SKINNY – Spoken Word (video)
This is definitely worth a watch:
Old voices trying to sabotage me
I will do this differently this time! This morning, after not sleeping well, though staying in bed for a long time, I got up. I generally log the weight that is best (from Saturday or Sunday) so I weighed myself. 166.6. Really? My nutrition has been spot on, I am working out 5 days per…
The Journey Continues
It’s a new day in my journey. Actually, the new day began a month ago today. Four weeks ago, I realized that my exploration of my relationship with food had gotten to a healthy place and unfortunately, that exploration had led to a 32 pound weight gain and a significant loss in strength. While it…
Where the heck did Chatty Kathy come from? (part one)
This is both a simple and difficult question to answer. It is pretty well accepted that a part of who we are and how we see the world comes from our childhood environment. I am cautious with this though. It can sound a lot like blaming others rather than just looking at history as a…
My allies in Intuitive Eating
So who are my allies in this process? Yesterday, I described the ways I can use my diet rebel and nutrition informant; but what about the food anthropologist, nurturer, and intuitive eater (aka me)? Tribole and Resch describe the food anthropologist as an observer, a scientist of sorts. There are no judgments, no opinions, no rules. This…
Whose are those destructive voices that work against me?
So we know that Chatty Kathy is the chief of my food police, in keeping with Tribole and Resch’s Intuitive Eating model, I know that I also have a diet rebel (sort of the James Dean of dieting) and a nutrition informant (Ms. Tattletale). So let’s look a bit closer at how each operate. Kathy does such…
Chatty Kathy is the Chief of the Food Police
As I sit here at the tire shop (managed to get a screw lodged in my tire) with half of my acrylic nails missing – don’t ask, getting them removed today – I am thinking about the fourth rung in the Intuitive Eating ladder – banish the Food Police. I have to say, my food…
Others’ thoughts…
I know, I’ve been away for more than a week. Life has been keeping me busy. Never fear, I will be back tomorrow or Tuesday with some new thoughts on intuitive eating. In the meantime, I wanted to share two articles/blogs that caught my attention. Feeling bad about your body What a real yoga body…
For those having judgments…
Playing with play food
Intuitive eating describes food that is not necessarily high in nutrients, but is often just yummy, as ‘play’ food. Many items on my forbidden foods list are play foods. I wrote about my experience with Fritos. Later that day, I experimented with a snack sized Almond Joy. As before, I waited until I was hungry…
The EnLightened Journey 