Equipped to Thrive
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
