Trust Your Gut - Eat For Satisfaction

Written By Nakia Laubscher

Throughout this series, we will explore what Intuitive Eating can look like in our lives. Intuitive Eating is all about consuming food that will satisfy our bodies physically and emotionally. It takes the scientific mechanism called “interoceptive awareness” and applies it to how we satisfy our bodies through food. Interoceptive awareness is simply understanding your internal body cues. Each person’s experience will be different and Intuitive Eating encourages us to acknowledge and respect our body’s unique dietary needs.

 
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What Does Healthy Mean to You?
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What Does Healthy Mean to You?
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Health is super nuanced and individual. You get to choose how you want to prioritize health in your own life. In this video, we discuss how to create our own definition of health, how to listen to our internal cues to prioritize health, how to assess our access to health promoting behaviors, and how to navigate conversations about your unique health with others. When we look internally instead of turning externally to define and prioritize health, we can feel fully aligned and confident in our decisions. We can tune out diet culture and tune out the hundreds of people trying to sell us garbage 'for our health'. It is extremely important to remember that our individual health is unique and nuanced. So we absolutely do NOT need to base our own health decisions off of other people.

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What You Need to Know to Use Nutrition Facts Labels Effectively
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What You Need to Know to Use Nutrition Facts Labels Effectively
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Health is incredibly unique and nuanced and the one size fits all approach truly fits NOBODY. What was meant to be a communication tool has been twisted and distorted to individual health advice. We’re sharing the context you need to know before reading another nutrition facts panel.

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Why it’s impossible to accurately count calories.
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Why it’s impossible to accurately count calories.
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Challenging the Food Police
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Challenging the Food Police
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The food police is the collective of external messages we’ve heard throughout our lives that attempts to establish food rules around what we eat.

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Our Bodies are not Machines … Our Bodies are Gardens
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Our Bodies are not Machines … Our Bodies are Gardens
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While we could simply say “our bodies are not like machines, stop comparing them” and be done, I’d like to offer a replacement comparison. Something that I hope draws attention to our uniqueness, resiliency, beauty, and imperfectness. Our bodies are like gardens.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Body Acceptance
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Body Acceptance
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Along our journey of Intuitive Eating, we also embark on a journey to find body acceptance. Intuitive Eating Coach Jacque and Chef Nakia discuss how both external messages and internal messages have an impact on our body image. Discover some tools to employ to help you along this journey of body acceptance and intuitive eating.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Honoring Your Hunger and Feeling Your Fullness
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Honoring Your Hunger and Feeling Your Fullness
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Both Intuitive Eating Principles, Honor Your Hunger and Feel Your Fullness, involve interoceptive awareness to understand our bodies’ hunger and fullness cues. Both of these principles urges us to check in with our bodies and make our food decisions based on our internal feelings, not external diet culture messaging.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Food Packaging Labels and Ingredients
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Food Packaging Labels and Ingredients
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RD Anna Gustafson and Chef Nakia discuss how diet culture creeps onto our food packaging. We also discuss ingredient fear and dispelling this fear around ‘don’t eat it if you can’t pronounce it’.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Raising Intuitive Eaters
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Raising Intuitive Eaters
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Explore how Intuitive Eating can benefit your children. Chef Nakia interviews RD Samantha MPH to discover how children can step into autonomy around food and reject diet mentality from the beginning.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat For Satisfaction No Perfection Here
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Trust Your Gut - Eat For Satisfaction No Perfection Here
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Nobody is meant to be perfect and the pursuit of perfection is a fool’s game. Giving up the pursuit of perfection can be liberating and calming and scary and challenging and rewarding and a whole mix of emotions. Intuitive Eating is anti-diet and anti-perfection.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Making Peace With Food
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Making Peace With Food
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Chef Nakia interviews Chelsea Chandler MPH, RD, CIEC to learn about making peace with food. We explore what permission to find peace looks like in our food journey. We also talk about a few sneaky phrases that diet culture uses to undermine our food decisions. And we dive into the Social Determinants of Health and discover how complex and personal each person's health is.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Beach Bod B****
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Beach Bod B****
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Whether we’re spending time at an ocean beach close to home, a mountain ‘beach’ a short drive away, or taking a full oceanfront vacation - we want to be comfortable and enjoy our time. And while it’s ok if we still feel self-conscious wearing less layers than normal, we don’t want to be fixated on it and miss out on the joyful moments. If we’re going to worry about anything while at the beach, we should worry about reapplying sunscreen and getting rid of all of the sand post beach day, not our body size.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Do You Feel Joy When You Eat?
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Do You Feel Joy When You Eat?
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Eating is an activity we have to do every day as a basic requirement for life. But, it can also be one of the most wholesome, satisfying parts of our days. Each meal or snack is an opportunity to feel connected with our bodies, show ourselves love and gratitude, express our creativity and originality, and embrace joy and fulfillment.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat For Satisfaction Gentle Nutrition
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Trust Your Gut - Eat For Satisfaction Gentle Nutrition
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Building Body Respect for Moms
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Building Body Respect for Moms
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Chef Nakia interviews Cristina Cappucci, RD, MHSc to learn about building body respect for Moms. We explore how mom’s relationship with food effects child’s relationship with food and body image. We also discover diet culture’s sneaky ways of impacting moms and discuss ideas for how to embrace creating beautiful memories with children around food.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Take Back New Year’s Resolutions
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Take Back New Year’s Resolutions
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With New Year’s Resolutions upon us, comes strong messages from diet culture and advertising from weight loss programs and diet plans. With this pressure to incorporate some kind of health-centered resolution onto our lists, it can be tempting to set destructive weight loss goals for ourselves. Instead, we have some ideas for alternative (and more positive) resolutions we can use to feel better in our bodies.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Intuitive Eating Through the Holidays
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Intuitive Eating Through the Holidays
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The holiday season is such a joyful, beautiful time of year to spend with our friends and families. One of the favorite holiday pastimes is sharing delicious meals and treats with loved ones. Sometimes this can challenge our relationships with food and in this segment, Nicole PhD, RN discusses how we can navigate these times.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Tune out the Hype
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Tune out the Hype
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It can be exhausting to stay positive about your own body when you have a constant deluge of images, ads, and messages trying to sell you on products or services that will “fix” your diet or health. The healthiest thing we can do for ourselves is tuning that s**t out.

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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Introduction
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Trust Your Gut - Eat for Satisfaction Introduction
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A brief introduction to Intuitive Eating.

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Nakia Laubscher
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