Nurturing Food Freedom and Body Confidence
Eating Wisdom Blog
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Where stories meet science, and insight meets compassion.
Here you’ll find thoughtful reflections, practical guidance, and gently rebellious truths about food, body image, and healing. Whether you're just beginning to untangle from diet culture or deep into the work of attuned eating, there's something here for you.
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Filling Up On Salad: The Fallacy of Volume Fullness
We’ve been taught to chase fullness on the cheap—piling our plates with low-calorie, high-volume foods. But there’s another cost we don’t talk about.
Weight Loss, Health, and Success: What Does the Research Say?
Everyone knows you can pick a number on the scale, change your food and exercise and get to that weight and stay there, right? Yet no scientific research exists which shows this this is possible. A quick look at the research and what you can do.
Intuitive Eating, Nutrition, and Health: What Does the Research Say?
Research about intuitive eating was sparse in the 90s, but the more people experience success, the more the scientists are taking notice, and in the recent years, we are seeing significant research confirming intuitive eating works. Following are some of the key earlier studies, plus other article relevant to intuitive eating.
Is Peanut Butter Unhealthy? The Case of Peanut Butter on a Rice Cake
Can adding peanut butter really turn a “healthy” rice cake into an unhealthy one? A small diet-culture moment reveals a much bigger problem with how we think about food.
Is Being Skinny Healthy?
We tend to assume that thinner means healthier. But research results are surprisingly inconsistent—and sometimes the opposite of what you might expect.
Body Acceptance: Are More Positive Vibes in Your Future?
Videos and books that offer new ways to see, think, and feel—starting points for cultivating more compassion toward your body.
What If Your Eating Isn’t Emotional After All?
This post explains why out-of-control eating, often mistaken for emotional eating, is more commonly deprivation-driven eating. Learn the difference between physical and psychological deprivation, and emotional eating, and discover how healing deprivation allows true healing.
How Much Will Oprah Lose?
Oprah lost weight, regained it, tried again—and then bought Weight Watchers. A rant about diet culture, shame, and the relentless pursuit of becoming smaller.
Five Facts the Diet Industry Does Not Want You to Know
Lots of research says obesity will kill you. What you don’t ever hear about are the facts that the diet industry does not want you to know about. Read about a few of them.
Can You Trust Your Natural Eating Signals?
Body trust isn’t lost—it’s just buried. This blog offers a gentle path back to yourself.