Equipped to Thrive
To respect your body means … Accept your unique genetic blueprint. Stop criticizing your body’s size, shape, proportions, etc. Show compassion toward yourself and the changes that occur to all of our bodies throughout our lives. Don’t hold yourself to unrealistic cultural standards of the “ideal” body size or shape It doesn’t mean that you […]
Written by Jeff Ash
It’s important to learn to cope with your emotions with kindness and in ways that don’t always involve food. Intuitive Eating is not a cop-out for those who don’t want to suck it up and stick to a diet. It actually involves digging deeper to address and deal with the deep-rooted issues that cause us […]
Written by Jeff Ash
Learning to feel your fullness is an important part of eating the amount of food that is right for you as a unique individual. Many people mistakenly see Intuitive Eating as a hunger and fullness diet. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. Recognizing and honoring your hunger is important, but understanding when you’ve reached […]
Written by Jeff Ash
It’s time to discover the satisfaction factor. When we’re constantly concerned with the weight, shape, and size of our body and all the shoulds and oughts around nutrition, it’s easy to miss out on the pleasure and satisfaction that can and should be found in the eating experience. When you’re eating food you truly enjoy, […]
Written by Jeff Ash
When you challenge the food police you say NO! to the messages that tell you that you should base your food selections on their calorie content. NO! to the friends/family/influencers/Drs. who tell you to avoid a particular food or group of foods. NO! to the voices that tell you that one food is “good” or […]
Written by Jeff Ash
When we make peace with food we give ourselves unconditional permission to eat. Yes, chocolate, pizza, ice cream, donuts, cookies, burgers, and fries. But, also grilled chicken, leafy green salads, roasted vegetables, salmon, Greek yogurt, and quinoa. Nothing is off the table. Nothing is forbidden, required, or put on a pedestal. Definitely not something typically […]
Written by Jeff Ash
What does it mean to honor your hunger? For starters, keep your body adequately fed with energy. The problem with suppressing/ignoring hunger whether, through willpower, caffeine, high volume “air foods”, or other hacks is that you can’t fight a biological drive for long. Once excessive hunger sets in (and it inevitably does), all intentions of […]
Written by Jeff Ash
A great place to start when you reject the diet mentality is to toss out those diet books. Seriously. Most of them are nonsense and at best, assume that: We can’t trust our body to tell us what it needs. Our bodies should all be a similar size. Higher amounts of body fat automatically equate […]
Written by Jeff Ash
It makes sense that the first few posts would be related to what Intuitive Eating (capital I and capital E) is all about before providing various tips and insights for applying its principles. First off, Intuitive Eating is NOT another diet. In fact, the first of its 10 principles is actually to “reject the diet […]
Written by Jeff Ash
