What are your food ‘shoulds’? Quickly rattle them off: Just one helping? Don’t eat sweets without protein? Only dark chocolate? Limit red meat? Leave 3 meals in between meals? These are BS. There are just getting in your way. Whenever you notice these, realize it’s a totally arbitrary “should” and something you learned from a […]

Ok, well let me just say first off, that intuitive eating is the only way we are supposed to be eating. Eating with impulses and desire. Not worrying about the specifics or macros or calories or kinds of food (unless you have real food intolerances, but if you do… I mean avoiding those foods is […]

I talk about restriction all the time. Physical restriction is the last thing you want for your relationship with food. But there is another kind of restriction that’ll mess you up just as badly, and it’s mental restriction. This is a really important concept (that Isabel Foxen Duke coined a version of the term as ’emotional […]