{Video} 6 Tips to Tackle Your Cravings
Do you struggle with cravings? Maybe you crave something specific like salty or sweet foods, or perhaps you crave food at a certain time of day, like mid-afternoon or after dinner?
Regardless of how you experience cravings, the diet culture of today tells us cravings are bad and are something we must keep under control. But what if I told you that our cravings are not the enemy, that they're not something we should fight, but rather listen to?
In the video below I suggest that cravings are a way our body is trying to tell us something. Watch the video to learn:
The 4 reasons we experience cravings
How to decode messages our cravings are sending us
6 tips to help you mindfully address your cravings.
I lead a six-week group program called Make Peace with Food. The first group of 2022 begins this Friday, January 14th,, and I hope you’ll join! In the video below I explain why I'm so passionate about offering this group.
This has been my go-to salad dressing all summer long. I make a big batch for the week and drizzle it over my favorite summer salad (shown in the video below) or a quick lunch of a poached egg over grilled asparagus, or toss it with grains, Fattoush, pasta, beans or grilled shrimp.
I'm sharing a short clip from the workshop I gave a few weeks ago, Nurturing the Wise Mind for Conscious Nourishment. In the clip I talk about a psychological concept called window of tolerance to explain how and why we use food to soothe, escape, numb, or create a sense of control.
Why is it important to address tricky food habits? Because they keep us stuck and make us feel bad on many levels. And there are techniques and mindsets we can adopt to free up mental and emotional bandwidth, find ease in our food life, and have more energy for what really matters.
Intuitive Eating is a powerful evidence-based and weight-inclusive approach to health I use to help my clients cultivate a healthy relationship to food and body. The framework supports those wanting to make more mindful, intentional food and self-care choices as well as those looking to address emotional eating, bingeing, restriction, yo-yo dieting and other forms of disordered eating.
There’s more influencing our food choices than we may realize. Often, when we serve ourselves another helping or reach for a snack we know our body isn’t craving, we blame our lack of discipline and willpower. In reality, the reactive, compulsive, and automatic ways we engage with food are, in part, a downstream effect of living with unprocessed body grief, shame, and neglect, or feelings of unworthiness and disappointment in our bodies and ourselves. learn about the five mindsets and practices I turn to in order to help my clients gently process the emotional discomfort often tied to food, so they can begin to feel more at home in their body as it is and move forward in a healthier and more complete way.