Apr 9, 2024 | Body Beliefs
Your Perceptions of Weight Gain “Can I feel myself gaining weight!?” Many times in my own food/weight battle, I panicked about gaining weight. Some of those were actual physical weight gain, others were fears in my head. This feeling of gaining weight can send...
Apr 9, 2024 | Body Beliefs, Holistic Weight Loss
In today’s world of ever-present social media, it’s easy to fall into the trap of hating our bodies. Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC In today’s media-saturated culture, we’re...
Oct 24, 2023 | Emotions and Eating, Intuitive Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC What Is Mental Hunger? Mental hunger is the desire for food for a non-physical reason. I like to think of mental hunger as a “red flag” from our body–it’s a sign to go deeper to...
Oct 3, 2017 | Emotions and Eating, Freedom From Dieting
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC When you’re obsessed with controlling your food intake, body size, and the number on the scale, the concept of “eating what you want” sounds foreign, frightening, and...
Feb 22, 2017 | Body Beliefs
We’ve been having a lot of discussion lately in The Normal Eater’s Club around body acceptance. And some of the ladies have been asking, “but HOW do you actually accept your body?!” We know we’re supposed to work on body acceptance if we...
Mar 12, 2014 | Body Beliefs
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC It continues to amaze me just how many women (and men) struggle with some sort of weight issue, body distress, or eating struggle. I was discussing my business vision with a friend...
Feb 25, 2014 | Body Beliefs
Years ago, the therapist I was seeing recommended I try yoga. “Ugh”, I thought. “Yoga is for hippies”. But I went. I went even though I was wrapped up in thinking about how many calories I would burn during class. I went even though I thought, “this isn’t REAL...
Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
I remember my obsessive affair with the scale. Every morning, I would hop on the scale to weigh myself. And every afternoon, I would weigh myself again after working out. If that number went up even a half a pound, it sent me into a self-induced panic. Irrational...
Feb 7, 2014 | Body Beliefs, Uncategorized
I read some staggering statistics yesterday. 50% of commercials aimed at girls spoke about physical attractiveness. Each year, the average adolescent sees over 5,260 advertisements mentioning attractiveness. Four out of five women in the US are dissatisfied with their...
Jan 30, 2014 | Emotions and Eating, Life Lessons, Uncategorized
For so many women, the desire to exert strict control over our weight, body size, and food is all too common. We convince ourselves that reaching that magical number on the scale would allow us to finally have it all together. Or that eating “perfectly” and adhering...
Nov 13, 2013 | Body Beliefs, Life Lessons, Uncategorized
After ranting about a friend who seemed to “have it all”-the perfect life, great friends, a flawless figure, a fabulous mate, and a wonderful job, a wise mentor put her hand up to stop my blabbering and told me, “Never compare, or you’ll always despair”. The more I...
