Ditch Diet Culture and Become A Mindful Eater
Over my 15 years in the wellness industry, I have written hundreds of nutrition plans.
For those who are new to my work, I got my B.S. in Kinesiology and started my career in the fitness industry where nutrition was all about counting calories and macros (in so many words). While I always did my best to deter clients and myself from diet culture, this way of doing meal plans always led back to just that.
Over time, I realized that this way of creating meal plans, while effective, was unsustainable and could have a detrimental effect on both the body and the mind. It certainly did for me.
Enter mindfulness.
Ditching the food fear and, instead, bringing mindfulness into the way we eat is an immensely powerful way to establish healthy relationships with food and your body.
After years of struggling with my own body image and alternating between restrictive eating and binging, my introduction to mindfulness and self-acceptance was a breath of fresh air.
Once I began incorporating these practices into the way I ate, I noticed HUGE shifts in how I felt, not just physically, but mentally and energetically. Over time, I realized that I had completely deconditioned myself from worrying about calories and my weight. Long gone were the days of looking in the mirror and telling myself I was fat or feeling so ashamed after eating a bowl of ice cream that I had to mask the shame with another bowl, and then another….I was FINALLY, for the first time in my life, truly enjoying food! No strings attached.
So, obviously, I began to teach my clients this way of eating and they too began to realize that they could feel energized and healthy in their bodies + have a healthy, loving relationship with their bodies + achieve their goals without the soul-sucking ways of diet culture. FUCK YES.
In my Mindful Eating Program, I combine the science of nutrition with mindfulness and intuitive eating principles.
In my experience, mindfulness leads to a deeper connection with our intuition which means that mindful eating leads to intuitive eating.
So, let’s first break down what mindful eating is.
Mindful eating is the art of presence while you eat. Mindful eating (i.e., paying attention to our food, on purpose, moment by moment, without judgment) is an approach to food that focuses on individuals' sensual awareness of the food and their experience of the food. It has little to do with calories, carbohydrates, fat, or protein.
Mindful eating helps you to adopt the following attitudes:
Non-judgment
Patience
Cultivating a beginner’s (open) mind
Self-trust
Non-striving
Acceptance
Letting Go
Now, let’s define Intuitive Eating.
Intuitive eating means that you make peace with all types of food and allow your body, your greatest source of wisdom, to guide you in your food choices.
There are 10 principles of intuitive eating.
Reject the diet mentality
Honor your hunger
Make peace with food
Challenge the food police
Discover satisfaction
Feel your fullness
Cope with your emotions with kindness
Respect your body
Movement
Honor your health
My Mindful Eating Program + Plant-Based Meal Plan will teach you how to eat mindfully and utilize the principles of intuitive eating to cultivate habits that will allow you to:
🍓 eat intuitively + nourish your body-mind-soul with food
💗 love, accept and honor your body
🍌 have a healthy, balanced lifestyle
🥦 make delicious, nutritious plant-based meals and snacks
🍇 connect with your body
🍊 access your intuition through your body
🥑 feel healthy and strong
and why plant-based nutrition? Well for 1, science has shown that a well-planned, plant-based diet can help reduce all sorts of diseases and greatly improve your health. and 2, eating a plant-based diet greatly decreases our environmental impact on the planet and the suffering of billions of animals.
In case you don’t care about the planet or the suffering of animals, here’s another way to look at it:
What you put in your mouth has energy. When you put something in your mouth that comes from a kind, loving source, you consume that kind, loving, positive energy. When you put something in your mouth that comes from pain, suffering, and fear, you absorb that kind of energy. Whether or not you realize this, it DOES affect how you feel.
Ready to give mindful eating a go? Check out the Mindful Eating Program below!
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