and I would excitedly wake up, and tip toe to that back door – I still remember that door, because the […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Emotional Eating , Intuitive Eating
Emma had kicked the diet mentality and was so happy to say goodbye to white-knuckling another new “best diet”. Groan. She’d found life so much better now that she’d made peace with all the lovely food in the world… cupcakes with chocolate frosting, yummy! But Emma was still having trouble sorting out the hunger part […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Hunger & Fullness , Intuitive Eating
Sarah was feeling really down on herself. Because, yet again, here she was after a main meal with an uncomfortably full tummy. Even though she’d really tried to listen for her fullness cues, somehow she’d overeaten… again. “What the heck is going on?!” she screamed inside her head. Sarah doesn’t know why she’s struggling to […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Hunger & Fullness , Intuitive Eating
#fact – It’s a lot easier to STOP eating, when you know you can eat again next time you’re hungry. But. If you’ve dieted for long periods, your body has learnt to ignore hunger. Your body thinks that hunger can’t always be fixed. Your body has learnt to deal with starvation. Your body has learnt […]
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By jennifer@thinkingnutrition.co.nz | Faith and Food Freedom , Intuitive Eating
“Why” is the answer. Not the question. But the answer. To which question? “Is it wrong to fast then,” a Christian lady asked me after I’d given a talk about intuitive eating at a church women’s brunch. I’d just spent a half-hour talking to these lovely ladies about intuitive eating, about how eating well doesn’t […]
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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 | 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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