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Does Intuitive Eating Help to Lose Weight?
If you’ve spent years on and off diets, you might be wondering: "Does intuitive eating help you lose weight?" Or, "Can I stop dieting and...
Jul 163 min read


How Dieting Affects Your Appetite Hormones — and Why Recovery Takes Time
If you’ve ever struggled to “stay on a diet,” only to feel out of control later, you’re not alone. It's not a personal failure — it's biology.
Your appetite is regulated by powerful hormones that respond to restriction. When you diet, these hormones change dramatically — increasing hunger, lowering satiety, and pushing your body to eat more.
Jul 163 min read


How to Stop Overeating
If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Why do I keep doing this?” after another episode of eating past fullness, you’re not alone — and you’re not lacking willpower. Overeating is not a personal failure. It’s a natural response to a set of deeper biological, emotional, and learned factors that often go unnoticed in our willpower-focused culture.
Jul 153 min read


✅ Who is Intuitive Eating For — And Why
Intuitive eating isn’t just for those who are visibly struggling — it’s for anyone whose relationship with food or their body has been shaped by diet-culture's external control, pressure, or fear.
Jul 142 min read


Why It's Not a Good Idea to Mess with Your Appetite Hormones
Appetite is regulated by a finely tuned network of hormones working between your brain, gut, and fat stores. These hormones don’t just affect whether you feel hungry or full — they also control your stress response, mood, sleep, energy use, and even how much joy you get from eating.
Jul 72 min read


How Intuitive Eating Works - by restoring a normal appetite (and undoing the damage of dieting)
Intuitive eating is a completely different approach. Instead of trying to control food through rules and restrictions, it helps you rebuild trust in your body and respond to your natural hunger and fullness signals.
Jun 212 min read


What Happens When You Stop Weight Loss Injections? A Look at the STEP-1 Study
If you've been hearing about "weight loss jabs" like Wegovy or Ozempic , you're not alone. These medications—known medically as GLP-1...
Jun 213 min read


The truth about weight loss injections - What you need to know
Injections make your appetite go away temporarily but when you need to come off them (and you will need to), your appetite will bounce back bigger than ever before.
Jun 162 min read


Rebound Eating Exists - it's official
There’s a strong body of evidence showing that rebound eating (or compensatory eating after restriction) is a real and well-documented...
Apr 173 min read


You’re Stronger Than You Think: Redefining Resilience in Disordered Eating Recovery
Just by being here, reading this, trying again—you are showing resilience.
Apr 93 min read


How to Feel Better and be Healthier - not just “look better”
The truth is, health and appearance are not the same thing. The belief that looking a certain way means you are healthier—and vice versa—is
Feb 45 min read


What Is "Food Chatter" and How Can You Silence It?
Food chatter if finding yourself obsessing over what you’re going to eat or worrying about whether you’ve eaten too much.
Feb 45 min read


The Truth About Weight and Health
For decades, we’ve been told that weight equals health . That maintaining a BMI below 30 is necessary to avoid disease. That losing...
Feb 45 min read


How Understanding the Origins of the Thin Ideal Can Change How You Feel About Your Body
For many people, the desire to be thin feels deeply personal—something we’ve carried for as long as we can remember. We think of it as an...
Feb 45 min read


How to Transition from Restrictive Eating to Intuitive Eating
Making the switch from restrictive eating to intuitive eating can feel overwhelming, especially if you've spent years following diet...
Feb 43 min read


"Yes, But... I Want to Be Thin - the biggest block to intuitive eating"
Intuitive eating makes so much sense in theory. Eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re full, and trust your body to regulate itself...
Feb 45 min read


What Is an Unhealthy Relationship with Food?
Having a healthy relationship with food means eating in a way that nourishes both your body and mind, without guilt, anxiety or obsession. Unfortunately, many people struggle with an unhealthy relationship with food, often without realising it. Diet culture, emotional eating and restrictive habits can all contribute to a negative mindset around eating. But what does an unhealthy relationship with food actually look like? Diet culture, emotional eating and restrictive habits c
Feb 33 min read


Intuitive Eating is for Everyone!
Discovering the Benefits of Intuitive Eating for Every Walk of Life Intuitive eating is a refreshing, non-diet approach to food that...
Feb 34 min read


Honour Your Health with Gentle Nutrition: (Principle 10 The Final Step Intuitive Eating)
Principle 10 of Intuitive Eating: Honour Your Health with Gentle Nutrition serves as the final step in the intuitive eating journey....
Jan 313 min read


Movement: Feel the Difference – Embracing Joyful Physical Activity (Principle 9 Intuitive Eating)
Principle 9 of Intuitive Eating: Movement – Feel the Difference shifts the focus from exercise as a punishment to movement as a...
Jan 313 min read
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