Do you feel like meal planning and intuitive eating don’t go together? Maybe you’re stuck in the traditional diet culture rigid way of thinking about ‘meal plans.’ Or maybe you’re just really confused about how to implement an intuitive, flexible way of meal planning into your life. Whatever your thoughts are on meal planning, I want to dive into them fully with you in this episode!

In this episode, we chat about:

• What diet mentality meal planning looks like
• Why meal planning with intuitive eating is different
• Why you might want to consider some flexible meal planning
• How to actually meal plan in an intuitive way
• Adding in fun and flexibility to meal planning
• Meal batching and if its right for you
• Eating as an act of self-care

Other Episode Mentioned:

032. Have a Snacking Problem? Listen Up!

Links:

🍪 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz

💗 Learn more about how to work with me & get support

📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist)

🎧 Podcast Show Notes

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Anxiety. Perfectionism. Low-self esteem. These are all things you may have experienced along your food freedom journey (I know I have!). Whether it shows up in the form of worry about your food choices, needing to feel a sense of control with food, having unrealistically high expectations of yourself, trying to motivate yourself through sham and self criticism, all-or-nothing thinking, or feeling like a failure – we talk about it all in this episode!

We truly dive DEEP into uncovering what’s really going on beneath anxiety, perfectionism, and low self-esteem. And of course, our lovely guest, Dr. Regina Lazarovich, PhD, shares tips with you about how to navigate these things as they show up on your journey to heal your relationship with food, your body, and yourself.

In this episode, we chat about:

• What anxiety is & how it shows up in your relationship with food
• Worries and stresses about your relationship with food
• The feeling of needing a sense of control
• How to actually move through & find relief from emotions like anxiety
• Perfectionism in your relationship with food
• How self compassion can be your super power
• The difference between self-esteem and self-worth
• How to feel more inherently worthy
• And LOTS of tips to actually implement this stuff into your day-to-day life!

Links:

🍪 Apply for Embodied Food Freedom – we start on April 17th, 2024!

💗 Learn more about the Embodied Food Freedom small group coaching program

📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist)

🎧 Podcast Show Notes

Our Guest’s Links:

💻 Connect with Dr. Regina Lazarovich, PhD on her website, compasscbt.com

🧘 Check out Dr. Regina’s free meditations

If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!

I’ll take any opportunity to call out diet culture BS when I see it. The recent Washington Post article “As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice” has quite frankly p*ssed me off, and I want to talk about it with you! There is a large systemic issue at hand when it comes to Intuitive Eating, Health At Every Size (HAES), and weight-inclusive non-diet work. Biased publications, like the Washington Post, are spreading ignorant and misinformed information about what “anti-diet” really means.

This makes me the most frustrated because I can only imagine how confusing it must be to see headlines like this when you are someone who is trying to pursue your relationship with food & body healing journey. So in this episode, I want to set the record straight. Let’s dive into some big myth busting about anti-diet work!

I chat with you about:

• The recent Washington Post article on “anti-diet dietitians”
• What people often get wrong when they think about anti-diet or intuitive eating
• How anti-diet does NOT mean eating twinkies in unlimited amounts
• Anti-diet DOES mean improving your well-being – physical, mental, emotional, overall!
• What Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, weight-inclusive care, anti weight bias, etc. are really about
• How oppressive, inequitable, and harmful weight-centric ways of approaching health can be
• Restrictive diets often leading to weight cycling and/or disordered eating, or even eating disorders
• How a surface-level look at intuitive eating is not helpful, it’s very nuanced
• To not rely on social media solely for support in your health & well-being
• And so so much more.

Links:

💻 Nutrition by Carrie article that takes a deep dive into this Washington Post article

🔬 Check out hundreds of studies on Intuitive Eating

🍪 Apply for Embodied Food Freedom – we start on April 17th, 2024!

💗 Learn more about the Embodied Food Freedom small group coaching program

📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist)

🎧 Podcast Show Notes

If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!