Mindfulness Based Intuitive Eating

05/12/2022

Many women have spent years, even decades on the diet-binge cycle in the endless attempt to attain a certain body type. Each year they find themselves making the same promises of how this year will be different. Consider that this year CAN be different if you make the decision to stop eating according to external rules and start listening to your body's wisdom. Intuitive Eating is the blueprint for starting on this new path and reclaiming the autonomy over your body and ultimately your life. Contact me to learn more.

16/11/2022

Truth be told, I am not sure that non-diet or anti-diet dietitian is not an oxymoron. It depends on how you define diets and dieting. Non-diet dietitians prefer to think of the word in a neutral way... A diet is just the way we eat. No morality attached.
Anyhow, the non-diet paradigm goes way beyond the notion that diets don't work and aren't good for us. It is also about how questioning the culture that perpetuates our obsession with our weight and health status at the expense of living our lives.

07/11/2022

I am opening my coaching practice to clients who are interested in not only learning about Intuitive Eating, but actually in becoming Intuitive Eaters.

What does it mean to be an Intuitive Eater?
- Intuitive Eaters know that the best way to feel both mentally and physically well is to nurture a two way, trusting relationship with their bodies.
- Intuitive eaters know that they can trust their bodies to know what, when and how much to eat.
- Intuitive eaters know that they can eat any food without shame or guilt. All foods are morally equivalent.
- Intuitive eaters know that their self-worth is not defined by their weight, health or body shape.
- Intuitive eaters refuse to let the diet and wellness cultures come in the way of a life worth living.

What is non-diet coach?
- A coach helps you meet yourself with curiosity and understanding.
- A coach helps you identify the beliefs, thoughts and emotions that are preventing you from moving forward towards a value driven life.
- A coach helps you learn to believe in yourself and trust your body.
- A coach helps you develop emotional resilience, so you can be with and process any emotion that arises.
- A coach helps you integrate the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating from a place of love, rather than a place of fear.
- A coach helps you liberate yourself from diet culture, create new beliefs, think new thoughts and achieve your goals.
- A coach helps you make peace with food and live a life free of food obsession.
- A coach helps you develop the confidence to show up in the world, independent of body size.
- A coach helps you learn to respect your body for all it does for you and treat it accordingly with compassion and care.
- A coach reminds you that you have the power to change your life, right now.
- A coach reminds you that you are inherently worthy of love. You are enough.

Contact me to learn more. Laurie

02/11/2022

For me … coaching was the missing piece…

I spent over two decades working as a clinical dietitian before I realized that the calories- in, calories - out paradigm was failing me and my clients. My clients are intelligent, motivated women and it just didn't make sense to me why my efforts to help them lose weight didn't result in significant long term change.

When I first learned about Mindful Eating, I felt optimistic that counseling my clients to pay attention to all aspects of their eating experience would help my clients achieve their weight loss goals; surely people would eat less if they paid attention to their hunger and fullness cues... However, even though mindfulness practices (including Mindful Eating) can have huge positive effects on psychological and emotional well-being, my clients continued to struggle with disordered eating patterns.

Intuitive Eating shifted my thinking about diets and dieting. Based on 10 principles which were formulated in the 1990's by two dietitians, Intuitive Eating made me question the validity of the paradigm that I had accepted as truth for my whole life. Perhaps instead of pursuing the endless weight loss diets, we can learn to accept our bodies as they are and work to take care of them? Perhaps health is the result of our behaviors rather than our weight? Perhaps chronic dieting harms our physical and emotional health? Maybe there is a different way?

Intuitive Eating asks us to completely reverse of how we think about food, and how we decide what, when and how much to eat…. instead of looking outwards towards diets, programs, gurus and supplements for answers, we take back our power, turn our attention inward and draw on our innate ability to know what we really need. By taking the moral sting out of food, Intuitive Eating encourages us to eat all foods without remorse or guilt. Making peace with food, allows us to examine how foods make you feel emotionally, physically and spiritually; reestablishing our agency over our bodies and food choices.

As you can imagine, this is easier said than done. Changing your thoughts and beliefs about food and eating can be very challenging. Fortunately, hiring a supportive and effective coach can be very helpful in stream lining this process. A non-diet coach can help you identify your stumbling blocks; the thoughts and beliefs that are holding you back and help you move forward in your journey towards food freedom.

I feel so grateful to have arrived in a place in my journey where I feel I have the tools to really help my clients make peace with food and change their lives for the better. If you are intrigued by the possibility of working with a coach, please contact me for a free consultation. I would love to talk to you about it.

Laurie
duitchlaurie@gmail.com

14/03/2022

My new program starts after Purim. Contact me if you want to know more about it.

11/03/2022

https://noweighway.com/best-podcasts-for-intuitive-eating/

Here are the 7 absolute best podcasts for Intuitive Eating. Podcasts are a quick and informative way to begin your intuitive eating journey.

23/02/2022

My Mindfulness Based Intuitive Eating program is a 13 session course that is designed to help you develop a trusting, kind and caring relationship with your body, and the foods that both nourish and nurture it. In this program mindfulness practices are introduced in order to encourage you to cultivate a non-judgmental awareness of your internal and external experience, facilitate your ability to best meet your physical and emotional needs (Intuitive Eating) and grow your ability to appreciate, respect and take care of your body (Body Image Resilience).

My next group will be starting the week after Purim and will end at the end of June. (We will take a two week break for Passover.) The program includes 13 weekly, 90 minutes live sessions on Zoom.

10/01/2022

How do you raise a fat, healthy, happy child? As a fat kid who grew into a fat adult, here's what would have been helpful to me.