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...
Jan 3, 2016 | Emotions and Eating, Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
When you’ve consumed a thousand holiday treats and feel awful about your body, the lure of “starting over” on January 1st entices us to make that infamous New Year’s resolution: “I’m going on a diet!” (or your version of dieting…cutting out carbs,...
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 16, 2014 | Emotions and Eating, Uncategorized
Last week’s blog discussed bringing awareness to all of the ways we use food to escape life’s uncomfortable feelings and situations. When we become mindful of how eating to ease stress, boredom, frustration, and anxiety can become a destructive habit in our...
Nov 5, 2013 | Life Lessons, Uncategorized
The incessant “shoulds”…the things we think we “should” be doing with our lives. I was looking back through my journal I kept while living in Ecuador, and came across the following entry: I am 27, what “should” I be doing? I should be married, I should be in a serious...