Healing Eating

29/04/2024

Wisdom🙏🏻

Donna Ashworth

16/04/2024

Geneen Roth is a lifesaving pioneer😊🙏🏻

Live Online Program

05/12/2023

A love letter to my body💕

07/07/2023

Excellent 💕🌈😊

12/06/2023

INTUITIVE EATING IS NOT A DIET 😊😊

I (Zoe) am posting this after a client told me how she came across an “intuitive eating” based podcast that had plenty of food rules to assist with weight loss.

Intuitive eating is about learning how to be as in tune with your body as you can be. You get to make the choice about leaving food on your plate or not.

Intuitive eating is not a means to control or manage your weight, it’s a framework to help you eat in a way that is both as nourishing and as pleasurable for you as possible, given your circumstances.

But it's totally ok to want to lose weight, many of our clients do and learning how to navigate this is a core part of the work we do. The difference is not using the IE framework as a way to lose weight.

Note: we acknowledge that IE is a privilege and not everyone has the resources or capacity to eat intuitively.

Zoe .dietitian.lovewhatyoueat
Jodie .arnot.counselling

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If someone is telling you to leave food on your plate, that is not intuitive eating

If someone is saying this will help you lose weight, that is not intuitive eating

16/11/2022

Such beautiful and timeless wisdom💕🙏🏻

Usually when I talk about the many ways to end the struggle with food, I give a set of intuitive eating guidelines and describe the importance of treating yourself with kindness. And although both elements are important, the truth is that no change will happen without consistent effort over time. As you develop new ways of being with food, they eventually replace the old ways.

For the 17 years I spent ricocheting up and down the scales, my main pastime was agonizing. I'd agonize about my weight; then I'd agonize about being a failure; about my jeans size, my thunder thighs. Since whatever you pay attention to flourishes, I became an expert in agonizing about my behavior rather than changing it.

Finally, I decided to instead invest my time and energy in acting on a positive vision of myself - the sane, powerful me I sensed was waiting in the wings. Every day I would wake up and feel the pull to go back to what I had been doing before: dieting, bingeing, agonizing. And every day, I would tell myself that change was possible and that I was following a new plan; I was eating when I was hungry, stopping when I'd had enough, and keeping written track of my food intake and feelings before and after I ate. After a few months of paying attention in this way, my relationship with food permanently changed. Not only did I lose weight, but I began to believe that I was worthy of self respect. And I've never gone back.

I am not special or unusual or lucky; the only difference between me and you is the time I spent on developing a new relationship with food. You can do this, too. Focus on a positive vision of yourself and decide on specific food-related actions you can take (ones that don't involve punishment, shame or guilt) to enact that vision. Be consistent — and don't give up. No matter how many times you've tried and failed, no matter how desperate you feel in the moment or in the middle of the night, you can change. The answer is right here, right now; it's as close as your own heart and your brain.

This is an excerpt of “The Secret to Change.” Read the full article on my website: https://bit.ly/3EyBYXf

20/05/2022

Love this 💕🙏🏻

The first time I ever heard the sentence “eat when you are hungry” was in a program called Thin Within. It was way back in the last century. I was twenty-seven and had just gained eighty pounds. I attended six weeks of the program and it changed my life because for the first time, I realized that eating could be about hunger and fullness, not calories and ice milk. Now, Joy Imboden Overstreet, the creator of Thin Within (along with Judy Wardell), has written The Cherry Pie Paradox, a book that describes her theories. Her realizations. Her brilliance. Thank you, Joy. I owe a lot to you. So you all: Check out her book. It’s where so much began...

16/09/2021

I’ll be Co-facilitating this group and there are still spots available 😀😀

23/02/2021

Yes Yes Yes 😊

Increasingly, I am being contacted by people who feel utterly confused and lost with how to eat. It’s sheer madness how “successful” diet culture or the “wellness” world is at confusing intelligent resourceful people with what should be a basic human instinct - how to feed oneself.

There is another way.

Zoe
Kerrie

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If you feel confused and lost with how to eat
the problem is not you, it’s diet culture and the “wellness industry”

19/02/2021

Amen😞 Carbs are your friend ❤️