Health and Weight Stigma at All Sizes: Brad Zehring, DO
Health and Weight Stigma at All Sizes: Brad Zehring, DO.
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…
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…
Fritos
So, after I blogged, I added Fritos to my list. I really wanted to try them and was hungry. So I bought a bag. I tasted and smelled them carefully. I took several bites. And this is what I found. I don’t actually like Fritos. Who knew?!
Getting to know and playing nice with food
In order to make peace and become comfortable with food, Tribole and Resch (Intuitive Eating) suggest the following: Pay attention to foods you find appealing and make a list of them. Make a check by the foods you currently eat and then circle the foods you’ve been restricting (the rest of food on the list). Give…
What Chatty Kathy tries to tell me about making peace with food…
So the idea is that I need to learn that food is food. It does not have power, it is neither good nor bad, and when I am hungry – I should eat. You will just keep eating and eating and eating! When you ate that before, you ate too many pieces, too much! If…
Learning to say Yes or why saying No doesn’t work
While I am still working to listen for my hunger cues, eat when I am hungry and stop when I am comfortably full (old habits are proving hard to break), I am also allowing myself to let go of dieting. This is proving to be difficult, mainly because of Chatty Kathy and the unhelpful messages…
The biological, psychological, and emotional impacts of dieting
Yep, I am still talking about dieting. I realize that vilifying a process that has served many for so long will upset some of you. While I do hope that my thoughts and writing will help some to make good decisions that fit their lives well, I do not expect to sway everyone and probably…
While I may be not be on a diet, what other diet-like behaviors do I need to avoid?
As I march through my eliminating the diet mentality week, I continue to find traps that I need to avoid. In my readings, I am finding that not being on an official diet is not the only way we (I) can fall into a diet trap. Tribole and Resch call this “pseudo-dieting”. This includes: “Counting macros”…
The EnLightened Journey 