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REAL VS. FAKE INTUITIVE EATING. • I was a guest on @laurathomasphd podcast @dontsaltmygame this week 😍. After many an office rant about some 🥴 posts about IE, we dismantled the myths and misunderstandings that we’ve seen coming from gym bros, models (🤯) and even health care professionals. • We covered: ✨ What Intuitive Eating actually is w/ a nice lil summary of the principles. • ✨ Whether you need to be hormonally and biochemically “balanced” to work on IE. • ✨ Why emotional eating isn’t inherently a bad thing + what we can learn from it. • ✨ Why the idea that IE = “Eating what you want when you want” is trash. • ✨ How working through IE will look different on everyone. • ✨ Why IE is health-promoting. • ✨ And how to spot fake IE versus true IE. • I’ve linked to the episode on Apple podcasts in my bio, but otherwise search Don’t Salt My Game in your podcast app 🎧. • Let me know what you think in the comments below 👇. • • #dontsaltmygame #intuitiveeating #realvsfakeintuitiveeating #ie #healthateverysize

A brunch snap from earlier this week 🍳. • As @tansleytansley has said to me many a time, an egg can magically transform a dish 😍 (I believe originally inspired by the wonderful Ruby Tandoh)

Hey you, with the sparkly new gym leggings... • I wrote a blog with @issy_rann sharing tips for figuring out forms of movement that you enjoy - if you’re interested 🧘‍♀️. • It’s not a post pressuring you into joining a new sport or to make you feel at all guilty about movement. More of a reassurance that it’s ok to be nervous about trying something new, or to feel silly the first time you try a downward dog! 🏊‍♀️. • 👟 We also cover the basics for kit you might need for a couple of different activities - because no one wants to spend a bomb in expensive gear!. • Link in bio!. • 💕 Let us know what you think in the comments below!. • 📷: @abbey_lossing

“But I thought the idea was to be able to think about food less”❓. • 🧠 We often hear about the brain space that is freed up by ditching diets or working to challenge disordered eating. • And oh my goodness this so does definitely happen!. • 🤯 But it’s also not unusual (actually to be expected) to go through a period of hyper awareness - like you’re working on challenging these diet mentality/inner food critic thoughts, some thoughts are popping up and you’re not sure whether it’s coming from an intuitive eating place or a diet-y place, you still feel like you’re thinking about food ALL the time, and oh my god why am I overthinking eating a mars bar??. • 💭 It’s almost as though all those thoughts around food and exercise that were taking up so much space when we were dieting have now been scribbled all over by a toddler. • 🤔 This hyper awareness is a normal part of working through intuitive eating and it’s part of the little bumps in the road - it’s kind of about figuring out which thoughts are helpful and nurturing and which are coming from that inner critic. • And it doesn’t mean that you’ll never get to that third thought bubble where there’s space for other passions, interests etc. - you will!. • But Intuitive Eating is hard work and there’s no such thing as doing it perfectly. • So don’t be so hard on yourself if you feel like you’re in the middle thought bubble at the moment and were worrying that you were doing IE wrong - you’re not! 💕

The sun ☀️ is peeking through in London but dreaming of when it’ll be warm enough to switch my endless coffee and teas to iced lattes 😎🥤. • • 📷: @lauraheck

Dieting is going underground. • I’ve been coming across a few confusing and misleading messages over here on the old ‘gram recently. • You know, those accounts and articles where weight loss and traditional diets aren’t explicitly mentioned but there’s the undertone to monitor, restrict, or shrink yourself. • Or people saying that they’re against dieting + restriction + feeling deprived BUT they can “help you lose weight the pleasurable way” - WTF?! Erm I’m just as confused as you by this one!. • Examples: 🙄 “Portion size matters” 🥴 “Be careful of xyz foods” 😡 “Sign up for our body blitz [insert other terrifying phrase] course to feel more empowered” 😫 “It’s what you put on the [X food] that increases the calories” 🤦‍♀️ “Don’t restrict yourself ... only have 1 chocolate when offered” (smells like restriction to me!!) • Even healthcare professionals are getting in on the act and it makes things mega confusing!!. • These messages are seemingly innocuous but are all still supporting the notion that you can’t trust your body - and instead you should listen to the ‘experts’, those external tools + messages. • And from the literature (and my own + others’ lived experiences) we know that restriction inevitably will lead to feeling out of control around food - in which time these messages will suggest that we can’t be trusted around food and should instead listen to them, thereby starting this cycle again. • Fundamentally you are the expert of your body. But it might be the case that you’re feeling a little out of touch with some of your hunger + fullness + satisfaction cues after a while of if you’ve been ignoring them for a while - and that’s ok! It’s not always quite as simple as “just eat when you’re hungry + stop when you’re full” anyway so it can take a bit of work to learn how to eat intuitively, but man is it so worth it! 💛 • 📷: @designbywas

Wandering + blowing the cobwebs away 🌷🍊🍋

No long caption here today - just some brunch appreciation 🍳🥑🥯

Just incase you needed an almost-at-the-end-of-January reminder ✨. • I’m just easing into my weekend. Saturday is one of my clinic days @intuitiveeatingldn + as a bonus that means I’m still on my ‘weekend’ on Mondays which is rather lush! 😎. • Whatever you’re up to this weekend, I hope it’s a good’un, + if it’s not, know that you’re still doing great 💕. • 📷: @harleyquinnandco

EATING FOR EMOTIONAL REASONS IS NOT BAD 🧡. • This discussion is one of my favourites to have with clients (+ anyone else who’s interested 😜) as it seems to be one of the messages that gets misinterpreted + propagated as Intuitive Eating becomes more widely recognised + adopted by many. • I’ve noticed that a few people who first come across Intuitive Eating place a lot of focus on reducing what they feel is ‘emotional’ eating (I include myself in this). And whilst I’d never want to invalidate someone’s experience, at the same time we can’t ignore the fact that our feelings and judgement around ‘emotional’ eating are probably highly influenced by the diet culture in which we live - that shames + judges us for (1) honouring our hunger + (2) eating for any reason other than for ‘fuel’. • The first really important thing to check, though, is that you are actually not just ravenous! A lot of what is thought of as ‘emotional’ eating (because it feels out of control, is often done very fast, often the more highly palatable foods that are deemed “bad” by diet culture, may happen when you get in from work after a hard day for eg) is most often actually a really natural response to not having eaten enough throughout the day - sometimes referred to as a kind of ‘primal hunger’. If you haven’t responded to your hunger signals through the day (+ this can defs be easier said than done!) I’m not at all surprised to hear that you smashed through a big bag of crisps when you got in from work! {cont.}

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

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