Nov 29, 2017 | Emotions and Eating, Freedom From Dieting
Do you find yourself always feeling guilty and criticizing yourself about something you ate? Whether it’s after Thanksgiving dinner, post get together with friends, or after an 8 pm cookie binge, we constantly feel guilty about what we’re eating....
Oct 31, 2017 | Emotions and Eating, Freedom From Dieting
Exactly 14 years ago I sat down across from the woman who would end up being my therapist. Almost before she had a chance to greet me, I desperately asked her: “How long will it take to feel normal around food? How long until I stop binging and...
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...
Sep 6, 2017 | Freedom From Dieting
At some point in this journey, if you are overweight, you may get confused. The ideas of “love your body as it is”, “accept yourself as you are”, “focus on health, not weight” and all of the other messages we receive on the journey can leave you feeling like there’s...
Aug 21, 2017 | Freedom From Dieting, Nourishment and Self Care
Do you swear to yourself you won’t finish everything on your plate but at the end of the meal realize that you inhaled all your food yet again? Welcome to the “Clean Plate Club” 🙂 (One that most of us don’t really want to be a part of!) So many...
May 30, 2017 | Freedom From Dieting
When we first realize that dieting doesn’t work, learning how to listen to our body can be terrifying. So, how do you start to trust yourself around food? How do you take all of the years spent NOT listening to your body and learn to trust yourself again? Find...
Apr 11, 2017 | Binge Eating, Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
When it comes to feeling confident in our eating, we all know that special events and holidays can be super challenging! Since Easter is this week, I wanted to do a special post on “How To Not Binge On Easter Candy”. You can use this as a reminder for any...
Mar 14, 2017 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
So I talk a lot about giving yourself permission, allowing yourself to eat more freely, and letting go of food rules. I mean, it’s hard to get out of the “I swear I’m gonna start over tomorrow!” cycle when you have 100 foods on the list of...
Mar 7, 2017 | Freedom From Dieting
What happens when you stop dieting, let go of controlling every morsel you put into your mouth, and begin to eat more “normally”? In today’s video, I’m diving into the unexpected side effects of not dieting. This is something not many people...
Oct 25, 2016 | Freedom From Dieting
I used to know everything about nutrition. I knew the calories in 95 percent of the items at the grocery store, which foods had the most omega-3s, what a plant-based diet did for the body, how food combining helped digestion improve, and which foods had the lowest fat...
Aug 30, 2016 | Freedom From Dieting
Restrictive thoughts can be sneaky little devils. We’re happily going about our day and think we are eating healthy…then BOOM after dinner, we find ourselves eating cookie after cookie and can’t seem to stop. What’s going on? It could be that...
Aug 3, 2016 | Freedom From Dieting
Have you ever eaten a cupcake, then inhaled another, and could barely stop at a third and thought to yourself, “That’s it. I feel disgusting. I’m addicted to sugar and I’m giving it up completely. I’m never eating processed foods again....
