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Mega mega excited for this Californian babe to come back across the Atlantic this summer! 👯‍♀️🇬🇧🇺🇸. • P.s. it’s this gal’s picks I’ve been borrowing when my inspiration has been running low ➡️ highly recommend giving her a follow for some beaut food pics (and the 🐶+🐱)🤩 @lauraheck

LET’S NOT DILUTE BODY POSITIVITY 🧡. • There’s a new post up on the blog today, co-written with @tansleytansley . It’s on a subject that I’ve had bouncing around in my head for a while - the fact that body positivity is becoming diluted + co-opted. • This has meant that not only has body positivity been repackaged as something else for us to be striving for, and not quite getting ‘right’ but it has lost what I understand to be its original purposes: • ✨To create space for the acceptance of marginalised bodies ✨fight for a paradigm shift where fat (and other marginalised) bodies are celebrated ✨to broaden the definition of physical beauty. • We also write about acknowledging our privilege of living as straight-sized, white, able-bodied, cis women in our culture and recognising that body positivity was not created for us, but that absolutely doesn’t mean that we cannot follow, support and learn from this fantastic movement. • Linked within the article + tagged in this pic are a selection fantastic authors + activists from whom I’m constantly learning more about fat activism + body positivity. • I’m wondering if this blog post may prompt a few conversations about this topic, and I’m actually hoping it does - please let me know your thoughts on this subject. • I’d also like to pop in a caveat that although Jade + I have tried our absolute best to make sure that we’re not adding to the co-option of this amazing movement or further muddying the water, we’re always learning + may very well have made some mistakes. If we have written about something in a way that doesn’t sit quite right, please reach out to us 💕. • 📷: @frances_cannon

One of my favourite benefits of Instagram is the community that I have managed to build of virtual friends (which sometimes turn into IRL friends). Jo Moseley, aka @healthyhappy50 is one of those wonderful people who I truly hope I'll be able to meet in real life soon! • On the blog this morning, Jo shares her favourite ways to take care of herself in the New Year - with no diets or punishing exercise goals in sight. I highly recommend making a cuppa and settling down to read this post that feels like a warm hug to read 🌟. • Thank you so much Jo for writing this gorg post!. • As always, link is in bio!. • Happy Sunday folks!

Happy Fri-yay!!. • Got any fun weekend plans or are you having a quiet weekend to recover from the festivities like me?. • Whatever you’re up to, I hope you get some time to recharge 🌺. • 📷: @lauraheck

New Year, Same You 🧡. • Whether you’re nursing a sore head today or had a night in last night (🙋‍♀️) I hope you had a good one!. • With diet + body-shaming chat galore at this time of year (I’ve already seen 3 ads for various diet + fitness plans on here 🙄) I’m inviting you to be kind to yourselves and appreciate that you’re enough just as you are!. • This month I’ll be sharing some titbits of advice on looking after ourselves + the first piece of advice I share with anyone who wants to hear is 👉. • HAVE A SOCIAL MEDIA CLEAR OUT. • Unfollow anyone who triggers that sickening feeling of failure or brings out the little green eyed devil for reasons you can’t explain. • And whilst you’re at it, unfollow anyone who talks about their new diet, “lifestyle” or gym transformations. • And replace with amazing, kind, compassionate, funny, intelligent accounts that make you think and smile and laugh 🌟. • To get you started I’ve tagged and mentioned a selection of my fave accounts in the IE and bopo arena. So go forth + unfollow!. • Sending lots of love for the year ahead 😘. • @antidietriotclub @healthyhappy50 @laurathomasphd @isarobinson_ @reconnectnutrition @theintuitive_rd @alissbonyt @paigesmathersrd @nourishandeat @foodandfearless @stylemesunday @bodyposipanda @chrissymetz @scarrednotscared @nudenutritionrd @tasteandseeblog @mattmcgorry @scotteeisfat @vinccird @hgoodrichrd @fatgirlshiking @jennifer_rollin @thereallife_rd @marcird @level.up.nutrition @themilitantbaker @chr1styharrison

Just wanted to pop in and say Hey! 🙋‍♀️ during this funny time between Christmas and New Year. • Are you back at work, chilling in your PJs or dashing round seeing friends and family still?. • Whatever you’re up to, I wanted to remind you guys that it’s ok (and actually a really sensible act of self care) to take some time for yourself during this period. • 🌟 This might be 5 minutes sitting by yourself doing a meditation or some deep breathing. • 🍁 Or taking a stroll outside to get some fresh air. • 🌜Or hunkering down for an early night after a string of parties + late nights. • 🌮 Feeding ourselves is one of our most basic acts of self care - remember that regardless of what you ate yesterday or over the last few days, your body still needs and deserves regular meals and snacks today. Although it didn’t look as pretty as this 👆, this is what I had for brekkie today (making the most of more time in the mornings!). • What small acts of self care can you recommend?. • 📷: @lauraheck

Sending love from mine to yours 🌟🎄. • Take care of yourselves gang 💕

IT’S TOTALLY OK IF YOU “OVER-EAT” THIS CHRISTMAS!. • I was featured on @laurathomasphd non-diet advent calendar yesterday, sharing some thoughts on “over-eating”. • 🎄With tips on restriction + guilt tripping aplenty this time of year (actually for most of the year!) I’d like to shout loud and clear that it is OK to eat past the point of fullness. . 🍪Firstly, there’s this misconception that if you’re eating intuitively that you only ever eat when you’re hungry and always stop once you’re full. And whilst learning to trust your own hunger + fullness cues is part of what we work on in intuitive eating, it’s not the hunger/fullness diet. . 🍯Eating until you’re stuffed and a bit uncomfortable sometimes is so normal. Eating 2 or 3 or however many mince pies when you’re not hungry this Christmas is OK. It’s the trust that your body will adjust to makeup for these changes in eating + this flexibility to be able to this without judging yourself that Intuitive Eating helps with. . 😣But I know that eating past the point of fullness can feel uncomfortable + overwhelming. And if we have been restricting or only giving ourselves pseudo-permission (I can only have X if I’ve done Y) to eat certain foods, this can drive disinhibited eating - you know, that feeling that we’ve totally lost our shit around food? . 🍫This is where it might be helpful to plan in having some ‘fun’ foods every day - to start giving yourself permission to eat these foods unconditionally - so not because you’ve done X in the gym, but because you enjoy these foods + you can have them whenever. . 🥧I also find it helpful to discuss with clients the difference between a subjective binge (what you think of as going nuts for certain foods) vs. and objective binge that would be considered a symptom of binge eating disorder. Diet culture has given us a very warped view of what a binge is. A true binge is often ritualised (a set of fixed actions performed repeatedly), planned, happens over a very short period of time + eating more than a person usually would in a whole day. This is not the same as polishing off the tin of Quality Streets because they’re yummy + you’ve maybe been ‘sugar-free’ {cont.}

Have the festivities got you feeling some food fear? 🍪. • When we’ve been dieting, restricting, “being good” or whatever and then make a move towards giving ourselves unconditional permission to eat all foods it can be scary. It’s totally OK if you have thoughts and concerns that you’ll end up head first in the biscuit tin. • I’ve noticed people putting a lot of pressure on themselves to be a “perfect” intuitive eater (there’s no such thing, just FYI!) By this they mean only ever eating when they’re hungry + stopping immediately when they’re full. • It’s easy to see how this misinterpretation occurs BUT part of normal eating is to “over-eat” sometimes - Intuitive eaters will sometimes eat past the point of comfortable fullness because food tastes good but they don’t beat themselves up about it. • It’s almost as though Intuitive Eating gets turned into another kind of diet - another bandwagon to fall off. You start everyday thinking “I’m going to eat intuitively today” meaning only when you’re hungry, often not eating any fun foods throughout the day, and then you get to the end of the day and find you can’t put the mince pies down. • It’s understandable that this is happening - we’ve had years of practicing this way of thinking about food - being “good” all day and rewarding yourself in the evening. It’ll take time to challenge this. • What I’m wondering is, if we intentionally have some fun foods planned in to our day throughout the day - does this take some of the pressure off? And does it make them less of a reward and more something that you can eat whenever, for no particular reason (unconditionally 😜)?. • 🌟 Try planning in some fun foods throughout the day - this might be a mince pie at lunchtime, a couple of biscuits with your afternoon snack, a dessert at dinner. • Remain curious rather than judgemental about what might happen. But all I’m wondering is - does this help take the charge out of some of these foods?. • And if you do eat past the point of comfortable fullness - IT’S OKAY! 💕 Check out @laurathomasphd advent calendar entry from yesterday by yours truly - or wait for me to repost it here later today 🤗. • #unconditionalpermissiontoeat

Spicy hot choc for me pls!. • ❤️🍫🎄

✨. • 📷: @frances_cannon

Feeling a little bit sad that @esther.lauren and I didn’t get to make our annual ice skating visit at Somerset House this year - but there’s always next year! 🌟🎄. • What are your plans for this weekend?? Getting up to anything festive?

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