Intuitive Eating

Break the Diet Cycle, Improve the Relationship with Your Food and Body, and Heal Your Metabolism.
If you’re tired of dieting and think there must be a better way to approach food and nutrition, you’re in the right place.

Intuitive Eating:
A NEW approach to nutrition

Eat in a way that feels good

Intuitive eating offers a holistic approach that is designed to help you heal your relationship with food, body, and movement! When we are able to move into a more neutral and trustworthy place with these things, we can then begin nourishing in a way that truly feels good for us - mentally, emotionally, and physically!

Unlike dieting, intuitive eating is a process, where you will begin to:

Release shame and guilt from eating
Improve and empower your relationship with food and your body
Tune into and/or learn to respect your hunger and fullness cues
Feel confident building balanced and satisfying meals
Integrate the concepts of joyful movement and self-compassion
& more!

Body neutrality and respect go hand-in-hand with intuitive eating. In the same way that we can let go of attaching our worth to the foods we consume, we can begin to let go of the idea that our intrinsic value is derived from our body shape or size. Instead, we focus on bringing other, more meaningful and important, health goals to the surface - like improving your energy, focus, sleep quality, emotional or mental resiliency, strength, or stamina!

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Signs your relationship with food may need attention:

You feel like you need more “willpower” when it comes to food

You feel like you’re addicted to sugar or spend all day thinking about food

You can’t keep “junk” food around for fear you would eat it all

You feel anxious, guilty, or shameful before or after eating certain foods

You compare what you eat and how you look to others around you

You have "food rules" (i.e., "I should only eat bread once a day", "I can't eat after 7pm", "don't drink your calories")

You "compensate" for 'over' eating (i.e., "make up for it" by eating less at the next meal, exercising to "burn it off")

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It is an evidence-based alternative to dieting

One of our goals and areas of expertise at The Nourished Co. is working with clients and the community on healing their relationships with food and body, which is no small feat in a society absolutely shrouded in diet culture (the unfair and unrealistic expectation that there is a “one-size-fits-all” body and that all others are less worthy or “unhealthy”) as well as misinformation surrounding nutrition and how to nourish the body in a balanced and intuitive way…

It has gotten to the point that nowadays it often seems more normal to diet, have our worth wrapped up in our weight, and to gauge our success or willpower based on “how we are doing” with our eating or exercise than it does to listen, respect, and accept our bodies individualized needs for nutrition, movement, and a healthy weight! In the same vein then, we are usually more well-versed and comfortable with being our own harshest critics than we are treating ourselves with compassion or kindness… which makes sense since diet culture is intended to foster discontentment, comparison, and perceived “failure”.

It's an industry, first and foremost

Diet culture is the cultural expectation that we "should" be valuing thinness and aesthetics over our physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing. It stigmatizes certain bodies while simultaneously elevating others, and attaches worth (good, bad) to the foods we are consuming.

We have all been exposed to and affected by diet culture.

Even if you have never followed a formal diet, diet culture is very sneaky and can show up in many forms such as:

Tracking calories or macros
“Clean” eating
Detoxes and cleanses
Eating raw, keto, or paleo
Cutting out sugar

Basically a diet is any way of eating that says some foods are “good” and others are “bad”, limits or avoids certain foods or food groups, or changing the way you eat to manipulate your body.

We have all been exposed to and affected by diet culture, but it doesn't have to define us. In a society that literally benefits off of us disliking ourselves and our bodies, it is no wonder so many of us feel that dieting is the answer to all of our problems. But, there is a reason "diets don't work" - they aren't designed to. If diets were actually an effective way to manage weight or gain self-confidence, then people wouldn't spend their entire lives jumping from diet to diet while simultaneously losing their self-worth and metabolism. Diets are not sustainable, with an astounding 95% failure rate.

You didn't fail your diet, diet culture failed you.

It's how we were designed to nourish

With how engrained and normalized dieting has become it is no wonder we so often hear clients telling us that the thought of not dieting feels like “giving up". Even though, more often than not, it was the very act of dieting (and getting stuck in the cycle of it) that lent the most damage to our mental, emotional, and physical health in the first place! We're taught that dieting is not only healthy, but, the gold standard for measuring willpower and health... which could not be less true! In actuality, chronic dieting harms our metabolism, changes how we store fat, impedes proper hormone function (including the hormones involved in cravings, hunger, and fullness), negatively impacts our cognitive function, and so much more...

The good news is, our brains and bodies are ever-resilient. As such, we can re-learn how to cultivate a healthy and enjoyable relationship with food, our bodies, and movement – it often just takes “unlearning” a lot of the misinformation we were previously taught, so it can be replaced with new, truer, information. We are all intuitive eaters at our core, it’s inborn in us as humans, so finding our way back certainly doesn’t have to be the thing that feels like "giving up"!

Intuitive Eating can be led by Registered Dietitians and Intuitive Eating Counsellors, luckily, we have both on our team! This differs from advice that may be given out by potentially unqualified individuals, which often can be identified as a "diet" if it either: aligns with a scarcity mindset (i.e., focuses primarily on what you should avoid, limit, or replace) and/or prioritizes weight loss as the primary, most important goal.

Intuitive Eating

Break the Diet Cycle, Improve the Relationship with Your Food and Body, and Heal Your Metabolism.
If you’re tired of dieting and think there must be a better way to approach food and nutrition, you’re in the right place.