Are you eating to survive or eating to thrive?

Eat to thrive

Have you ever read about a new diet and thought, “This is great. I can fol­low this diet”? Then 3–4 days later you are won­der­ing what you were think­ing as you stand in front of the refrig­er­a­tor try­ing not to make an ice cream sun­dae the size of your head.

Most diet plans are about restrict­ing calo­ries or elim­i­nat­ing foods that are sup­posed to make you gain weight. The com­mon theme is to deprive the body of some­thing in an effort to shed the pounds. They often work in the begin­ning. The body will use other resources stored within its cells to meet the nutri­tional require­ments of the body. Ulti­mately, this is per­ceived as star­va­tion by the body and either you will have an unsuc­cess­ful bat­tle with your crav­ings or throw your hands up and return to old patterns.

Does this sound famil­iar? This is eat­ing to sur­vive. Food becomes a

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January 9th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: Holistic, Intuitive Eating, Nutrition | 2 people had their say - chime in!

Building your Intuitive Eating Muscles

Go within

The hard­est part of learn­ing to eat intu­itively is under­stand­ing how to tap into your intu­itive self.  We live in a cul­ture that tells us we need to attend to other’s needs first.  This mind-set leaves no room for pay­ing atten­tion to our inner voice.  We have to over-ride the voice that says, “You need sleep” to get all the expec­ta­tions com­pleted in a day.

When we learn to ignore our inner sense of what we need, our fast-paced life doesn’t allow us to relax. Unless we can stop and hear what is being requested by the body, there is no way to honor it.

When start­ing to access your intu­ition, it helps to begin with inquiry.  We need to start being more curi­ous about our bod­ies.  Try this exercise.

Begin by find­ing a quiet place to sit.  If you have kids try this before they get up or after they go

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December 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Alternative, Health, Health Coaching, Holistic, Intuitive Eating, Natural healing, Nutrition | One comment so far

Intuitive Eating Webinar Series

Creating Balance

Have your weight strug­gles gone on for so long you don’t remem­ber what it is like to enjoy eat­ing? Do you worry about every calo­rie you eat? Are you tired of count­ing, chart­ing, and weigh­ing your food?

Cre­at­ing Balance

All of these are the result of yo-yo diet­ing.  Yo-Yo diet­ing is the con­stant search for that per­fect diet to help you lose weight and feel good with­out being deprived, eat­ing food you wouldn’t feed your dog and wor­ry­ing about being “bad”.  Yo-yo diet­ing has been linked to increased weight gain and poor health in the long term.  As each new diet plan fails it affects your self-confidence as well.  If you have been chal­lenged by your food you are not alone.

There is so much con­flict­ing infor­ma­tion about nutri­tion on the market. In fact, nutri­tion is a very new sci­ence and there is a lot the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity doesn’t

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December 2nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Alternative, Detoxification, Healing Arts, Health, Health Coaching, Holistic, Mind Body Spirit, Natural healing, Nutrition, Spa and Wellness | 10 people had their say - chime in!