Four Leaves Nutritional Psychology

01/01/2022

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2021/12/29/new-years-resolutions-focused-weight-loss-may-actually-harm-health/9034595002/

The ads may be cloaked in wellness and body positivity, but the core message is the same it's always been: your body is not good enough.

26/02/2021

What Intuitive Eating is....and what it is not. If you're interested in learning more, I am a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and can support you to have a healthier relationship with food, mind, and body (without dieting, fasting, or relying on will-power) ❤ 🍽

It’s Diet culture is co-opting big time—so it’s time for another reminder about what IE is and is not. The purpose of IE is to cultivate a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body through self-connection.⁣
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𝗜𝗘 𝗶𝘀 𝗡𝗢𝗧:⁣
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* Fasting or keto⁣
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* Your cheat day⁣
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* Aligned or authorized for use with any weight loss food plan or program, including Noom, Weight Watchers, or any program with food rules for the purpose of shrinking your body or disconnecting you from it.⁣
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* Counting macros, points, or food groups⁣
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* A diet⁣
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* You can’t cherry-pick one or two principles and call it Intuitive Eating.⁣
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* an evidence-based self-care eating framework, with over 140 studies to date! ⁣
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* far more nuanced than "eat when you're hungry, stop when you're full." IE is a dynamic interplay of instinct, rational mind, and thought. ⁣
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* about bringing pleasure back to the eating experience and connecting with your body.. ⁣
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* a self-connection journey of learning and discovery—not pass or fail. ⁣
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* Has 10 principles which are guide posts. You and only you get to decide what tastes/feels best in your body. You are the expert of you—you are in charge!⁣
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* an integration of mind-body knowledge, recognizing that life gets hectic and busy at times. Sometimes, for example, your lunch break may be before you're physically hungry - that's okay! This is where your mind knowledge comes in: your body still needs nourishment before a busy afternoon.⁣
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* Intuitive Eating is Health at Every Size aligned and weight-inclusive. It’s about dignity & respect for all bodies.⁣
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Diet culture doesn’t get to change or redefine the principles of IE. Go to the source—www.IntuitiveEating.org, Intuitive Eating,4th ed, the IE Workbook and/or its creators & . If a program/person is offering Intuitive Eating for weight loss or fasting—Run away! ⁣
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27/08/2020

Let's ease up on the self-judgment around eating for pleasure and comfort, especially during these tough times 💗.

So you’ve put on some weight during lockdown. You can obsess over it, but you can also be kinder to yourself. Here’s how.

05/08/2020

A good reminder that internal struggles with eating are often not externally visible. Appearances can be deceiving and disordered eating comes in all shapes and sizes, genders, and most definitely all ages (though this article focuses on young adults).

Distorted eating behaviors occur in young people irrespective of their weight, gender, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

31/05/2020

Important insights from the author of “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia.”

"The era of slavery was when white Americans determined that black Americans needed only the bare necessities, not enough to keep them optimally safe and healthy. It set in motion black people’s diminished access to healthy foods, safe working conditions, medical treatment and a host of other social inequities that negatively impact health.

This message is particularly important in a moment when African-Americans have experienced the highest rates of severe complications and death from the coronavirus and “obesity” has surfaced as an explanation. The cultural narrative that black people’s weight is a harbinger of disease and death has long served as a dangerous distraction from the real sources of inequality, and it’s happening again."

We know why Covid-19 is killing so many black people.

28/05/2020

But how does one…do it? I asked tentatively, and her answer caused me to spill some of my wine. “I eat what I want when I want.” And she had never felt better in her life...

Excellent article in Vogue about Intuitive Eating! The author interviewed Elyse Resch, who I trained with to become certified as an Intuitive Eating Counselor. Please get in touch if this resonates and you would like to learn more 💛

Dieting? Wellness? Passé! Intuitive eating is all about following your cravings, wherever they take you.

20/05/2020

The last few months have given us a lot to process and digest. Go easy and be kind to yourself.

https://www.upworthy.com/coronavirus-productivity-motivation-myths-dangers

30/04/2020

This time of isolation will heighten food and body issues for many. You may find yourself being triggered by food scarcity, feeling shame about emotional eating, or experiencing anxiety about overindulging. If you are struggling, please get in touch 💗. Sessions are currently online so I can support you wherever you are.

Diet culture is so ingrained in how we view ourselves and others that even when we’re alone, with no one to “impress,” we are measuring our bodies.

08/11/2019

31/10/2019

Happy Halloween! 😸