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Nutrition resources to help you undiet your life. Find strategies, podcasts, and inspiration to reclaim your health from diet culture with intuitive eating practices.
How to eat for heart health after 40 – in real life
How to use gentle nutrition basics to promote heart health after 40 without compromising satisfaction or falling into the dumpster fire of diet culture.
3 Unexpected Ways to Meet Your Health Goals in Menopause
Despite good intentions, dropping the ball on your health goals happens in your 40s. Try 3 unexpected ways to meet your health goals.
How to create healthy habits after 40; 5 steps
If you’re not interested in New Year’s resolutions you’ll probably break on Super Bowl weekend, here are 5 steps to create healthy habits you’ll stick with.
How to Make Holiday Baking Healthier, or Not
Episode 59: Baking is the one area of cooking that takes the biggest hit from diet culture. During my disordered eating days, I had piles of recipes with scratched-out ingredients. After MANY batches of hockey puck cookies, crumbly brick-like cranberry bread, and sad, soggy pumpkin pie, I realized that trying to make holiday baking healthier doesn’t work. Here’s why.
How to use mindful eating can reduce holiday stress, 3 ways
Episode 102: The holiday season is a busy time of year. There are plenty of ways to distract you from taking care of yourself. Here are 3 ways to use mindful eating during the holidays to stay attuned to your physical and emotional needs.
Nutrition and Body Positive Resources
HEALTHY AT EVERY SIZE
What do hummus, tank tops, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding have to do with your relationship with food?
Episode 16 Culture Shock: "You know those scenes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding with all the crazy family members fussing over the bride and groom's big day? Yeah, that's pretty much my life." This is the first thing Malak Saddy said to me when I first met her in our...
6 Strategies to Undiet Your Life After 40
Episode 17: Are you starting to feel the effects of perimenopause and finding that diet-wellness culture is no longer helping you? Ready to undiet your life? Now is an excellent time to let go of anything that's not serving you - especially when it comes to food and...
INTUITIVE EATING
How to Shut Down Diet Talk During the Holidays
Imagine sitting down at your holiday table. Smelling all the yummy smells - excited to try a new dish or plate up some old favorites that only hit the table once a year. Then your sister-in-law Karen announces she's not eating sugar this holiday season because she's...
How to eat more brain-health foods without being obsessive
Can you eat to support your brain health without falling into the dumpster fire of diet culture? Yes! You can take a non-diet approach to brain health with intuitive eating and gentle nutrition. Let's do it! Create your meals and snacks with a balance of complex...
PODCASTS
3 ways to deal with menopause weight gain
Episode 52: Is weight gain in perimenopause really that bad? As a woman in midlife, the intensity of diet culture advice skyrockets. Is it helpful? Probably not. Try this instead.
How to Love Your Body During Menopause
Episode 45: Are you struggling to love your body during menopause? You know the days when getting dressed in the morning feels like going into battle? When your inner critic is shouting, "REALLY?? You're going to wear THAT? You can't pull that off...maybe if you were...