Eat Intuit. Live Into It.

11/06/2025

A client says: “I feel so ashamed — I worked hard to lose weight, and I’ve gained it all back.”

What’s your instinctive response?
💬 A) “That’s so frustrating — maybe we can figure out what went wrong.”
💬 B) “That must feel discouraging. What does this mean for you?”

Our gut reactions can reveal hidden biases — and opportunities for growth.

Explore more real-world scenarios like this in my free workbook, Becoming a Weight-Inclusive Mental Health Professional.

👉🏼 Subscribe here to get yours: Eat-Intuit.com/mentalhealth

11/01/2025

The holidays can stir up anxiety about food, fullness, and “self-control.”

This month’s Eat Intuit newsletter for Mental Health Professionals explores how Diet Culture pathologizes fullness — and how to guide clients toward peace with their body’s cues.

💡 Includes a printable Hunger-Fullness Scale Worksheet + reflection guide for your own practice.

👉 Subscribe here to get your copy → www.eat-intuit.com/mentalhealth

10/30/2025

“Is it disordered to expect ourselves to easily perform an impossible task?”

So much of what we label as “disordered eating” would make more sense when we view it through the lens of unrealistic weight expectations.
• 95–97% of weight loss attempts fail.
• 2/3rds regain more weight than they lost.
• The body fights for life.

If the body is doing what it’s designed to do, the question becomes not "Why are they bingeing?" but "Why are they being asked to shrink?".

As a Mental Health Professional supporting clients in relationship with food/body/exercise — how might this shift in lens change what you say or ask next?

👀 Check out my latest blog post for Mental Health Professionals: A Call to Reorient Disordered Eating 👉🏼👉🏼 eat-intuit.com/post/a-call-to-reorient-disordered-eating

10/29/2025

“Before we can hold space for our clients’ body stories, we have to understand our own.”

This free workbook helps you explore how Diet Culture has shaped your ideas about health, bodies, and worthiness — and how to begin unlearning them.

💌 Subscribe to my monthly newsletter for Mental Health Professionals to get your free copy of ✨Becoming A Weight-Inclusive Mental Health Professional✨

Go here to subscribe 👉🏼Eat-Intuit.com/mentalhealth

10/27/2025

Many clients who present with “disordered eating” may actually be responding to the weight-loss narrative. Believing their lack of self-control with food is unreasonable. Their "overeating" or "underexercising" is their problem.

The truth? Our bodies are wired to protect life, not to shrink on command. When we shift from blaming clients for “lack of willpower” to asking “How could this be your body taking care of you?” we open a path to freedom.

That's why I'm calling for a reorientation of our understanding of disordered eating. A shift based on how we know God made bodies to work and all the research showing just how little control we have over our weight and health.

👀 Check out my latest blog post for Mental Health Professionals: A Call to Reorient Disordered Eating 👉🏼👉🏼 eat-intuit.com/post/a-call-to-reorient-disordered-eating

Don't think very many of your clients struggle with disordered eating? You'd be surprised.

10/24/2025

How much energy are you willing to invest in an impossible goal?

95-97% of people regain the weight, with 2/3rds gaining back even more than they lost. We gain the weight back, because we're supposed to gain it back. Any health benefits we seemed to have gained when we lost the weight, evaporate. We're left more hopeless than before and are still told to "try again".

As if there was anything that we could do to succeed at maintaining long-term weight loss. Humans haven't yet found a single way to keep the weight off.

But until we believe that, we'll keep trying and blaming ourselves for our failure 😞

Your body is not the problem. Weight Stigma is. Healthcare injustice is.

10/22/2025

✨📒 Introducing a Free Guide for Mental Health Professionals!✨

We're all trained in systems that equate thinness with wellness. We're even taught that those systems help people 😬

Even the most well-intentioned providers can carry those stories into the therapy room.

That’s why I created Becoming a Weight-Inclusive Mental Health Professional — a free reflection workbook to help you recognize anti-fat bias and begin replacing it with compassion and inclusion.

📘 Get your free copy when you subscribe to my Monthly Newsletter for Mental Health Professionals → https://www.eat-intuit.com/mentalhealth

10/12/2025

Diet Culture says there's a right way to eat. Sure, we're told some of the right things to eat with an even longer list of the wrong things to eat. But the underlying constant through it all is restriction.

We're told that we should be able to live off of the bare minimum. Restricting as much as possible and only indulging our body in what it absolutely needs. But how do we know what our body needs at any given moment?

Because no matter what Diet Culture says, we don't get to decide what our body needs. The only way to know what our body needs at any given moment is to listen to it.

10/09/2025

Diet Culture Myth: We're drawn to bad foods because our body is lazy and sinful. This is what we hear in Christian Diet Culture, but does the Bible actually support that? Check out my blog post about it here:

https://www.eat-intuit.com/post/does-the-bible-support-dieting-and-weight-loss-part-1

10/07/2025

Diet Culture demonizes our food cravings as sinful, selfish, gluttonous temptations to avoid. "The stronger the craving, the more we need to demonstrate our self-control".

We hear this the most around sugar. But we don't crave sugar because we're weak and broken. We crave sugar because our bodies are seriously amazing 🤩

God designed our bodies to guide us towards the food that we need. Glucose is our body's preferred source of energy. So when we restrict and try to eat low calorie, low carb, low sugar... then that's exactly what we're going to be drawn to 🍪🧁🍰🍫🍨

Our cravings aren't a sign of our body betraying us. They're a sign that our body is taking care of us 🤗

10/04/2025

How many of your clients are absolutely convinced that their food problems are their "overeating" and their late night binges? Is their solution always that they just need to try harder? What if the problem wasn't the binge? What if the problem was their restriction?

Check out my YouTube video "This Is Why You Lose Control With Food"
👀🎥👉🏼 https://youtu.be/FKOoi4VSqOM?si=vs-JxyxjRpaRGyEN

10/02/2025

What Diet Culture calls a failure is your body saving your life. Your weight regain is your body doing everything that it can to refill the dangerously depleted stores of life-saving energy.

Check out my YouTube video "This Is Why You Can't Keep The Weight Off"
👀🎥👉🏼 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAdXhW4sdnM&feature=youtu.be