Free Yourself of Diet Culture This January
It’s January, Diet Culture’s favorite month. Time to start strengthening our tools for navigating this challenging time. Many of us are faced with “diet talk” at work, at family gatherings, social events and on social media. Sometimes it’s appropriate to engage and defend your non-diet journey and other times it’s appropriate to “bow out” of or divert the conversation. For those of you who have never heard of the term “Diet Culture” it’s a phrase that describes society’s obs
12 Ways to Listen to Your Body This Holiday Season
It's a week from Thanksgiving! Gratitude is in the air. There's lots to be grateful for and also the holidays can be overwhelming all at the same time. Can you make the choice this year to not take holiday stress out on food or your body? Here are "12 ways to Listen to Your Body this Holiday Season." 1. When embarking into this holiday season, don’t sit with the “my diet starts January 1st” mindset. Anticipation of starvation can cause binge eating and an over consumption of
4 Ways to Continue Your Intuitive Eating Journey in a Hurricane
With the craziness that’s ensuing in South Florida, we need to be reminded of the things we can control and the things we can’t control. Lack of control is often a trigger for many people, especially those with disordered eating patterns, and this hurricane is certainly out of our control. I am reminded by the serenity prayer when I think of having the serenity to accept the things I can not change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference. We can’
Traveling and Intuitive Eating
I pride myself on being a Registered Dietitian, an Intuitive Eater and a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor too. I take my intuitive eating skills with me everywhere I go, including vacation. Yet, on vacation even the baseline intuitive eater can face challenges and here’s why. We are out of our routine. Although there are no rules or rigidity to intuitive eating, we are waking up at different times, in places without access to our usual foods and sometimes on other people’
A Registered Dietitian's Thoughts on Why Burger King’s “Real Meal” Campaign “Really Messed Up”
For those of you who didn’t know, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Burger King came out with “Real Meals.” To claim that “Its OK to not be OK” and to poke fun at McDonald’s "Happy Meals." In select locations, Burger King is offering “Blue meals, Pissed meals, DGAF meals, Yaaas meals, and Salty meals.” After doing a little research, I found that the Happy Meal was developed in 1979 as a meal “just for kids” and included colorful packaging and a toy as a part of the m
The Real "About Me." - A Letter to My Community on My Outlook as a Dietitian.
Hi Friends, I wanted to take this time to reintroduce myself and my company / brand. I have been a dietitian since 2013 and my company is almost half a decade old. I have had a chance to explore the industry, see what kind of clients I click with and what kind of information I want to spread. I have had the ability to make mistakes and have had the achievement of amazing success. I have learned and I have grown, and I continue to learn and grow. I am so excited for what Juli
Honoring Hunger and Satiety: The Key To Breaking Free From Food Obsession.
You’re sitting in front of the television engrossed in your favorite show on Netflix. You’re mindlessly snacking on a bag of chips only stopping when your right hand doesn’t find anything more to grab. You begin patting down the entire aluminum casing to confirm that there is nothing more. You come to your senses. Panic. Pick up that bag of Doritos in disbelief. And think to yourself, “I don’t remember even eating that….” We live in a gluttonous, quick-fix society and many o
