Too much on my mind

The lesser of the issues on my mind – I am heavier today than I was in November. I am working hard on my intuitive eating and have put on probably 5-10 pounds. I am tempted to diet; however, I know that it would only throw me back into an unhealthy and obsessive place. I…

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…